Recent Publications by the History Faculty

2007-2008

Nwando Achebe, “Dialoguing Women,” with Bridget Teboh. In Catherine M. Cole, Stephan F. Miescher and Takyiwaa Manuh, eds. Africa After Gender?, (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007), 91-113.

____________, “West Africa,” in The Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work [Two Volumes], ed. Melissa Hope Ditmore (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006), 532-536.

____________, “Twentieth Century [West Africa],” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, series editor, Iris Berger, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 359-363.

____________, “Nigeria,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, series editor, Iris Berger, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 339-343.

Peter Beattie, Special Ed. “‘Re-Capricorning’ the Atlantic: Luso-Brazilian and Luso-African Perspectives on Atlantic History.” Special thematic volume of the Luso-Brazilian Review vol. 45, no. 1 (2008).

__________ with Vitor Izechsohn, “The Brazilian Home Front and the War of the Triple Alliance, 1864-1870,” Editor Pedro Santoni, in Daily Lives of Civilians during Wartime: Latin America from the Wars of Independence to the Drug Wars (Greenwood Press, Sept. 2008).

__________, A Tributa de sangue: Exército, honra, raça, e nação no Brasil 1864-1945, (São Paulo: Editora Edusp, forthcoming Nov. 2008). [Portuguese translation of The Tribute of Blood (Duke University Press, 2001)]

___________, “‘Cada homem traz dentro de si sua tragédia sexual:’ visitas conjugais, gênero e A Questão sexual nas prisões (1934), de Lemos Britto,” [Every Man Carries Within Himself His Own Sexual Tragedy: Conjugal Visits, Gender, and the Sexual Question in Brazil's Prison by Lemos Britto (1934)] Tradução Marcos Bretas, in História da prisão no Brasil, org. Marcos Bretas and
Clarissa Nunes Maia (Rio: Editora Rocco, forthcoming 2009)

Richard D. Bellon, "Science at the Crystal Focus of the World," in Science in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century Sites and Experiences, edited by Bernard Lightman and Aileen Fyfe, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007), pp. 301-35.

Daina R. Berry. “Teaching Ar’n’t I a Woman?,” Journal of Women’s History 19 no. 2 (June 2007): 139-145.

Entire forum titled "The History of Woman and Slavery: Considering the Impact of Ar'n't I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South on the Twentieth Anniversary of Its Publication," received the 2007 Lettitia Woods Brown Prize for the best article on black women's history from the Association of Black Women Historians.

__________, “ ‘In Pressing Need of Cash:’ Gender, Skill and Family Persistence in the Domestic Slave Trade,” Journal of African American History, 92, no. 1 (Winter 2007): 22-36.

Emine Evered, "An Educational Prescription for the Sultan: Hüsayin Hilmi Pasa’s Advice for the Maladies of Empire," Middle Eastern Studies 43.3 (2007): 439-459.

Maureen Flanagan, "What a City Ought to Be and Do: Gender and Urbanism in
Chicago, Dublin, and Toronto," in Gender and Power in Irish History, Maryann Valiulis, ed. (Irish Academic Press: Dublin, 2008): 221-239.

Sean A. Forner, "Für eine demokratische Erneuerung Deutschlands: Kommunikationsprozesse und Deutungsmuster engagierter Demokraten nach 1945." Geschichte und Gesellschaft 33, no. 2 (2007): 228-57.

Charles Keith, "Annam Uplifted: The First Vietnamese Catholic Bishops and the Birth of a National Church, 1919-1945," Journal of Vietnamese Studies 3(2), June 2008.

David Robinson, “Breaking new ground in ‘pagan’ and ‘Muslim’ West Africa,” issue in memory of Nehemia Levtzion, Canadian Journal of African Studies, forthcoming 2008.

_____________, “European imperial regimes as Muslim powers,” in Festschrift en honneur de Jean Boulgue, forthcoming 2008.

_____________, “The ‘Islamic revolutions’ of West Africa on the frontiers of the Islamic world,” The Politics of Islamic Reform, forthcoming 2009.

_____________, “Jihad, Hijra and Hajj in West Africa,” Just War and Jihad, forthcoming 2009.

Lewis Siegelbaum, "Witness Protection," review of Orlando Figes, The Whisperers in the London Review of Books, vol. 30, no. 7 (10 April 2008): 13-14.

_______________, "The Donbass Miners' Movement in the Very Late Soviet Era: An Historical Perspective," in Tanya Penter, ed. Mitteilungsblatt des Instituts fur soziale Bewegungen, vol. 37 (2007): 133-47 (Sowjetische Bergleute und Industriearbeiter - Neue Forschungen)

Benjamin Smith, ""The Priest's Party": Local religion and Panismo in Huajuapam de Leon"." In Faith and Impiety in Revolutionary Mexico: God’s Revolution?, edited by Matthew Butler. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

______________, "Inventing tradition at gunpoint: Culture, Caciquismo and State Formation in the Region Mixe, Oaxaca (1930-1959)." Bulletin of Latin American Research 27.3 (2008): 215-234.

Susan Sleeper-Smith, “Resistance to Removal: The White Indian’ Frances Slocum, in Enduring Nations: Essays on the History of Native Americans in the Midwest, ed. R. David Edmunds, Indiana University Press, September 2008

_________________, “Women, Kin, and Catholicism” in Native Women’s History in Eastern North America: A Guide to Research and Writing, edited by Rebecca Kugle and Lucy Murphy, University of Nebraska Press, 2007.

Keely Stauter-Halsted, “’A Generation of Monsters:’ Jews, Prostitution, and Racial Purity in the 1892 L’viv White Slavery Trial,” Austrian History Yearbook, vol. 38 (2007), 25-35.

Sam Thomas,“No Holds Barred: Political Cartoons and Gilded Age Politics”: A Multi-media Exhibit, MSU Museum, August 24-December 31, 2008.

___________, “Episcopal Authority and Clerical Dissent: Walter J. Burghardt, S.J. and Humanae Vitae.” American Catholic Studies, Vol. 119 (Summer 2008), 35-69.

___________, “Political Cartoons of the Gilded Age,” in The Gilded Age. Alexandria Virginia: Alexander St. Press, 2007.

Helen Zoe Veit,"We Were a Soft People’: American Asceticism & World War I Food Conservation,” The Journal of Food, Culture & Society (Summer 2007).

2006-2007

Richard D. Bellon, "Joseph Hooker Takes a 'Fixed Post': Transmutation and the ‘Present Unsatisfactory State of Systematic Botany,’ 1844-60." Journal of the History of Biology, 39 (2006): 1-39.

Maureen Flanagan, "The Workshop or the Home? Gender Visions in the History of Urban Built Environments: Canada and the United States," in London Journal of Canadian Studies 22 (2006/2007): 59-84.

Lewis Siegelbaum, "Workers and Industrialization" in Ronald Grigor Suny, ed., The Cambridge History of Russia, vol. 3: The Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press), pp. 440-467.

Susan Sleeper-Smith, “The Middle Ground Revisited: Introduction,” The William and Mary Quarterly, January 2006

Benjamin Smith. "Defending “Our Beautiful Freedom: State Formation and Local Autonomy in Oaxaca, 1930-1940." Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 23.1 (Winter 2007): 125-154.

2005-2006

Richard D. Bellon, "A Question of Merit: John Hutton Balfour, Joseph Hooker and the 'Concussion' over the Edinburgh Chair of Botany." Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 36 (2005): 25-54.

Sean A. Forner, "'Das Sprachrohr keiner Besatzungsmacht oder Partei': Deutsche Publizisten, die Vereinigten Staaten und die demokratische Erneuerung in Westdeutschland, 1945-1949." In Demokratiewunder: Transatlantische Mittler und die kulturelle Öffnung Westdeutschlands, 1945-1970, ed. Arnd Bauerkämper, Konrad H. Jarausch, and Marcus M. Payk, 159-89. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2005.

Charles Keith, "Catholicisme, bouddhisme et lois laiques au Tonkin, 1899-1914," Vingtième siècle, revue d'histoire 87(3), September-December 2005.

Georgina M. Montgomery, "Place, Practice and Primatology: Clarence Ray
Carpenter, Primate Communication and the Development of Field Methodology,
1931-1945," Journal of the History of Biology 38, no. 3 (2005): 495-533.

Lewis Siegelbaum, "Soviet Car Rallies of the 1920s and '30s and the Road to Socialism," Slavic Review, vol. 64, no. 2 (Summer 2005): 247-73.

_______________, Guest Editor's Introduction to "'Little People' and 'Big History,'" Russian Studies in History, vol. 44, no. 1 (Summer 2005), pp. 4-9.

_______________, Ed., Borders of Socialism: Private Spheres of Soviet Russia, (Palgrave, 2006)

_______________, "The Late Romance of the Soviet Worker in Western Historiography," International Review of Social History, no. 51 (2006): 463-82.

Benjamin Smith,"The Politics of Anticlericalism and Resistance: The Diocese of Huajuapam de Leon 1930-1940." Journal of Latin American Studies 37.3 (August 2005): 469-506.

______________, "El mito de Benito Juarez en Oaxaca." El Imparcial . (June 2006)

Michael Stamm, "Questions of Taste: Interest Group Liberalism and the Campaigns to Save Classical Music Broadcasting in Post-World War II Chicago,"
Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 25:2 (2005): 291-309.

Sam Thomas,"A 'final disposition one way or another': The Real End of the First Curran Affair," The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 91 (October 2005), 214-242.

2004-2005

Sam Thomas,"Teaching the GAPE (and other periods) with Political Cartoons: A Systematic Approach to Primary Source Analysis," The History Teacher, Vol. 37 (August 2004), 425-446.

___________, "Mugwump Cartoonists, the Papacy and Tammany Hall in the Gilded Age," for Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation, Vol. 14 (Summer 2004) 213-250.