2008

• Faculty News

• Alumni News

• History Club

• Phi Alpha Theta

Faculty News:

• Ginette Aley recently published “A Republic of Farm People:  Women, Families, and Market-Minded Agrarianism in Ohio, 1820s - 1830s,” Ohio History 113 (Spring 2007): 28-45.
  
  
• Darrel Bigham is enjoying a sabbatical during his last semester at USI before retirement. Most recently, he was the guest editor for a special issue of the Magazine of History, volume 21, number 4 (October 2007). Published by the Organization of American Historians and the Abraham Lincoln Bicentenntial Commission, this issue focuses on Lincoln, Race, and Slavery, and is in preparation for the celebration of Abraham Lincoln’s two-hundredth birthday in 2009.
  
  
• Michael Dixon recently published a book chapter, “Corinth, Greek Freedom, and the Diadochoi, 323-301 B.C.,” in Alexander’s Empire. From Formulation to Decay. W. Heckel, L. Tritle, and P. Wheatley, eds. (Regina Books: Claremont, CA 2007), pp. 151-178. Dr. Dixon has also published several book reviews: a review of M.M. Hansen, Polis. An Introduction to the Ancient Greek City-State (Oxford, 2006), in the New England Classical Journal 35.1 (2008), pp. 44-46; and a review of Elizabeth Carney, Olympias Mother of Alexander the Great (Routledge, 2006), in Classical Journal-Online 2007.11.01
  
  
• Jason Hardgrave has become the history department’s liaison for the College Achievement Program (CAP). As the faculty mentor for USI’s very active chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, the History Honor Society, he recently attended the association’s 2008 National Biennial Convention in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he was voted in as a member of the National Council.  He also served as an expert on the how-to panel session titled “Improving Your Chapter”, and was the session coordinator and commentator for “Culture in Medieval Europe.” In other scholarly work, Dr. Hardgrave presented the paper “Gothic Context, Cultural Contact, and Crusades” at the 2007 International Studies Colloquium at USI on The Gothic Imagination.  He also presented “Medieval Justice Personified and Enacted” at the October meeting of the Liberal Arts Faculty Colloquia.  At the beginning of the fall 2007 semester, he received the Liberal Arts Dean’s Golden Apple for Teaching Excellence.
  
  
• Casey Harison taught in fall 2007 a new HIST 499/599 Senior Seminar topic on the Holocaust using oral testimonies from Evansville’s Central Library Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive. He also had several publications: “The Paris Commune of 1871, the Russian Revolution of 1905, and the Shifting of the Revolutionary Tradition” History & Memory, 19, no. 2 (Oct. 2007), 5-42, and three entries (“Industrial Revolution in France,” “1848 Revolution” and “Paris Commune”) in Christine Rider, ed., Encyclopedia of the Age of the Industrial Revolution, 1700-1920, 2 vols. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2007).
  
  
• Tamara Hunt presented the paper “Political Nightmares and Dreamscapes: Variations on Fuseli’s The Nightmare,” at the 2007 International Studies Colloquium at USI on The Gothic Imagination.
  
  
• Denise Lynn, a specialist in women and politics in twentieth-century America and currently a visiting assistant professor, has accepted a full-time tenure track position to begin in August 2008.  The department enthusiastically welcomes her to its ranks!
  
  
• Christine Lovasz-Kaiser recently received the USI Foundation Award for Outstanding Teaching by Adjunct Faculty. Chris teaches World Civilizations I, Age of Vikings, and England to 1600 for the department.
  
  
• Tracy Uebelhor published a review of two books, Presidential Leadership: From Woodrow Wilson to Harry S. Truman and Harry S. Truman and the Cold War Revisionists by historian and Truman scholar Robert H. Ferrell in the June 2007 issue of the Indiana Magazine of History.

Alumni News:

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History Club:

The History Club, open to any student with an interest in history, is advised by Dr. Jason Hardgrave.

Phi Alpha Theta

Phi Alpha Theta, the national honor society for history, is advised by Dr. Jason Hardgrave.