Accomplishments: Department of History
Kristen Phipps (History), a doctoral student, presented as part of a panel at the recent Western History Association conference in Portland, Oregon.
The panel was "Adventures in Applied History: Turning Hindsight into Insight," co-sponsored by the Center of the American West.
Doris Morgan Rueda (History) was recently awarded the Graduate Student Prize and the Trennert-Iverson scholarship by the Western History Association at the annual conference this year in Portland, Oregon.
John Curry (History) presented a paper at the annual meeting of the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC) in San Diego on Oct. 28. The presentation, "Trans-Mediterranean Ottoman Naval Strategies in the Great Turkish War: The Case of Mezemorta Hüseyin Paşa (d. 1701)," was part of a broader panel that he organized on "Trans-Imperial…
Susan Lee Johnson (History) wrote Writing Kit Carson: Fallen Heroes in a Changing West (University of North Carolina Press, 2020), which received the Robert G. Athearn Award for the best book published on the 20th century West from the Western History Association.
Michelle Tusan (History) will begin her term as vice president/president-elect of the North American Conference on British Studies on Nov. 14.
John Curry (History) presented a paper entitled "Climate Crisis as Comparative World History: An Experimental Course Linking Antiquity, the Medieval Period, and the Seventeenth Century" at the Southeastern World History Association virtual conference Oct. 22. The paper fit well into the theme of the conference, which was "Crisis and Recovery…
Doris Morgan Rueda (History) has published a chapter, "The Dazed and Dangerous Delinquents of Sin City: Policing and Detaining Juvenile Delinquents in 20th Century Las Vegas," in the edited volume, History & Crime: A Transdisciplinary Approach (Emerald Publishing, 2021), edited by Thomas J Kehoe and Jeffrey E Pfeifer.
William Bauer (History) was awarded the annual History Book Award from Heyday Press for his latest book, We Are The Land: A History of Native California. The award will be conferred at a virtual event on Oct. 28.
Paul W. Werth's (History) book 1837: Russia's Quiet Revolution has been featured on two recent podcasts: Historically Thinking and the New Books Network.
Doris Morgan Rueda (History) was selected as recipient of the American Dissertation Fellowship 2021-2022 from the American Association of University Women. This fellowship will support the final writing year of her dissertation, "Saving the Bad Kids, Caging Los Chicos Malos: Juvenile Justice and Racialized Surveillance on the U.S.–Mexico…
William Bauer (History) published an essay entitled "Reclaiming Alcatraz: The Legacies and Continuities of the American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island, 1971-2021" in Fall issue of California History. The summer of 2021 marked the 50th anniversary of the end of the American Indian occupation of Alcatraz Island. Bauer explores the…
Paul Werth (History) has published a review essay, "Russia's Borders in East and West," assessing recent scholarship on Russia/USSR's boundary with Korea, China, and Finland in Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History.