HISTORY DEPARTMENT NEWSLETTER SPRING 2016

2- WELCOME FROM THE CHAIRPERSON

3- AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS, UNDERGRADUATE

4- SPOTLIGHT ON HISTORIANS AND HISTORIANS IN THE MAKING

8- FACULTY NEWS

10- GRADUATE STUDENT NEWS

12- COMPLETED THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

13- CONTACT INFORMATION

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WELCOME FROM THE CHAIRPERSON:

In a previous Newsletter I mentioned a passage where a character from Cormac McCarthy’s novel said one’s l ife is l ike a l ine traced in the sand, and where one is at this moment is where the finger in the sand has stopped. Central to this image is the realization that the line will continue, perhaps in a different direction, but movement is ensured.

After nearly eight years as Chairperson I will return to the faculty in July and a new person will chair the department. Being Chairperson has not been easy, nor has it been all that hard, but the pace has been

relentless. I enjoyed nearly every aspect of the experience, but I am excited for the future of the department and will continue to be part of the growth that comes with new leadership and direction. Hopefully the advances we have made improving both the Undergraduate and Graduate curriculum over these last eight years will continue, but this to be augmented by new faculty throughout the KSU

campuses. Dr. Matthew Crawford successfully stood for tenure this year, while Dr. Shane Strate successfully applied for early promotion and tenure. This means there will be no junior faculty at the Kent campus. In fact, the only non-tenured faculty we will have are on the Stark campus, and Dr. Seeyle will apply for promotion and tenure in the coming year and Dr. Lindsay Starkey will follow soon after,

outlining the need for new faculty l ines across all eight campuses. In the pages that follow you will read about the great things the faculty are doing with their research and

courses. Our graduate students continue to excel – Michael Goodnough’s article on the SDS at John Carroll University appeared in Ohio History, and a number of our MA graduates entered prominent PhD programs throughout the country. In fact, over the last year we graduated 4 MA students (with another 4 scheduled to graduate this May) and 6 PhDs (with another 2 in May). We awarded a variety of

undergraduate scholarships to excellent students: Henry N. Whitney Scholarship - Curtis Curd; Thomas H. Smith Scholarship - Andrew Ohl & Reid Fleeson; Richard G. Hollow Scholarship - Francis Hall & Brandon Mallon. Numbers and activities l ike these, combined with the over 3,228 students served in the CORE level courses and another 578 students in our various Upper Division courses and the numerous Individual

investigations, Honor’s thesis, and all the various committees we all serve on and you get an idea of both how much the faculty contribute and how thin we are at the TT level.

This is but a thumbnail sketch of the fine work the department performs year in and year out. Next year we will welcome a new chai rperson who will bring with him a new energy, new direction, and new ideas that will allow the department to continue to not merely meet the educational goals of the department, but contribute to the overall excellence that is KSU. Let’s keep up the great work.

Enjoy,

Kenneth J. Bindas Table of Contents Welcome from the Chair

Awards & Scholarships (Undergraduate) Spotlight on Historians & Historians in the Making Faculty News Graduate Student News

Completed Theses & Dissertations Contact Information

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AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS, UNDERGRADUATE

HENRY N. WHITNEY SCHOLARSHIP

Each spring, the Department of History awards the Henry N. Whitney Scholarship, which honors a long-standing former chair of the department. The Scholarship recognizes an outstanding junior history major and provides a scholarship to be used for the student’s senior year. Curtis Curd was the 2015 winner.

GOLD PEN AWARD

The department also offers a Gold Pen Award for Excellence in Writing in History each spring to recognize

the author of the most distinguished history paper written during the preceding ca lendar year. The winner receives a gold pen, suitably engraved. The 2015 winner was Randal Slonaker.

THOMAS H. SMITH SCHOLARSHIP

This award honors the first Kent State University Ph. D. History majors in good academic stand are eligible. The 2015 recipients were Andrew Ohl and Reid Fleeson.

In the spring of 2015, the History Department awarded the inaugural Richard G. Hollow Sc holarship to history majors in good academic standing with an interest in the economic history of the United States or in the intersection of economics and American history. Congratulations to Francis Hall and Brandon Mallon for being the first to win this scholarship!

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SPOTLIGHT ON HISTORIANS AND HISTORIANS IN THE MAKING

AFRICAN SPECIALIST RETURNS TO ZIMBABWE

Dr. Scarnecchia with Zimbabwean PhD And MA students studying at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa

Dr. Scarnecchia travelled to South Africa and Zimbabwe in June and July 2015 for his research in urban

history. He was invited to make presentations at the University of the Free State in South Africa where there are a number of talented Zimbabwean history students compl eting their degrees under the direction of Professor Ian Phimister. He also gave a presentation at the Department of Economic History

at the University of Zimbabwe, where there are also many talented historians. In addition to working with Dr. Eric Makombe on an ongoing urban research project sponsored by the KSU College of Arts and Science, Dr. Scarnecchia spent some time in the South African Defense Force Archives in Pretoria preparing FIOA requests and accessing what has already become available in recent years concerning

South African interventions in Zimbabwe during the 1980s. Back home Dr. Scarnecchia most recently published the following article and book chapters: “Catholic Voices of the Voiceless: the Politics of Reporting Rhodesian and Zimbabwean State Violence in the 1970s

and the Early 1980s” Acta Academica 47(1) 2015 182-207; “Proposed Large-Scale Compensation for White Farmers as an Anglo-American Negotiating Strategy for Zimbabwe, 1976-1979” pp. 105-126 in A. Pallotti and C. Tornimbeni (eds) State, Land and Democracy in Southern Africa Burlington, VT: Ashgate (2015); and

“Intransigent Diplomat: Robert Mugabe and His Western Diplomacy, 1963 -1983” pp. 77-92 in Sabelo J Ndlovu-Gatsheni (ed) Mugabeism? History, Politics, and Power in Zimbabwe New York: Palgrave MacMillan (2015). Scarnecchia also presented papers at the African Studies Association meeting in November 2015, at a conference on the history of the UDI period in Rhodesian history held in

Bloemfontein South Africa in November 2015, and at the American Historical Association meeting held in Atlanta in early January 2016.

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SPECIALIST IN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY TAKES TO THE BLOGOSPHERE

Dr. Elizabeth Smith-Pryor writes: Over the past two semesters (spring 2015/fall 2015), I have continued to use history role playing games from Reacting to the Past in my introductory US History survey courses. In these games, students are assigned roles to play a game set in the past. To play effectively, students have to immerse themselves in

the historical context and engage deeply with primary sources. In the games, students get the opportunity to work on their historical analyti cal skills as well as improve their skil ls in oral and written communication.

This semester (spring 2016), I’m teaching a 30000-level special topics course on the History of the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements in the United States. I’m very excited about this class because it will include a digital history research project. During the semester, students will work with me and Kent

State’s University Archivist, Professor Lae’l Hughes -Watkins to create and make public a digital history project about the history of Civil Rights and Black Power here at KSU in the 1960s and 1970s. Right now, students in the class are getting used to thinking about doing history in public through contributions to our class blog. If you’re interested you can find our course blog here.

My current research dovetails with my teaching on Civil Rights and Black Power. My book project focuses on the history of the Cleveland, Ohio branch of the National Urban League from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s. At the end of the 1960s, the National Urban League, a traditionally moderate Civil

Rights/social service organization, felt itself losing relevance in a rapidly changing world. In response to the rise of black power, urban unrest, and Martin Luther King’s assassination, the National Urban League announced its Black-Power inspired New Thrust initiative in its summer 1968 annual meeting.

According to Whitney Young, the National Urban League’s executive director , this new program was designed to “build ghetto power.” The 1968 conference where Young introduced the New Thrust included sessions dealing with problems in inner city education and employment as well as the “explosive issue of

police and the black community.” The New Thrust called on the Urban League to do more than help open the doors of equal opportunity for African Americans. The times now required the Urban League and its local affi liates to dedicate themselves to changing the system and working to see equal l ife results

between black and white Americans. My research revolves around a few key questions: How did the National Urban League and its local affi l iates go about implementing their New Thrust initiative? How could an organization traditionally

reliant on external financial support from predominantly white foundations, white corporations, and increasingly the federal government change the system? To try to answer these questions, my research explores the implementation of the New Thrust in one ci ty–Cleveland, Ohio, site of 2 major urban rebellions and the first major city to elect a black mayor (Carl Stokes, 1967). Right now, I’m completing an

article about one component of the Urban League’s New Thrust in Cleveland–the street academy program—and its connections to the beginnings of mass incarceration. This article will ultimately work as one chapter in my book manuscript. If you’re interested in learning more about my research, you’re

welcome to take a look at my blog. I’m using my blog to post about research, the process of writing, and teaching.

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MEDIEVALIST ON THE MOVE

During the past year Professor Isolde Thyret’s scholarly activities focused on interacting with Russian scholars and on presenting recent research to audiences throughout the United States. The highlight of a research trip to Russia in late March last year was a paper she delivered at the Pushkin Hous e, home of

the Russian Academy of Science’s Institute for Old Russian Literature in St. Petersburg, Russia. The hour -long talk, given in Russian, on the historical conclusions to be drawn from the two redactions of the life of St. Nil Stolbenskii was followed by another hour of intense discussion of the paper. The interaction with Russian scholars continued in June when Professor Thyret hosted a visit by her mentor and colleague, the

renowned specialist in Old Russian and Byzantine art, Professor Engelina Sergeevna Smirnova from Moscow State University. Professor Thyret arranged the visit, in conjunction with Harvard linguistics professor Michael Flier and Dr. Predrag Matejic, curator of the Hilandar Research Library at Ohio State University. Dr. Smirnova stayed for a week at Professor Thyret’s home, visiting the Cleveland Museum of

Art and other local sites including Handel’s Ice Cream. The week also included a trip to Ohio State University where Professor Smirnova delivered a talk to the university communi ty and inspected art works in the collection of the Hilandar Research Library. Professor Smirnova’s trip culminated in her

participation in an international conference on icons and iconology at the Museum of Russian Icons in Clinton, Massachusetts, where she presented the plenary lecture. Professor Thyret gave a paper on the development of the image of St. Nil Stolbenskii in early seventeenth-century icons at the same conference.

In addition to fostering ties with Russian academe, Professor Thyret traveled from coast to coast during the past year to present numerous other papers. She gave a paper at the November 2014 national

convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies in San Antonio and another at the 2015 national convention in Philadelphia. The first examined the development of the Russian Orthodox Church in Siberia in the early seventeenth century, and the second analyzed how Russian monks had designed sacred space in an early modern Russian monastery. Professor Thyret also presented a talk

at the Workshop Russian History and Culture at the University of Il l inois in June and delivered a paper at an international conference on early modern Russian History at Stanford University in October. Finally, in December she gave a talk on St. Stephen of Perm and the dual faith phenomenon in Muscovite Russia to students and faculty at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida. In other professional activities, Professor

Thyret received a RASP research leave for the Fall 2015 semester during which she worked on her book manuscript, which treats the early development of the cult of the Russian saint Nil Stolobenskii. She also finished her term as President of the Early Slavic Studies Association, an international and interdisciplinary

organization.

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GRADUATE STUDENT FULFILLS A DREAM

Alyssa Cady became Kent State’s first graduate student to take advantage of the department’s

relationship with Wurzburg University. She writes:

Studying abroad was a goal of mine throughout my college career. However, until the Cultural Landscapes

study abroad program at Kent State University, I never received an opportunity to study abroad that aligned with my education. The program, taking place in Wurzburg, Germany, focused specifically on history with an emphasis on public history through the internship program. While in Wurzburg, I took two history classes about Germany during the Middle Ages. These classes fit with my graduate school

curriculum and I had the added benefit of learning more about German history. Outside of class, I learned more about the German culture through interactions with new friends and a phenomenal internship program: Cultural Landscapes.

During this internship, I worked with the Archeological Spessart Project under the supervision of Gerrit Himmelsbach. This involved attending multiple organized events throughout the semester as well as participating in smaller group activities. All of the events had a cultural immersi on or historical theme.

Some events took place in Wurzburg, while other events occurred in other areas of Germany, as well as beyond the boarders of Germany. From each of these events, I learned how other people l ived and how their l ives were similar or di fferent from my own. I also participated in historical hikes on the cultural pathways throughout the Spessart. The biggest internship event that I attended was a weekend trip to

Lake Garda in Tremosine, Italy. During this event, we hiked through the Alps a nd interviewed people l iving around the vil lage. For example, we went to a small cheese factory and learned the history of the place, as well as how to make cheese.

Because of this internship, I experienced different cultures both in Germany and beyond. It gave me a much better prospective on the world, and I realized that despite certain cultural differences, humans are similar throughout the world. The internship has inspired me to travel more and learn more about other

cultures. I really enjoyed how flexible the internship was. For example, I was able to pick events that fit into my schedule, instead of scheduling my life around the internship events. While abroad, I also traveled on my own, so it was extremely helpful to have a flexible internship schedule.

Outside of the wonderful opportunities I was given directly by participating in this program, I also chose to travel on my own. In the four months I l ived in Germany, I traveled to Italy, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, France, Spain, and Austria. Without this program, I never would have had the opportunity to see so much

of the world. Participating the Cultural Landscapes study abroad program was the best choice I have made for both my educational career and my own personal development.

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FACULTY NEWS

KEN BINDAS

Over the past year I have worked to finalize my manuscript, A Secular Awakening: The Apotheosis of Modernity, 1930-1941, for the University Press of Kansas, Culture and History series, which plans to publish

it in the coming year. After working with the Wick Poetry Center’s director David Hassler to co -produced the documentary May 4th Voices, we were awarded the 2014 Oral History Association Oral History in a Non-Print Format Award. I gave numerous presentations around the northeast Ohio region concerning the

Civil ian Conservation Corps and the Virginia Kendall Reserve, based upon the book co -written with several undergraduate and graduate students, as well as numerous papers at professional conferences. And finally, I continue to mentor a host of bright and ambitious graduate students who I’m certain will do great things in their l ives.

MATTHEW CRAWFORD

Matthew Crawford, an assistant professor in the Department of History, completed

and published his first book, The Andean Wonder Drug: Cinchona Bark and Imperial Science in the Spanish Atlantic, 1630-1800 with the University of Pittsburgh Press. His book uses the case of cinchona bark, a medicinal tree bark from South America

that gave rise to the anti -malarial quinine, to examine the relationship between science and empire in Spain and Spanish America in the eighteenth century. In summer 2015, Matt traveled to Lima, Peru to conduct preliminary research on a second book project that will focus on the environmental history of the colonial

Andean world. He was awarded tenure beginning in the fall.

LESLIE HEAPHY

Leslie Heaphy, published “Women Making Their Mark in Baseball,” at ussporthistory.com in December. Encyclopedia of Women in Baseball, McFarland Publishing, was reissued in 2015 as paperback edition. She also edited the vol. 10, 2015, issue of Blackball, journal of Black Baseball history.

MARY ANN HEISS

Mary Ann Heiss published “Exposing ‘Red Colonialism’: U.S. Propaganda at the United Nations, 1953 -

1963,” in the Summer 2015 issue of the Journal of Cold War Studies and is wrapping up work on her second monograph, provisionally titled From Interest to Involvement: The United States, Great Britain, and the UN Role in Non-Self-Governing Territories, 1945-1963. She is currently serving on the Myrna Bernath Book and Fellowship Awards Committee of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, the

Kent State University Press editorial board, and the Arts and Humanities Panel of the Ohio Transfer Module Committee. She also continues to serve on the Board of Directors of the Harry S. Truman Library Institute and now chairs the Institute’s Committee on Research, Scholarship, and Education.

LEONNE M. HUDSON

Dr. Hudson presented “Colored State Conventions and the Crusade for Equality” and chaired and commented on the panel “Narratives of Activism” at the Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study

of African American Life and History in Memphis, TN, in September 2014. He also chaired and commented on the panel “Nineteenth-Century U. S. Military History” at the Phi Alpha Theta Regional

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Conference at Lourdes University in March 2015. He delivered invited lectures to the Ohio Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States in Cleveland and at Hiram College in April. In

2014, he received the Phi Alpha Theta Faculty Advisor Research Grant. His membership on the Ohio Civil War 150 Advisory Committee concluded in 2015. He published two book reviews. His research project on Abraham Lincoln is in the final stages of completion.

HONGSHAN LI

Hongshan Li has published a journal article, “The Hidden Helping Hand: U.S. Government’s Assistance to Chinese Returnees, 1945-1955,” in Frontiers of History in China (Vol. 11, No. 1, Spring 2016, pp. 95-134).

He has joined a number of colleagues from the School of Library and Information Science, the Department of Geography, and the Liquid Crystal Institute as a Co-PI in winning a post doctoral grant from the Kent State University to support our research project, “Digital Humanities Research with Smart Big Data: A Network Framework of Innovation History.” With the $40,000 grant from the university and the matching

fund from the College of Communication and Information, the project has started in summer 2015 and will continue until mid-2017. He has also worked with some members of the above-mentioned research group as a Co-PI in submitting a proposal to the National Endowment for the Humanities to apply for one

of its Digital Humanities Implementation Grants. The grant will be used to support a project titled “Developing a Digital Humanities Platform for Researching the History of Innovation.” The NEH will make its decision in March 2016. In addition, he has presented a paper, “Targets and Targeteers: Chinese Students and Scholars in the United States in the Late 1940s and Early 1950s” at the American Historical

Association annual conference held in Atlanta on January 4, 2016.

JULIO PINO

Dr. Pino has an article manuscript under review at Labor Studies titled, “Prolegomeon to the Study of Working Women in Latin America: Poverty, Power, and Politics from Pre-colonization to Post-globalization. He also reviewed a book chapter for the Society for Caribbean Research, and he’s teaching

a new history course: History of Cuba and Central America.

RICHARD STEIGMANN-GALL

Richard Steigmann-Gall is on sabbatical in the Spring Semester, and is working on his current book project, which concerns how American interwar political extremism can be seen as a variety of Transatlantic fascism. He is hoping to be done with the book manuscript by the end of this summer. Richard contributed to the debate last fall in the American press about whether or not Donald

Trump is a fascist—first, in a symposium of scholars that was published in Jacobin Magazine, and then in a longer, stand-alone piece that came out in January in Tikkun Magazine. He continues to write about the Holocaust as well; his review of Timothy Snyder's Black Earth appeared in February in the scholarly journal Humanity.

SHANE STRATE

Dr. Strate was awarded an external grant that allowed him to travel to Thailand, where he spent several

weeks working in the Thai National Archives. His latest project is an investigation into the Thai state's attempt to establish protocols for the proper use of Buddhist imagery both within and without Thailand. The resulting article will be submitted to the Journal of Religion and Violence for publication. Dr. Strate

will be a tenured associate professor in the fall.

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GRADUATE STUDENT NEWS

DANIEL FARRELL

Daniel Farrell reviewed John C. Waugh's Lincoln and the War’s End and Edward Steers' Lincoln’s Assassination for the journal, Civil War History. He also wrote two entries (Colonial New Jersey and

Mortality Rates) for the forthcoming book, Shaping the New World: A Social, Political, and Cultural Encyclopedia and Document Collection (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2017).

STEPHANIE JANNENGA

Stephanie Jannenga presented "Holy Harvard: Morison's Myth and the Roots of Religious Education in Colonial America" at the Kent-Akron Symposium on February 19, 2016

MICHELE CURRAN CORNELL

In 2015, doctoral candidate, Michele Curran Cornell finished her article entitled, “Debating the College

Woman: The Ladies’ Home Journal and Middle-Class, White Womanhood, 1890-1920,” which will be published by Routledge Press in the spring of 2016 as part of a conference anthology entitled, Women’s Magazines in Print and New Media. She also published book reviews in the Journal of Military History and Oral History Review. Michele was invited to serve as the chair/commentator of a panel titled “New,

Hidden and Secret Perspectives on World War II” at the annual Oral History Association conference and presented papers discussing her dissertation research at the Comparative Home Fronts: World War II conference, sponsored by Florida State University’s Institute on World War II and the Human Experience,

and at the Gender War and Memory in the Anglo-American World conference at the University of Mississippi. Michele is currently teaching and writing her dissertation, “Gender, Love, and Duty: Patriotic Romance during the Second World War.”

PHILIP SHACKELFORD

Philip Shackelford worked on his thesis, “Fighting for Air: Cold War Reorganization and the U.S. Air Force Security Service, 1945-1950,” which focuses on the motivations of the U.S. Air Force to create its own

communications intell igence (COMINT) capability after World War II. He is also working on several articles relating to Air Force intell igence, postwar intell igence reorganization, communi cations intelligence, and similar topics for the Encyclopedia of U.S. Intell igence, edited by Dr. Greg Moore of Notre Dame. Recently he reviewed The Role and Limitations of Technology in Counterinsurgency Warfare by Richard

Rubright for the Fall 2015 issue of the Marine Corps University Journal . He has other book reviews forthcoming, as well.

ROBERT SIDWELL

Robert Sidwell worked on his dissertation. He presented his work at both the Cuyahoga Valley Civil War Round Table in June 2015 and at the Zanesville Civil War Round Table in November 2015.

WHITNEY STALNAKER

Whitney Stalnaker presented “Questions of Collective Memory: The Diary of Anne Frank and the Thematic

Evolution of Holocaust Narratives” at the Akron-Kent Symposium in February 2015, and “Marketing Anne Frank: The Lasting Misimpression of Theatrical Interpretation” at the Western Jewish Studies Association

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Annual Conference (Salem, OR), April 2016. She interned at the Western Reserve Historical Society, Jewish History Archives, Summer 2015 and received a Samuel Melton Fellowship, Fall 2015

STEPHANIE VINCENT

Stephanie Vincent worked on her dissertation, "An Ancient Industry in a Modern Age: The Growth and

Struggles of the American Pottery Industry, 1870-2015" and successfully defended it this spring. She published a book review of Perry Bush's Rust Belt Resistance forthcoming in the Oral History Review. Last July Stephanie served as a guest lecturer for the Gilder-Lehrman Institute's Seminar for American History Teachers on the May 4th Shooting in a Cold War Context. She also served as a teaching fellow in the

Division of Graduate Studies at Kent State University to develop the 2015 Graduate Student Orientation programs held in August and January. Stephanie has pending fellowship applications at the Wolfsonian at Florida International University and at the Smithsonian Institution. For the academic year 2015-16, she served as the History Department's representative at the Graduate Student Senate

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COMPLETED THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

DECEMBER 2015:

PhDs: Mathew Brundage, “Where We Would Extend the Moral Power of Our Civil ization: American

Cultural and Political Foreign Relations with China, 1843-1856,” directed by Dr. M. Ann Heiss

Jeffrey O’Leary, “Manufacturing Reality: The Display of the Irish at World’s Fairs and Exh ibitions,

1893-1965,” directed by Dr. Kevin Adams

Heidi Weber, “Power, Prestige, and Influence of Nineteenth Century Upcountry George, South

Carolina, and North Carolina Cotton Planters and Their Appropriation of the Greek Revival

House,” co-directed by Dr. Leonne Hudson and Dr. Kenneth Bindas

AUGUST 2015:

PhDs: Hans-Henning Bunge, “Germany’s Cultural Ideology of Bildung, 1870-1945,” directed by Dr.

Richard Steigmann-Gall

Leon Perkowski , “Cold War Credibil ity in the Shadow of Vietnam: The Politics and Discourse of

U.S. Troop Withdrawals from Korea, 1969-1979,” directed by Dr. M. Ann Heiss

Molly Sergi , “A Witness to Death: The Journal of Emily Nash, Nineteenth-Century Geauga County

Professional Mourner,” directed by Dr. Kim Gruenwald

MAs: Colin Grenig, “Conservative Internationalism in American Foreign Policy: The Foreign Policy

Rhetoric of the Republican Ascendancy, 1920-1930,” directed by Dr. M. Ann Heiss

Cyrus Moore, “The Ohio National Guard Before the Militia Act of 1903,” directed by Dr. Kevin

Adams

MAY 2015:

MA:

Jobadiah Christiansen, “Crucifix of Memory: Community and Identity in Greenville, Pennsylvania,

1795-present,” directed by Dr. Kenneth Bindas

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CONTACT INFORMATION Department of History

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