2002 Annual Meeting Program

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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
James Piscatori, Wadham College, Oxford University
Richard White, Stanford University
Marilyn Young, New York University

AHA MORNING SESSIONS 1–27

Friday, January 4, 9:30–11:30 a.m.

1. Interviewing in the Job Market in the Twenty-First Century
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


2. AHA Preparing Future Faculty Project
St. 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
Rhonda Jones, Howard University
Pamela D. Robbins, Florida State University
Ibrahim K. Sundiata, Howard University
Christopher R. Versen, Florida State University



3. Old Media, New Media, and Students’ Perception of History: Three Explorations of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
St. 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


4. Revisiting the Frontier: Freedom, Diaspora, and the Discourses of Minority History
Parc 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


5. England’s Troubles: The Recontextualization of the Stuart Era
Parc 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


6. Memory, Race, and History: Life in Post-Imperial Japan, 1945–60
Hilton, 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



7. African-American Women’s Philosophy and Activism, 1890–1930
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


8. Something New under the Sun by John R. McNeill—A Roundtable Discussion
Parc 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


9. Color Lines: Racial Frontiers in the Modern American Metropolis
Hilton, 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


10. New Frontiers in the History of American Conservatism
Hilton, 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



11. Opportunity and Exclusion in Nineteenth-Century Latin American Frontiers
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


12. No Magic Shots: Anti-Vaccination in World History
Nikko, 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


13. Shifting Frontiers of Race in the Modern World: French Racial Constructs at Home and Abroad
St. 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


14. On the Boundary of True Religion: Idolatry in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Parc 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
Isaac Miller, Oberlin College
Between Idolatry and Truth: Divine Deception, Real Presence, and the Desire to See the Host during the Fourteenth Century
Dallas George Denery II, Stanford University
The Anthropology of Sin: Idolatry in the Seventeenth Century
Jonathan Sheehan, Indiana University

Comment:Lee Palmer Wandel


15. Oil and Its Discontents
Nikko, 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


16. Imperialism on Trial: British, French, and Egyptian Perspectives on the International Oversight of Colonies
St. 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


17. Teaching an Old Frontier New Tricks: The Indian and Hispanic Southwest in New Contexts
Hilton, 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


18. Limits of Imperial Expansion and Authority: The Frontiers of the Ottoman Empire, 1500–1700
Parc 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


19. The Triple Frontier on the Baltic Sea: Balts, Russians, and Germans
Parc 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


20. Imperial Self-fashioning: Communication, Social Order, and the Stability of Empire
!!THIS SESSION HAS BEEN CANCELED!!


21. Neglected Frontiers: New Perspectives on Dutch Encounters with Non-Western Peoples in the Early Modern Period
Parc 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


22. Overcoming the Physical Frontier, Reerecting the Mental Frontier: New Perspectives on German Reunification
Parc 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


23. “Popular Justice” and “Social Control” in American Criminal Justice History, 1777–1920
Hilton, 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


24. Museums and Anniversaries: Making Memory in China and Hong Kong
Hilton, 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


25. The Sexual Is Political: Sexuality in American Political History from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Late Twentieth Century
Hilton, 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


26. Motherhood and Nationhood: Diasporic Constructions of Jewish and Asian Identities
Hilton, 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


27. Sound Film and the Politics of National Stereotyping in Interwar Central Europe
Nikko, 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
Steven J. Hoffman, Southeast Missouri State University
Ryan Johnson, Washington State University
Julie Smith, Dakota State University



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
The author will be present to respond to questions and comments. Participants are encouraged to read the book before the session. W. W. Norton, hardcover October 1998, ISBN 0393046656, $27.95; paperback September 1999, ISBN 0393319628, $15.95.


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
Reservations are required–contact Henry W. Bowden, ASCH Executive Secretary, P.O. Box 8517, Red Bank, NJ 07701; aschoff@aol.com.

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
Rolena Adorno, Yale University



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
Patricia Nelson Limerick, University of Colorado



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
Lee T. Wyatt, Col., United States Military Academy


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
Renate Bridgenthal, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
Michael J. Galgano, James Madison Unversity
Barbara Hanawalt, Ohio State University
Gary Kulik, Wintherthur Museum, Garden and Liberty
Philippa Levine, University of Southern California
Margaret Strobel, University of Illinois at Chicago




AHA AFTERNOON SESSIONS 28–53

Friday, January 4, 2:30–4:30 p.m.



28. Book Publishing for Historians: A Roundtable
St. 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


29. The Cultural Politics of Horror: A Debate on Peter Novick’s
The 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


30. Building Collegiality between Teachers and Professors
St. 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


31. Religious and Imperial Frontiers in the Nineteenth Century: Encounters between Muslims and Orthodox Christians in the National Age
Hilton, 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
Christine Philliou, Princeton University
Bandits, Judges, and Diplomats: A New Approach to the Ottoman-Greek Land Boundary
George Gavrilis, Columbia University
Tax Collectors and Chieftains: Local Intermediaries and Social Control in Two Ottoman Provinces
Yonca Koksal, Columbia University

Comment:Robert D. Crews, American University


32. Public Spaces in the Early Modern City: Antwerp, Lyon, Venice, Livorno
Parc 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
Bernard Cooperman, University of Maryland at College Park
Trading Places: The Public and Private Spaces of Merchants in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp
Donald Harreld, Brigham Young University
Reforming the Common Spaces of Churches in Early Modern Lyon: Protestant and Catholic Practices
Anna Maslakovic, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Comment:Peter Arnade, California State University at San Marcos


33. Borderlands. Explorations of the Space in Between
Hilton, 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
Emma Winter, St. Catherine’s College, Cambridge University
Britannia Abroad: Travelers, Mobile Frontiers, and the Space of Cultural Negotiation
Ángel Gurría Quintana, Emmanuel College, Cambridge University
The North Sea as a Contested Space: Discovering the Anglo-German Frontier, 1890–1914
Jan Rueger, Emmanuel College, Cambridge University

Comment:Thomas Biskup


34. Frontiers of Prejudice: Race, Ethnicity, and International Policy in World War II-Era America
St. 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 America
Nikko, Carmel I


Chair: Elizabeth Reis, University of Oregon
Papers:

Making Whiteness in French Narratives of Exploration and Encounters
Jennifer M. Spear, University of California at Berkeley
Now You See Them, Now You Don’t: Mixed-Race Identities in Early Pennsylvania
Alison Duncan Hirsch, Dickinson College
“[He] knows more about how to treat a white lady than any white man in Virginia”: Slaveholding Widows and Slave Men in the American South
Kirsten E. Wood, Florida International University

Comment:William Pencak, Penn State University


36. Roundtable: The Alsatian Frontier in the Imagination of France and Germany
Hilton, 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, 1920–70s
Nikko, 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 Composers
Hilton, 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, 1937–45
Nikko, 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 Identities
Hilton, 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 Perspective
Hilton, 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 Innovations
Hilton, 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 Frontier
St. 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


44. Modernity, Social Science, and Race: American Visions of Progress in the Twentieth Century
Parc 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 Centuries
Hilton, 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 War
Hilton, 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 Brazil
Hilton, 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


48. Medieval Frontiers: Crossing Borders in the Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Mediterranean
St. 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


49. The Colonial Frontier as a Zone of Interaction in the Nineteenth Century
Parc 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


50. Los Heroes Del Domingo: Sunday Culture in Mexican American and Mexican Barrios, Twentieth Century
Parc 55, Barcelona I


Chair: Antonia Castaneda, St. Mary’s University
Papers:

Turning Horror into Laughter: Realism and Fantasy in Mexico’s Postrevolutionary Cinema
Juan Carlos Ramirez-Pimienta, Arizona Western College
We Are the Good Neighbors! Parish and Community in Mexican Chicago, 1942–65
Deborah E. Kanter, Albion College
Wearing the National Shirt? Soccer Teams, Community Building, and Ethnic Identities in the Great Lakes Barrios, Twentieth Century
Juan Javier Pescador, Michigan State University

Comment:Anne Rubenstein, Allegheny College


51. Roundtable: The Frontiers of Transnational History
Parc 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


52. The Frontiers of the Rational: Occultism in Nineteenth-Century France
Nikko, 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


53. Jesuits and the Frontiers of Science in China: New Perspectives in the History of Science and Medicine
Parc 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
This panel will feature new scholarship based on the Ford Foundation-funded 2001 summer research seminar on imperialism and colonialism in global perspectives, an AHA-CCHA-Library of Congress-sponsored faculty research opportunity for community college faculty. Join seminar directors Jerry Bentley, University of Hawai’i at Manoa; Nadine Hata, El Camino Community College; Les Vogel, Library of Congress; and participants from the seminar for this special session.
 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



EARLY EVENING EVENTS

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



AHA EVENING EVENTS

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.



AHA MORNING SESSIONS 54–80

Saturday, January 5, 9:30–11:30 A.M.



54. “Human Subject” Protections and Historical Research
St. 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


55. Laws, Courts, and Contracts in Hammurabi’s Empire: A Teaching Workshop
Parc 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)


56. Migration and Marginalization: Central America and the African Diaspora
Parc 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, 1848–1928
Hilton, 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 Imperialism
Parc 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 Ages
St. 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 Germany
Nikko, 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 Rome
Nikko, 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


62. Decolonization and the Discourse of Civilization
St. 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 America
Hilton, 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


64. Migration, Labor, and the Racial Frontier
Nikko, 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 Culture
Hilton, 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 Centuries
Hilton, 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 Context
Parc 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 Frontiers
Hilton, 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 Hierarchies
Hilton, 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 Century
Hilton, 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 Gender
St. 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 the
Transatlantic 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 Fascism
Parc 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 Frontier
Hilton, 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 Course
Parc 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 Centuries
Hilton, 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 Germany
Hilton, 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 East
Parc 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


79. From Immigrant Entrepreneurs to National Leaders: Arabs in Twentieth-Century Latin America
St. 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


80. The Pacific as Multiple Frontier, 1800–50
Parc 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