Department of History Student Recognition Ceremony Read Hall Tuesday, April 21, 2015 Faculty Alumni Lounge, S-304 Memorial Union 12:30 p.m. 1 Welcome Professor John Wigger Chairman, Department of History Phi Alpha Theta Associate Professor Linda Reeder Director of Undergraduate Studies Phi Alpha Theta Faculty Adviser Department Scholarships Assistant Professor Ilyana Karthas Undergraduate Studies Committee Arts & Science Scholarships Associate Professor Michelle Morris Undergraduate Studies Committee Honors & Undergraduate Theses Associate Professor Linda Reeder Director of Undergraduate Studies Associate Professor Linda Reeder History Department Internships Director of Undergraduate Studies Internship Coordinator Graduate Student Achievements Associate Professor Lois Huneycutt Director of Graduate Studies Kinder Forum on Constitutional Democracy Fellows/Internships/DC Program Professor Jeff Pasley Associate Director of the Kinder Forum on Constitutional Democracy Please join us for lunch at the conclusion of today’s event 2 College of Arts and Science Undergraduate Scholarships The College of Arts and Science awards undergraduate student scholarships. These highly competitive awards are given to students from across the college who must excel both academically and in extracurricular activities. 2014-15 Arts and Science Scholarship recipients Cameron Brown Mary Cate O’Brien Conor Fagan Summer Perlow Katherine Hobbs Audrey Sanders Megan Matheny Caroline Spalding History Department Undergraduate Scholarships Thanks to the generosity of private donors, the History Department is able to offer a number of merit-based scholarships. Below are brief descriptions of each of the scholarships awarded this year, followed by the scholars’ names. Glenn M. McCaslin Memorial Scholarships A memorial scholarship honoring Glenn M. McCaslin, BA, BJ ‘49. This gift is awarded to outstanding history majors at MU with a minimum overall GPA of 3.0 and history GPA of 3.2 or above. Cameron Brown Lauren Herbig Kathryn Leeper Emma McIntyre Jack Meyerhoff Caroline Spalding Allen & Maude Clarke McReynolds Scholarships This endowment was started by Elizabeth McReynolds Rozier and Allen McReynolds, Jr. on behalf of their parents, Allen and Maude Clarke McReynolds. Awards are given to one or more outstanding students who are majoring in history. Hannah Aldrich Conor Fagan 3 Harvey A. & Nellie K. Deweerd Memorial Teaching Award This memorial scholarship, honoring Harvey and Nellie Deweerd, is awarded to one or more outstanding students in the Department of History who are majoring in history and who show an interest in and aptitude for teaching history. Nathaniel Brose Katherine Hobbs Brian Moreno Audrey Sanders Tom Berenger Opportunities for Excellence Scholarships: World renowned actor, Tom Berenger, established this scholarship because of his association with the University of Missouri and his love for world history. The fund is used to promote professional growth for teaching, research and service that will elevate students to higher levels of achievement. This award is given to students majoring in history with a minimum overall GPA of 3.0 and a history GPA of 3.2 or above. Sam DickeCale Spangler Brianna Westervelt History Department Honors/Undergraduate Theses Highly-qualified students in the Department of History can choose to write an honors or undergraduate thesis to fulfill their capstone requirement. They must have a 3.3 cumulative GPA to be eligible for the honors thesis. For an entire year, students work with a faculty adviser on a research project of their choice, producing an impressive thesis which they defend before a faculty committee. Successful completion of the honors thesis graduates a student with “Honors In” the Department of History. Students Writing Honors Theses/Undergraduate Theses Zachary Berger Robert Britz Nathaniel Brose Jana St. Eve Emma McIntyre 4 Adviser: Jonathan Sperber Adviser: Linda Reeder Adviser: Mark Carroll Adviser: Mark Carroll Adviser: Keona Ervin Honors thesis (Fall 2014) Undergraduate Thesis (Fall 2014) Honors Thesis (Spring 2015) Honors thesis (Spring 2015) Honors thesis (Spring 2015) Honors/Undergraduate Theses Descriptions _ Nathaniel Brose Adviser: Mark Carroll Beginning in the early seventeenth century, two distinct cultures developed in the Massachusetts and Virginia colonies. Much more than historians have recognized, British law and social arrangements influenced the development of these early colonies in their first two decades of existence through the instrumentality of evolving charters and legal codes. The British monarchy employed corporate charters to create joint stock companies whose organizers sought to settle “undeveloped” land situated on the eastern seaboard of the present-day United States. Colonial charters shaped the balance of political power between the colonies and the mother country and socioeconomic and political development within each colony. The first Virginia Charter, issued in 1606, protected and demarcated land and created a means for land ownership, as did the 1629 Massachusetts Bay charter. Also fundamentally influencing the divergent socioeconomic, cultural, and political development of the Virginia and Massachusetts colonies were various legal codes that their respective corporate company charters authorized and facilitated, including Dale’s Code (1611) and the Massachusetts Laws and Liberties (1648). _ Emma McIntyre Adviser: Keona Ervin The title of my thesis is “An Old ‘ERA’ in a New Decade: Women’s Organizations and the Campaign for the Equal Rights Amendment in St. Louis, 1972-1980” This thesis explores the campaign for the Equal Rights Amendment in St. Louis. It considers how St. Louis functioned as a microcosm for national trends in the women’s movement and the New Right in the 1970s, and examines the ERA from a grassroots perspective, by focusing on three local women’s organizations: the National Organization for Women, the League of Women Voters, and STOP-ERA. Extensive use of manuscript collections and interviews allows for an exploration of the convergence of industrial decline in major cities and competing factions of feminism and antifeminism, as well as the rise of the New Right locally. 5 Undergraduate History Society The Undergraduate History Society is an association for those students interested in history. The group sponsors faculty lectures, career-related events, conducts fund-raising activities and social events involving faculty, undergraduates, and graduate students. 2014-2015 Society Officers President - Conor Fagan Vice-President - Andrea Provance Treasurer - Brett Reynolds Faculty Adviser - Assoc. Prof. Linda Reeder Phi Alpha Theta Originally established at the Univeristy of Arkansas in 1921 and in our department in 1984, Phi Alpha Theta is an American honor society for undergraduate and graduate students and professors of history. Its mission is to promote the study of history through the encouragement of research, good teaching, publication and the exchange of learning and ideas among historians. This year, the department is pleased to induct five new members into the Society: Steven M. Dotson Conor M. Fagan Jennifer D. Perritt Joshua Stanley Sultan Andrew Wisniewsky 6 History Department Internships The Department of History offers students the opportunity to gain valuable work experience while earning academic credit. Working in conjunction with our Director of Undergraduate Advising and Curriculum, Jenny Morton, students can choose from a number of off-campus sites where they learn to work independently on a chosen project under a site supervisor: University of Missouri Archives, National History Day, State Historical Society of Missouri, Missouri State Archives, Boone County Historical Society, The Missouri State Museum, the Museum of Missouri Military History, the Riverview Cemetery, and the Missouri Department of Transportation. Independently arranged internships are also a possibility for interested students. State Historical Society of Missouri National History Day http://whmc.umsystem.edu/nhd/nhdmain.html http://www.umsystem.edu/shs/index.shtm The National History Day competition in Missouri Founded in 1898, the State encourages 6th through 12th grade students to conduct Historical Society of Missouri is the extensive research and to explore historical subjects preeminent research facility for the study of the Show related to an annual theme. Me State’s heritage. Archives/Manuscripts Program Supervisor: Laura Jolley Intern: Fall 2014 - Brian Moreno Oral History Program Supervisor: Jeff Corrigan Supervisor: Maggie Mayhan Interns: Fall 2014 - Delan Ellington, Colin Iglehart, Andrea Provance Spring 2015 - Andrew Toepfer Interns: Fall 2014 - Bishop Davidson, Kelly Scanlon 7 The Museum of Missouri Military History http://visitjeffersoncity.com/2009/08/ museum-of-missouri-military-history The Missouri Military History Museum in Jefferson City provides student interns the opportunity to be involved in a variety of internship projects both during the academic year and the summer. The current focus of the internship is examining how the Missouri National Guard has served both the residents of the state of Missouri and the larger U.S. population from the late 1800’s to the present day. Included are activities of the Guard in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Guantanamo Bay, and Kosovo. Supervisor: Charles Machon Interns: Fall 2014 - Joseph McWard Spring 2015 - Allyson Ayers, Gunnar Dulle, Brandon Engelbach Missouri State Archives http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/ The Missouri State Archives in Jefferson City is the repository for state records of historical value. Interns with the Archives have the opportunity to: • Develop an expertise in accessing, researching, and analyzing primary documents such as birth, death, and marriage certificates; probate, cemetery, and war records. • Be part of the electoral process–during elections assist the office of the Secretary of State. Supervisor: Shelly Croteau Interns: Fall 2014 - Tighe McCandless Spring 2015 - Hannah Aldrich Boone County Historical Society http://www.boonecountyhistoricalmuseum.org University of Missouri Archives http://muarchives.missouri.edu/ The Archives was established to collect and preserve the historical records of the University of Missouri. Interns have an opportunity to participate in any number of opportunities depending upon the current needs/projects under way. Supervisor: Gary Cox Intern: Spring 2015 - Mziyanda Noruka 8 The Boone County Historical Museum and Maplewood Home encompass the history and culture of Columbia and Boone County, Missouri from prehistory to the present. Interns can expect to receive experience in working in a small museum setting, an historic home, and interacting with both amateur and professional researchers. Supervisor: Chris Campbell Interns: Fall 2014 - Abby Meyer, Lindsey Roberts, Daniel Spink 2014-2015 Kinder Society of Fellows https://democracy.missouri.edu/about/2015-kinder-scholars The Society of Fellows is a competitive, all-expense-paid fellowship program exclusive to undergraduate students enrolled at the University of Missouri. The Society provides a select group of undergraduate students with the opportunity to engage in a year-long intellectual exploration of the historical and philosophical foundations of American Constitutional Democracy. The following are history students who are in the Society this year. Nathaniel Brose Lauren Herbig Bishop Davidson John (Jack) Meyerhoff Samuel Dicke Caroline Spalding Conor Fagan 2014-2015 Kinder Scholars D. C. Program https://democracy.missouri.edu/programs/undergraduate/kinder-scholars The Kinder Scholars Program affords a unique opportunity, exclusive to University of Missouri undergraqduate students, to combine coursework on the foundations of American constitutional democracy with a related ten-week internship in the nation’s capital. This combination of coursework and an academically-based internship allows students to gain a thorough understanding of how America’s constitutional democracy functions. The program also offers significant financial assistance to all participants, providing each member of the class of Kinder Scholars with housing as well as a $1,000 stipend to help defray living expenses and other costs associated with the program. History students who are part of the inaugural D. C. Program are: Lauren Herbig Calvin Lynch 9 Graduate Program 2014-2015 The Department of History has a robust graduate program and a faculty who are committed to excellence in graduate education. Lecture courses, seminars and directed research projects are available on the histories of western Europe, Russia, Great Britain, Africa, East Asia, Latin America and the United States. While students are expected to get specialized training in the fields of their choice, they are also urged to develop a broad historical background. The following masters students are projected to receive their MA degrees at the Graduate School’s Spring 2015 commencement ceremony Stanley Maxson Adviser: LeeAnn Whites Colton Ochsner Adviser: Jonathan Sperber Svyatoslav Puyat Adviser: Lois Huneycutt J. Matthew Ward Adviser: LeeAnn Whites MU Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award 2015 Jenna Rice for her thesis titled, “Just Rage’: Causes of the Rise in Violence in the Eastern Campaigns of Alexander the Great” Adviser: Ian Worthington Graduate School Doctoral Fellows 10 Christopher Deutsch Adviser: Catherine Rymph Travis Eakin Adviser: Jonathan Sperber Danielle Griego Adviser: Lois Huneycutt Luke Schleif Adviser: John Wigger Graduate School MA Fellow J. Matthew Ward Adviser: LeeAnn Whites The following PhD students passed their comprehensive exams/advanced to candidacy in Fall 2014 and early Spring 2015 Brandon Flint Adviser: John Wigger Craig Forrest Adviser: Catherine Rymph Katelynn Robinson Adviser: A. Mark Smith Danielle Griego Adviser: Lois Huneycutt Luke Schleif Adviser: John Wigger Sean Rost Adviser: Catherine Rymph The following doctoral students are projected to receive PhD degrees at the Graduate School’s Spring 2015 commencement ceremony Autumn Dolan Adviser: Lois Huneycutt Jay Ward Adviser: Robert Collins Cassandra Yacovazzi Adviser: John Wigger Superior Graduate Student Award (Awarded by the Graduate Student Association) Stanleyt Maxson 11 The research of the following masters and doctoral students was recognized with awards, grants, fellowships, or prizes. Departmental Dissertation Fellows (2015-16) Hunter Hampton Adviser: John Wigger Todd Morman Adviser: Mark Carroll Josh Nudell Adviser: Ian Worthington Jenny Wiard Adviser: John Wigger State Historical Society’s James Goodrich Fellow (2014-15) Todd Barnett Adviser: Wilma King Kinder Dissertation Fellowships The Kinder Forum on Constitutional Democracy is a collaborative project between the Political Science and History Departments and is supported by the Jack Miller Center for Teaching America’s Founding Principles and History. The mission of the Forum is to promote teaching and scholarship on the American constitutional and democratic traditions, broadly construed to include both the origins of those traditions and their applications and reinterpretations in later periods and around the world. 2014-2015 Jenny Wiard Jonathan Root Cassie Yaccovazzi Adviser: John Wigger Adviser: John Wigger Adviser: John Wigger 2015-2016 12 Chris Deutsch Adviser: Catherine Rymph Darin Tuck Adviser: John Wigger Summer Travel Grant Recipients Through a variety of endowments, the department is able to provide funding for graduate students, enabling them to conduct research during the summer months. The students listed below are recipients of travel grants from one or more of the following funds: Charles & Jean Nauert Travel Fund, Department of History Summer Travel Grant, Emmet Larkin Fellowship, and the William Wilcher Endowment Travel Grant. Todd Barnett Adviser: Wilma King B. Taylor Craft Adviser: Lois Huneycutt Travis Eakin Adviser: Jonathan Sperber Brandon Flint Adviser: John Wigger Craig Forrest Adviser: Catherine Rymph Connor Lewis Adviser: Kerby Miller Sarah Lirley-McCune Sean Rost Adviser: LeeAnn Whites Adviser: Catherine Rymph Jenna Rice Adviser: Ian Worthington Luke Schleif Adviser: John Wigger Seth Torpin Adviser: Kerby Miller William Wilcher Conference Fellows These students were provided funds from the Wilcher Endowment to travel to professional conferences. Heather McRae Fall 2014 Katie Sheffield Niña Verbanaz B. Taylor Craft Spring 2015 Sarah Lirley-McCune Seth Torpin 13 Graduate Technology Fellow These fellowships are to enable highly-qualified graduate students to develop online courses that they will teach in the semester after completion of the fellowship. 2015-2016 Fellows Sarah Lirley-McCune Luke Schleif Adviser: LeeAnn Whites Adviser: John Wigger Professional Activities and Publications Our masters and PhD students participate as fully as possible in academia. Listed here are some of their activities. _ Todd Barnett – King • Friends of the University of Wisconsin Libraries Research Grant, Madison, Wisconsin _ Taylor Craft - Huneycutt Papers: • “A Brothel of Blaspheming Jews: Gallia and the Revolt against King Wamba,” 32nd Annual Illinois Medieval Association Conference (February 2015) • “Gallia, Nurse of Treachery: The Jews of Narbonne in the Revolt against King Wamba,” 58th Annual Missouri Valley History Conference (March 2015) _ Chris Deutsch – Rymph • Moody Research Grant from the LBJ Foundation Research Grant from the Harry S. Truman Library Institute Papers: • “Finding Food’s Nature: Industrial Meat Production at the Feedlot,”Agricultural History Society, Provo Utah, 2014 _ Autumn Dolan – Huneycutt • Jim Falls Prize for Best Graduate Paper for her paper titled “’Rise and Take Them from the Altar’: Women’s Devotional Exchanges at the Translation of Roman Relics in Carolingian Francia,” annual meeting of the Mid-America Medieval Association, March 2015 14 _ Brandon Flint – Wigger • Torrey M. Johnson, Sr. Evangelism Research grant from the Billy Graham Center Archives, Wheaton College _ Joe Genens – Huneycutt Paper: • “Memory and the Battle of Hastings: The Vilification of Harold and the Norman Feigned Retreat,” 32nd Annual Illinois Medieval Association Conference, February 2015, St. Louis, Missouri _ Hunter Hampton – Wigger • Visiting Scholar at the M. J. Murdoch Charitable Trust, summer 2015 • 2014-2015 Stephens College Distinguished Teaching Award nominee • 2014-2015 Mizzou ROAR Professor of the Year nominee _ Connor Lewis – Miller • Society for the Study of Labour History Post-Graduate £500 bursary summer research travel _ Sarah Lirley-McCune – Whites • William E. Foley Research Fellowship, Missouri State Archives Papers: • “‘I Know No Reason for her Act’”: Mothers Who Committed Suicide, St. Louis, Missouri, 1875 to 1900,” Southern Association of Women Historians Conference, Charleston, SC (June 2015) • “‘I Know No Reason for her Act’”: Mothers Who Committed Suicide, St. Louis, Missouri, 1875 to 1900.” Missouri Conference on History,Chesterfield, Missouri (March 2015) Publication: • “Death of a Prostitute: Suicide and Respectability in St. Louis, 1875 to 1900,” Missouri Historical Review, January 2015 Teaching: • Technology Fellow Summer and Fall 2015 for History 1200 online 15 _ Colton Ochsner - Sperber • “Dr. Carl du Prel’s ‘Transcendental Self-Prescription’: Metaphysical Darwinism & its Emanations in fin-de-siècle Germany, The Grosteque, the Absurd, and the Deviant: Transforming the Bounds of the Normative - 23rd Annual Graduate Student Symposium, Departmentof Germainc Languages and Literatures, Washing University, St. Louis, MO (March, 2014) Book Review • Steve Choe, “Afterlives: Allegories of Film and Mortality in Early Weimar Germany” (Berkeley, CA: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014)” Focus on German Studies 22, 2015. , _ Cvhris Paolella - Huneycutt Papers: • “Leniency Towards the Enslaved in the Lombard Laws,” Illinois Medieval Association Conference, St. Louis, Missouri (February, 2015) _ Jenna Rice – Worthington • Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Honorable Mention for her paper titled: “Why Was Alexander’s India Campaign so Bloody?” _ Josh Rice - Wigger • Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, Lone Star College, Tomball, Texas Book Review: • “Cherokee Sister: The Collected Writings of Catharine Brown, 1818-1823,” ed. Theresa Strouth Gaul, Great Plains Quarterly 35, no. 1 (Winter 2015), 120-121. Grants and Awards: • Memorial American History Award, National Society of the Colonial Dames, 2014. *$5,000 honorarium • Humane Studies Fellowship, Institute for Humane Studies, 2014-2015. *$2,000 honorarium • Summer Institute Participant, Jack Miller Center, 2014. *$1,000 honorarium • Travel Grant, Institute for Humane Studies, 2014. • Dissertation Fellowship, University of Missouri, Fall 2014 16 Josh Rice, con’t. Invited Talk • “Laying Tracks: The War of 1812 and the Divergence of the United States and Canada,” Captain Thomas Fristoe Chapter of the National Society United States Daughters of 1812, Columbia, MO, March 2014 Presentations: Give to Caesar What Is Caesar’s”: Finding Church and State in Antebellum Indian Missions” Institute for Humane Studies Annual Academic Research Colloquium, Washington D.C., November 2014. • ”Gospel Bonds, Gospel Boundaries: Missionaries Grapple with Class, Race, and Cultural Difference on the Antebellum Prairie,” 36th Annual Meeting of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Philadelphia, PA, July 2014. • “ _ Root, Jonathan - Wigger Paper: • “I Have Become All Things to All People” at the 2014 meeting of the Conference on Faith and History at Pepperdine University Article: • “Pounds Off for Jesus: Oral Roberts University and the Fat Body, 1976-1978,” published in Fat Studies _ Sean Rost – Rymph • Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism travel grant Luke Schleif – Wigger • IHS Research Grant • Evangelism Research Grant from the Billy Graham Center Archives at Wheaton College • Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives Research Grant _ Katherine Sheffield - Huneycutt Paper: • “Henry I, Robert Curthose, Orderic Vitalis, and the Use of Reputation Management as a Tool in the Conflict over Normandy in 1100-1106” at the Western Society for French History Conference, San Antonio, Texas 17 _ Seth Torpin – Miller • Emmet Larkin Fellowship from the American Conference for Irish Studies Book Reviews: • Niall Ó Ciosáin, Ireland in Official Print Culture 1800-1850: A New Reading of the Poor Inquiry. Irish Studies Review • Daragh Curran, The Protestant Community in Ulster, 1825-45: A Society in Transition. Irish Studies Review Papers: • ‘Antrim under the Whigs: Law, Order, and Historiography,’ Midwestern Regional Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies, Rochester, Michigan _ Darin Tuck – Wigger • Kinder Dissertation Fellowship, Kinder Forum on Constitutional Democracy Papers: • “John Brown” in War and Religion: An Encyclopedia of Faith and Conflict • “Blessed are the Peacemakers: Religion, Manhood, and Nonviolence During the American Civil War,” Conference on Faith and History, Malibu, California, October 2014 _ Colby Turberville – Huneycutt • Best Paper Award at the Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference for his paper titled “Carolingian Strategies for Solidarity and Empire: Pepin the Younger to Louis the Pious,” Omaha, Nebraska, March 2015 _ Jenny Wiard – Wigger • Department of History Dissertation Fellowship • Kinder Dissertation Fellowship, Forum on Constitutional Democracy Papers: • “’Sunday in America’: Billy Sunday and the Participatory Tradition in American Civic and Religious Life,” research presentation for the Forum on Constitutional Democracy • “Outside the Glory Barn: Billy Sunday’s Revival Assistants, Their Ministries, and Urban Evangelism in Progressive America,” Malibu, California • “Make Way for Billy Sunday: Laying the Groundwork for Sunday’s Urban Revivals,” Wichita, Kansas 18 _ Cassie Yacovazzi – Wigger • Dissertation Defense: “‘So Many Foolish Virgins’: Nuns and Anti-Catholicism from Maria Monk to the Know-Nothings,” December 2014 • Kinder Forum on Constitutional Democracy Dissertation Fellowship • Forum on Constitutional Democracy Travel Award, Summer 2014 • SHEAR (Society for Historians of the Early American Republic) Travel Award, July 2014 • John D. Bies International Travel Scholarship, Summer 2014 Papers: • “‘Beware of Foreign Influence’: Anti-Catholicism and Religious Liberty in Early America,” Columbia, Missouri • “No Bibles Allowed: Perspectives on Catholic Approaches to Scripture in Nineteenth-Century Convent Narratives,” Conference on Faith and History, September 2014 • “Our Country, Our Women: The Influence of Anti-Convent Propaganda on the Massachusetts Know-Nothing Party,” SHEAR Annual Meeting, July 2014 • “From the Wilderness to the Cloister: Gender, Culture, and Civilization in Indian and Convent Captivity Narratives,” Popular/American Culture Association Conference, February 2014 19 Thank you to the Department of History staff, Patty Eggleston, Melinda Lockwood, Jenny Morton, Lynn Summers, and Nancy Taube for their on-going cooperation and assistance. Thank you to Lynn for the event coordination, Nancy for overseeing the details our graduate program, Melinda for the brochure and to Jenny Morton, Director of Undergraduate Advising and Curriculum for coordination of the undergraduate program. MU is an equal opportunity institution Desktop/Dept. of History Files/Brochures/Undergraduate/Student Recogniton/2015/Program 20
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