There are a number of masters defenses coming up in the next couple of weeks. They are open to the public:
Alissa Peterson, "Traditions in Transition: Basques in America" (Schackel) March 18, 2009, Wednesday, 3:30 pm, Library 170, Sociology Conference Room
Karen Wadley, "The King and His Council" (Odahl) March 20, Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm, Library 194, History Conference Room
Josh Bernard, "History and Beauty: The History of the Idaho State Parks" (Shallat) March 30, Monday, 2:00 - 4:00 pm, Library 170, Sociology Conference Room
Kelly Orgill, "Bequeathment: How the Hardships of Idaho's Settlers Have Shaped Idahoan Identity" (Brady) March 31, Tuesday, 3:00 - 5:00 pm, Library 170, Sociology Conference Room
Olivia Umphrey, "From Screen to Page: Japanese Film as a Historical Document, 1931-1959" (Woods) April 3, Friday, 12:30- 2:00 pm, Library 194, History Conference Room
Showing posts with label Brady. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brady. Show all posts
Monday, March 16, 2009
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Idaho Council for History Education, Oct. 2-3
On Thursday and Friday of next week, the Idaho Council for History Education meets at Boise High School for its annual conference. Among BSU historians, Shelton Woods, Michael Zirinsky, Bart Barbour, and Bob Sims will speak on Thursday, while Lisa Brady and Jill Gill will be there on Friday. The keynote speaker on Friday is award-winning historian of the Great Plains, Elliott West. This conference is always a huge draw with informative and entertaining lectures -- make your way over to Boise High if you can!
Late Add: Elliott West will be speaking at the Fettuccine Forum the evening of Thursday, Oct. 2 for those who won't get to see him Friday, or who can't get enough. His talk will be at 6 p.m., doors open at 5:30 p.m. in the Rose Room. For more information, call 426-1255.
Late Add: Elliott West will be speaking at the Fettuccine Forum the evening of Thursday, Oct. 2 for those who won't get to see him Friday, or who can't get enough. His talk will be at 6 p.m., doors open at 5:30 p.m. in the Rose Room. For more information, call 426-1255.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Summer Plans: Brady
Lisa Brady will be teaching a workshop June 23-24 on Deserts in World History, affiliated with the Desert Studies Institute, and will be one of the Lead Scholars for the Idaho Humanities Council's summer Teaching Institute on Environmental Literature, "A Word for Nature." Finally, She'll be completing the revisions for her manuscript on ideas of nature and strategy in the American Civil War.
Tuesday, March 4, 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.
-- 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.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Lisa Brady: Woman of the Year
Professor Lisa Brady has been named one of the Boise State University Women's Center's Women of the Year, for her work as founder of and scholar-in-residence at the Renaissance Residential Community at Boise State.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Boise Hosts Environmental Historians
March 11-14: Boise will host the national conference of the American Society for Environmental History. Several hundred environmental historians will be in town (dressed in green, yes, that's it). The conference is being organized by Lisa Brady of Boise State's department of history, along with colleagues from Idaho State University and the University of Idaho. For information, call Professor Brady at 426-4309.
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