{"id":2423,"date":"2022-11-18T10:10:40","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T15:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/csh\/?p=2423"},"modified":"2023-01-12T11:52:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T16:52:10","slug":"history-good-news-2021-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/csh\/2022\/11\/18\/history-good-news-2021-22\/","title":{"rendered":"History Good News 2021-22"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s time to celebrate the Department of History’s good news!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Faculty\/Staff<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Welcome our new Director of History and Social Studies Teaching, Dr. Michael Gurlea<\/strong><\/a>! He joins Professor Lyndsey Davis<\/strong> in guiding our SOST students from our classrooms into their own.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Wendy Soltz <\/b>curated an exhibit which opened at the Spertus in Chicago on Thursday, October 27 2022. <\/span>\u201cRe: Generation, Over 120 years of Chicago\u2019s JUF Federation and its Impact\u201d<\/a>. The exhibit will remain open until Thursday, November 3, 2023.<\/p>\n

In January 2022, <\/span>Abel Alves<\/b>\u2019s<\/span> \u201cThe Animal Question: The Anthropocene\u2019s Hidden Foundational Debate\u201d<\/a> was published in <\/span>Hist\u00f3ria, Ci\u00eancias, Sa\u00fade\u2014Manguinhos<\/span><\/i> 28: suppl. 1 (December 2021): 123-140.<\/span><\/p>\n

Richard<\/b> Aquila<\/b> has just published<\/span> Rock and Roll in Kennedy\u2019s America: A Cultural History of the Early 1960s<\/a> with Johns Hopkins University Press. Dr. Aquila was Professor of History at Ball State University from 1982 to 2004 and more recently Director of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (2004-2010) and Professor of History and American Studies at Pennsylvania State University, the Behrend College in Erie, Pennsylvania (2004-2015). From 1998 to 2000, Richard Aquila was producer, writer and host of the weekly NPR series <\/span>Rock & Roll America<\/span><\/i>, recorded at Ball State\u2019s public radio station.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jennifer DeSilva<\/strong> published a new book about the sixteenth-century papal Masters of Ceremonies and how they got ahead in work and life, entitled <\/span>The Office of Ceremonies and Advancement in Curial Rome, 1466-1528<\/i><\/a> (Brill, 2022).<\/span><\/p>\n

Carolyn Malone<\/strong> published an article on World War I memorials created by members of the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain. Carolyn Malone, \u201cUseful and Beautiful: Arts and Crafts\u2019 Memorials of the Great War,\u201d <\/span>The Journal of William Morris Studies<\/span><\/i> Vol. 24 No. 4 (2022): 31-48. This illustrated article is her first foray into the field of art history.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jessica Reuther<\/strong> published an article on the history of sexual assault and its prosecution in the colony of Dahomey, modern-day Benin, in the November 2022 issue of <\/span>The Journal of African History<\/span><\/i>. Jessica Reuther, \u201cStreet Hawking or Street Walking in Dahomey?: Debates about Girls\u2019 Sexual Assaults in Colonial Tribunals, 1924-1941,” <\/a><\/span>The Journal of African History<\/span><\/i>, November 1,\u00a0<\/span>2022.<\/span><\/p>\n

Christopher Valesey<\/strong> just published <\/span>“Perseverance of the Eagle-Jaguar Military Ethos in Sixteenth-Century New Spain”<\/a> in <\/span>The Sixteenth Century Journal<\/span><\/i> 52, no. 4 (Winter 2021): 977-1000. This article explores how Nahuas used eagles and jaguars to craft ideal behavior for warfare, rulership, and more generally respected qualities for public life.<\/span><\/p>\n

Max Felker-Kantor<\/strong> published an article with Prof. Simon Balto on the history of police and crime in the American city for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. Simon Balto and Max Felker-Kantor, \u201cPolice and Crime in the American City, 1800\u20132020<\/a>,\u201d <\/strong><\/span>Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History<\/span><\/i>, May 18, 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n