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November 2009 Professor Simon Payaslian gave a talk entitled “Human Rights in Armenian History” on October 15 at the Armenian Library and Museum of America in Watertown, Mass. He covered the evolution of the Armenian legal tradition over the centuries and juxtaposed the history of Armenia with the history and evolution of international human rights stan- dards. He noted that since Armenians lived as subject peo- ples under Ottoman, Persian, and Russian rule for centuries, they could not develop their own political institutions, as a sovereign nation, which could promote and protect human rights upon independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. He concluded by discussing the extent to which the post-Soviet Armenian government can implement human rights policies in the political, economic, and cultural spheres in accor- dance with international human rights norms and stan- dards.... Payaslian also presented a paper entitled “The US War in Iraq, War Refugees, and International Obligations” at a conference at the University of Connecticut Law School in Hartford, Connecticut, organized by the Human Rights In- stitute of the University of Connecticut in association with the University of Connecticut Law School, October 22-24. In his paper, Payaslian surveyed the Bush administration’s pol- icy towards Iraqi refugees from 2003 to 2008 and current eorts underway to address the humanitarian crisis. He stressed the urgent need to do more at both the national and the international levels as required by international refugee and human rights conventions. Professor Marilyn Halter was a plenary speaker for a ses- sion entitled “What Is the Post-American New England City?” at the New England American Studies Association Annual Conference held in Lowell, Mass., in mid-October .... She is also serving as a scholar consultant on the documen- tary lm slated to be released this spring entitled “Proud to Be Cape Verdean: A Look at Cape Verdeans in the Golden Bruce Schulman named next department chair After Professor Charles Dellheim, chair of the History De- partment since 2001, accepted a new position as director of University Honors College at Boston University, a small committee of department faculty solicited the views of other members on their preference for the next leader of the depart- ment. Once this committee had presented its ndings to CAS Dean Virginia Sapiro, she announced her selection of Professor Bruce Schulman as the next chair, eective January 1, 2010. His term will last through the summer of 2013. Bruce Schulman received his PhD from Stanford Univer- sity in 1987 . After six years on the faculty of the University of California at Los Angeles, he came to Boston University in 1994 to teach in the eld of American political history. Be- tween 1997 and 2002 he also served as Director of the Ameri- can and New England Studies Program; in 2008 he was named to the William Edwards Huntington Chair in History. Schulman is the author of From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South, 1938-1980 (1991), Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberal- ism (1995), and The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Cul- ture, Politics, and Society (2001) and is currently working on Re- awakened Nation: The Birth of Modern America, 1896-1929 (Ox- ford History of the United States, Volume VIII). He has been ad- visor to numerous PhD students working on their dissertations and to undergraduate history majors on their senior distinction projects; as director of the American Politi- cal History Institute, he organizes a successful seminar series each year, an international political history conference that meets at BU every three years, and a graduate student confer- ence that began last year. In 1994, Professor Schulman introduced himself to readers of this newsletter with these words about his philosophy of teaching: “Alone among the disciplines, history encounters the full range of human experience; it isolates no particular endeavor (be it politics, culture, economics, religion, or sci- ence), region, or era. The History Professor selects as his mu- See SCHULMAN, page 5
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Professor Simon Payaslian gave a talk entitled “HumanRights in Armenian History” on October 15 at the ArmenianLibrary and Museum of America in Watertown, Mass. Hecovered the evolution of the Armenian legal tradition overthe centuries and juxtaposed the history of Armenia with thehistory and evolution of international human rights stan-dards. He noted that since Armenians lived as subject peo-ples under Ottoman, Persian, and Russian rule for centuries,they could not develop their own political institutions, as asovereign nation, which could promote and protect humanrights upon independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Heconcluded by discussing the extent to which the post-SovietArmenian government can implement human rights policiesin the political, economic, and cultural spheres in accor-dance with international human rights norms and stan-dards.... Payaslian also presented a paper entitled “The USWar in Iraq, War Refugees, and International Obligations” ata conference at the University of Connecticut Law School inHartford, Connecticut, organized by the Human Rights In-stitute of the University of Connecticut in association withthe University of Connecticut Law School, October 22-24. Inhis paper, Payaslian surveyed the Bush administration’s pol-icy towards Iraqi refugees from 2003 to 2008 and currentefforts underway to address the humanitarian crisis. Hestressed the urgent need to do more at both the national andthe international levels as required by international refugeeand human rights conventions.

Professor Marilyn Halter was a plenary speaker for a ses-sion entitled “What Is the Post-American New EnglandCity?” at the New England American Studies AssociationAnnual Conference held in Lowell, Mass., in mid-October....She is also serving as a scholar consultant on the documen-tary film slated to be released this spring entitled “Proud to BeCape Verdean: A Look at Cape Verdeans in the Golden

Bruce Schulman named nextdepartment chair

After Professor Charles Dellheim, chair of the History De-partment since 2001, accepted a new position as director ofUniversity Honors College at Boston University, a smallcommittee of department faculty solicited the views of othermembers on their preference for the next leader of the depart-ment. Once this committee had presented its findings toCAS Dean Virginia Sapiro, she announced her selection ofProfessor Bruce Schulman as the next chair, effective January1, 2010. His term will last through the summer of 2013.

Bruce Schulman received his PhD from Stanford Univer-sity in 1987. After six years on the faculty of the University ofCalifornia at Los Angeles, he came to Boston University in1994 to teach in the field of American political history. Be-tween 1997 and 2002 he also served as Director of the Ameri-can and New England Studies Program; in 2008 he wasnamed to the William Edwards Huntington Chair in History.Schulman is the author of From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: FederalPolicy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of theSouth, 1938-1980 (1991), Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberal-ism (1995), and The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Cul-ture, Politics, and Society (2001) and is currently working on Re-awakened Nation: The Birth of Modern America, 1896-1929 (Ox-ford History of the United States, Volume VIII). He has been ad-visor to numerous PhD students working on theirdissertations and to undergraduate history majors on theirsenior distinction projects; as director of the American Politi-cal History Institute, he organizes a successful seminar serieseach year, an international political history conference thatmeets at BU every three years, and a graduate student confer-ence that began last year.

In 1994, Professor Schulman introduced himself to readersof this newsletter with these words about his philosophy ofteaching: “Alone among the disciplines, history encountersthe full range of human experience; it isolates no particularendeavor (be it politics, culture, economics, religion, or sci-ence), region, or era. The History Professor selects as his mu-

See SCHULMAN, page 5

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since 1970. He was followed by Profes-sor Anderson, who gave a paper on“The Syrian Protestant College (SPC)and the Darwin Controversy of 1882.”

Professor Houchang Chehabi pre-sented a paper titled “Diversity atAlborz” at an international conferenceon the Alborz School (a high school inTehran originally founded by Ameri-can missionaries) held at the Universityof California at Irvine on October 10....On October 14 he spoke on recentevents in Iran at a symposium on thetheme of “Middle East Politics: Presentand Future” held at the Crown Centerfor Middle Eastern Studies, BrandeisUniversity.

On October 18 Professor WilliamKeylor delivered a paper titled “TheSecond Cold War in Europe, 1978-1983”at an international conference atMcGill University in Montreal on“Nexus Years in the Cold War.”

Professor Bruce Schulman is givingseveral public lectures and conferencepresentations this semester. He deliv-ered a lecture at Eastern Nazarene Col-lege entitled “Thunder on the Right:The Rise of Conservatism in PostwarAmerica.” At the Long Island Councilfor the Social Studies he presented on“Making Sense of U.S. History Afterthe ‘Sixties’” and took part in a paneldiscussion on presidential rankings. InNovember he will travel to the South-ern Historical Association conferencein Louisville and also participate in aspecial conference on History and Jour-nalism at BU’s College of Communica-tion....Schulman’s article “The Privat-ization of Everyday Life: Privatization,Public Services, and Public Space in the1980s” has appeared in Living in theEighties, an Oxford University Press vol-ume co-authored by Gil Troy and Vin-cent Cannato.

Professor Allison Blakely has pub-lished “The Emergence of Afro-Eu-rope: A Preliminary Sketch” in DarleneClark Hine, Trica Danielle Keaton, andStephen Small, eds., Black Europe andthe African Diaspora (University of Illi-nois Press).

Professor Simon Rabinovitch had areview published, in the October 2 is-sue of The Times Literary Supplement, ofDana Evan Kaplan, Contemporary

NEWSof the History Departmentat Boston Universityis published monthly Septemberthrough May at the department office,226 Bay State Road, Boston, MA02215.

Telephone: 617-353-2551E-mail: [email protected]: www.bu.edu/history

Editor: James T. Dutton, Depart-ment Administrator

Items of interest for publication andchanges of address should be sent tothe editor.

State,” directed by Mike Costa and pro-duced by Side Door Entertainment,and is the Faculty Advisor for the newlyrevitalized BU Cape Verdean StudentAssociation.

Professor Thomas Glick gave twolectures at Western Michigan Univer-sity on October 6 and 7. The first, on“The Earliest Reception of The Origin ofSpecies in the United States and Eng-land,” tracked the incidence and inten-sity of engagement with Darwin byAmerican and English naturalists frommid-November 1859 to March 1860. Theconclusion was that elite opposition toDarwin’s theory had all but sputteredout by March 1860. The second lecture,on “The Transmission of Arabic Sci-ence in Latin and Hebrew in MedievalSpain,” was a discussion of modes oftranslation, from Greek into Arabic,and then Arabic into Latin, Castilian,and Hebrew, drawing out similaritiesand differences in the three translationmovements. All three, however, wereoriginally driven by demand for astro-logical services emanating from the no-bility. The introduction of astrologyhad the unintended consequence ofstimulating demand for the new “In-dian calculation” (hisab al-hind), that is,Arabic numerals including the zero,and the place-value system (units, tens,hundreds), the translation of astronom-ical treatises and celestial tables, and ul-timately classical Greek philosophy.

On October 2 and 3, both ProfessorGlick and Professor Betty Anderson at-tended a symposium on “Darwin andEvolution in the Muslim World” atHampshire College, Amherst, Mass.This was an exploration of the debateover evolution in current and past Mus-lim countries, the Muslim participantsbeing outspoken supporters of evolu-tion and opponents of creationism.The lead speakers were Ronald Num-bers of the University of Wisconsin,who reported on a personal meetingwith the Turkish fundamentalist propa-gandist Harun Yahya, and PervezHoodboy, Pakistani particle physicistand string theorist, who is an outspo-ken opponent of so-called “Islamic sci-ence.” Glick spoke first, placing thismeeting in the context of studies of theComparative Reception of Darwinism

American Judaism: Transformation andRenewal.

Professor Andrew Bacevich lec-tured at Knox College, NorthwesternUniversity, and the Wisconsin Vet-erans’ Museum. He published op-edsin the Washington Post and the BostonGlobe. He also appeared in a PBS“Frontline” documentary on Afghani-stan.

Professor Nina Silber delivered alecture at the Peabody Institute Libraryin September on the topic of New Eng-land Civil War soldiers and their viewson slavery.... In October she spoke at anevent, at the Concord Free Public Li-brary, honoring the late historian Da-vid Herbert Donald.

Graduate student Kathryn Lamon-tagne presented a paper at the NewEngland Conference on British Studieson October 3 at Brown University. For apanel entitled “Knowledge, Power, Pol-itics, and Memory in Early Twentieth-Century Britain and Ireland,” she deliv-ered a paper on “Forgotten Memories?:Graffiti by Civil War Women atKilmainham Gaol.”

On September 28 , ProfessorEugenio Menegon gave a public lec-ture on Christian iconography inChina on the occasion of the Interna-tional Workshop “Venturing into Mag-num Cathay: 17th-Century Polish Jesu-its in China,” organized by the Monu-menta Serica Institute, the ConfuciusInstitute, and the Ignatianum Faculty

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in Krakow (Poland). The ancient Polishcapital was sunny and unseasonablywarm, something as unusual as the hotbeer with cherries tasted at a local res-taurant.... On October 19, Menegon de-livered another lecture on “Preparingfor Death in Early Modern Europe andChina” at the China Humanities Semi-nar sponsored by the Fairbank Centerfor Chinese Studies, the HumanitiesCenter, and the Department of EastAsian Languages and Civilizations atHarvard University.

Professor Emerita Merle Goldmanhas recently published “IntellectualPluralism and Dissent” (co-authoredwith Ashley Esarey), in Political Changein China: Comparisons with Taiwan(Lynne Rienner Publishers); “De-veloping Human Rights in Post-MaoChina,” in Insights on Law and Society(American Bar Association, Winter2008); “Repression of China’s PublicIntellectuals in the Post-Mao Era,” inSocial Research (Summer 2009); and“China’s Irrepressible Intellectuals,”Current History (September 2009).

On October 2 Professor Jon Robertsserved as commentator on a paper byKarl Giverson and Randall Stephensentitled “The Anointed: AmericanEvangelical Experts” at a conferenceheld at Gordon College commemorat-ing the fifteenth anniversary of MarkNoll’s The Scandal of the EvangelicalMind. �

The following students passed languageexaminations in September:

Zach Fredman: Mandarin ChineseJeffrey Stout: Spanish

On October 21 Kathryn Lamontagnepassed her qualifying oral examination.Examiners in the major field of modernEuropean history were ProfessorsArianne Chernock, Charles Dellheim,and Robert Savage (of Boston College);the examiner in the minor field of archi-tectural history was Professor MelanieHall (of the Art History Department).

by Donald Altschiller,History Bibliographer

This summer Mugar Library wasrenovated to accommodate theinstallation of 200 IT computers

throughout the building. The first-floorcomputer cluster has been renamed theBU Common@Mugar and offers in-formation and technology servicesfrom many parts of the University, in-cluding the IT Help Center and PrintCenter, as well as expanded scanningservices. The new location of the Re-search Center (formerly the ReferenceDesk) provides additional space for li-brary staff to assist students engaged inresearch, writing, and other academicactivities. The librarians are very eagerto expand their outreach to library usersby offering extended research and refer-ence consultations.

The library building has now ex-tended its hours until 2 a.m. on Sundaythrough Thursday; on Friday and Sat-urday the building closes at 11 p.m. Thelibrary is available for study and com-puter use until closing but library ser-vices are not available after midnight.

Recently, some electronic resourceshave greatly expanded their content.(Please access databases at: www.bu.edu/library/eresources/index.html.)

Dissertation Abstracts has the mostcomprehensive collection of disserta-tions and theses, starting coverage in1861. A wonderful new feature: the data-base now offers full text for most disser-tations published since 1997 and also in-cludes retrospective full text for someolder items. Some Master’s theses pub-lished since 1988 include 150-word ab-stracts.

America: History and Life and Histori-cal Abstracts are the pre-eminent elec-tronic resources for finding journal arti-cles and also book titles. A growing

number of citations provide links tofull-text access; you can also send cita-tions directly to RefWorks to include inbibliographies and for footnotes.

African American Song is a uniqueonline resource to document the his-tory of African American music withaudio access. The collection contains adiverse range of genres such as jazz,blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, andnarratives, among others; it features re-cordings from the first half of the 20thcentury, providing a rich source ofblack history and culture.

American National Biography con-tains lengthy portraits of more than17,000 men and women—from all erasand occupations—whose lives havehelped shaped the United States. TheANB is the first biographical resourceof this scope to be published in morethan sixty years. The print set—whichthe library also owns—was published in1999 and soon became a landmark workof American biographies.

British History Online is a digital li-brary containing some core print pri-mary and secondary sources on the me-dieval and modern history of the Brit-ish Isles.

International Medieval Bibliographyprovides multidisciplinary citations ofjournal articles, books, conference pro-ceedings, and other literature and cov-ers Europe, North Africa, and the NearEast (300-1500).

Iter is a bibliographic database cov-ering literature pertaining to the Mid-dle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).

Massachusetts History Online is a fulltext collection of articles from 50 maga-zines and local newspapers coveringthe people, places, and historical eventsof the Commonwealth.

National Union Catalog of ManuscriptCollections provides bibliographic ac-cess to archives and manuscript collec-tions located throughout the United

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Daniel McCallremembered

Jeanne Penvenne (PhD from theHistory Department, now on the fac-ulty of Tufts University) sent us a noticeon the death of Daniel McCall, a leaderin the earlier days of African Studies atBoston University. “Although Dan wasan anthropologist,” Jeanne wrote, “hewas obviously a core mentor/teacherfor BU’s first generation of historians(Doug Wheeler was there too!). Frommy generation’s perspective, his workon African Historiography was superb.I never had a class with him, but readmuch of his work and benefited enor-mously. He was one of the foundingfolks and should obviously be acknowl-edged.”

At an October 3 memorial for DanMcCall held at the Museum of FineArts, another BU figure in AfricanStudies and professor emeritus at Indi-ana University, George Brooks, spoke:

Dan McCall had a remarkablelife, one that began disas-trously as a truant and incorri-

gible youth, and ended as a distin-guished scholar and a mentor to his stu-dents, his students’ students, and innu-merable others who sought his counsel.

While a Navy medic during WWII,Dan landed alongside Marines duringthe horrendously bloody invasions ofPacific islands. He mentioned this tome for the first time in August 1996—af-ter I had known him 39 years. Then, andsubsequently, Dan never describedthese experiences.

My earliest recollection of Dan wassoon after arriving at Boston Universityin 1957, finding him—my Professor!—seated cross-legged on the floor of theMugar Library pulling books offshelves researching some topic that hadattracted his interest.

I was not a promising graduate stu-dent. While I was delivering my firstseminar paper—something aboutUganda derived from my senior thesisat Dartmouth—Dan went to sleep. Indesperation, I looked to NormanBennett, already a friend and role

model, and Norm silently indicatedthat I should keep droning on. After awhile Dan roused and nothing wassaid.

Dan never lectured from notes,passed out maps, or showed slides. Hewould enter the classroom, pause tocollect his thoughts, then deliver aseamless lecture on whatever interestedhim that day. He ranged across topicsand disciplines. One day, someoneasked a question that involved a four-letter word. Dan obligingly wrote theword on the board and explained itsmeaning and derivation, followed by anumber of other four-letter words, ex-plaining the origins of each one,whether from Old Norse, Greek, Latin,or whatever. Students dutifully tooknotes.

Among scholars across disciplines,Dan was renowned for his path-break-ing—indeed intrepid—book entitled Af-rica in Time-Perspective: A Discussion ofHistorical Reconstruction from UnwrittenSources (1969). Dan’s interests rangedworld-wide. Consider that he mighthave concentrated his professional lifeon Ghana, where he did his dissertationresearch. Instead, consider some of thetopics Dan wrote about: “The Horse inWest African History,” “Wolf CourtsGirl: The Equivalence of Hunting andMating in Bushman Thought,” “TheMarvelous Chicken,” “Towards a His-tory of West African Dress,” “TheAfroasiatic Language Phylum and Afri-can Prehistory,” “Neolithic Pig Cul-ture,” etc.

Dan traveled widely. Wherever hewent—Africa, western Europe, Mediter-ranean countries, Pacific Islands, wher-ever—he immersed himself learningabout an area’s archaeology, anthropol-ogy, and history, sought out leadingscholars, and began writing research pa-pers, monographs, and novels.

In recent years, I telephoned Danmore and more frequently. During hisfinal illness, he kept assuring me that hewas convalescing, although Pat in-formed me otherwise. During tele-phone conversations Dan’s voice wasstrong, as was his intellect, as was hisfabulous memory—he was “Total RecallMcCall” to the end of his life!

States.New York Times Historical is a superb

resource offering full-text coverage ofthe “paper of record” (including adver-tisements) from 1851 to 2006.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biogra-phy is a major collection containingmore than 57,000 biographies of themen and women from around theworld who shaped all aspects of Brit-ain’s history. Published in print and on-line in 2004, ODNB offers three annualupdates which add new biographiesfrom the Romans to the 21st century.

Please note: The above resourcesrepresent only a small portion of ourelectronic resources that provide his-torical information. The library sub-scribes to almost three hundred data-bases covering the humanities, socialsciences, and sciences which also offeraccess to a wide range of historical liter-ature.

Finally—and it must be constantlyemphasized—the BU libraries havemore than two million books and weadd a few thousand history titles everyyear. It is a continuing struggle to con-vince students that everything is notavailable through a Google search. De-spite the increasingly common percep-tion that the book has suffered the fateof slide rules, last year more than250,000 print books were published inthe United States—a record number.

International History Institute

History of Japanese Food

Professor Suzanne O’Brien will kickoff this new IHI series by guiding usthrough the wonders of Japanese foodand how it fits within cultural andother understandings of Japan. Sam-ples of Japanese cuisine will be servedas part of the presentation.

Thursday, November 12, 5:30 p.m.

Room 304, 226 Bay State Road

If you wish to attend, RSVP by November 5to [email protected].

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The November 2009 issue of the jour-nal Modern Intellectual History (ProfessorCharles Capper is one of the co-editors)has been published. The contents are asfollows:

Articles“Voltaire and the Necessity of Modern His-tory”

Pierre Force“Emile Boutroux, Redefining Science andFaith in the Third Republic”

Joel Revill“The Radical Conservatism of Frank H.Knight”

Angus Burgin“Liberalism without Humanism: MichelFoucault and the Free-Market Creed, 1976-1979”

Michael C. Behrent

Essay

“A Historical Atlas of Objectivity”Mi Gyung Kim

Review Essays“The Hard Birth of French Liberalism”

Johnson Kent Wright“What the Occult Reveals”

Corinna Treitel“Psychology and Contemporary Society”

Mike Savage“Measurement and Meritocracy: An Intel-lectual History of IQ”

Theodore M. Porter

Public Lecture in Chinese History

“Place and Memory in the Singing Crane Garden”

Professor Vera Schwarcz

Wesleyan University, Department of Historyand

Director, Center for East Asian Studies

Wednesday, November 412:00 noon

The Castle, 225 Bay State Road

Historian and poet Vera Schwarcz will discuss her recent book, Place and Memory in theSinging Crane Garden.At the heart of her investigation is a nearly forgotten garden on thecampus of Peking University (Beida),once the personal sanctuary of a Manchu prince dur-ing the Qing dynasty.In 1860,a punitive expedition of British forces under the command ofLord Elgin looted the Summer Palace and incinerated the grounds, including the SingingCrane Garden.The owner of the garden,Prince Yihuan,chose to leave it in ruins.Thereaf-ter, he wrote dark poems of grief centered on the ravaged landscape. One century later,during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76), the Singing Crane Garden became the site oftrauma again,when it was used as the staging ground for denouncing university professorsas counter-revolutionaries. Recently, this same piece of land underwent another make-over,becoming the site of the Arthur Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology.The placeitself bears little trace of its turbulent history.Schwarcz draws on personal interviews andliterary sources to restore an authentic past to a place where memories have been ef-faced.

The event is co-sponsored by the BU Center for the Study of Asia, the History Depart-ment, and the Humanities Foundation.

Presentation on Publishing

Susan Ferber, Senior Editor at Oxford University Press

“Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Academic Publishing(But Were Afraid to Ask)”

Thursday, November 19, 5 p.m., Room 304, 226 Bay State Road

Susan Ferber is Executive Editor for American and World History at Oxford University Press-USA, where she has worked since 1997. Her diverse list ranges from ancient history to con-temporary history and includes both academic and trade titles. She has edited many first books,as well as the work of senior scholars. Books she has edited have won numerous prizes, includ-ing a Pulitzer Prize and a Bancroft Prize, and two became bestsellers.

sical score some polymorphous chunkof human experience, a crashing ca-cophony of voices, rhythms, and melo-dies—and orchestrates it, forms it into akind of narrative symphony, with dis-tinct movements, rotating soloists,overture, and coda. The thrill of teach-ing history lies in conducting the or-chestra, in fashioning discordantsounds into harmony and diverse char-acters into a coherent story.”

The department congratulates Pro-fessor Schulman on his new appoint-ment. �

SCHULMAN (cont. from page 1)

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Graduate Student Kathryn Lamontagne became engaged on September 25 toRichard Sands of London, England (in the photo they stand near ScotneyCastle). Richard is on the editorial staff at Sky Magazine and they met whileKathryn was working on her MA at the University of London in 2004. As aEuropeanist who focuses on Britain, Kathryn fears this may be a sign she is toodevoted to her topic of British cultural and social history. Celebrations areplanned for Chelsea, London, and Westport, Mass.

Department of History226 Bay State RoadBoston, MA 02215

Large number of applicationsarrive for the early modern search

As of the end of October, 120 applications for the search inearly modern European history had arrived.The search com-mittee (Professor Diefendorf, chair, plus ProfessorsChernock and Johnson) has already begun sifting throughthem to find the best candidates. Since no specific field wasmentioned in the advertisement, the primary focus of the ap-plicants has run the gamut:

Britain: 39 applicationsFrance: 16Germany: 11Spain: 10Italy: 7The Netherlands: 4

with several each in areas of eastern Europe.Some have applied in non-geographic areas (11 in the

history of science or medicine, 6 in the history of law or politi-cal theory, 8 in the history of religion).

The finalists’ visits to campus are expected to take placeearly in the new year.


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