Department News for Faculty, Majors, and Alumni

Fall 2009

Coming up:

Thursday September 17th at 5:30 in Rehm Library:
Allen F. Isaacman, Regents Professor of History, University of Minnesota, will be delivering the 2009 Derrick Lecture. The title of his lecture is "The Making of African History: Old Paths and New Directions." Professor Isaacman is the Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change. He is one of the leading authorities on African history and has authored many books including Toward a Social and Environmental History of the Building of Cahora Bassa Dam  (2000), Historical Amnesia, or the Logic of Capital Accumulation: Cotton Production in Colonial and Post Colonial Mozambique (1997), Cotton is the Mother of Poverty: Peasants, Work and Rural Struggle in Colonial Mozambique, 1938-1961 (1996).

Monday September 21st, 4-6 pm in Stein Courtyard
7th Annual History Majors BBQ!

Celebrate the start of the new year with professors and fellow majors. The bbq offers a great opportunity to meet and catch up with faculty and friends. Please RSVP (sending HC ID#) no later than September 10th to Yolanda Youtsey yyoutsey@holycross.edu.

Departmental News:

The department is pleased to welcome Catherine Cangany as our new Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow. Professor Cangany received her PhD from University of Michigan. This fall, she will be teaching Hist. 201 "Colonial America."  We wish Katherine Grandjean, the out-going Mellon fellow, all the best in her new position as Assistant Professor in History at Wellesley College.

Faculty News:

Tom Worcester is returning to the department from his one year leave as the Wade Chair at Marquette University. Cynthia Hooper is back at Holy Cross after completing two consecutive  fellowships at the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington and at the Davis Center at Harvard, respectively.

Sahar Bazzaz, Mary Conley, and Ed O'Donnell will be on sabbatical for the 2009-2010 academic year.

In 2009, Mark Lincicome's Imperial Subjects as Global Citizens: Nationalism, Internationalism, and Education in Japan was published by Lexington Books and Mary Conley's From Jack Tar to Union Jack: Naval Manhood in the British Empire came out with Manchester University Press. Be sure to check out Ed O'Donnell's Visions of America: A History of the United States from Contact to the Present (Pearson/Pretice Hall) which has just been published.

Among the articles and essays published during the past year were Rosa Carrasquillo's "Sculpting Blackness: Representations of Black-Puerto Ricans in Public Art," with Hilda Lorens, which appeared in Visual Anthropology Review, 24:2 (Fall 2008); Munya Munochiveyi's "'War Vet Nation?': Beyond 'Guerilla nationalism and the Search for Other Nationalisms in Zimbabwe," in Grotesque Nationalisms in Africa: Essays on Zimbabwe edited by Sabelo Gatsheni-Ndlovu for Peter Lang; and, Karen Turner's essay "Law and Punishment in the Formation iof Empire," in Rome and China: Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires, edited by Walter Scheidel (Oxford University Press).

Student and Alumni News:

Kaitlin Beaudoin '09 will be teaching with Teach for America.

Ani Nalbandian '09 will be going to medical school.

Pat Flynn '09 and Brady Howell '09 will be serving with the International Jesuit Volunteer Corps, and Kaitlin Juleus '09 and William Landergan '09 will be serving with the JVC in the U.S.

Jimmy Stuart '09 accepted a position in the Fellows Program at the Nativity School in Worcester.

Carolyn Connelly '09 will be teaching English in Thailand, and Adam Lapierre '09 will be teaching English in Lyon France.

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