Friday, March 14, 2008

Portugal for Historians




Pictures of our intrepid historians (Joanne Klein, in jeans, and Lynn Lubamersky) as they attend the European Social Science History Conference in sunny Lisbon, Portugal in February: the Mosteiro dos Jeronimos on the left, with the Belem Tower on the right.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Student News: Margaret Parker Goes to Korea

Margaret Parker, a student in our master of arts program, is in Korea on a Fulbright grant this school year. She is studying the status of Korean national identity. Students interested in Fulbright grants should check out the Fulbright Program website. They should also contact Nick Miller (Department of History, 426-3902) or Sabine Klahr (Director of International Programs, 426-3652) for more information. Applications for 2009-2010 will be due in mid-September, 2008.

2007: A Good Year for the History Department

Since you asked, in 2007:

-- Joanne Klein's article "Traffic, Telephones and Police Boxes: The Deterioration of Beat Policing in Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester between the World Wars" appeared in Policing Interwar Europe: Continuity, Change, and Crisis, 1918-1940, edited by Gerald Blaney for Palgrave-MacMillan.

-- John Bieter published "Lorenzo's Letters: A Basque Immigrant's Story in the American West," in Judy Li, editor, A Sense of Place: Cultural Ecology in the American West (Oregon State University Press).

-- We hired a new Latin Americanist, Nicanor Dominguez, who received his doctorate from the University of Illinois and writes about seventeenth-century Peru. He will teach courses on a wide range of topics in Latin American history. He is also, and almost as importantly, a film lover.

-- Lisa Brady's article "Negotiating The Thin Red Line" appeared in April in Environmental History.

-- a Romanian edition of Charles Odahl's Constantine and the Christian Empire (originally published in 2004 by Routledge) was published. Odahl continues work on his study of Cicero.

-- Lynn Lubamersky published her article "The Status of Idaho Women Lawyers Today," in the The Advocate, the official publication of the Idaho State Bar.

-- Todd Shallat's Ethnic Landmarks, which examines Boise's multiethnic past, was published, as was Mobile Home Living In Boise, which was the product of a task force headed by Shallat.

-- Lisa McClain's article “’They have taken away my Lord’: Mary Magdalene, Christ’s Missing Body, and the Mass in Reformation England” was published in Sixteenth Century Journal XXXVIII/1 (2007): 77-96.

-- Nick Miller's The Nonconformists: Culture, Politics, and Nationalism in a Serbian Intellectual Circle, 1944-1991 (by Central European University Press) appeared; Miller also testified at the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia in September in the trial of Jadranko Prlic, et al.

Sunday, March 2, 2008

Nick Miller to talk on Kosovo's Independence

Nick Miller of the history department will speak on March 18 at noon in the Hatch Ballroom at Boise State University on the background to and implications of Kosovo's recent declaration of independence. The talk will be hosted by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.

Sandy Schackel and Lisa McClain on Gender, Race, and Politics

Sandy Schackel and Lisa McClain of the history department have separate opinion pieces in today's Idaho Statesman. McClain's can be found here, Schackel's here. Each of them addresses issues of race and gender which have been brought to the fore by the democratic presidential primary.

Todd Shallat: In the News


Today's Idaho Statesman has a front page report on the decline of trailer-park living in Idaho; the report draws on the research of a BSU team headed by professor of history Todd Shallat. If you are interested in a copy of their report, which is not the usual dry-as-dust policy stuff, give Shallat a call at 426-3701.