{"id":787,"date":"2020-09-02T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/csh\/?p=787"},"modified":"2022-09-03T17:17:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T21:17:06","slug":"letter-from-the-chair-fall-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/csh\/2020\/09\/02\/letter-from-the-chair-fall-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter from the Chair Fall 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Students, Alumni and Friends of the Ball State Department of History,<\/p>\n

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Abel Alves – History<\/p><\/div>\n

Our current historical context continues to be very challenging for all of us, but I can assure you that we are learning to be very nimble in the Department of History, and we are learning to respond to the circumstances around us, balancing what the European Renaissance knew as the vita contemplativa <\/em>with the vita activ<\/em>a.\u00a0 We have always done the first, reflecting on the past, and we are now committing to bringing those reflections beyond the classroom with greater regularity.\u00a0 Not only have we hired a new director of public history, Dr. Wendy Soltz; we realize that there is a world around us to which we can provide context and perspective.\u00a0 This was already discussed somewhat in a College of Sciences and Humanities Blogspot posting from April 29, 2020<\/a> that references the history of human interaction with pandemics.\u00a0 However, there remains more to say about historical reflections on pandemics.\u00a0 I once owned a copy of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Laurie Garrett\u2019s 1995 book The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance<\/em>.\u00a0 In 1995, Publishers Weekly<\/em><\/a> wrote, \u201cGarrett probes the human impact on the environment and the resulting emergence of new and mutating deadly viruses.\u201d\u00a0 It may be time for me to buy another copy to remind myself that COVID-19 should not have been a surprise.\u00a0 There is still a place for gathering data and studying it in this world in order to generate thoughtful policy.<\/p>\n

We try to do that at Ball State University, which has led to our current efforts to promote health safety on campus in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.\u00a0 This week, on Monday evening, I taught a socially distanced graduate class on the North Quad, where we all wore masks and engaged in a lively discussion on \u201cWitchcraft, Magic and Science in the Atlantic World.\u201d\u00a0 With assigned readings and audio podcasts and PowerPoint slides provided on the course\u2019s Canvas website, the fourteen graduate students can succeed if they, unfortunately and sadly, have to self-quarantine at some point, but we also still strive to build a sense of real human community in difficult times, as others did before us.<\/p>\n

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History students having an outdoor class on the Quad.<\/p><\/div>\n

We are adapting to survive, and we may even continue to thrive.\u00a0 Our departmental student numbers remain rather healthy, given the circumstances, and we welcome three faculty members this semester.<\/p>\n

Max Felker-Kantor<\/strong> has taught at Ball State as Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor of History since 2018.\u00a0 He received his PhD in 2014 from the University of Southern California.\u00a0 This fall he joins us on the tenure-line as Assistant Professor of History.\u00a0 He teaches courses in twentieth-century American and African American history with a focus on race, politics, and social movements. He is particularly interested in the policies and institutions of urban law enforcement and criminal justice systems since World War II. His articles and book chapters have been published in the Journal of Urban History, Journal of Civil and Human Rights, Boom California, Black and Brown Los Angeles: A Contemporary Reader, the Pacific Historical Review<\/em>, and the Casden Annual Review<\/em>.\u00a0 Dr. Felker-Kantor\u2019s first book, Policing Los Angeles: Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD<\/em> was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2018.\u00a0 Currently, he is researching schools, inner-city policing, and the D.A.R.E. program.<\/p>\n

This fall Wendy Soltz<\/strong> joins Ball State University as Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Public History Program. She received her PhD in 2016 from the Ohio State University and specializes in U.S. history, Jewish history, public history, museum studies, and digital history. In 2017, the Association <\/em>for <\/em>Jewish <\/em>Studies <\/em>Review <\/em>published her first article \u201cJust Miles Away but Worlds Apart: Examining Jewish Participation in Integration Programs at Black Mountain College and Highlander Folk School, 1933-1964.\u201d Her work also has been featured in two PBS specials.\u00a0 With the Indiana Jewish Historical Society, she is completing the Indiana Historic Synagogue mapping project, and, from 2018 to June 2020, she served as Executive Director of that historical society. Dr. Soltz has curated over seven solo exhibitions in Washington, D.C. and Ohio and is now curating an exhibition to be held at the Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning & Leadership on the history of Jewish Chicago.<\/p>\n

Christopher Valesey<\/strong> joins us this fall to teach online sections of History 150, \u201cThe West in the World.\u201d\u00a0 An early modern global historian, he received his PhD in Colonial Latin American History from Penn State University in 2019. While a graduate student, he served as an editorial assistant for the Hispanic American Historical Review<\/em>. He also briefly worked as a paleographer and translator for PBS\u2019s show, Finding Your Roots. <\/em>His research interests are in sixteenth-century Mexico, Nahuatl (the language of the Aztec empire), human-animal studies, and cultural change. His dissertation, \u201cManaging the Herd: Nahuas, Animals, and Colonialism in Sixteenth-Century New Spain,\u201d challenges the traditional narrative that livestock and other Old World animals served primarily as unwittingly destructive agents of Spanish colonialism.\u00a0 Dr. Valesey\u2019s first article, \u201cPerseverance of the Eagle-Jaguar Military Ethos in Sixteenth-Century New Spain\u201d is scheduled for publication in The Sixteenth Century Journal. <\/em><\/p>\n

We are here, and we strive to serve.<\/p>\n

Be healthy!<\/p>\n

Abel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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