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Achievements, Promotions, New Faculty in the Department of History in 2022

 

Exciting news...New Faculty will be joining the Department of History in August 2022, January 2023, and August 2023!

Assistant Professor (tenure track) in History of Technology
  •Ekaterina Babintseva (August 2022)
  •Kathryn Maxson-Jones (August 2023)

Assistant Professor (tenure track) in History of Science and Technology in East Asia
  •Huiying Chen (Late Imperial China) (August 2022)
  •Subodhana Wijeyeratne (Modern Japan) (January 2023)

Assistant Professor (tenure track) in Medieval History of Science and Religion
  •John Mulhall (January 2023)

Silvia Mitchell, appointed as a University Faculty Scholar. The University Faculty Scholars Program is intended to recognize outstanding mid-career faculty who are on an accelerated path for academic distinction. Eligibility includes faculty who hold the rank of tenured associate or full professor who have been in rank for no more than five years and new hires at this academic level if appointed with tenure. University Faculty Scholars are awarded for 5 years and carry and substantial annual research budget.

History Department faculty acknowledged for distinction in teaching for 2021-2022 by The Liberal Arts Educational Excellence Awards Committee:

Liberal Arts Outstanding Undergraduate Teacher
Jennifer L. Foray, Department of History

Kenneth T. Kofmehl Outstanding Undergraduate Teacher
David Atkinson, Department of History 

Charles B. Murphy Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award
Melinda Zook, Department of History

Melinda Zook promoted to the Germaine Seelye Oesterle Professor of History.  The promotion to this endowed chair recognizes Professor Zook’s excellence in research and teaching as well as her foundational leadership of the Cornerstone Program for Integrated LIberal Arts, which has acheived national notoriety.


Achievements in the Department of History in 2021

Randy Roberts, 150th Anniversary Professor and distinguished professor of history, was recently inducted in the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame (West Shore Chapter). Chartered in 1962, the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame honors area greats of yesteryear and endeavors to include athletes, administrators, coaches, officials, sports medicine, and sports media personnel.

Randy Roberts's co-authored book, War Fever, won the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR)'s 2021 Larry Ritter Award for Best Book in the Deadball Era. The Larry Ritter Award is granted annually by SABR’s Deadball Era Committee to the author(s) of the best book about baseball between 1901 and 1919.

Lama El Sharif, doctoral candidate in the Department of History, co-authored an article with Dr. Mehdi Elharti, a Moroccan economic historian; it was published in print by The Gibraltar Magazine.

Neil Bynum served as co-editor for a collected volume of essays: “The Black Intellectual Tradition: African American Thought in the Twentieth Century,” which was just published by University of Illinois Press.

Promotions in the Department of History
(August 2021):

Cole Jones - Associate Professor

Professor Cole Jones' recent book, "Captives of Liberty," has won the 2021 Best Book Prize from the American Revolution Institute of the Society of the Cincinnati in Washington, DC. 

Professor Randy Roberts has been selected as a finalist for Baylor University's 2022 Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching, the only national teaching award presented by a college or university to an individual for exceptional teaching. Learn more about this honor here: https://www.baylor.edu/mediacommunications/news.php?action=story&story=222759

Congratulations to David Atkinson, who has been named as College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Graduate Teacher for 2020-21!

History undergraduates Ian Smith and Taylor Cash won first and third prize, respectively, in the 2021 Bennett-Tinsley Student Paper Award contest, coordinated by the Indiana Historical Bureau and the Indiana Association of Historians. Ian's paper is called "The Point of No Return: The Exponent's Coverage of Purdue University's 1969 Fee Hike," and Taylor's paper is "Women's Hours Versus Campus Conservatism: Feminism's Limits at Purdue by 1970." Both research projects were conducted as part of Professor Nancy Gabin's Fall 2020 HIST 395: Purdue Changemakers, 1940-2000. Read their papers, and learn more about the award, here: https://www.in.gov/history/bennett-tinsley-student-paper-award/

Jennifer Foray has published "The Republic at the Table, with Decolonisation on the Agenda: The United Nations Security Council and the Question of Indonesian Representation, 1946–1947," in Itinerario (Vol 45, issue 1, April 2021). Read more here:  https://doi.org/10.1017/S0165115321000048

T. Cole Jones has published "'Citizen for Citizen': The Problem of Political Prisoners during the Revolutionary War" in an edited volume: Useful Captives: The Role of POWs in American Military Conflicts (University Press of Kansas, 2021). Read more here: https://kansaspress.ku.edu/978-0-7006-3051-6.html


Achievements in the Department of History in 2020

Margaret Mih Tillman has published "Measuring Up: Better Baby Contests in China, 1917-45" in Modern Asian Studies (Vol 54, issue 6, November 2020). Read more here:  https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-asian-studies/article/abs/measuring-up-better-baby-contests-in-china-191745/AE499C18E9408E35F1A38F8F00AAD7B4 
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Kathryn Brownell has published "Watergate, the Bipartisan Struggle for Media Access, and the Growth of Cable Television" in Modern American History (Vol 3, issue 2-3, November 2020). The article is available here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-american-history/article/watergate-the-bipartisan-struggle-for-media-access-and-the-growth-of-cable-television/64F2A0E3B8D3EAD28F8E6449DEF11BDE 
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Several Purdue History professors published pieces in the Washington Post's "Made By History" column in Fall 2020. Read Kathryn Brownell on [the history of televised returns on election night]; Randy Roberts on [the history of the Army-Navy game], and Stacy Holden on [the history of the US's diplomatic relations with Morocco.]
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The Summer 2020 issue of The Journal of African American History (Vol 105, issue 3) features two articles from Purdue History professors! Professor Jonathan Lande has published "'Lighting Up the Path of Liberty and Justice': Black Abolitionist Fourth of July Celebrations and the Promise of America from the Fugitive Slave Act to the Civil War," and Professor Kim Gallon has published "Black Migrant Women and Sexual Pleasure during the Great Depression." https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jaah/2020/105/3 
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Randy Roberts’s article in The Undefeated (ESPN’s magazine) entitled “Richard Wright Discovers Joe Louis’ Dynamite” won second place in the Boxing Feature (over 1,500 words) category from The Boxing Writers Association of America. He also recently published a timely article in Smithsonian Magazine: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-babe-ruth-and-great-influenza-gripped-boston-180974776/?preview 
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Wendy Kline has published “Psychedelic Birth: Bodies, Boundaries, and the Perception of Pain in the 1970s” in "Gender and History" (volume 32, issue 1, March 2020). It has been funded for open access through a Wellcome grant, and is available for download here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1468-0424.12471 
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David Atkinson published “Afterword: Permeability and the Making and Unmaking of Borders” in Paul Otto and Susanne Berthier-Foglar (eds.), PERMEABLE BORDERS: History, Theory, Policy, and Practice in the United States (Berghahn).
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Kathryn Brownell's proposal for a conference entitled “Remaking American Political History” received funding for the 2020-21 conference competition cycle from the Office of the Provost.
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Charles Ingrao, Professor emeritus, published a timely OpEd in the Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/articles/emperor-josephs-solution-to-coronavirus-11586214561 
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Amber Nickell has been chosen as a Saul Kagan Claims Conference Academic Fellow in Advanced Shoah Studies ("Kagan Fellow") for the 2020-2021 academic year. Kagan Fellowships are awarded to outstanding candidates with a strong personal commitment to Shoah memory, who have demonstrated excellence in academic achievement, and who possess the potential to provide outstanding professional leadership that will shape the future of Shoah awareness and scholarship.


Teaching Awards in the Department of History in 2020

Nancy Gabin is the recipient of the College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award for 2019-2020. This award is chosen by the Liberal Arts Educational Excellence Awards Committee and the Dean on the basis of student and faculty nominations, student ratings, teaching and scholarly excellence, and peer evaluation.

Rebekah Klein-Pejšová is the recipient of the Kenneth T. Kofmehl Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award for 2019-2020. This award is chosen by the Liberal Arts Educational Excellence Awards Committee and the Dean on the basis of student and faculty nominations, student ratings, teaching and scholarly excellence, and peer evaluation.

Yvonne Pitts is this year’s recipient of the Antonia Syson Cornerstone Teaching Award. The Antonia Syson Cornerstone Teaching Award – named in honor of Antonia Syson, a Cornerstone founding fellow and Associate Professor of Classics at Purdue from 2008 to 2018 – recognizes outstanding instruction, creativity, and mentorship in Transformative Texts I and II (SCLA 101, 102).

Randy Roberts (along with Rebecca Herman) is the recipient of the 2020 Purdue Online Excellence in Course Design and Teaching Award for the course: "Take Me Out to the Ball Game: 150 Years."

Caitlin Fendley received the 2020 Teaching Academy Graduate Teaching Award from the Center for Instructional Excellence.


Randy Roberts, 150th Anniversary Professor, who (along with Rebecca Herman) is the recipient of the 2020 Purdue Online Excellence in Course Design and Teaching Award for his course: "Take Me Out to the Ball Game: 150 Years."

Professor Roberts also published “War Fever: Boston, Baseball, and America in the Shadow of the Great War” with Johnny Smith (Purdue PhD):
https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/randy-roberts/war-fever/9781541672673/


Kathryn Brownell was featured in CNN’s Race for the White House documentary with two new episodes on the 1976 and 1952 elections (she appeared in both of them).
https://www.cnn.com/shows/race-for-the-white-house


Promotions in the Department of History (August 10, 2020):
Kim Gallon - Associate Professor with tenure
Silvia Mitchell - Associate Professor with tenure
Margaret Tillman - Associate Professor with tenure
Ariel de la Fuente - Full Professor
Sharra Vostral - Full Professor


Congratulations to Randy Roberts, 150th Anniversary Professor, who has published “War Fever: Boston, Baseball, and America in the Shadow of the Great War,” with Johnny Smith (Purdue PhD):
https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/randy-roberts/war-fever/9781541672673/ 


Jonathan Lande (Ph.D., Brown) accepted the tenure-track position of Assistant Professor of Military History / American Civil War era.


Randy Roberts, 150th Anniversary Professor, received the Liebling Award for 2019 from The Boxing Writers Association of America. The award is for “Outstanding Boxing Writing.” Past winners include A. J. Liebling himself, as well as such writers as Budd Schulberg, Jimmy Cannon, John Lardner, F. X. Toole, Pete Hamill, George Plimpton, and Joyce Carol Oates. He was also featured in “Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes,” an HBO documentary directed by Robert Bader.


Wendy Kline, Dema G. Seelye Chair in the History of Medicine, is a winner of the 2020 College of Liberal Arts Excellence in Discovery and Creative Endeavors Award.This award, given annually, represents CLA’s highest recognition for scholarly achievement in her field. Her nomination by colleagues, as well as selection from a field of outstanding candidates, testify to the remarkable strength, impact, and creativity of her research.

She also participated in the new five-part Netflix series Sex, Explained, narrated by singer and actress Janelle Monáe. Kline discussed the history of midwives and obstetricians in the episode on childbirth. The whole series is now available on Netflix, while the childbirth episode is also streaming for free on YouTube.

And she was quoted in an article on the front page of the “Washington Post:” https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/national-archives-exhibit-blurs-images-critical-of-president-trump/2020/01/17/71d8e80c-37e3-11ea-9541-9107303481a4_story.html  That story was picked up by “Huffington Post ”and “Rolling stone” (with Professor Kline’s name and Purdue in headline), which resulted in an invitation for a live TV interview on CNN with Fredricka Whitfield at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday Jan 19, replayed several times throughout the day, and a live interview at 2:30 p.m. on KCBS News Radio San Francisco.


T. Cole Jones gave an invited lecture on his recent book, “Captives of Liberty,” at the American Revolution Institute of the Cincinnati Society in Washington, D.C. on February 27, 2020: https://www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/event/authors-talk-captives-of-liberty/.


Lawrence Mykytiuk recently accepted an invitation from the Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, to give a paper at a conference in Jerusalem May 17–20, 2020, on Epigraphy during the Iron Age in Judah. A WGN-TV interview on Mykytiuk’s research is archived at http://wgntv.com/2017/07/10/purdue-professors-quest-brings-names-from-the-bible-to-life/.


Padraig Lawlor accepted a tenure track assistant professor appointment in history at Saint Leo University (near Tampa, Florida).


James Farr (Germaine Seelye Oesterle Professor of History), has published his latest book: "Who Was William Hickey? A Crafted Life in Georgian England and Imperial India" (London and New York: Routledge, 2020): https://www.routledge.com/Who-Was-William-Hickey-A-Crafted-Life-in-Georgian-England-and-Imperial/Farr/p/book/9780367331191 


R. Douglas Hurt published his latest book, “The Green Revolution in the Global South: Science, Politics, and Unintended Consequences,” with the University of Alabama Press in the NEXUS series: http://www.uapress.ua.edu/product/Green-Revolution-in-the-Global-South,7319.aspx


Margaret Tillman published “Religious liberty for the Chinese child: missionary debates in the 1930s.” 2019. Religious liberty for the Chinese child: missionary debates in the 1930s. "Journal of Modern Chinese History," Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 249-273.


Kathryn Brownell was invited by NBC News to be their presidential historian last week (January 27-31, 2020). Her first segment aired Monday, January 27. She appeared again on Thursday, January 30: https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/historical-perspective-on-trump-s-impeachment-77675077700 
The edited volume, "Presidential Misconduct," to which Professor Brownell contributed the chapter on Bill Clinton, received several notable citations.  "The Economist" and "Foreign Affairs" both listed it as one of their “Best of 2019” books.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/lists/2019-12-19/best-books-2019 
https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2019/12/07/our-books-of-the-year 


Kim Gallon has been selected as a fellow in the CLA Faculty Development Center for Undergraduate Instructional Excellence, (Fall 2020 or Spring 2021 semester).


Kathryn Brownell has been selected as a fellow in the CLA Faculty Development Center for Humanistic Studies for the Fall 2020 or Spring 2021 semester.


Cole Jones published an op ed in in Made By History (Washington Post) drawing on his new book ("Captives of Liberty"): https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/01/14/big-problem-with-american-dream/ 


John Larson published an op ed in in Made By History (Washington Post) based on his new book ("Laid Waste"):  https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/01/09/restraint-not-revenge-against-iran-will-better-serve-united-states/ 


Andrew Fogel won the Dean Knudsen Ph.D. Dissertation Award for research this summer at the University of Minnesota.


Mary Mitchell’s essay, "Screening Out Controversy: Human Genetics, Emerging Techniques of Diagnosis, and the Origins of the Social Issues Committee of the American Society of Human Genetics, 1964-1973" (2017), has been awarded the honor "highly commended" in the competition for the 2020 Everett Mendelsohn Prize from the Journal of the History of Biology. The Mendelsohn Prize honors the best article published in JHB in the preceding three years.


Will Gray won a summer fellowship at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland, where he will be working with an interdisciplinary research group entitled “Crises Redefined: Historical Continuity and Societal Change.” He will use his time there to study West German involvement in Brazil in the 1980s, when the military regime gave way to democracy amidst the backdrop of economic collapse.


Kathryn Brownell wrote on the impeachment hearings and the difference from the Watergate hearings for the Financial Times (November 15): https://www.ft.com/content/187f0dc8-06ff-11ea-a958-5e9b7282cbd1

And, on December 13, she is participating in a congressional briefing run by the AHA on the history of presidential misconduct this week on Capitol Hill (“Historical Perspectives on Congressional Oversight of Presidential Misconduct”). The briefing will also be filmed by C-Span: https://nationalhistorycenter.org/


Professor Randy Roberts was recently featured (twelve appearances in the one hour running-time) in a French documentary entitled: John Wayne, l’Amerique a tout prix by Jean-Baptiste Peritie.


Professor Sally Hastings published “Beyond the Confines of Motherhood and Home: Recent Studies of Japanese Feminisms” in The Journal of Asian Studies 78(4): 929-36.


Professor Randy Roberts will appear in two upcoming sports documentaries:
“Four Sides of the Story: Army-Navy” (CBS) will air this Saturday, November 9, at 2 PM, EST regarding the 1944 Army-Navy game, and “Pariah: The Lives and Deaths of Sonny Liston,” A Showtime feather-length documentary.  It will premiere on Friday, November 15, at 9 PM EST/PT.  


Professor Melinda Zook was quoted extensively in an article about the future of the humanities in the Chronicle of Higher Education on November 4, 2019: “Can You Get Students Interested in the Humanities Again? These Colleges May Have It Figured Out.” The article highlighted the success of the Cornerstone Liberal Arts Program!


Professor John Larson has published “Laid Waste! The Culture of Exploitation in Early America” with the University of Pennsylvania Press.


Professor T. Cole Jones has published "Captives of Liberty: Prisoners of War and the Politics of Vengeance in the American Revolution" in the Early American Studies series of University of Pennsylvania Press.
https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/16007.html 


Leonard Gordon, professor emeritus, who taught in the department for 27 years (1967-94) passed away at age 91 last Thursday, Ocotober 17, 2019 in Tucson, Arizona. Professor Gordon was the first specialist in East Asian studies at Purdue. The news arrived at the conclusion of a successful conference that continues his legacy: Purdue and East Asia: Exploring New Humanities. https://networks.h-net.org/node/22055/discussions/5275029/leonard-hd-gordon-1928-2019


Professor Cole Jones was awarded the King’s College – London Georgian Papers Fellowship to conduct research at King’s College – London.


Professor Sharra Vostral was interviewed and referenced in an article in National Geographic (available on its website): https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/09/how-tampons-pads-became-unsustainable-story-of-plastic/#close

Professor Michael Smith and Professor Sharra Vostral were featured in Purdue News Giant Leaps Research:
https://purduenews.exposure.co/giant-leaps-research

Professor Robert E. May, professor emeritus of history, published Yuletide in Dixie: Slavery, Christmas, and Southern Memory with University of Virginia Press.

Professor Charles Ingrao, professor emeritus of history, published the Third Edition of The Habsburg Monarchy 1618-1815.

Students in the Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts program are reading George Orwell's 1984 this semester. Aquila Theatre company will be performing their stage version later this month. Here's Cornerstone Director & History Professor Melinda Zook on the book's enduring significance: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/big-brother-comes-purdue-melinda-zook

Professor R. Douglas Hurt published “Documents of the Dust Bowl” with ABC-Clio.

Professor Melinda Zook received the Helen B. Schleman Gold Medallion Award from the Barbara Cook Chapter of Mortar Board. This award recognizes outstanding achievement in research, teaching, service, and administration, especially on behalf of women at Purdue. Professor Zook also discussed the runaway success of a Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts certificate program for students studying outside the liberal arts. The 15-credit-hour certificate is based on engagement with transformative texts and advanced humanities study: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/04/18/advocates-share-war-and-success-stories-inside-higher-ed-event.

Following the publication of the Mueller Report, Professor Kathryn Cramer Brownell wrote a piece for the Washington Post rooted in her new research on Nixon, Clinton, and the media politics that have shaped political investigations over the past forty years: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/04/19/key-donald-trumps-fate-isnt-mueller-report-its-hearings-come/?utm_term=.38100b3b3e03.

Purdue University has had a record year for Fulbright Awards, and the department has played a significant part with Professor Stacy Holden completing a Flex Grant in Morocco and Professor Wendy Kline leaving for a Distinguished Chair Award at the University of Birmingham in England in the fall: https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2019/Q2/purdue-breaks-record-with-faculty-fulbright-scholars.html

Robert May, Professor Emeritus, will soon publish a new book: Yuletide in Dixie: Slavery, Christmas, and Southern Memory :  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0813942144/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i5.

Professor Frederick R. Davis was appointed Head of the Department of History.


Professor Yvonne Pitts has been named a recipient of the 2019 Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award in Memory of Charles B. Murphy. The University's highest undergraduate teaching honor, the Murphy Award is accompanied by a $10,000 cash award and induction into Purdue's Teaching Academy, which provides leadership for the improvement of undergraduate, graduate and outreach teaching. Murphy was a history professor at Purdue from 1927 to 1970. For more on the award and Professor Pitts, see: https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/purduetoday/releases/2019/Q2/2019-murphy-award-recipient-yvonne-pitts.html


Related to the mass shooting in New Zealand, Professor David Atkinson has provided historical context and analysis in op eds for the New Republic and the Washington Post:
https://newrepublic.com/article/153332/longer-history-christchurch-attacks and https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/03/15/its-time-australia-new-zealand-confront-their-white-nationalist-histories/?utm_term=.7108bec0ec26


Professor Tithi Bhattacharya has co-published "Feminism for the 99%" with Verso Press. A testament to the broad interest in this work is that it has been translated into a remarkable ten languages.


Professor Kathryn Cramer Brownell has been awarded a University Faculty Scholar Award for her achievements in scholarship, teaching, and engagement. The award includes a research allocation of $10,000 per year for five years. She has also received the 2019 Faculty Engagement Scholar Award from the Office of Engagement, “awarded to an assistant or associate professor with an outstanding record of early achievement in, and strong indication of future contribution to, the Scholarship of Engagement.”


Professor Cole Jones received an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship from the Virginia Historical Society to support research for his book project, "Patrick Henry's War: The Struggle for Empire in the Revolutionary West."


Professor Melinda Zook has been invited to speak on the Cornerstone Liberal Arts Program by "Inside Higher Ed," which has started holding a series of events called the Leadership Series, at a gathering of 150-175 academic leaders on key topics for a day in Washington at Gallup Headquarters. The event is April 17 on the topic "The Future of General Education."


Professor Mary Mitchell has been awarded a fellowship at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University (Spring 2020). The theme for the academic year will focus on the topic of “Law & Legalities.”


Professor Wendy Kline has been awarded the Fulbright-University of Birmingham Distinguished Chair (England) for 6 months in 2019-20. Her project is titled the “‘LSD Block’ and the Therapeutic Alliance: The Rise and Fall of Psychedelic Medicine in the U.K.” The Fulbright University of Birmingham Distinguished Chair enables a prominent U.S. professor in any discipline to be based at the University of Birmingham, with access to all the University’s research collections, and provides an opportunity to undertake research and build links in the UK. The Distinguished Chair contributes to the intellectual life of the host university through seminars, public lectures and curriculum development.


Professor Kathryn Cramer Brownell published on the history of the State of the Union in the Sunday Outlook Section in the Washington Post (on the front page of the Sunday print section on January 27): https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/the-state-of-the-union-shifts-power-to-the-president-pelosi-took-it-back/2019/01/25/855415ae-2025-11e9-9145-3f74070bbdb9_story.html
Professor Melinda Zook was quoted extensively in “By Any Other Name,” in Inside Higher Ed regarding the role of Liberal Arts in a STEM University and Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts Program: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/01/25/liberal-education-advocates-discuss-ways-reclaim-conversations-about-academe


Professor Michael Smith discussed the significance of the Apollo 8 mission upon its 50th anniversary, with The Times of Northwest Indiana. The story ran across the country, including in the Miami Herald, Kansas City Star, San Francisco Chronicle, San Antonio Express-News, and Sacramento Bee: https://www.nwitimes.com/news/history/one-astronaut-on-first-manned-moon-mission-began-his-journey/article_ffee4ce7-4dfa-5952-9ecc-21b31d2f8029.html?utm_source=delivra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2018+In+The+News&utm_id=36667784&dlv-ga-memberid=1417240565


Professor Tithi Bhattacharya, Director, Global Studies Program, received an Innovate Award from the College of Liberal Arts: “Global Scholars Program for Undergraduate Research.”


Professor Frederick Davis (with Chris Yeomans in Philosophy) received an Innovate Award from CLA: “History and Philosophy of Science in the College of Liberal Arts.”


Professor Rebekah Klein-Pejsova has been selected for appointment as a fellow in the Faculty Development Center for Humanistic Studies for the Spring 2020 semester.


Professor Silvia Mitchell received a 2018-19 Library Scholars Grant for her research trip to the Archivo del Palacio Uceda in Madrid.


Professor Kim Gallon received a 2018-19 Library Scholars Grant for her research trip to the University of Ghana.


"Charles Halleck, County Prosecutor in the Shadows of the Depression," an article by Professor William White, was published in the Indiana Magazine of History, December 2018, Vol. 114, No. 4.


Professor Katie Brownell published an op ed for Made by History in the online version of the Washington Post:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/01/15/revolving-door-between-reality-tv-trump-administration/?utm_term=.a0b8d6ee1b7e 


Professor Wendy Kline published an op ed (as part of the Made By History series) in the online version of the Washington Post:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/01/16/lower-maternal-infant-mortality-rates-we-must-bring-back-midwives/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.76a9bc84b5a9 


Professor Silvia Mitchell served as guest editor of the December 2018 issue of the The Court Historian - The International Journal of Court Studies. The special issue topic is "The Spanish Habsburg Court during the Reign of Carlos II (1665-1700)." Professor Mitchell also wrote the Introduction to the issue and one of the articles: “Women and Children First: Court Ceremonial during Carlos II’s Minority, 1665-1675.”
The latest book by Dr. Wendy Kline, Dema G. Seelye Chair in the History of Medicine, has just been published by Oxford University Press: "Coming Home: How Midwives Changed Birth." Additional information about this important new study is available on the Oxford website: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/coming-home-9780190232511?q=kline&lang=en&cc=us# 


Professor Kathryn Cramer Brownell's course on the American Presidency appeared on C-SPAN on December 15. The program is available at this link:  https://www.c-span.org/video/?451844-1/dwight-eisenhower-1950s-political-advertising


Dr. Ariel de la Fuente's new book has been published: “Borges, Desire, and Sex.” For more on the book (and others in this important series in Latin American Studies), see: https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/collections/series-liverpool-latin-american-studies/products/109136


Dr. Kathryn Cramer Brownell published a timely analysis of the midterm election:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/11/08/why-republicans-take-extra-glee-defeat-celebrity-endorsed-candidates/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2ebe2518bbad


Professor Sharra Vostral's new book, “Toxic Shock: A Social History,” was published by New York University Press in the Biopolitics Series.


Dr. Wendy Kline, Professor of History and the Dema G. Seelye Chair in the History of Medicine, has published an article to accompany the recent PBS documentary: "The Eugenics Crusade" (American Experience), in which she is also featured: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/eugenics-surprising-history-of-marriage-counseling/


Dr. Kathryn Cramer Brownell moderated the Sears Lecture on "Women in the White House and Beyond" on October 18, featuring Mrs. Laura W.  Bush, Barbara Pierce Bush, and Jenna Bush Hager.


Dr. Kathryn Cramer Brownell had three major interviews air recently:
Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/hollywood-accidentally-ushered-in-the-age-of-the-celebrity-politician/  
Washington Post Magazine: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/go-ahead-take-kim-kardashian-seriously-as-a-criminal-justice-activist-its-okay/2018/09/28/9470c7fc-ba91-11e8-9812-a389be6690af_story.html?utm_term=.5ee70e108889  
C-SPAN interview (on Nixon and the media). The interview occurred in April at the OAH and aired in September: https://www.c-span.org/video/?444011-14/richard-nixon-media


Randy Roberts, 150th Anniversary Professor and Distinguished Professor of History, appears in a new documentary: "By Grantland Rice" (ESPN). Here is a clip from the documentary that features his insightful comments:
http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=24665904


Dr. Wendy Kline is featured in a 2-hour documentary on PBS (American Experience series), “The Eugenics Crusade,” which aired October 16:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/eugenics-crusade/


Dr. Sharra Vostral was interviewed by CNN for the recent article "Employer's paid period leave policy in Australia stirs world debate."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/03/health/period-leave-australia-explainer-intl/index.html


Dr. David Atkinson was featured in a profile in the "Shanghai Review of Books" and "The Paper." The article includes a painting of the department’s Director of Graduate Education! See below for the article (in the original Chinese and Google Translate). https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_2482226 https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&u=http://www.sohu.com/a/257081220_260616&prev=search

Dr. Melinda Zook, Professor of History and Director of the Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts program, received the Purdue University Faculty Scholar Award.

Dr. Wendy Kline was interviewed on National Public Radio (“To the Best of Our Knowledge”) regarding her forthcoming book: “Coming Home: How Midwives Changed Birth” (Oxford University Press):
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/coming-home-9780190232511?cc=us&lang=en& The interview aired on WBAA and 220 NPR stations. A podcast is available at:  https://www.ttbook.org/people/wendy-kline


Dr. Melinda Zook published "Generations of Women Historians: Within and Beyond the Academy" (Palgrave, 2018), eds., Melinda Zook and Hilda Smith. Dr. Whitney Walton wrote a chapter in it, “Arvède Barine: History, Modernity, and Feminism,” and so did Dr. Zook: “C.V. Wedgwood: The Historian and the World.”


Dr. Cole Jones published "'Elated with Victory, and Reeking with Revenge': The Yorktown Prisoners and the Laws of War in Revolutionary America," in Glenn A. Moots and Philip Hamilton, eds., Justifying Revolution: Law, Virtue, and Violence in the American War of Independence (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018).


Dr. Randy Roberts contributed to a program on Muhammad Ali on one of the leading French radio shows that deals with culture on a large scale.  It was a 10-hour program.  See the link below.  Efforts are underway to have this biography published in French.  https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/mohamed-ali-combats/saison-02-07-2018-26-08-201


Dr. Wendy Kline was in OAH in Sacramento.  She was interviewed by C-SPAN about her research and about teaching the history of medicine at Purdue.  https://www.c-span.org/video/?444011-13/midwifery-united-states


Dr. Wendy Kline's latest piece for Made By History in the Washington Post:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2018/06/01/the-exam-room-secrecy-that-puts-women-at-risk/?utm_term=.118e9aea2b94


Dr. Stacy Holden has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to conduct research  in Morocco during the spring semester of 2019.  This is terrific recognition of her work and standing in the field.


Dr. Kathryn Brownell's latest for Made By History in the Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2018/05/30/why-roseanne-barr-paid-a-bigger-price-for-tweeting-than-donald-trump-has/?utm_term=.2384412c816f&noredirect=on


Dr. Wendy Kline has been quoted in the Los Angeles Times.  See http://www.latimes.com/health/la-me-male-gynos-20180307-htmlstory.html​ 


Professor Margaret Mih Tillman received a good write up for her presentation at the Modern China Workshop at the Hoover Institution and Sanford University.  Please see the link.  http://www.hoover.org/news/exploring-contemporary-chinese-history-hoover-holds-annual-summer-workshop-modern-china