2002 Annual Meeting Program
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General Information
Meetings of the AHA, Affiliated Societies, and Other Groups
FRONTIERS
Thursday, January 3, 7:30–9:30 P.M. Plenary Session
Friday, January 4, 9:30–11:30 A.M., AHA Morning Sessions 1–27
Friday, January 4, 9:30–11:30 A.M., Morning Sessions of AHA Affiliated Societies
Friday, January 4, 12:15–1:45 P.M., Midday Activities and Luncheons
Friday, January 4, 2:30–4:30 P.M., AHA Afternoon Sessions 28–53
Friday, January 4, 2:30–4:30 P.M., Afternoon Sessions of AHA Affiliated Societies
Friday, January 4, 4:45–6:30 P.M., Early Evening Events
Friday, January 4, 5:00 P.M., Evening Sessions of AHA Affiliated Societies
Friday, January 4, 8:30 P.M., AHA Evening Events
Saturday, January 5, 9:30–11:30 A.M., Morning Sessions of the AHA Program Committee
Saturday, January 5, 9:30–11:30 A.M., AHA Morning Sessions 54–80
Saturday, January 5, 7:15–11:30 A.M., Morning Sessions of AHA Affiliated Societies
Saturday, January 5, 12:15–1:45 P.M., Midday Activities and Luncheons
Saturday, January 5, 2:30–4:30 P.M., AHA Afternoon Sessions 81–106
Saturday, January 5, 2:30–4:30 P.M., Afternoon Sessions of AHA Affiliated Societies
Saturday, January 5, 3:30–5:30 P.M., Early Evening Events
Saturday, January 5, 5:00–7:30 A.M., Evening Sessions and Events
Sunday, January 6, 8:30–10:30 A.M., AHA Early Morning Sessions 107–132
Sunday, January 6, 8:30–10:30 A.M., Early Morning Sessions of AHA Affililated Societies
Sunday, January 6, 11:00 A.M.–1:00 P.M., AHA Late Morning Sessions 133–157
Sunday, January 6, 11:00 A.M.–1:00 P.M., Late Morning Sessions of AHA Affiliated Societies
PLENARY SESSION
Thursday, January 3, 7:30–9:30 P.M.
Frontiers and Empires
Hilton, Grand Ballroom Salon A
| Chair: | Wm. Roger Louis, University of Texas at Austin and president, of the American Historical Association |
| Panel: | Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin
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AHA MORNING SESSIONS 1–27
Friday, January 4, 9:30–11:30 a.m.
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St. Francis, California West
Sponsored by the AHA
Professional Division, the AHA Task Force on Graduate Education, and the
Coordinating Council for Women in History
| Chair: | Barbara Metcalf, University of California at Davis and vice president, AHA Professional Division |
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. AHA Preparing Future Faculty ProjectSt. Francis, Elizabethan Room A
Sponsored by the AHA Teaching Division and the AHA Task Force on Graduate Education
| Chair: | Jonathan Grant, Florida State University |
| Panel: | William Benedicks Jr., Tallahassee Community College
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. Old Media, New Media, and Students’ Perception of History: Three Explorations of the Scholarship of Teaching and LearningSt. Francis, Elizabethan Room B
Sponsored by the AHA Teaching Division
| Chair: | Peter Frederick, Wabash College |
| Papers: | Thinking about History in Schools When Most of What We Know about the Past Is Learned Outside of Them Sam Wineburg, University of Washington “Read Pages 23–49...”: What Do We Want Students to Do When We Ask Them to Read? David Pace, Indiana University The More We Learn, the Less We Know: How History Students Learn with New Media T. Mills Kelly, George Mason University |
| Comment: | Annette Atkins, St. John’s University |
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. Revisiting the Frontier: Freedom, Diaspora, and the Discourses of Minority HistoryParc 55, Parc Ballroom I
Sponsored by the AHA Committee on Minority Historians
| Chair: | Gloria Miranda, El Camino Community College |
| Papers: |
Historical Subjects Denied on the 'Frontier' and in the 'Borderlands' Lisbeth Haas, University of California at Santa Cruz Making New Western Indians: The Role of the Nation State and Ethnography in the Creation of Naturalized Indian Identities Michael Witgen, University of Washington Diasporic Frontiers: African Americans Imagining Indian Territory Tiya Miles, University of California at Berkeley |
| Comment: | Philip J. Deloria, University of Michigan |
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. England’s Troubles: The Recontextualization of the Stuart EraParc 55, Parc Ballroom II
Joint session with the North American Conference on British Studies
| Chair: | Richard Greaves, Florida State University |
| Papers: | The Return of Grand Narrative, with a Vengeance: Some Comments on Jonathan Scott’s England’s Troubles Annabel Patterson, Yale University Stuart Perceptions and Historical Explanations: A Consideration of Jonathan Scott’s England’s Troubles Glenn Burgess, University of Hull England’s Troubles: A Critique Tim Harris, Brown University |
| Comment: | Jonathan Scott, Downing College, Cambridge University |
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. Memory, Race, and History: Life in Post-Imperial Japan, 1945–60Hilton, Union Square 15
| Chair: | Edward R. Beauchamp, University of Hawai’i at Manoa |
| Papers: |
When Empire Comes Home: Repatriation in Postwar Japan, 1945–58 Lori Watt, Columbia University “Mixed-blood” Orphans in Postwar Japan, 1945–60 Robert Fish, University of Hawai’i at Manoa War and Colonial History in Japanese National Memories Yinan He, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Comment: | James J. Orr, Bucknell University |
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Hilton, Union Square 1/2
| Chair: | Deborah Gray White, Rutgers University |
| Papers: |
Negotiating Physical and Racial Frontiers: Black Women in Bangor, Maine, 1890–1930 Maureen Elgersman Lee, University of Southern Maine Philosophy and Opinions: Amy Jacques Garvey and the Editing of the Negro World, 1924–27 Barbara Bair, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress Gender, Class, Region, and the Nation in the Life and Work of Anna J. Cooper, 1892–1925 Tsekani Browne, University of California at Los Angeles |
| Comment: | Deborah Gray White David Hackett Fischer, Brandeis University |
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. Something New under the Sun by John R. McNeill—A Roundtable DiscussionParc 55, Barcelona I
Joint session with the World History Association
| Chair: | J. Donald Hughes, University of Denver |
| Panel: | Mark Cioc, University of California at Santa Cruz Robert B. Marks, Whittier College Mark R. Stoll, Texas Tech University Lise Fernanda Sedrez, Stanford University |
| Comment: | John R. McNeill, Georgetown University |
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. Color Lines: Racial Frontiers in the Modern American MetropolisHilton, Union Square 3/4
| Chair: | Arnold Hirsch, University of New Orleans |
| Papers: |
The Color of Property: Federal Policy and the Origins of White Backlash David M.P. Freund, Princeton University Fight or Flight: Massive Resistance and the Myth of “White Community” Kevin M. Kruse, Princeton University The Suburban Origins of “Color Blind” Conservatism: Middle-Class Consciousness in the Charlotte Busing Crisis Matthew Lassiter, University of Michigan |
| Comment: | Wendy Plotkin, University of Illinois at Chicago |
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. New Frontiers in the History of American ConservatismHilton, Union Square 5/6
| Chair: | Lisa McGirr, Harvard University |
| Papers: | Conservatism’s (First) Identity Crisis: From Old Right to New, 1948–55 Gregory L. Schneider, Emporia State University John T. Flynn and the Decline of the Old Right John E. Moser, Ashland University Cowboy Conservatism: Language, Symbol, and Politics Jeff Roche, College of Wooster |
| Comment: | Lisa McGirr |
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Nikko, Mendocino I
| Chair: | Margaret Chowning, University of California at Berkeley |
| Papers: | Women and Wealthholding in the Brazilian Far West Zephyr Frank, Stanford University The Industrial Frontier: Company Towns and Industrialization in Mexico Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato, Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas Bankers, Industrialists, and Their Cliques: Elite Networks in Mexico and Brazil, 1890–1915 Aldo Musacchio, Stanford University Ian Read, Stanford University |
| Comment: | William R. Summerhill, University of California at Los Angeles |
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. No Magic Shots: Anti-Vaccination in World HistoryNikko, Carmel I
| Chair: | Susan Lederer, Yale University |
| Papers: | “The Vaccination Vampire”: Blood, Boundaries, and the Victorian Body Nadja Durbach, University of Utah Bodies That Don’t Matter: American Vaccination Policies, “Mexican Trustworthiness,” and Anti-vaccination Movements on the Mexican Border, 1899–1920 John McKiernan-González, University of South Florida Negotiating Dissent: Homeopathy and Anti-Vaccinationism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Nadav Davidovich, Tel Aviv University |
| Comment: | Robert Johnston, Yale University |
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. Shifting Frontiers of Race in the Modern World: French Racial Constructs at Home and AbroadSt. Francis, Elizabethan Room C
| Chair: | Lisa Moses Leff, Southwestern University |
| Papers: | The Legal Problem of Race in Early Nineteenth-Century Martinique John Savage, Lehigh University Blood Ties, Great Books, Global Designs: Latin France and Latin America in the Nineteenth Century Paul Edison, University of Texas at El Paso French Race, Latin Race, White Race: Racial Projects and Human Marking in the Early Twentieth-Century Immigration Debate Elisa Camiscioli, State University of New York at Binghamton |
| Comment: | Mary Lewis, Smith College |
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. On the Boundary of True Religion: Idolatry in Medieval and Early Modern EuropeParc 55, Raphael Room
Joint session with the American Society of Church History
| Chair: | Lee Palmer Wandel, University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Papers: | Dualism, Idolatry, and the Polemics of World Formation from Irenaeus to Augustine |
| Comment: | Lee Palmer Wandel |
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. Oil and Its DiscontentsNikko, Carmel II
| Chair: | Nancy L. Quam-Wickham, California State University at Long Beach |
| Papers: | The Transformation of a Nomadic Culture: The Oil Industry in the Gulf States Phil Roberts, University of Wyoming at Laramie Oil and Environmental Control in the Maracaibo Basin Nikolas Kozloff, St. Hugh’s College, Oxford University The Oil Frontier in Amazonia: The Case of Ecuador Judith Kimerling, Queens College and School of Law, City University of New York |
| Comment: | Myrna Santiago, Saint Mary’s College of California |
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. Imperialism on Trial: British, French, and Egyptian Perspectives on the International Oversight of ColoniesSt. Francis, Elizabethan Room D
Joint session with the North American Conference on British Studies
| Chair: | Robert W. Butler, Elmhurst College |
| Papers: | Mandatory Palestine in the Egyptian Press Elizabeth A. Bishop, American University in Cairo “A Sacred Trust”: Britain, France, and International Trusteeship, 1929–39 Michael D. Callahan, Kettering University An Offer They Can’t Refuse: The British Left, Colonies, and International Trusteeship, 1940–51 R. M. Douglas, Colgate University |
| Comment: | Wm. Roger Louis, University of Texas at Austin |
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. Teaching an Old Frontier New Tricks: The Indian and Hispanic Southwest in New ContextsHilton, Union Square 22
Joint Session with the Oral History Association
| Chair: | David J. Weber, Southern Methodist University |
| Papers: | Americans Watching: Savage Indians, Suffering Mexicans, and Manifest Failures, 1836–54 Brian DeLay, Harvard University Geographic Ignorance and Imperial Policy: The Uncharted American Southwest and Spanish Neutrality during the Early Years of the Seven Years’ War Paul Mapp, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Perceptions of Similarity in a World of Difference: Spanish-Indian Diplomacy in a World Defined by War Juliana Barr, Rutgers University |
| Comment: | Steven W. Hackel, Oregon State University |
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. Limits of Imperial Expansion and Authority: The Frontiers of the Ottoman Empire, 1500–1700Parc 55, Rubens Room
| Chair: | Andrew C. Hess, The Fletcher School, Tufts University |
| Papers: | Frontiers of Authority: The Interplay between Sultanic and Private Initiative in the Creation of New Ottoman Frontiers in the Mediterranean between 1515 and 1575 Rhoads Murphey, University of Birmingham Limits of Imperial Authority and the Impact of Frontier Defense: The Danubian Frontiers of the Ottoman and Habsburg Empires, 1541–1699 Gábor Ágoston, Georgetown University The Ottoman Black Sea Steppes: From Secure to Perilous Frontier Victor Ostapchuk, University of Toronto |
| Comment: | Caroline Fiona Finkel, Independent Scholar |
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. The Triple Frontier on the Baltic Sea: Balts, Russians, and GermansParc 55, Michelangelo Room
| Chair: | David MacLaren McDonald, University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Papers: | How a Border Became a Frontier: East Prussia and Ethnic Invasion in 1914 Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, University of Tennessee at Knoxville The Price of Free Lunches: Making the Frontier Latvian in the Interwar Years Aldis Purs, Independent Scholar Educational Reform as a National Frontier: The Case of the Multiethnic Republic of Estonia, 1918–40 Steven T. Duke, University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Comment: | Indre Cuplinskas, University of Toronto |
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. Imperial Self-fashioning: Communication, Social Order, and the Stability of Empire!!THIS SESSION HAS BEEN CANCELED!!
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. Neglected Frontiers: New Perspectives on Dutch Encounters with Non-Western Peoples in the Early Modern PeriodParc 55, Dante Room
| Chair: | James H. Williams, Middle Tennessee State University |
| Papers: | Ragged Landscapes: Battles over Blood and Land on the Dutch-Khoisan Frontier, 1725–95 Laura J. Mitchell, University of Texas at San Antonio The Company’s Chinese Colony: The Dutch East India Company and the Taiwan Frontier, 1624–62 Tonio Andrade, State University of New York at Brockport Unseasonal Winds of Love: Prostitution and the Foreign Community in Early Modern Nagasaki Martha Chaiklin, Milwaukee Public Museum From Trust to Betrayal: Tupi Indian Negotiators on the Indian-Dutch Frontier in Dutch Brazil, 1625–54 Mark Meuwese, University of Notre Dame |
| Comment: | John E. Wills Jr., University of Southern California |
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. Overcoming the Physical Frontier, Reerecting the Mental Frontier: New Perspectives on German ReunificationParc 55, Barcelona II
Joint session with the Conference Group for Central European History
| Chair: | Konrad H. Jarausch, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Papers: | The Fall of the Berlin Wall Hans-Hermann Hertle, Zentrum fur Zeithistoriche Forschung Potsdam Myths, Images, and Self-Images: The Protagonists of German Unification Alexander von Plato, Fernuniversitat Hagen The Exchange of Elites in the East and German Reunification Dolores L. Augustine, St. John’s University The International Consequences of German Reunification Mary Elise Sarotte, University of Notre Dame |
| Comment: | Charles S. Maier, Harvard University |
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. “Popular Justice” and “Social Control” in American Criminal Justice History, 1777–1920Hilton, Union Square 13
| Chair: | Michael Fitzgerald, St. Olaf College |
| Papers: | Reconsidering the “Social” in Social Control: Extralegal Justice in Antebellum South Carolina Elizabeth Dale, University of Florida “A Guest in Her Father’s House”: Older Men, Young Girls, and Vermont’s Statutory Rape Law, 1826–1920 Hal Goldman, University of Illinois at Springfield Politics, “Popular Justice,” and the Progressive Era Public Defender Movement Thomas Clark, California State University at Sacramento |
| Comment: | Michael Fitzgerald |
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. Museums and Anniversaries: Making Memory in China and Hong KongHilton, Union Square 14
| Chair: | Wen-hsin Yeh, University of California at Berkeley |
| Papers: | Creating Commemorations for Nationalistic Chinese Consumers Karl Gerth, University of South Carolina Transforming the Barren Rock: Commemorating History and Identity in Colonial Hong Kong John M. Carroll, Saint Louis University The Redundancy of Ambivalence: Political Education and Wartime Memory in Contemporary China Rana Mitter, St. Cross Collge, Oxford University |
| Comment: | Wen-hsin Yeh Paul Mishler, Science and Society |
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. The Sexual Is Political: Sexuality in American Political History from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Late Twentieth CenturyHilton, Union Square 17/18
Joint session with the Committee on Lesbian and Gay History
| Chair: | Leisa Meyer, College of William and Mary |
| Papers: | “Alas, the Mollycoddle”: Civil Service Reform and the Intermediate Sex in the United States Kevin P. Murphy, Wesleyan University The “Rise and Fall” of Sexual-Psychopath Laws in the United States, 1936–74 Paul Herman, Stanford University Conservatism and the American Electorate in the Late Twentieth Century: The Case of Lesbian/Gay Rights William B. Turner, St. Cloud State University |
| Comment: | Margot Canaday, University of Minnesota |
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. Motherhood and Nationhood: Diasporic Constructions of Jewish and Asian IdentitiesHilton, Union Square 16
| Chair: | Estelle B. Freedman, Stanford University |
| Papers: | “The Great Interpreter”: Gender and American Jewish Identity in the 1920s Mary McCune, State University of New York at Oswego Building a New Community: A Review of a Periodical for Jewish Children in Poland Sean Martin, Reinhardt College Real Heroes and Hollywood Heroines: Maternalism, Miscegenation, and American Identity during World War II Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Ohio State University |
| Comment: | Elizabeth H. Pleck, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana |
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. Sound Film and the Politics of National Stereotyping in Interwar Central EuropeNikko, Monterey I
Joint session with the Conference Group for Central European History
| Chair: | Linda Schiele Schulte-Sasse, Macalester College |
| Papers: | Aristocrats, Gypsies, and Cowboys All: Film Stereotypes and Hungarian National Identity in the 1930s David S. Frey, Columbia University Czechoslovakia and the Politics of National Stereotyping in Early Sound Film Nancy M. Wingfield, Northern Illinois University Vamps, Girls, Mothers, Wives—Stereotypes of Womanhood in National Socialist Entertainment Films Jana Bruns, Stanford University |
| Comment: | Robert Brent Toplin, University of North Carolina at Wilmington |
MORNING SESSIONS OF AHA AFFILIATED SOCIETIES
Friday, January 4, 7:30–9:15 a.m.
Conference on Latin American History Session 1
Frontier Indigenous Resistance in Colonial Spanish America
Hilton, Union Square 8
Friday, January 4, 9:30–11:30 a.m.
Alcohol and Temperance History Group Session 1
Drink Servers and Consumers in Various Venues and Eras: America, England and Bolivia
St. Francis, Yorkshire Room
| Chair: | John Kicza, Washington State University |
| Papers: | Maize-Beer, Gossip, and Slander: Female Tavern Proprietors and Urban, Ethnic Cultural Elaboration in Bolivia, 1900–30 Gina Hames, Pacific Lutheran University Made for Bar Work? Barmaids in Victorian and Edwardian England and the Movement to Abolish Barmaids Padma Manian, San Jose City College Saloons and Working Girls: Female Pioneers in the No-Woman’s Land of American Barrooms, 1870–1920 Madelon Powers, University of New Orleans The Myth of Bartenders: Literary Representations of Alcohol Service in America Jon Miller, University of Akron |
| Comment: | W. Scott Haine, University of Maryland University College and Holy Names College |
American Association for History and Computing Session 1
The Other Digital Dilemma: A Roundtable on Evaluating and Rewarding Digital History in Tenure, Review, and Promotion
St. Francis, Olympic Room
| Chair: | Dennis A. Trinkle, DePauw University |
| Panel: | Kathryn Green, California State University at San Bernardino |
American Catholic Historical Association Session 1
Peace and Violence at the Millennium: Texts and Contexts for France around the Year 1000
Hilton, Union Square 23
| Chair: | Martin Claussen, University of San Francisco |
| Papers: | The Peace of God to the Year 1000: A Reexamination of the Sources Thomas Head, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York Dating and Authorship of Odo of Cluny’s Life of Gerald of Aurillac Mathew Kuefler, San Diego State University True Crime: Murder and Mayhem in Tenth- and Eleventh-Century Charters Jeffrey A. Bowman, Kenyon College |
| Comment: | Geoffrey Koziol, University of California at Berkeley |
American Catholic Historical Association Session 2
Twentieth-Century Catholicism in California: Three Different Views
Hilton, Union Square 24
| Chair: | Joseph Chinnici, O.F.M. Franciscan School of Theology, Berkeley |
| Papers: | The Church and the Sword: Shaping Postwar Catholic Life in California’s Central Valley Steven M. Avella, Marquette University Urban Apostle: Edward Hanna and the City of San Francisco Richard Gribble C.S.C., Stonehill College Priests in Revolt: Redefining Priesthood in San Francisco, 1962–74 Jeffrey Burns, Archives of the Archdiocese of San Francisco |
| Comment: | Joseph Chinnici O.F.M. |
American Society of Church History Session 2
Food and Its Functions in the History of Christianity
Parc 55, Da Vinci I
| Chair: | Barbara Brown Zikmund, Hartford Theological Seminary |
| Papers: | Monks and Animals: The Question of Meat Blake Leyerle, University of Notre Dame Why Did Medieval Theologians Dispute Questions about Human Digestion? Philip Lyndon Reynolds, Emory University Antepast of Heaven: Eating and Drinking in Early English Methodism Charles Wallace Jr., Willamette University “Have You Ever Been Hungry?” Mainline Protestants and World Hunger Activism Daniel Sack, Associated Colleges of the Midwest |
| Comment: | Barbara Brown Zikmund |
American Society of Church History Session 3
Before and after Thomas Jefferson: Church and State in Virginia
Parc 55, Cervantes Room
| Chair: | Edwin S. Gaustad, University of California at Riverside |
| Papers: | Toleration and Oppression in James Blair’s Virginia Edward L. Bond, Alabama A & M University “A Great Religious Octopus”: Jefferson’s Statute at Virginia’s Constitutional Convention of 1901–02 Thomas E. Buckley S.J., Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley and Graduate Theological Union |
| Comment: | Patricia U. Bonomi, New York University Mark A. Noll, Wheaton College |
American Society of Church History Session 4
Dissent in Early Christianity
Parc 55, Medici Room
| Chair: | Richard Vaggione O.H.C., Incarnation Priory, Berkeley |
| Papers: | Historiographic Identities: Gregory, Julian, and Hellenism Susanna Elm, University of California at Berkeley Hellenism and Hellenistic Judaism in Harnack’s Construal of Christian Origins Carl R. Holladay, Emory University The Politics of Identity: Cultural Hybridity and the Definition of Orthodoxy in Irenaeus, Eusebius, and Epiphanius Rebecca Lyman, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley Strategies of Legitimation in the Didascalia Apostolorum Charlotte Fonrobert, Stanford University |
| Comment: | Richard Vaggione |
American Society of Church History Session 5
Confronting the Holocaust: Christian Churches and the Jewish Question in Postwar Europe
Parc 55, Da Vinci II
| Chair: | Donald Dietrich, Boston College |
| Papers: | German Protestants, Christian Anti-Semitism, and the Jewish Question, 1945–50 Matthew Hockenos, Skidmore College The Vatican Confronts the Holocaust Susan Zuccotti, Independent Scholar The Polish Catholic Church and the Jewish Question, 1944–50 Natalia Aleksiun, Warsaw University and New York University |
| Comment: | Richard L. Rubenstein, University of Bridgeport |
Chinese Historians in the United States Session 1
New Findings on Chinese Foreign Relations during the Early Cold War
Parc 55, Sienna I
| Chair: | Yawei Liu, Georgia Perimeter College and the Carter Center |
| Papers: | China’s Foreign and Frontier Affairs in the Early Cold War Years Xiaoyuan Liu, Iowa State University Learn from the Soviet Union: Chinese Efforts to Build Socialism in Manchuria from 1948 to 1953 Xiaodong Wang, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The Asian Context of the Chinese Revolution: Vietnam, Korea, and the Chinese Civil War Qiang Zhai, Auburn University at Montgomery |
| Comment: | Steven Goldstein, Smith College |
Conference Group for Central European History Session 3
1968: Then and Now
Nikko, Mendocino II
| Chair: | Jeremy P. Varon, Drew University |
| Papers: | The Language of the Political—The Politics of Language: West Germany after 1968 Martin Geyer, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München ’68 as Success? A Perspective from the Women’s Movement Sibylla Flügge, Fachhochschule Frankfurt a. m. Political Theater as a New Social Movement? Belinda Davis, Rutgers University |
| Comment: | Michael Grüttner, University of California at Berkeley |
Conference on Latin American History Session 2
From Public Celebrations to Political Lampoons: The Monarchy and Shifting Symbols of the Brazilian Nation
Hilton, Union Square 8
Conference on Latin American History Session 3
City and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Hilton, Union Square 9
Conference on Latin American History Session 4
Coordinating Council for Women in History Session 2
Histories of Indigenous Women: Part I
Hilton, Union Square 10
| Chair: | Ann Twinam, University of Cincinnati |
| Papers: | From Robust to Inviable Populations: Demographic Patterns among the Female Populations of Three California Missions, 1770–1840 Robert H. Jackson, State University of New York at Oneonta Nahua Women over Time in the Realm of Politics and Law Susan Kellogg, University of Houston Enterprising Women? Indigenous Trade Networks in Colonial Potosí, Peru Jane Mangan, Harvard University Indigenous Treasures: What Did Indigenous Women of the Sixteenth Century Appreciate the Most? Ana María Presta, University of Buenos Aires |
| Comment: | Ann Twinam |
Conference on Latin American History Session 5
Reflections on the State of the Field: Mexican History
Hilton, Union Square 11
H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences OnLine Session 1
Combating the Digital Content Divide: The Internet and Global Histories
St. Francis, California East
| Chair: | John Eadie, Michigan State University |
| Papers: | Extending Technological Resources to Indigenous Peoples around the World: NativeWeb Marc Becker, Truman State University Building a Multilingual Multimedia Digital Library of West African Sources Cheikh Babou, Michigan State University Bartek Plichta, Michigan State University David Robinson, Michigan State University Making Many Pasts Public: The Voices of Ordinary People on the Internet Kelly Schrum, George Mason University |
| Comment: | Patrick Manning, Northeastern University John Eadie |
Organization of History Teachers
Eric Foner’s The Story of American Freedom
Hilton, Franciscan Room C
| Chairs: | Ron Briley, Sandia Preparatory School, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and president, OHT Doris Meadows, Wilson Magnet High School, Rochester, New York, and vice president, OHT |
Peace History Society
Rethinking Gendered Violence
Hilton, Franciscan Room D
| Chair: | Karla Jay, Pace University |
| Papers: | Sodomy in Early Modern Italy Mary Hewett, Kenyon College The Nun, the Priest, and the Pornographer: Anti-Catholic Images of the Violated Woman Kathleen Kennedy, Western Washington University A Queer Family in Guerrero Province Charles Shively, University of Massachusetts at Boston |
| Comment: | Michael Wilson, University of Texas at Dallas |
Polish American Historical Association Session 1
Polonia Pioneers
St. Francis, Cambridge Room
| Chair: | James S. Pula, Utica College and Syracuse University |
| Papers: | Henryk Kalussowski Joseph Wieczerzak, Polish National Catholic Church Commission on History and Archives Pulaski’s Death at Savanah Frank Kajencki, U.S.Army, Ret. Who Was Józef Saltis? John Radzilowski, University of Minnesota The Election of Barbara A. Mikulski to the United States Senate Philip A. Grant Jr., Pace University |
| Comment: | William Galush, Loyola University of Chicago |
Renaissance Society of America
Courts and Their Uses in Sixteenth-Century Europe
Hilton, Union Square 12
| Chair: | Sally Scully, San Francisco State University |
| Panel: | Megan Armstrong, University of Utah Anthony Cashman, College of the Holy Cross Laura Hunt, Independent Scholar |
Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Session 1
Research Opportunities in the Politics of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era: A Roundtable Discussion
St. Francis, Essex Room
| Chair: | Charles W. Calhoun, East Carolina University |
| Panel: | James Connolly, Ball State University Melanie Gustafson, University of Vermont Ari Hoogenboom, Brooklyn College, City University of New York Richard Scheneirov, Indiana State University |
MIDDAY ACTIVITIES AND LUNCHEONS
Friday, January 4, 12:15–1:45 p.m.
American Society of Church History
Parc 55, Parc Ballroom III
| Topic: | The Career of Edwin Scott Gaustad: An Appraisal |
| Presiding: | Amanda Porterfield, University of Wisconsin |
| Panel: | E. Brooks Holifield, Emory University Charles H. Lippy, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga Martin E. Marty, University of Chicago Leigh Schmidt, Princeton University |
Conference on Asian History
St. Francis, Victorian Room
| Presiding: | George M. Wilson, Indiana University |
| Address: | National Humiliation in Twentieth-Century China Paul A. Cohen, Harvard University |
Conference on Latin American History
555 California Street, Bank of America Building, Carnelian Room
| Presiding: | Asunción Larvin, Arizona State University and president, CLAH |
| Address: | The Archive ane the Internet |
Organization of History Teachers
Hilton, Franciscan Room B
| Presiding: | Ron Briley, Sandia Preparatory School, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and president, OHT Doris Meadows, Wilson Magnet High School, Rochester, New York, and vice president, OHT |
| Address: | The Solidarity of Dinosaurs: Technophobic Pride in the Twenty-First Century |
Phi Alpha Theta
Hilton, Union Square 13
| Presiding: | Marsha L. Frey, Kansas State University and President, PAT |
| Address: | The Bishop, the Barrister, and the Bomb: One Historian's Journey |
Friday, January 4, 12:30–2:00 P.M.
Brown–Bag Session
What Makes a Good Program Proposal?
Hilton, Mason Room
| Chair: | Paul Ropp, Clark University |
| Panel: |
Michael Bernstein, University of California at San Diego |
Friday, January 4, 2:30–4:30 p.m.
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. Book Publishing for Historians: A RoundtableSt. Francis, California West
Sponsored by the AHA Professional Division
| Chair: | Peter Stansky, Stanford University |
| Panel: | Tim Duggan, HarperCollins Publishers Sydelle Kramer, Frances Goldin Literary Agency Monica McCormick, University of California Press Joyce Seltzer, Harvard University Press Sam Stoloff, Frances Goldin Literary Agency Gerald Gill, Tufts University |
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. The Cultural Politics of Horror: A Debate on Peter Novick’sThe Holocaust in American Life
Parc 55, Barcelona II
Sponsored by the AHA Research Division
| Chair: | Gabrielle M. Spiegel, Johns Hopkins University and vice president, AHA Research Division |
| Panel: | David Biale, University of California at Davis David A. Hollinger, University of California at Berkeley Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University |
| Comment: | Peter Novick, University of Chicago |
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. Building Collegiality between Teachers and ProfessorsSt. Francis, Elizabethan Room B
Sponsored by the AHA Teaching Division, the National Council for History Education, and the Society for History Education
| Chair: | Elaine Wrisley Reed, National Council for History Education |
| Paper: | The History Colloquium: NCHE’s Collegial Approach to Continuing Education for History Teachers Joseph P. Ribar, National Council for History Education Building Collegiality between Teachers and Professors Frederick D. Drake, Illinois State University Building Collegiality between Teachers and Historians Jana Flores, California History-Social Science Project Building Collegiality while Training Teachers Fritz Fischer, University of Northern Colorado Respect: The Challenge of Collegiality Ron Briley, Sandia Preparatory School, New Mexico |
| Comment: | William A. Weber, California State University at Long Beach and vice president, AHA Teaching Division |
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. Religious and Imperial Frontiers in the Nineteenth Century: Encounters between Muslims and Orthodox Christians in the National AgeHilton, Union Square 1/2
| Chair: | Rifaat Ali Abou-El-Haj, State University of New York at Binghamton |
| Papers: | Paths to Imperial Power in the “National” Age: Phanariots in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire |
| Comment: | Robert D. Crews, American University |
32
. Public Spaces in the Early Modern City: Antwerp, Lyon, Venice, LivornoParc 55, Raphael Room
| Chair: | Lawrence Bryant, California State University at Chico |
| Papers: | Ghettos from Within and Without: Jewish Public Space in Seventeenth-Century Venice and Livorno |
| Comment: | Peter Arnade, California State University at San Marcos |
33
. Borderlands. Explorations of the Space in BetweenHilton, Union Square 3/4 Joint session with the North American Conference on British Studies
| Chair: | Thomas Biskup, Somerville College, Oxford University |
| Papers: | Border Crossings: The Transfer of German Fresco Painting to England 1841–51 |
| Comment: | Thomas Biskup |
34
. Frontiers of Prejudice: Race, Ethnicity, and International Policy in World War II-Era AmericaSt. Francis, Elizabethan Room C
| Chair: | Akira Iriye, Harvard University |
| Papers: | Confronting Bigotry: Eleanor Roosevelt and Rescue, 1938–44 Blanche Wiesen Cook, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York From Anglo-Saxonism to Cold War “Democracy”: Clare Boothe Luce, Italians, and Italy Marco Mariano, University of Turin FDR’s “M” Project: Building a Better Future through (Racial) Science? Greg Robinson, George Mason University |
| Comment: | Thomas Borstelmann, Cornell University |
35
. Crossing Racial Boundaries: Linguistic and Sexual Frontiers in Early AmericaNikko, Carmel I
| Chair: | Elizabeth Reis, University of Oregon |
| Papers: | Making Whiteness in French Narratives of Exploration and Encounters |
| Comment: | William Pencak, Penn State University |
36
. Roundtable: The Alsatian Frontier in the Imagination of France and GermanyHilton, Union Square 5/6
Joint session with the Conference Group for Central European History
| Chair: | Peter G. Wallace, Hartwick College |
| Panel: | Samuel H. Goodfellow, Westminster College Rebecca McCoy, Lebanon Valley College Wendy L. Norris, University of Chicago Anthony J. Steinhoff, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga |
37
. Performing Women: Racial, Sexual, and Transnational Frontiers, 1920–70sNikko, Carmel II
| Chair: | Paul Anderson, University of Michigan |
| Papers: | Improvising Womanhood, or a Conundrum Is a Woman: Performances of Gender and Race by African American Women Jazz Musicians, 1920–50 Sherrie Tucker, University of Kansas Nina Simone, Gendered Performance, and the Civil Rights Movement Ruth Feldstein, Harvard University The State Department Gospel Tours of Marion Williams and Mahalia Jackson Penny Von Eschen, University of Michigan |
| Comment: | Suzanne Smith, George Mason University |
38
. The “Homintern” in the Arts: Historicizing American Gay ComposersHilton, Union Square 21
Joint session with the Committee on Lesbian and Gay History
| Chair: | Lane Fenrich, Northwestern University |
| Papers: | Samuel Barber: The “Conservative” as Queer Artist Michael S. Sherry, Northwestern University Queerness, Eruption, Bursting: U.S. Musical Modernism at Midcentury Nadine Hubbs, University of Michigan Britten, Copland, and Transatlantic Queer Musical Connexions Philip Brett, University of California at Los Angeles |
| Comment: | Lane Fenrich |
39
. Frontiers in War and Occupation: Economy, Society, and Propaganda in the Sino-Japanese War, 1937–45Nikko, Mendocino I
| Chair: | William W. Hagen, University of California at Davis |
| Papers: | Chinese Bankers in the Crossfire, 1937–45: Banking on the Frontier between Occupied and Free China Parks M. Coble, University of Nebraska Commercial Frontiers: The Impact of War on the Shanghai-Zhejiang Trading System, 1938–44 R. Keith Schoppa, Loyola College The Japanese Residents of Wartime Beijing Sophia Lee, California State University at Hayward Propaganda across Frontiers: Japanese and Chinese Struggles to Mobilize Barak Kushner, Princeton University |
| Comment: | William W. Hagen |
40
. Modern Frontiers: Borders, Ethnic Festivals, and Transnational IdentitiesHilton, Union Square 22
| Chair: | George Sánchez, University of Southern California |
| Papers: | “It’s Not Just a Fiesta Anymore”: Ethnic Identity, Cultural Politics, and Cinco de Mayo Festivals, 1930–50 José M. Alamillo, Washington State University No More Middle Ground: Changing Navajo Attitudes towards the Gallup Inter-Tribal Ceremonials David Lion Salmanson, Swarthmore College Commercialism, Space, and Identity Politics in San Francisco’s Chinese New Year Festivals, 1980s–1990s Chiou-ling Yeh, University of California at Irvine |
| Comment: | Lon Kurashige, University of Southern California |
41
. The Frontiers of Family History: Stepfamilies in Comparative PerspectiveHilton, Union Square 15
| Chair: | Roderick Phillips, Carleton University |
| Papers: | The Blended Family in the Toulouse Region in the Eighteenth Century Sylvie Perrier, University of Ottawa The In-Laws: Stepfamily Relationships in Colonial New England Lisa Wilson, Connecticut College Living in Step: Narratives of Remarriage and Stepfamily Life in Quebec, 1870–1940 Peter Gossage, Université de Sherbrooke |
| Comment: | Roderick Phillips |
42
. The Politics of Colonial Technologies: Imported Improvements and Indigenous InnovationsHilton, Union Square 16
| Chair: | John Lesch, University of California at Berkeley |
| Papers: | Alcohol and Authority: Contesting French Industrialization of Vietnamese Rice Wine, 1893–1913 Erica J. Peters, University of Maryland University College Science and Its Clients: History of Dye Experiments in Colonial India, c. 1890–1930 Prakash Kumar, Georgia Institute of Technology “Nylon Women”: The Politics of Textile Technologies in Neo-Colonial Egypt, 1920–56 Nancy Y. Reynolds, Stanford University |
| Comment: | Daniel Klingensmith, Maryville College |
43
. Native Americans and the FrontierSt. Francis, Elizabethan Room D
| Chair: | Willard Rollings, University of Nevada at Las Vegas |
| Papers: | Black Hawk, Cosmopolitan America, and the Wonder of the Receding Frontier Bradley Scott Schrager, Miami University “And It Has Been So Ever Since”: Creeks, Intermarriage, and the Emergence of a Racial Frontier in the Early Southeast Andrew Frank, California State University at Los Angeles “For our just claims upon this Yosemite Valley”: Indigenous Resistance to the Colonization of the Southern Sierra Nevada Mountains, 1850–90 David Scott Raymond, University of California at Santa Cruz Frontier or Homeland? Differing Views on the History of Colonial Maine Pauleena MacDougall, University of Maine |
| Comment: | Willard Rollings |
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. Modernity, Social Science, and Race: American Visions of Progress in the Twentieth CenturyParc 55, Rubens Room
| Chair: | Lee D. Baker, Duke University |
| Papers: | Developing Cultures: U.S. Social Scientists, Modernization, and the Problem of Race, 1945–65 Nicole Sackley, Princeton University How Development Theory Became White Robert Vitalis, University of Pennsylvania “All This and Something More”: Intercultural Education and the Meaning of Race and Nation, 1940–54 Shafali Lal, Yale University |
| Comment: | Victoria C. Hattam, New School University |
45
. Frontiers of Desire: Sexuality, Empire, and Nation in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth CenturiesHilton, Union Square 17/18
Joint session with the Committee on Lesbian and Gay History
| Chair: | Charles R. Middleton, University System of Maryland |
| Papers: | “I Went Pale with Pleasure”: The Body, Sexuality, and National Identity among French Travelers to Algiers in the Nineteenth Century Victoria Thompson, Arizona State University William Beckford’s Fonthill Abbey: Transposing the Whereabouts of Identity Jesse Lord Johnson, Fordham University Margins at the Center: Unnatural Assault Trials of Muslim and West Indian Men in Nineteenth-Century London Charles Upchurch, Rutgers University |
| Comment: | Patricia Lorcin, Texas Tech University |
46
. Toward a Transnational History of the Caribbean during the Age of Depression and WarHilton, Union Square 14
Joint session with the Conference on Latin American History
| Chair: | Jean Stubbs, University of North London |
| Papers: | The Mitchell Case: Transnational Racial Knowledge in the “New Cuba” Frank A. Guridy, University of Michigan Depression, Class, and Nation in Cuba, 1920–40 Gillian McGillivray, Georgetown University Modernizing Haiti: The Tensions between Pan-Americanism and Pan-Africanism, 1919–40 Millery Polyné, University of Michigan |
| Comment: | Marc C. McLeod, Seattle University |
47
. Archives, Repression, and Writing the History of Authoritarianism in Chile and BrazilHilton, Union Square 13
Joint session with the Conference on Latin American History
| Chair: | Victoria Langland, Yale University |
| Papers: | Documents Make a Difference: Sources, Historical Methodology, and Collective Memory in the Narrative of Brazil’s Authoritarian Era Kenneth P. Serbin, University of San Diego Contestation or Integration: Political Trials under the Brazilian Military Regime Anthony W. Pereira, Tulane University Reorganizing Repression: From the DINA to the CNI in Authoritarian Chile Pablo Policzer, University of British Columbia |
| Comment: | Robert Holden, Old Dominion University |
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. Medieval Frontiers: Crossing Borders in the Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century MediterraneanSt. Francis, Elizabethan Room A
| Chair: | James Ryan, Bronx Community College, City University of New York |
| Papers: | Frontier Scholarship: Translation, Polemic, and Medieval Orientalism in the Career of a Fourteenth-Century Spanish Dominican Adnan Ahmed Husain, New York University Pirates and Merchants: The Muslim Contribution to the Christian Western-Mediterranean Trade-Network c. 1400 According to Datini Letters Eleanor Congdon, Plymouth State College Alien Worlds and Odd Alliances: The Levant as Frontier in the Middle Ages Emily S. Tai, Queensborough Community College, City University of New York |
| Comment: | Sally McKee, University of California at Davis |
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. The Colonial Frontier as a Zone of Interaction in the Nineteenth CenturyParc 55, Michelangelo Room
| Chair: | John Gascoigne, University of New South Wales |
| Papers: | The Protectorate Chiefs and British Gold Coast Anti-slavery Policy 1874–1900 Trevor R. Getz, University of New Orleans “Our Red and White Children”: Cherokee, Tennesseeans, and the United States, 1790–1810 Cynthia Cumfer, University of California at Los Angeles Forging the Chains of Empire: Domination and Resistance in the Upper Great Lakes and Upper Mississippi Valley, 1815–32 Patrick Jung, Marquette University |
| Comment: | Jeff Hadler, University of California at Berkeley |
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. Los Heroes Del Domingo: Sunday Culture in Mexican American and Mexican Barrios, Twentieth CenturyParc 55, Barcelona I
| Chair: | Antonia Castaneda, St. Mary’s University |
| Papers: | Turning Horror into Laughter: Realism and Fantasy in Mexico’s Postrevolutionary Cinema |
| Comment: | Anne Rubenstein, Allegheny College |
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. Roundtable: The Frontiers of Transnational HistoryParc 55, Parc Ballroom I
| Chair: | Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago |
| Papers: | The Past and Future of Transnational History Ian Tyrrell, University of New South Wales Transnationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and American Identity Jonathan Hansen, Harvard University The National and Transnational in African-American History J.T. Campbell, Brown University Bordersl, Identities, and Transnational Histories Glenda Sluga, University of Sydney |
| Comment: | The Audience |
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. The Frontiers of the Rational: Occultism in Nineteenth-Century FranceNikko, Monterey I
| Chair: | Thomas A. Kselman, University of Notre Dame |
| Papers: | “A Mania for Associations”: Occultist Sociability during the Belle Epoque John Warne Monroe, Yale University Occultism, a Science behind Ancient Revelations Sofie Lachapelle, University of Notre Dame The Social Vision of the Sage: Politics and Occult Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century France David Allen Harvey, University of South Florida |
| Comment: | Jonathan Beecher, University of California at Santa Cruz |
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. Jesuits and the Frontiers of Science in China: New Perspectives in the History of Science and MedicineParc 55, Dante Room
| Chair: | Norton Wise, University of California at Los Angeles |
| Papers: | Imagining Civilizations: China, the West, and Their First Encounter
Roger Hart, University of Texas at Austin Jesuit Scientia and Natural Studies in Late Imperial China Benjamin A. Elman, University of California at Los Angeles French Jesuits and Enlightenment Histories of Chinese Science Florence Hsia, University of Wisconsin at Madison “The Mechanics of Circulation”: The Jesuit Transmission of Chinese Exercises for Health Ruth Rogaski, Princeton University |
| Comment: | Norton Wise |
AFTERNOON SESSIONS OF AHA AFFILIATED SOCIETIES
Friday, January 4, 2:00–5:00 p.m.
Labor and Working-Class History Association Walking Tour: San Francisco Labor and Radical History
St. Francis, Kent Room
| Leaders: | Robert W. Cherny, San Francisco State University William Issel, San Francisco State University Jules Tygiel, San Francisco State University |
Participants will meet at the St. Francis, then travel by public transportation to the Rincon Center, on Mission Street between Steuart and Spear, where they will tour the dramatic murals on California history. They will then walk about two miles down Market Street, covering such topics and locations as the 1901 waterfront strike and the Union Labor party, the 1916 Preparedness Day bombing and the imprisonment of Tom Mooney, the Southern Pacific railroad and its role in state politics and labor relations, the economic and labor connections between San Francisco and Hawai’i, the American Plan of the 1920s, labor support for public ownership of utilities before World War II, the 1934 maritime and general strikes, New Deal era construction projects and the emergence of Bechtel and Kaiser, and redevelopment of “Skid Row” in the 1950s. The tour will conclude at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, with further analysis and commentary at a nearby bar. There is no charge for this walk, but advance registration is required. To register, contact Robert Cherny at cherny@sfsu.edu.
Friday, January 4, 2:30–4:30 p.m.
Committee on Graduate Education Open Forum
Hilton, Union Square 12
| Is graduate education at a crossroads? How should we train historians for the twenty-first century? Please join the Committee on Graduate Education for a discussion of these important questions. The Committee will offer a progress report on its work to date and then invite questions and comments from the audience. Graduate students are especially encouraged to attend. | |
| Comment: | Colin Palmer, Princeton University |
American Association for History and Computing Session 2
Real History: A Roundtable on Students, Family Memory, and the Web
St. Francis, Olympic Room
| Chair: | Jessica Lacher–Feldman, University of Alabama |
| Panel: | Jeffrey G. Barlow, Pacific University Larry Easley, Southeast Missouri State University Steven J. Hoffman, Southeast Missouri State University |
American Catholic Historical Association Session 3
Liberalism and Secularization in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Hilton, Union Square 23
| Chair: | Thomas W. Jodziewicz, University of Dallas |
| Papers: | Colombia Church Property and the Liberals in the Early 1800s J. Ignacio Mendez, Holy Ghost Preparatory School, Pennsylvania Anti-Modernist/Ultramontanist? Jean Cocteau, Jacques Maritain, and the 1920s Parisian Renouveau Catholique Stephen Schloesser, Boston College |
| Comment: | Thomas W. Jodziewicz |
American Catholic Historical Association Session 4
The Flickering of the Light: Catholic Universities and Their Catholic Identity in Post-Vatican II America
Hilton, Union Square 24
| Chair: | Wilson Miscamble C.S.C., Moreau Seminary, University of Notre Dame |
| Papers: | Catholic Identity at Franciscan University of Steubenville
Alan Schreck, Franciscan University of Steubenville The University of Portland: Ecumenical or Catholic? James Connelly C.S.C., University of Portland Webster College: Child of the Sixties or Prophetic Voice? Anthony J. Dosen C.M., DePaul University |
| Comment: | Philip Gleason, University of Notre Dame |
American Conference for Irish Studies
New Perspectives on Irish Politics
St. Francis, Oxford Room
| Chair: | Timothy J. Meagher, Catholic University of America |
| Papers: | The Twisted Roots of Irish Patriotism: Some Themes in Late Eighteenth-Century Irish Political Thought
Stephen Small, Berkeley, California “Enemy of the Party”? Michael Davitt and the Irish in Britain, 1882–85 Laura McNeil, Boston College “Agents of the Pope or Agents of Moscow”: The IRA and the Comintern, 1927–31 Timothy M. O’Neil, Central Michigan University |
| Comment: | Robert Savage, Boston College |
American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies
Labor and Race in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic
Nikko, Monterey II
| Chair: | Ira Berlin, University of Maryland at College Park |
| Papers: | Royal Slavery, Gender, and the “Living Wage” Argument in Eighteenth-Century Colonial Cuba
Maria Elena Diaz, University of California at Santa Cruz Daughters of the Regiment: Women of Color and Occupying Armies in the Dutch and English Caribbean, 1770–1815 Rosemary Brana-Shute, University of Charleston Retrenching the Liberty of the People: Labor and Liberty in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic T. K. Hunter, Columbia University |
| Comment: | Marcus Rediker, University of Pittsburgh |
American Society of Church History Session 6
The Visual Culture of Christian Missiology
Parc 55, Medici Room
| Chair: | David Morgan, Valparaiso University |
| Papers: | The Visual Culture of Christian Missiology: A Model for Cultural and Historical Analysis
David Morgan Inculturation, Syncretism, or Pluralistic Belief: A Case Study in the Visual Culture of the Lakota Sioux and Roman Catholicism Harvey Markowitz, Smithsonian Institution Harold Copping and the Visual Culture of the London Missionary Society Sandy Brewer, University of East London Central American Indians and Christian Missions Dana Leibsohn, Smith College The Visual World of American Protestant Missionaries, 1890–1934 David Yntema, University of Chicago |
| Comment: | The Audience |
American Society of Church History Session 7
Religion and Science in Early Modern Europe
Parc 55, Da Vinci I
| Chair: | Lee Palmer Wandel, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Papers: | Imagining Civilizations: China, the West, and Their First Encounter
Roger Hart, University of Texas at Austin Art, Nature, Alchemy, and Demons William R. Newman, Indiana University Early Modern Attitudes toward Curiosity Ann Blair, Harvard University The Monarchy of Letters? Religious Correspondence Networks and Natural Knowledge in the Seventeenth Century Michael John Gorman, Stanford University |
| Comment: | Lee Palmer Wandel |
American Society of Church History Session 8
Christianity and the Family in America
Parc 55, Dante Room
| Chair: | Gregory Schneider, Pacific Union College |
| Papers: | The Pedagogy of the Family in the Old South
Beth Barton Schweiger, University of Arkansas Harriet Bailey and Frederick Douglass: Rape and the Messianic Consciousness John Grayson, Mount Holyoke College From Christian Home to Christian Family: Protestant Domesticity in the Progressive Era Margaret Bendroth, Calvin College |
| Comment: | Gregory Schneider |
American Society of Church History Session 9
Spiritual Frontiers Profaned: Catholics and Nazis from the Third Reich to the Present
Parc 55, Cervantes Room
| Chair: | Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College |
| Papers: | Father Anton Heuberger: Misshapen Agent of God in the Third Reich
Kevin Spicer C.S.C., Stonehill College The Politics of Contrition: The Use of Nazi Forced Labor in German Catholic Monasteries and the Question of Delayed Compensation John J. Delaney, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania Vatican Nuncio Aloisius Muench, Advocate for Holocaust War Criminals, 1946–59 Suzanne Brown-Fleming, University of Maryland at College Park |
| Comment: | Michael Phayer, Marquette University |
American Society of Church History Session 10
Jerusalem: The City in Christian Thought
Parc 55, Corintia Room
| Chair: | Elizabeth Clark, Duke University |
| Papers: | Jerusalem in the Second Century
Jeffrey Bingham, Dallas Theological Seminary Origen and Irenaeus: A Contrast Mary Ann Donovan, Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley and Graduate Theological Union The Spiritual Jerusalem: Scriptural Foundations for Augustine’s Vision of the Heavenly City John M. Norris, University of Dallas Justinian’s Jerusalem Susan L. Graham, Mount Holyoke College |
| Comment: | Elizabeth Clark |
Association for the Bibliography of History
Content or Artifact: Storing, Preserving, and Accessing the Documentary Record
Hilton, Franciscan Room D
| Chair: | Hope Yelich, College of William and Mary |
| Panel: | Robert C. Darnton, Princeton University Elizabeth Roderick, Digital Library Program, Library of Virginia |
Chinese Historians in the United States Session 2
Taiwan’s Quest for Modernization
Parc 55, Dante Room
| Chair: | Xiansheng Tian, Metropolitan State College of Denver |
| Papers: | New Economic Integration between Taiwan, China, and the United States Dajin Peng, University of South Florida Yin Chong-jung and Taiwan’s Quest for Modernity and Identity: The Debates in the 1950s Simei Qing, Michigan State University Taiwan Women and Modernization Yu Shen, Indiana University Southwest |
| Comment: | Pingchao Zhu, University of Idaho |
Community College Humanities Association
Explorations in Empire
Hilton, Union Square 19
| Chairs: | David A. Berry, Essex County College Nadine Hata, El Camino Community College |
| Panel: | Seminar Participants |
| Comment: | Jerry Bentley, University of Hawai’i at Manoa |
Attendees are encouraged to attend the AHA reception for two-year college faculty from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. in the Hilton’s Union Square 13.
Conference Group for Central European History Session 5
The West German 1960s
Nikko, Mendocino II
| Chair: | Michael Geyer, University of Chicago |
| Papers: | Bolt from the Blue or Historical Antecedents? The Evolution of Liberal Democracy in the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1960s
Arnd Bauerkämper, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam Extra-parliamentary Opposition and Democracy in West Germany Elizabeth Peifer, Troy State University From the Weimar Reformers to the West German Sex Wave Elizabeth Heineman, University of Iowa |
| Comment: | Alan E. Steinweis, University of Nebraska at Lincolne |
Conference on Latin American History Session 8
Lands of Opportunity? Comparing the Immigrant Histories of Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and the United States
Hilton, Union Square 9
Conference on Latin American History Session 9
Coordinating Council for Women in History Session 3
Ethnicity, Gender, and Nationalism in Latin America and the Caribbean
Hilton, Union Square 10
| Chair: | Franklin W. Knight, Johns Hopkins University |
| Papers: | Black Participation in Abolition in Post-Independence Ecuador
Camilla Townsend, Colgate University Strangers behind the Counters: Anti-Chinese Sentiment in Jamaica in the 1930s Howard Johnson, University of Delaware Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in Urban Brazil: “Black” and “Japanese” Women in São Paulo Mieko Nishida, Hartwick College |
| Comment: | The Audience |
H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences OnLine Session 2
Recovering Hidden Primary Resources: Harnessing the Power of New Technologies for a New Generation of History Scholarship
St. Francis, California East
| Chair: | Janice Reiff, University of California at Los Angeles |
| Papers: | “Happenings”: Opening the Doors of Historical Perception for Contemporary American History Rick Dodgson, Ohio University Getting to the People: Oral History Research and Techniques in 1930s Rural Georgia Kenneth J. Bindas, Kent State University Mixing History and Math in Late Medieval Lübeck Judith Potter, New York University Historical Scholarship and the National Archives' Holocaust Looted Art Research Project Anne Rothfeld, National Archives and Records Administration |
| Comment: | Janice Reiff |
National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History
The “Hill Rat” Open Forum
St. Francis, Victorian Room
Join NCC Director Bruce Craig and special guest speakers for a lively discussion of current Congressional legislative initiatives of interest to the historical community.
Polish American Historical Association Session 2
Leaving Home: Migration from Eastern Europe
St. Francis, Cambridge Room
| Chair: | Daniel Stone, University of Winnipeg |
| Papers: | Journeys of Spirit and Space: Religion and Economics in Migration William Galush, Loyola University of Chicago “Where Is My Home?” A Slovak Oddyssey through the Twentieth Century Mark Stolarik, University of Ottawa A Way to Survive: Networks of Polish Migrants in the United States and Germany, 1890–1940 Pien Versteegh, University of Twente, Enschede |
| Comment: | M. B. Biskupski, St. John Fisher College Andrzej Kapiszecwski, Jagiellonian University |
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing Session 1
A Critical Community: Poetry Reception in America, 1800–1950
CANCELED!!
World History Association Session 2
Accentuating the Positive, Eliminating the Negative: Utilizing Technology to Enhance the Learning Experience and Reduce Geographic and Cultural Barriers
Hilton, Franciscan Room C
| Chair: | Christopher Corley, Minnesota State University at Moorhead |
| Papers: |
It’s Not Just Saturdays Anymore Michael Cahall, Duquesne University Power Point, Technology on the Web: More Than Just an Overhead Projector for the New Century? Michelle DenBeste, California State University at Fresno Cyber Research and the Atomic Bomb Douglas Karsner, University of Pennsylvania, Bloomsburg |
| Comment: | Wayne Lee, University of Louisville |
Friday, January 4, 4:45–6:30 p.m.
Graduate Student Open Forum
Hilton, Union Square 1/2
The AHA Task Force on Graduate Education invites graduate students to a forum to discuss issues of interest to graduate students in the Hilton’s Union Square 1/2.
| Chair: | Lillian Guerra, Bates College |
Friday, January 4, 4:45 p.m.
National Endowment for the Humanities
General Information Session
St. Francis, Victorian Room
NEH senior program officer Thomas M. Adams, Division of Education, will lead a session on the current status of grant opportunities throughout the Endowment. With the assistance of one or more colleagues from other divisions of the Endowment, he will outline the status of continuing NEH programs and provide updates on recent developments. NEH staff will also encourage an informal discussion with grantees, particularly with those whose projects relate to the meeting’s theme of “Frontiers.” NEH staff welcome this opportunity for a freewheeling exchange on history, the humanities, and grants.
EVENING SESSIONS OF AHA AFFILIATED SOCIETIES
Friday, January 4, 5:00 p.m.American Society of Church History Session 11
Religious Experience after William James
Parc 55, Da Vinci I
| Chair: | Dorothy Bass, Valparaiso University |
| Panel: | Paula Kane, University of Pittsburgh Robert Orsi, Harvard University Leigh Schmidt, Princeton University Ann Taves, Claremont School of Theology |
American Society of Church History Session 12
Writing the History of Christianity in the New Millennium
Parc 55, Cervantes Room
| Chair: | Henry Warner Bowden, Rutgers University |
| Panel: | Patout Burns, Vanderbilt University Mark Burrows, Andover Newton Theological School Robin Jensen, Andover Newton Theological School Dale Johnson, Vanderbilt University |
| Comment: | David Daniels, McCormick Theological Seminary Henry Warner Bowden The Audience |
Polish American Historical Association Session 3
Polonia Archives in the United States
St. Francis, Cambridge Room
| Chair: | Anna Jaroszynska-Kirchmann, Eastern Connecticut State University |
| Papers: | Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota Joel Wurl, University of Minnesota at Minneapolis Connecticut Polish American Archives Ewa Wolynska, Central Connecticut State University The Central Polonia Archives, Orchard Lake, Michigan Karen Majewski, St. Mary’s College, Michigan Polish National Catholic Church Archives Joseph Wieczerzak, PNCC Commission on Archives and History Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America Thaddeus Gromada, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences The Hoover Institute Maciej Siekierski, Hoover Institute |
| Comment: | Anna Jaroszynska-Kirchmann |
Friday, January 4, 8:30 p.m.
American Historical Association General Meeting
Hilton, Grand Ballroom Salon B
| Presiding: | Lynn Hunt, University of California at Los Angeles |
| Award of Prizes: | Herbert Baxter Adams Prize AHA Prize in Atlantic History George Louis Beer Prize Albert J. Beveridge Award James Henry Breasted Prize John H. Dunning Prize John Edwin Fagg Prize John K. Fairbank Prize Herbert Feis Award Morris D. Forkosch Award Leo Gershoy Award Clarence H. Haring Prize Joan Kelly Memorial Prize Waldo G. Leland Prize Littleton-Griswold Prize J. Russell Major Prize Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize George L. Mosse Prize Wesley-Logan Prize Awards for Scholarly Distinction Eugene Asher Distinguished Teaching Award Beveridge Family Teaching Prize William Gilbert Award Gutenberg-E Electronic Book Prizes John O’Connor Film Award Nancy Lyman Roelker Mentorship Award Honorary Foreign Member for 2001 |
| Presidential Address: | The Dissolution of the British Empire in the Era of Vietnam Wm. Roger Louis, University of Texas at Austin |
MORNING SESSIONS OF THE AHA PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Saturday, January 5, 7:30–9:00 A.M.
Breakfast Meeting of the AHA Committee on Women Historians
Hilton, Grand Ballroom Salon B
| Chair: | Elizabeth Lunbeck, Princeton University |
| Speaker: | Bonnie Smith, Rutgers University |
| Breakfast is open to all and will be preregistered through the registration form (copy enclosed; form also available via AHA’s home page on the World Wide Web: http://www.theaha.org). Preregistration is urged—a very limited number of tickets will be available through the meal ticket cashiers at the meeting. Cost: $23. Prepaid tickets can be picked up at the meal ticket cashier’s window in the meeting registration area. | |
Saturday, January 5, 9:30–11:30 A.M.
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. “Human Subject” Protections and Historical ResearchSt. Francis, Elizabethan Room A
Sponsored by the AHA Research Division
| Chair: | Michael C. Carhart, Rutgers University |
| Panel: | Janet Golden, Rutgers University at Camden Jonathan Knight, American Association of University Professors Greg Koski, Office for Human Research Protections, U. S. Department of Health and Human Services Dawn P. Jackson, Health Policy Director and Senior Legislative Assistant for Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) Donald A. Ritchie, U.S. Senate Historical Office |
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. Laws, Courts, and Contracts in Hammurabi’s Empire: A Teaching WorkshopParc 55, Parc Ballroom I
Sponsored by the AHA Teaching Division
| Chair: | Marguerite Renner, Glendale Community College |
| Panel: | Amanda Podany, California State Polytechnic University at Pomona Jonathan Knight, American Association of University Professors Claudia Flanders, Lincoln MIddle School, Santa Monica (emeritus) |
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. Migration and Marginalization: Central America and the African DiasporaParc 55, Raphael Room
| Chair: | Lowell Gudmundson, Mount Holyoke College |
| Papers: | “Useful Laborers” and “Savage Hordes”: Hispanic Central
American Views of Afro-Indigenous Identity in the Nineteenth Century Doug Tompson, Columbus State University La Gente Parda and the Guatemalan Rebellion of 1837 Ann Jefferson, Colorado State University Neo-Colonialism and Caudillo Politics in the Frontier Towns of Lowland Guatemala, 1894–1914 Frederick Douglass Opie, Morehouse College Transforming Mulatto Identity in Colonial Guatemala, 1670–1720 Paul Lokken, Bryant College |
| Comment: | Christopher H. Lutz, Plumsock Mesoamerican Studies |
57
. The Other Lynching: Killing Ethnic Mexicans in the U.S. Southwest, 1848–1928Hilton, Union Square 22
| Chair: | Danalynn Recer, Attorney-at-Law |
| Papers: | Forgotten Lynchings: Mob Violence against Mexican Americans, 1848–1928 William D. Carrigan, Rowan University Lynching the Dead: The Texas Rangers’ Use of Photography in a Strategy of Terror Richard Ribb, University of Texas at Austin Mexican Protest and Racial Violence in the American West Clive Webb, University of Sussex |
| Comment: | David Bradley, University of Oregon |
58
. Expanding the Frontiers of Imperial History: New Approaches to Comparative ImperialismParc 55, Rubens Room
| Chair: | Eric Hinderaker, University of Utah |
| Papers: | Translating Colonialism: Missionaries and Indigenous Peoples in Eastern Australia and Northwestern America Anne Keary, University of California at Berkeley Imperial Desire, Colonial Disgust: Censorship and the Subversion of the Civilizing Mission in Australia and India Deana Heath, University of California at Berkeley Global Process, Regional Patterns: New Imperialism in the Witwatersrand, East Sumatra, and the Yucatán, 1870–1914 Markus Vink, State University of New York at Fredonia |
| Comment: | Krystyna von Henneberg, University of California at Davis |
59
. Overlapping Frontiers: Religion and Ethnicity in the Middle AgesSt. Francis, Elizabethan Room B
Joint session with the Medieval Academy of America
| Chair: | Olivia Remie Constable, University of Notre Dame |
| Papers: | Imperial and Ethnic Frontiers of the Sasanian Persian Empire Touraj Darynaee, California State University at Fullerton Greek Christianity in Lombard Southern Italy Valerie Ramseyer, Wellesley College Reconceptualizing the Seljuk-Cilician Frontier: Armenians, Latins, and Turks in Conflict and Alliance during the early Thirteenth Century Sara Nur Yildiz, University of Chicago |
| Comment: | Thomas Glick, Boston University |
60
. Tearing Down Walls: New Approaches in the History of East and West GermanyNikko, Mendocino I
Joint session with the Conference Group for Central European History
| Chair: | Robert G. Moeller, University of California at Irvine |
| Papers: | German History as Post-War History: War, Memory, and Citizenship in the Two Germanies after 1945 Frank Biess, University of California at San Diego One Film—Two Audiences—Many Messages: Wolfgang Staudte’s Movies in East and West Germany Ulrike Weckel, Technical University Berlin and University of Michigan Between the Blocs: “The East” and “the West” in the Perceptions of the West and East German Generations of “1968” Detlef Siegfried, University of Copenhagen |
| Comment: | Uta G. Poiger, University of Washington at Seattle |
61
. A New Frontier in the Old World: Spanish Hegemony in Sixteenth-Century RomeNikko, Carmel I
| Chair: | Elisabeth G. Gleason, University of San Francisco |
| Papers: | The Spanish Ambassador’s Brawl Thomas V. Cohen, York University Rome as Spanish Boom Town? A Social Portrait from 1592 Based on Newly Discovered Documents Thomas Dandelet, University of California at Berkeley |
| Comment: | John A. Marino, University of California at San Diego Laurie Nussdorfer, Wesleyan University |
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. Decolonization and the Discourse of CivilizationSt. Francis, California West
| Chair: | Jerry H. Bentley, University of Hawai’i at Manoa |
| Papers: | Contested Hegemony: The Great War and the Assault of the Colonized on the Civilizing Mission Ideology Michael Adas, Rutgers University Civilization Discourse and the Politics of Pan-Asianism< Prasenjit Duara, University of Chicago Spirituality, Internationalism, and Decolonization Gauri Vishwanathan, Columbia University Becoming “Van Minh”: Civilizational Discourse and Vietnamese Radicalism |
| Comment: | The Audience |
63
. Linguistic Frontiers in Early AmericaHilton, Union Square 13
| Chair: | Aaron Fogleman, University of South Alabama |
| Papers: | Conquest and Language Transformation in Seventeenth-Century Albany, New York Donna Merwick, University of Melbourne and Australian National University Language and Power in Mid-Eighteenth Century New York City: The Disputes in the Dutch Reformed and Dutch Lutheran Churches Joyce D. Goodfriend, University of Denver German Speakers and English Strangers: Fashioning German-American Religion in Early Republican Pennsylvania Liam Riordan, University of Maine |
| Comment: | Cynthia Van Zandt, University of New Hampshire Aaron Fogleman |
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. Migration, Labor, and the Racial FrontierNikko, Carmel II
| Chair: | Quintard Taylor Jr., University of Washington |
| Papers: | Tore Up an’ A-Movin’: Race, Migration, and Domestic Food Production in the 1930s Chiyuma Elliot, University of Texas at Austin “In California to Stay”: Rethinking the Struggle for Union Democracy in the West, 1943–60 Tucker Foehl, Yale University “I Should Get a Job at the Navy Yard”: Wartime Labor and Black Political Possibility in Brooklyn, NY, 1940–50 Joshua B. Guild, Yale University |
| Comment: | Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie, Binghamton University |
65
. Race, Ethnicity, and Boundaries in the Construction of North American Sporting CultureHilton, Union Square 1/2
| Chair: | Nancy L. Struna, University of Maryland at College Park |
| Papers: | Baseball and Borders: The Diffusion of Baseball and Other Sports into Mexican and Canadian#150;American Borderlands Regions, 1885#150;1911 Colin D. Howell, St. Mary's University of Canada Balls, Bats, and Barbed Wire Samuel O. Regalado, California State University at Stanislaus “Hold That Line”: The Shifting Color Line in Intersectional College Football, 1900–72 Charles H. Martin, University of Texas at El Paso |
| Comment: | Nancy L. Struna |
66
. Disciplinary Boundaries of the Human Sciences: Struggles over Frontiers in the Mid-Eighteenth and Late Nineteenth CenturiesHilton, Union Square 14
| Chair: | John Carson, University of Michigan |
| Papers: |
From Discourse to Disciplines—Environmental Frontiers and the Differentiation of Human Science in Enlightenment Italy Barbara A. Naddeo, University of Chicago Philosophy and the Science of Man: William James’s Early Explorations of Disciplinary Frontiers and the Formation of His Philosophical Project Francesca Bordogna, University of Notre Dame Moral Education for the Elite of Democracy: The class de philosphie between Sociology and Philosophy Daniela S. Barberis, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science |
| Comment: | John Carson |
67
. Contested Identities: Disability, Fitness, and Normality in Historical ContextParc 55, Michelangelo Room
| Chair: | Paul K. Longmore, San Francisco State University |
| Papers: | Defining the Borders of the “Kingdom of the Sick”: Negotiating Illness and Recovery in the Polio Epidemics of Mid-Twentieth-Century America Daniel J. Wilson, Muhlenberg College Sound and Fury, or Much Ado about Nothing? Cochlear Implants in Historical Perspective Rebecca A. R. Edwards, Rochester Institute of Technology A Nation in Need of Healing: The Disabled Jew and the Zionist Project Sandy Sufian, Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis |
| Comment: | Jerrold Hirsch, Truman State University |
68
. Confronting the Unexpected: Tourists and Hosts at Cross-Cultural FrontiersHilton, Union Square 3/4
| Chair: | James Clifford, University of California at Santa Cruz |
| Papers: |
The Elusive Atlantic Community: U.S. Tourists and French Hosts in the Early Cold War Christopher Endy, California State University at Los Angeles Driving Lessons: Automobile Tourism in Germany, 1918–39 Rudy Koshar, University of Wisconsin at Madison Narrating the Bodily Experience of Revolution: American Men and Women in the Soviet Union, 1917–39 Choi Chatterjee, California State University at Los Angeles |
| Comment: | James Clifford |
69
. Crossing Sexual Frontiers, Constructing Sexual HierarchiesHilton, Union Square 5/6
Joint session with the the Committee on Lesbian and Gay History
| Chair: | Ramón A. Gutiérrez, University of California at San Diego |
| Papers: | “Certainly We Interfere”: Thwarting Student Sexual Transgression in Cold War Ann Arbor Tim Retzloff, University of Michigan Boys Will Be Boys: Panty Raids and Homosexual Rings in Missouri’s Cold War Era LeeAnn Whites, University of Missouri at Columbia Inventing Sexual Rights and Wrongs: Media Responses to U.S. Supreme Court’s Rulings, 1965–73 Marc Stein, York University |
| Comment: | Ramón A. Gutiérrez |
70
. Expanding Frontiers in African American Environmental History: Land Conservation, Social Activism, and Leisure in the Early Twentieth CenturyHilton, Union Square 21
| Chair: | Carolyn Merchant, University of California at Berkeley |
| Papers: | Rural African American Environmentalism in Agricultural Classes, Model Farming, and Nature Study during the Early Twentieth Century Dianne Glave, Loyola Marymount University Protecting Home and Race: Black Women’s Environmental Activism during the Progressive Period Elizabeth D. Blum, Troy State University African Americans and the Frontier of Leisure: The 1919 Chicago Race Riot and Access to Nature Colin Fisher, Middlebury College |
| Comment: | Martin Melosi, University of Houston |
71
. Frontiers in the French Empire: Discourse, Knowledge, Race, and GenderSt. Francis, Elizabethan Room C
| Chair: | Jennifer D. Keene, University of Redlands |
| Papers: | Race and Sex in France during the Great War: Colonial Soldiers, European Women, and the Future of French Imperialism, 1914–19
Richard S. Fogarty, University of California at Santa Barbara From tirailleurs Sénégalais to sans papiers: West Africans in Twentieth- Century France Gregory Mann, Columbia University The Invention of Medical Rationality: French Hygiene, Islamic Science, and the Colonial Project in Algeria and Morocco, 1840–1905 Ellen Amster, University of Pennsylvania |
| Comment: | Alice L. Conklin, University of Rochester |
72
. Facing the Quantitative/Cultural Divide: Interpreting theTransatlantic Slave Trade Database
Nikko, Monterey I
Joint session with the Economic History Association
| Chair: | Sally Clarke, University of Texas at Austin |
| Panel: |
David Eltis, Queen’s University G. Ugo Nwokeji, University of Connecticut Linda Salvucci, Trinity University Stephanie E. Smallwood, University of California at San Diego and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University |
73
. Generational Responses to FascismParc 55, Barcelona I
| Chair: | David D. Roberts, University of Georgia |
| Papers: | Writing the History of Fascism in the Wake of the Cold War Marla S. Stone, Occidental College A Hint of Fascism: Fascist Tropes in the Work of Sartre, Blanchot, Lacan, and Aron Ethan C. Kleinberg, Wesleyan University The Marburg Trio: Philosophy under and against National Socialism Eugene R. Sheppard, Brandeis University |
| Comment: | David D. Roberts |
74
. Cracking the Barbarian Mold: Shifting Identities on Imperial China’s Northern FrontierHilton, Union Square 15
| Chair: | Albert Dien, Stanford University |
| Papers: | Altered Loyalties and Identities on the Sui and Tang Frontier, Seventh and Eighth Centuries Jonathan Skaff, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania Uyghuristan in the Mongol Period: From “Fifth Qanate to Contested Space” Michael C. Brose, University of Wyoming All Men Are Not Brothers: Ethnic Identity and Dynastic Loyalty along China’s Northwestern Frontier, 1572–92 Kenneth Swope, Marist College Stolen Oranges: Letters between Cervantes and the Emperor of China Max W. Yeh, Independent Scholar |
| Comment: | Mark Elliott, University of California at Santa Barbara |
75
. A Thematic Approach to Teaching the World History Survey CourseParc 55, Parc Ballroom II
| Chair: | Kenneth R. Curtis, California State University at Long Beach |
| Papers: | How to Use Trade and Systems of International Exchange in the World History Survey David J. Weiland, Utah State University How to Use the Theme of Technology in Teaching the World History Survey Course William R. Everdell, St. Ann’s School, New York How to Use the World History Theme of Environment Margaret McKee, Castilleja School, California |
| Comment: | The Audience |
76
. At the Crossroads of the Atlantic World: Bermuda in Three CenturiesHilton, Union Square 17/18
| Chair: | Virginia Bernhard, University of St. Thomas |
| Papers: | “The madness and malice of the Rabble”: Assessing Popular Politics in 1640s Bermuda Neil Kennedy, University of Western Ontario From Field to Sea: Maritime Revolution and the Transformation of Bermuda, 1680–1750 Michael Jarvis, College of William and Mary |
| Comment: | Jack Greene, Johns Hopkins University |
77
. Music and Politics: Cultural Frontiers in Postwar GermanyHilton, Union Square 16
| Chair: | Joan Evans, York University |
| Papers: | Whose Bach? Göttingen, Leipzig, and Cultural Politics in 1950 Toby Thacker, Cardiff University “The Golden Hunger Years”: Musical Reconstruction and Superpower Rivalry in Occupied Berlin Elizabeth Janik, George Mason University Curtain Call: Catfish Row Comes to the Schloßstrasse David Monod, Wilfrid Laurier University |
| Comment: | Celia Applegate, University of Rochester |
78
. Journalism in the Early Twentieth-Century Middle EastParc 55, Dante Room
| Chair: | Mona L. Russell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Papers: | Cosmopolitan Expertise: Expatriate Journalism and Iranian Press Culture, 1876–1928 Camron Amin, University of Michigan at Dearborn Internationalizing Conflict: Marketing the Egyptian Revolution of 1919 to the Outside World Lisa Pollard, University of North Carolina at Wilmington The Palestinian Women’s Movement and the Press, 1920–48: Forging National and International Identities Ellen Fleischmann, University of Dayton |
| Comment: | Palmira Brummett, University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
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. From Immigrant Entrepreneurs to National Leaders: Arabs in Twentieth-Century Latin AmericaSt. Francis, Elizabethan Room D
| Chair: | Yvonne Haddad, Georgetown University |
| Papers: |
The Lebanese in Ecuador: A History of Emerging Leadership Arabs in Argentina: The Second Generation and Politics, Myths, Prejudices, and Realities, 1930–83 Gladys Jozami, National Council of Scientific and Technical Research Peddling Power and Creating Community: Arabs in Twentieth-Century Mexico Theresa Alfaro Velcamp, Center for U. S.–Mexican Studies and Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California at San Diego |
| Comment: | Ignacio Klich, University of Buenos Aires |
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. The Pacific as Multiple Frontier, 1800–50Parc 55, Barcelona II
| Chair: | Daniel Segal, Pitzer College |
| Papers: |
The Pacific’s Multiple Frontiers: “Borderlands” in a Maritime History Jane Samson, University of Alberta Multiple Frontiers: Early Nineteenth-Century Missionary Enterprises in Polynesia Vanessa Agnew, University of Michigan Frontier Tectonics: The Bay of Islands, c. 1814–46 Tony Ballantyne, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Pacific and Atlantic Frontiers around 1830 Harry Liebersohn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Comment: | Daniel Segal |
MORNING SESSIONS OF AHA AFFILIATED SOCIETIES
Saturday, January 5, 7:30–9:15 a.m.
Conference on Latin American History Session 10
Biography in the Service of History: Using Personal Lives to Decipher Latin America’s Past
Hilton, Union Square 8
Conference on Latin American History Session 11
(Re)Making Nationality in the Twentieth Century: States and Identity in Mexico, the Andes, and the Southern Cone
Hilton, Union Square 9
Saturday, January 5, 9:30–11:30 a.m.
Alcohol and Temperence History Group Session 2
Teaching Alcohol and Temperence History: A Roundtable Discussion
St. Francis, Yorkshire Room
| Chair: | Scott C. Martin, Bowling Green State University |
| Papers: |
Alcohol, Temperance, and Antebellum American Reform Scott C. Martin Integrating Drink and Temperance Studies in Gender and Women’s History Michelle McClellan, University of Georgia Temperance and Drink in the Urban Context W. Scott Haine, University of Maryland University College and Holy Names College Teaching the Temperance Movement as American Political Literature Jon Miller, University of Akron Teaching Prohibition as Constitutional History David Kyvig, Northern Illinois University Teaching the Social History of Alcohol in Russia Patricia Herlihy, Brown University Drink and Temperance in Latin America History and Studies John Kicza, Washington State University Teaching Alcohol and Temperance History Online Bud Burkhard, University of Maryland University College From Montgomery’s Tavern to Joe Canadian: Integrating Alcohol Studies into Undergraduate Teaching North of the Border Cheryl Krasnick Warsh, Malaspina University College |
American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain
Piety, Patronage, and Gender in the Medieval Mediterranean
Nikko, Mendocino II
| Chair: | Stephen P. Bensch, Swarthmore College |
| Papers: |
Material Gifts and Spiritual Rewards: Knightly Piety and the Cistercian Houses of New Catalonia, 1150–1250 Gwen Rice, University of Toronto Family and Patronage at a Catalan Women’s Monastery Michelle Herder, Yale University Gendered Forms of Charitable Giving in Notarial Culture: The Case of Thirteenth-Century Perpignan Rebecca Winer, Villanova University |
| Comment: | Stephen P. Bensch |
American Association for History and Computing Session 3
Historical Pedagogy Online: “Do Students Learn?”
St. Francis, Oak Room
| Chair: | Scott A. Merriman, University of Kentucky |
| Panel: |
Ken Dvorak, Lansing Community College Charles MacKay, American Association for |