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Dr. Binczewski Wins Conference Prize
claudia.mickasJennifer Binczewski (PhD 2017) won the Pacific Coast Conference for British Studies for the best article published by a society member in 2020 for “Power in Vulnerability: Widows and Priest Holes in the Early Modern English Catholic Community” British Catholic History 35, no. 1 (2020): 1-24.
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Dr. Booth Interviewed for Film
claudia.mickasThe film Buffalo Soldiers: Fighting on Two Fronts will make its debut at the Seattle International Film Festival on April 16. Ryan Booth was interviewed for this film, which seeks to understand the role the Buffalo Soldiers played in the settlement of the US West and that complicated legacy. He was interviewed to speak broadly about the military history of the US-Indian Wars as well as the interactions between the African American Buffalo Soldiers and the Native American Scouts. More information can be found here: https://bit.ly/SIFFpremiere
Dr. Peabody Publishes Essay
claudia.mickasSue Peabody’s essay, “Political and Legal Histories,” has just been published in Writing the History of Slavery, edited by David Doddington & Enrico Dal Lago, Bloomsbury “Writing History” Series (London, New York, Oxford, New Delhi, Sydney: Bloomsbury, 2022), 153-170. One of 19 historiographical chapters addressing different approaches to writing the history of slavery for students, this essay includes sections on “the political state as a frame,” “slavery and the law in the United States,” “comparative histories of slavery and abolition,” and “autobiography, biography, and microhistory.”
Dr. Spohnholz Lectures at Symposium
claudia.mickasJesse Spohnholz presented a plenary lecture at the 2022 Calvin Studies Symposium on April 1, titled “Family Life in Sixteenth-Century Dutch Calvinist Refugee Communities.”
Dr. Overtoom Publishes Book Review
claudia.mickasNik Overtoom’s most recent book review has been published. Uwe Ellerbrock, The Parthians: The Forgotten Empire. Routledge. 2021. For Ancient History Bulletin. https://ancienthistorybulletin.org/vol-11/
Dr. Overtoom Article Published
claudia.mickasNik Overtoom’s most recent article has been published: “Phriapatius.” Encyclopædia Iranica Online. The Ehsan Yarshater Center for Iranian Studies at Columbia University. 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2330-4804_EIRO_COM_363949
Dr. Brecher Presents at Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference
claudia.mickasPuck Brecher presented a research paper titled “Early Modern Japan’s Veterinary Medicine Makeover” at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference.
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Dr. Heidenreich Presents at Academic Showcase & GPSA Research Expo
claudia.mickas L Heidenreich presented ‘Toward a Practice of Liberation: Feminism, Chicanismo and
Catholicism in the United Farm Worker Movement’ at the Academic Showcase & GPSA Research Expo.
Dr. Kawamura on “Violence, Atrocity, and Restraint in War” Panel Discussion
claudia.mickasThe Pritzker Military Museum and Library in Chicago will host a symposium “What is Military History Today?” on March 31 and April 1.
Noriko Kawamura is invited to participate in a panel discussion on “Violence, Atrocity, and Restraint in War.” The symposium will be livestreamed but registration is required by March 28. For further information go to the link below.
https://www.pritzkermilitary.org/onwar2022