Lubamersky and Miller Lecture at UC Berkeley

This week Professors Lynn Lubamersky and Nick Miller will be delivering lectures at the University of California, Berkeley. Lubamersky will discuss commemorations and national identity in Lithuania since independence, and Miller will give the annual "Peter Kujachich Lecture in Serbian and Montenegrin Studies." His talk will be titled "Serbia in 1989: Where Was the Serbian Havel?"

Study Tour To Greece, Summer 09

Professor Nick Miller will be leading a study tour for the Honors College to Greece in May 2009. The trip will include Athens and other mainland sites of interest, as well as a few days touring several islands. It will focus on the entire sweep of Greek history, from ancient to modern. If you are interested, get in touch with Miller (426-3902, nmiller@boisestate.edu) or Chris Hyer in the Honors College (christopherhyer@boisestate.edu).

Fulbright Applications Due Soon

It's getting late, but not too late: Fulbright student program applications are due on October 20. If you are interested, get in touch with Nick Miller in the history department (426-3902, or nmiller@boisestate.edu).

If you are a freshman, sophomore, or junior who would like to talk about this fabulous program (which sends great students abroad every year after they earn their Bachelors degree), set aside some time to talk with that same Nick Miller, in Library 193 or at the above number and email.

Graduation Day

Professors Lisa McClain, Nicanor Dominguez, Nick Miller, and Jill Gill, at graduation, May 17, 2008. It only seems like it took a long time for them to get their degrees.

Summer Plans: Miller

Nick Miller will spend much of June working in the National Archives (above) and the archives of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. He will be using collections related to the apprehension and punishment of (alleged and real) war criminals in Yugoslavia after the Second World War.

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.

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.