News:

Congratulations to Hal Langfur

His recent article,“Moved by Terror: Frontier Violence as Cultural Exchange in Late-Colonial Brazil,” Ethnohistory 52:2 (spring 2005), 255-280, has won the prestigious Conference Prize for articles published in the field of Latin American History. The prize will be formally awarded by the Conference on Latin American History in January during the CLAH/AHA meetings in Atlanta.

The History Department Alumni Awards Announced

The Teaching Award was given to Jonathan Bergman and Craig Miller.

The MA Project Award was given to Andrew Harris for his paper, "Edward IV, the
Order of the Garter and English Diplomacy, 1461-1483" (written under the direction of Prof. Vardi and Prof. Schen ) and Myrna Magliulo for her paper, "Andrew J. Smitherman: A Pioneer of the African American Press 1909-1961" (written under the direction of Prof. Radford).

Congratulations to Dr. Terrianne Schulte who has joined the faculty of D'Youville College as an assisant professor.  Terrianne's dissertation,"Grassroots and Environmental Activism in the Great Lakes: 1960’s & 1970’s", was completed in 2006 under the direction of Susan Cahn.

Congratulations to Dr. Richard Filipink who has joined the history department of Western Illinois University as an assisant professor.  Richard's dissertation,"An American lion in winter: The post-presidential impact of Dwight D. Eisenhower on American foreign policy (John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson)", was completed in 2004 under the direction of Jack Larkin.

Congratulations to Dr. Axel Fair-Schulz who has joined the history department of SUNY Potsdam as an assisant professor.  Axel's dissertation," Loyal subversion: East Germany and its neo-humanist Marxist intellectuals", was completed in 2004 under the direction of Georg Iggers.

Congratulations to Fang Qiang who has joined the history department of Missouri Southern State University in Joplin, MO.  Fang, who worked with Roger Des Forges, will defend his dissertation, "Direct Appeal and the Rule of Law in Recent China," in May.

Congratulations to Dr. Ami Pflugrad Jackisch whohas joined the history department of the University of Michigan at Flint as an assisant professor.  Ami's dissertation, We Are All Brothers: Secret Fraternal Organizations And The Transformation Of The White Male Political Culture In Antebellum Virginia, was completed in 2005 under the direction of Susan Cahn.

Conferences:

The UB Humanities Institute's Annual Conference

Date: October 26-27, 2007

Location: UB Center for the Arts, North Campus

Topic:  Human Trafficking

The conference seeks to examine the known and forgotten histories as well as the present, new
forms of human trafficking in its manifold manifestations, ranging from slavery, sex traffic, forced
and child labor, the recruitment of child soldiers, and migration, to international adoption and
trading in body parts. What are the new forms of human trafficking, which are not yet recognizable
as such by law, for instance, adoption, or exchange of body parts? How is human trafficking
always already inscribed or presupposed in the fundamental concepts of Western forms of political
and social analysis, such as gender, social contract, kinship, commodity form, racism, exchange,
globalization? How do the catastrophic histories of human trafficking constitute and destroy the
concepts of the human and human rights (for instance trading in body parts) by maintaining what
Kevin Bales calls "disposable people"? How do the histories and the struggles against human
trafficking intervene into debates about globalization, internationalism, human rights, premodern
and modern power? What Kind of challenge do these traumatic histories pose for ethics and the arts?

Third American-Canadian Conference (ACC) In German and Modern European History.

Date: September 14-15, 2007

The ACC is a collaborative project of German historians from the University at Buffalo, Canisius College, Cornell University, the Universities of Rochester, and the University of Toronto. This annual meeting brings together graduate students and faculty from Western New York and Southern Ontario to present new research, discuss works in progress, and foster exchange among historians in our bi-national region.)

On Friday, September 14, 5:00-6:00, Isabel V. Hull, Cornell University will give a keynote address entitled:  "Might versus Right": International Law and the German Foreign Office in World War I.

Location:  223 Old Main, Canisius College

All events are free and open to the public.  Click here for a program.

For more info, please contact Prof. Daum.

Recently Published Books:

The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen: Heroic Pasts in Indian History c. 1500-1900. Permanent Black (New Delhi) and University of Washington Press, 2007

by Ramya Sreenivasan

Rituals of Resistance: African Atlantic Religion in Kongo and the Lowcountry South in the Era of Slavery

by Jason Young

The Human Tradition in Modern China

by Kenneth Hammond and Kristin Stapleton

Lost Worlds:  The Emergence of French Social History, 1815-1970 by Jonathan Dewald  (Penn State University Press, 2006)