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2320 N. Kenmore Ave, Suite 420
Chicago, Illinois 60614
DePaul University
History Society
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The DePaul University History Society (DPHS), formerly known as the DePaul History
Club, was revamped for the 2014-2015 school year. Instead of a faculty directed
organization, the new DPHS is student run with the goal of providing a place for
discussion, inquiry, and community.
DPHS is open to all students, not just history majors and minors, and hopes to help
further studentsÊ interests in history and historical discussion. During the autumn 2014
quarter, DPHS participated in the Fall Involvement Fair and held a mixer, where
interested students came to eat pizza, meet one another, and discuss future plans. At the
end of the quarter, along with the University Center for Writing-based Learning (the
UCWbL), DPHS hosted a citation seminar, where history majors could bring their
papers in order to go over thesis construction, argumentation, and review the citation
process.
DPHS has several events planned for the remainder of the school year, including a
murder mystery party around St. ValentineÊs Day, a panel discussion featuring Chicago
area archivists, and more events with the UCWbL. DPHS is also collecting used books
for their lending library.
You can visit DPHS in their office in the History Department, located in SAC 420.
DPHS can be found on ORGSYNC or by email at: [email protected]
The History Society Leadership
President: Michelle Cahill
Vice President: Brittany Schmitt
Treasurer: Tony Carillo
Secretary: Nikki Camp
Social Media Coordinator: Brenna Cahill
Advisory Committee Members: Derek Potts, Madison Higgs, and Joe Magnelli
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2015
History Update
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2015
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News and notes from the
department of history
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2015
A Message from the Chair
Contents
2014 was another year of exciting
developments in the History
Department.
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A Message from the Chair
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Alumnus Spotlight: Jessica Szadziewicz
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Faculty Spotlight: Julia Woesthoff
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Egan-Martinez Scholarship Recipients: Jake Dault &
Joseph Williams
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Graduate Assistant: Brittany Harrison
IÊm very pleased to announce that
Professor Julia Woesthoff earned
tenure with promotion to Associate
Professor. Professor Woesthoff is
an expert in twentieth-century
German history, with an emphasis
on the histories of immigration,
multiculturalism, gender, and
sexuality.
This past year, we were also very
fortunate to be able to welcome
Professor Authens Oppong Wadie
as a Visiting Assistant Professor. In
her dissertation entitled „Let Us
Return to the Old Landmark: An
Examination of the Pedagogy of
African Knowledge System,‰
8-9 Tenth Annual Student History Conference in Review
10 Historic Careers: Jim Krokar and Howard Lindsey Retire
11 Excellence in Teaching Award: Andrew Miller
12 Our Graduates
13 Phi Alpha Theta Inductees
14 Recent Faculty Publications and News Bites
15 Supporting the History Department
16 New DePaul History Society
Professor Wadie explored the intergenerational methods teaching and
learning that African Americans
used prior to the landmark
decision, Brown v. Board of
Education. Professor Wadie has
been teaching World History survey
courses, as well as the Seminar on
Multiculturalism in the United
States.
Contact
The department is on
Facebook at facebook.com/
DePaulHistory, where we
regularly post information
about available internships
and upcoming events.
Follow us on Twitter
@DePaulHistory for
history in the news, event
updates, and general
happenings in the
department.
Design and Production
Editor
Ian Petchenik
Tom Krainz
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The department
publishes a periodic
email newsletter for
students, alumni, and
friends of the department.
To subscribe, visit:
http://eepurl.com/ij8Sg.
This was a big year in the
department regarding a major
milestone: Professor Cornelius
Sippel was honored at the Student
History Conference for his fifty
years of teaching in the department.
His course on fascism, team-taught
with Professor Robert Garfield, is
still one of our most popular
courses.
service, humanitarian relief and
international development, public
policy, international business, social
services, journalism, and law. We
look forward to developing new
options in the coming year.
We also bid farewell to colleagues
in 2014. Professors Ellen Eslinger,
James Krokar, and Howard
Lindsey collectively taught
thousands of our students over
decades. They will be missed and
we wish them well in their future
endeavors.
We have also been enhancing our
course offerings, with new and
revamped classes on topics such as
Digital History and the Chicago
History Museum Experience. And
we have started to grow the number
of courses being taught fully online
and in hybrid formats. Finally,
weÊve been expanding when we
offer our courses·with new
courses available in December
session and during the summer to
better accommodate student
demand.
A number of our graduating
undergraduate and graduate
students hit milestones of their own
– with some entering prestigious
internships in government, exciting
new positions in business and
education, and others going on to
graduate school in History and
other fields. We look forward to
hearing more from them as they
pursue their dreams and make their
marks in the world.
2014 was a big year for the student
History Society which became an
official DePaul student
organization and maintained a level
of engagement with the department
that was exciting and gratifying to
see.
We have continued to develop new
curricular and degree options for
our students. In 2014 we saw the
inauguration of the five-year
combined degree BA in History/
MA in Journalism and we earned
approval for our five-year combined
degree BA in History/MA in
International Studies. Both of these
options will serve students well in a
wide range of career paths in the
public, private, and non-profit
sectors including the foreign
I hope you enjoy looking through
the newsletter and reading about
some of these and other
developments in greater detail.
Please continue to send us notes
and updates as we all like to hear
what our alumni are up to. And if
youÊd like regular emails about
History department activities,
please subscribe to our email list by
going to this website: http://
eepurl.com/ij8Sg.
Another great way to stay
connected to History is through
Facebook. Our page contains
photos and updates·and you donÊt
even need to belong to Facebook to
keep up with the Department:
https://www.facebook.com/
DePaulHistory.
Welcome to our newsletter!
Thomas A. Foster
Associate Professor and Chair
Thomas A. Foster, chair of the department, has been at DePaul since 2005. He is a social and cultural historian of
early America with a focus on women, gender, and sexuality. He is the author of Sex and the Eighteenth-Century
Man: Massachusetts and the History of Sexuality in America (Beacon, 2006) and editor of Long Before Stonewall:
Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America (NYU, 2007) and New Men: Manliness in Early America (NYU,
2011). Professor Foster regularly offers undergraduate and graduate courses on U.S. women’s history, the history
of sexuality in America, and early American history, as well as the Sophomore Seminar on Multiculturalism and the
Graduate Seminar in Primary Sources.
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Alumnus Spotlight: Jessica Szadziewicz
Jessica Szadziewicz
earned her BA in
History in 2009 from
DePaul. She selected
DePaul for a number of
reasons. Jessica was
offered a great financial
aid package, and all of
her AP credit from high
school was accepted.
She also loved the
urban setting of the
Lincoln Park campus.
Jessica knew she didnÊt
want a sprawling
campus in a rural area,
and DePaul offered the
exact opposite. It was
very easy to leave
campus for a day and
take the train to a
museum, a theatre, the
beach, etc.
When Jessica began at
DePaul she wanted to
major in either history
or art history. She
always had an interest
in history and loved to
read, especially about
periods vastly different
from today. After doing
work in the DePaul
archives for her first
history class freshmen
year (HST 199), she
was hooked. The class
was assigned to read
and dissect letters from
American Vincentian
missionaries in China
and relate their
experiences to broader
historical events at the
time. Jessica decided
then to major in history
with a possible goal of
being an archivist.
JessicaÊs
most
memorable experiences
at DePaul revolve
around living in the city
for the first time and
exploring different
neighborhoods. She
appreciated the Explore
Chicago program for
incoming students.
Although she had lived
in the suburbs and on
the fringes on the city
all her life, there were
large areas and
institutions she had
never visited or even
been aware of. Jessica
especially enjoyed the
class trips to the stock
exchange
and
Auditorium Theatre in
the Loop.
Jessica spent more time
in the archives than
most students. She
eventually got to know
archivist Morgan
MacIntosh Hodgetts
and greatly valued her
academic advice and
opinions. Jessica also
enjoyed Professor Tom
MockaitisÊ class, British
Mandate in Palestine,
since it gave her a much
better understanding of
the conflict in that
region today.
After she graduated
from DePaul, Jessica
decided to pursue a
MasterÊs of Library
Science and go into
archives since she
enjoyed doing archival
research so much. At
the time, she had an
office job and went to
Dominican University
so she could keep
working. About six
months into the
program, Jessica
received a call from
DePaul archivist
During the 2013-2014
academic year, Professor
Julia Woesthoff was
granted tenure at DePaul
University. Below is a
brief introduction to
Professor WoesthoffÊs
research interests and
plans for the next phase of
her career.
Morgan MacIntosh
Hodgetts about a
potential internship at
History Works, Inc.
History Works is a
small historical research
firm that does family
history projects and
historical litigation
support. Jessica ended
up applying and getting
the internship at
History Works, which
turned
into
a
permanent part-time
job after about four
months. Jessica began
as a research assistant
where the research skills
she learned in her
history classes played a
large part. The
information from her
History of Chicago
course was extremely
relevant when doing
research on prominent
Chicago families.
Having the background
information on the
growth of the city and
influential figures was
very valuable.
Eventually she was
hired as a full-time
researcher after
completing her MLS in
2011. After a few
archival internships in
graduate school, Jessica
came to realize that she
much preferred doing
research in archives
rather than maintaining
and organizing them.
Her time at History
Works allowed Jessica
to work in a number of
archives and libraries
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Faculty Spotlight:
Julia Woesthoff
arriving in the 1960s,
and mindful of the
often problematic
public images of those
immigrants, Professor
WoesthoffÊs first
research project led her
to explore the portrayal
of those foreigners in
the German print
media. She was
guestworkers provided
the basis for both her
MA and her PhD, both
of which she earned at
Michigan State
University.
In 2006, after teaching
at MSU for two years,
Professor Woesthoff
came to DePaul
Professor Julia
Woesthoff grew
up in the
industrial
heartland of
Germany, the
Ruhr Valley,
close to the
Dutch border,
and initially
planned to be an
English and
Biology high
school teacher.
After finishing
h
e
r
undergraduate
degree at Bonn
University, a
scholarship from
the German
A c a d e m i c
E x c h a n g e
Service gave her
the opportunity
to enroll in a
variety of Liberal
Studies classes at
Michigan State Professor Woesthoff and First Year Abroad students in Berlin.
University. She
developed an
interest in the
University. Her area of
intrigued by the fact
study of history after
expertise is Modern
that the debates about
taking classes that paid
Germany, and in both
foreigners in the
special attention to the
the classroom teaching
Federal Republic
ways race and gender
and scholarly research,
uncovered much more
affect peopleÊs
Professor Woesthoff
about the hopes,
perceptions and
explores historical
concerns, and selfexperiences. Hailing
actorsÊ attitudes about
perceptions of Germans
from a region where
cultural difference,
than it did about the
former foreign laborers
ethnic and national
foreigners. Her
· s o - c a l l e d
identity, and questions
investigation of the
guestworkers·have
of belonging, mindful of
issues surrounding
settled since first
the
very
real
consequences of these
ideas in peopleÊs lives.
Since joining the
DePaul history faculty,
Professor Woesthoff has
taught a variety of
courses within the
history department,
among them a survey
course on Modern
Germany that
also serves the
German Studies
Minor, as well as
a variety of
seminars on
topics such as
the Holocaust
and Divided
Germany. For
the past three
years, she has
also participated
in the First Year
A b r o a d
G e r m a n y
p r o g r a m ,
teaching a class
on „The Many
Faces of Berlin‰
w h i c h
culminates in a
10-day study
tour of the
German capital,
where, after
having spent a
term learning
about Berlin in
the classroom, students
are able to explore the
history and culture of
Jews and Turks in the
city. Professor
WoesthoffÊs interests in
questions of cultural
difference have also led
her to regularly teach a
section of HON 301 on
„Multiculturalism in
Postwar Europe.‰
Since that first foray
into the history of
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EganMartinez
Scholarship
Jake Dault
& Joseph
Williams
Each spring the
History Department
awards the EganMartinez Scholarship
to support graduate
students for the next
academic year. In the
spring of 2014, the
department selected
Jake Dault and Joseph
Williams for the EganMartinez Scholarship
for the 2014-2015
academic year.
Jake Dault
Growing up, history
was always my favorite
subject. When I began
my undergraduate
studies at St. Norbert
College, I was
undeclared but ended
up with a wonderful
advisor from the
History Department,
Dr. Marti Lamar. It
would be safe to say her
honest encouragement
was the first push I
needed to focus on
doing well in my history
courses. I began to
really enjoy history
when I read my first
primary source
accounts in the History
of the Byzantine
Empire course. They
were written by
Geoffrey
de
Villehardouin and
Michael Psellus, a
French knight and a
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Byzantine monk. I was
fascinated, and loved
doing the research. It
was then I realized I
wanted to make a
career out of studying
the past.
Part of the reason I
went to DePaul was out
of some desire to live in
a city. It was certainly
an aspect of graduate
school I was excited
about. Remaining in the
Midwest was another
factor for me because
itÊs where most of my
family and friends are.
The small size of
DePaulÊs history
program was another
draw, which to me
meant I would be able
to develop meaningful
relationships with my
peers and professors. In
a larger program, I
probably would have
been caught in the wash
and swept away. A
friend once told me,
„When it comes to
college, you get what
you put into it.‰ It was
with that mentality that
I applied for graduate
programs because I
knew that I could work
equally as hard
wherever I went.
My first experience at
DePaul was a gut-check
during the autumn
quarter. I was
overwhelmed by the
amount of work I
needed to do just to
participate
in
discussion, let alone
understand the
material. I knew I
needed to step up my
efforts. My professors
were genuinely
concerned
and
supportive, which
always helps. As I came
to know my fellow
students, I realized that
we were all really in the
same boat. In
overcoming this initial
obstacle, I learned that
this rough patch was
actually a part of the
process of becoming a
historian.
The graduate program
here at DePaul has also
been an eye-opening
experience. To begin
with, historiography
was a foreign concept
before arriving at
DePaul (which explains
my struggles). I was
suddenly exposed to
historical schools of
thought that I never
knew existed. In my
undergraduate
programs, I learned that
I loved history. Thanks
to my time here at
DePaul I have learned,
to a certain extent, what
history is, what it
means, and how it is
practiced.
I would like to pursue
my PhD, and hopefully
will be attending
summer courses to
work on my language
proficiency in either
Greek or Latin. I have
also considered
pursuing an MA in
Archival Science.
Professionally, I would
like to be working at a
job that is somehow
related to the pursuit of
history whether it is a
library, a museum, an
archaeological project
in the area, or at an
archive.
Joseph Williams
I did not become
interested in history
until after taking an
African American
studies course at the
undergraduate level.
Although it was taught
by a sociologist, I
realized that the
experiences of Blacks
were better understood
through a historical
lens.
My pursuit of an MA
was as a result of my
passion for research and
teaching in the field of
history. It was also a
career move. IÊve
known for some time
now that I would like to
teach at the college
level. After receiving a
BA, I matriculated into
a seminary to study
theology and Scripture.
I learned a lot about the
Ancient Near East and
cultural interpretation
of religious texts, as
well as the different
doctrines and creeds
that influence those
interpretations. But I
wanted to situate my
studies in a larger
historical context.
Although seminary
provided
the
opportunity through a
degree program in
Church History, I knew
that a degree in History
at a „secular‰
institution would
answer different
questions, and look
more appealing in
relation to my career
goals.
I selected DePaul
because it has a small
program that makes for
an intimate classroom
setting. I had no
significant academic
coursework in history as
well, so I needed a
widely recognized
institution with strong
faculty specializing in
diverse areas that would
introduce me to the
fundamentals of
researching and
studying in the field,
and prepare me for
work at the PhD level.
As an adult student
who works full-time,
DePaulÊs schedule is
also ideal. I would not
be able to attend
courses if they were not
in the evening. Finally,
I was attracted to the
multiple avenues for
satisfying course work,
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which included taking
courses in other
departments and
completing
an
Independent Study,
which I did with Dr.
Howard Lindsey on the
Chicago Freedom
Movement of 1966.
Currently, I am doing
research on Black club
womenÊs religious
expressions in the
public sphere during
the late nineteenth and
early twentieth
centuries,
an
interdisciplinary project
advised by professors in
the women and gender
studies department,
history department, and
the religious studies
department. I count
this project as one of
my most meaningful
experiences because I
get to engage with
professors that are
scholars in my areas of
interests and conduct
research that I hope will
carry over to future
studies at the graduate
level.
My future plans include
doctoral studies with
the primary goal in
mind to teach; however,
I also want to remain
relevant outside of the
academy, especially for
groups with little or no
access to quality
education. For me, it is
important that the
concerns of the
marginalized are heard
and addressed.
2014-2015 Graduate Student Assistant — Brittany Harrison
Each spring the History Department awards a Graduate
Assistantship to support a graduate student for the
academic year. In the spring of 2014, the department
selected Brittany Harrison for the 2014-2015 graduate
assistantship. The assistantship offers a six-course tuition
waiver and a stipend for work performed in the
department.
I believe everyone secretly has a historical topic or era
they are drawn to; a specific part of the world during a
particular time that excites the imagination and makes
us compare and question the society we live in today.
For me, it was (and still is) the period of European
expansion into the Americas. Since my middle school
years, I have wondered about the implications of two
different „worlds,‰ having developed for millennia
without any contact or knowledge of one another,
finally meeting together. Years of study have shed
light on the profound, tragic implications of the New
and Old World encounter, and I am always still
surprised as to how the community of scholars has
found ways to analyze what is otherwise a highly
romanticized historical period. My area of focus is the
impact of racialist doctrine on the development of
slavery in the 16th-18th centuries. To claim that race
and slavery carried meanings and implications specific
to this time period necessarily requires an
understanding of what they meant before and after.
Historians of race almost always begin their works
with an explanation of why race must be understood
as an „idea‰ that has undergone an incredibly
complex, multifaceted metamorphosis throughout
history. It is precisely this messy, contested nature of
the very concept of race·both as a reality and as an
historical topic·that holds my interest. Although race
has been a relevant topic of study in sociology,
psychology, anthropology, literature, and others, I
believe that history can offer the superior analysis.
Historical study is not limited to highly specific
methodologies and concerns that define other
disciplines.
Although I have been warned of the limitations of
doing so, I believe one can make a career out of oneÊs
academic interests. During my undergraduate years, I
met many professors whose work and intellect I
admired and wanted to emulate·something that has
continued upon entering graduate school. Continuing
my education is the only way I can continue to grow
intellectually and head towards a career doing work I
consider to be important.
DePaul held both practical and academic benefits for
me. I have lived in the Chicago area my entire life and
attending DePaul would allow me to be a fulltime
student. Furthermore, the historiographical emphasis
of the program struck me as absolutely necessary for
my growth as a historian since undergraduate work
introduces the importance of sources, methodologies,
and models on a rather limited basis. DePaul would
give me the chance to overcome my own limited
understandings of the historical craft.
The coursework at DePaul has also forced me to
reconsider my capabilities and my strengths and
weaknesses. When I entered the program straight after
receiving by BA, I admittedly was self-assured and
presumptuous that I could handle the work and the
expectations of graduate study. However, the first few
sessions of Professor Tom KrainzÊs course on the
American West rocked my confidence. I had to read
and interpret what I read with greater intensity and
insight than I ever had before. Professor KrainzÊs
methods on historiographical examination have
prepared me for all the subsequent classes I have
taken at DePaul. However, taking Professor Tom
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Conference Awards
Michelle Mueller
Best Paper in an Introductory-Level Course
Derek Potts
Kathryn DeGraff Award for the Best History
Department Undergraduate Methods Course Paper
Tenth
Annual
Student
History
Conference
Participants
Mary Ralph
James P. Krokar Award for the Best Paper in an
Advanced Undergraduate-Level Course
Joseph Holwell
Best Paper in a Graduate Course
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th
Jason Crouthamel
Annual
Student
History
Conference
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Keynote Speaker
“Masculinity, Sexuality, and German
Soldiers in the First World War”
Jason Crouthamel is
Associate Professor of
History at Grand Valley
State University. His
research focus is on
memory, trauma, and
masculinity in Germany
during the age of total war.
His first book, The Great
War and German
Memory: Society,
Politics and
Psychological
Trauma, was
published by
the University
of Exeter
Press in 2009.
His second
book,
An
Intimate History
of the Front:
Masculinity,
Sexuality and
Ordinary German Soldiers
in the First World War, will
be published with Palgrave
Macmillan later this year.
This book uses soldiersÊ
newspapers, letters, and
diaries to reconstruct
veterans' conceptions of
sexuality and masculinity.
He is most interested in
how modern war
reconfigured the „warrior
ideal,‰ and his research
focuses
on
how
marginalized groups,
including
homosexuals,
the mentally ill, working
class, and disabled
Germans defined
themselves in relation to
the „national community‰
and the memory of the war.
Shiraz Ackley
Ismael Biyashev
Jordan Brash
Michelle Cahill
Katelyn Carlson
Edward Conley
Katherine Connolly
Jackson Danbeck
Megan Deppen
Estelle De Vendegies
Ramiro Hernandez
Madison Higgs
Joseph Holwell
Miriam Keep
Karolina Kolpak
Matthew Morley
Michelle Mueller
Ginny Nem
Caelin Niehoff
Regan O'Kane
Nathan Pereira
Polina Popova
Derek Potts
Mary Ralph
Alexander Shaindlin
Jacqueline Spitzack
Laura Springman
Sarah Stasukewicz
Tyler Stone
Caroline Thee
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Long-Serving Professors Jim Krokar and
Howard Lindsey Retire
At the conclusion of the
spring 2014 quarter, two
of the departmentÊs long–
serving faculty members,
Howard Lindsey and Jim
Krokar, retired. Both
have been associated with
DePaul University and
the History Department
in various capacities
throughout the years. And
both have taught dozens
of courses and hundreds of
students during their
decades at DePaul. Their
departures will be sorely
missed by both students
and colleagues.
Inkster, Michigan,‰
explored Henry FordÊs
assistance to the
predominantly Black
Detroit suburb of
Inkster during the
Great Depression.
Professor Lindsey filled
a number of different
Howard
Lindsey
Professor Lindsey
began teaching at
DePaul in 1989 before
he completed his PhD.
He had earned his BA
from Western Michigan
University in 1968 and
his MA two years later
from the University of
Michigan. With the
completion of the MA,
Professor Lindsey
began teaching first at
Highland
Park
Community College,
located in suburban
Detroit, and at the
University of Detroit
(now University of
Detroit–Mercy). At
both these schools he
taught AfricanAmerican history and
U.S. government
classes. He earned his
PhD
from
the
University of Michigan
in
1993.
His
dissertation, „Fields to
Fords, Feds to
Franchise: African
A m e r i c a n
Empowerment in
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roles while at DePaul.
He taught a range of
courses including
African American
history, world history,
Discover Chicago, and
the U.S. survey, to
name just a few. He
initiated several Black
Studies courses. One of
the joys for Professor
Lindsey in teaching was
seeing that „light go
on‰ in studentsÊ minds
when they suddenly
„got it.‰ In addition to
his teaching, Professor
Lindsey served as chair
for the History
Department and for the
Center of Black
Studies. He was one of
the founding members
and first chairman of
the DePaul University
Black Leadership
Coalition. For seven
years he was also the
co-director of the study
aboard program to
Ghana. Professor
Lindsey wrote a History
of Black America and
authored portions of
Civil Rights Chronicles.
He also recently led
efforts to hire another
scholar of AfricanAmerican history in the
department.
With retirement,
Professor Lindsey both
ends and begins new
routines. He will miss
the friendships and
camaraderie among
colleagues. The goodnatured joking and
banter
in
the
departmentÊs hallway
and offices will no
longer be a part of his
daily habits. Likewise,
he will miss the one-onone interaction with
students discussing
both academic and life
issues. One of the most
rewarding parts of
teaching for Professor
Lindsey has been
students thanking him
in writing for being an
inspiration to them.
Now that he no longer
has to work, Professor
Lindsey has charted a
new direction for his
life. He has plenty of
books to read that have
been piling up over the
years. Since retirement,
Professor Lindsey has
been working with Laz
Rice of DePaulÊs Media
Center on a photo/
journalism project on
historic and abandoned
landmarks in the city of
Detroit. After two trips
to Detroit, the project is
targeted for completion
Celebrating
Historic
Careers
in early 2015. He also
plans to take plenty of
road trips around the
United States to visit
family and friends and
to see the sights.
Finally, after last yearÊs
memorable winter,
Professor LindseyÊs
long-term plan is to
relocate to a warmer
climate. At the moment
he is considering
moving to Louisiana to
both enjoy a snow-free
winter and to be near
family members.
Jim Krokar
Professor Jim KrokarÊs
association with DePaul
goes way back. In 1965,
he entered DePaul as a
freshman. Four years
later, he earned his BA,
the first from his family
to earn a college degree.
He headed next to
Indiana University
where he earned a MA
Excellence in Teaching
In autumn 2014, DePaul
University awarded Professor
Andrew Miller the College of
Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Contingent Faculty Excellence in
Teaching Award. He was one of
only two winners selected for the
2013–14 academic year. Professor
Miller has been teaching in the
Department of History since
2005. He has taught a wide
range of classes including
Ancient Rome: Augustus to
Constantine; England to 1688;
Europe, 400-1400 C.E.; God,
Self, and Society in Medieval
Culture; History in Global
Contexts: The First Crusade; and
Western Europe: From
Renaissance
to
Enlightenment: 1348
to 1789. Professor
MillerÊs approach to
teaching history is
to inspire in
students a love of
history while
making them
aware of the
challenges and
difficulties
historians face
in interpreting
the ancient,
medieval, and
early modern
past. „First-time
students can be
intimidated by
the seeming
otherness of the
p e o p l e ,
societies, and
sources we
study,‰ notes
Professor Miller,
„which makes the quarter-long
journey so rewarding
professionally, for it is spent
building student confidence by
helping them to think critically
about earlier periods and honing
their ability to scrutinize primary
documents and write analytically
about them.‰
Professor Miller grew up in
Chicago, near DePaulÊs Lincoln
Park campus. His passion for „all
things medieval‰ was
sparked by the year
his family spent
living in the north
of England while
he was an
adolescent. He
earned his BA
with honors in
both History and
English and a
minor in
Latin
Andrew Miller
in 1971 and a PhD in
1980, with a detour in
between in the U. S.
Army. Professor Krokar
focused his graduate
training on Eastern
Europe, especially
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from the University of Iowa. He
spent his junior year studying at
Pembroke College, Oxford, in
England. „Needless to say,
studying medieval history,
literature, and Latin at a medieval
university with distinguished
medievalists,‰ recalls Professor
Miller, „was as thrilling as it was
daunting.‰ After graduation, he
studied French for a semester at lÊ
Université de Pau, in the
southwest corner of France,
which was a nice „petite pause,‰
living on a little farm with a
hilarious French family and their
really mean dog.
Professor Miller earned his MA at
the University of Toronto,
Canada, focusing primarily on
women and gender. His MA
thesis examined females and
witchcraft in the Later Middle
Ages. He received his PhD in
medieval history at the University
of California, Santa Barbara. His
main focus was the conflict
between English bishops and the
royal household in the late
thirteenth century, his second
field was medieval Europe, his
third field was the Roman
Empire, and his outside field was
medieval English literature. His
dissertation is entitled „Carpe
Ecclesiam: Households, Identity
and Violent Communication,
ÂChurchÊ and ÂCrownÊ under
King Edward I.‰
Professor Miller has recently
published a trio of articles,
„Knights, Bishops and Deer
Parks: Episcopal Identity,
Emasculation and Clerical Space
in Medieval England;‰ „To
ÂFrockÊ a Cleric: The Gendered
Implications of Mutilating
Ecclesiastical Vestments in
Medieval England;‰ and „ÂTailsÊ
of Masculinity: Knights, Clerics
and the Mutilation of Horses in
Medieval England.‰ These
articles focus on interrelated
issues of violence, prized animals,
ecclesiastical clothing, and the
intersection between clerical and
lay identity and masculinity.
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foreigners in the Federal
Republic, which was the
basis of her dissertation,
Professor Woesthoff has
continued her exploration
of the relationship
between foreigners and
native Germans in
Germany in the decades
since the end of World
War II, tracing the
difficult transition West
Germans made from
Nazism to democracy
and multiculturalism.
Her current project on
binational marriages
between Christian
German women and
(mostly Muslim) foreign
men in postwar Germany
has taken her to a
number of archives and
libraries all over
Germany.
aids, flipping through
decades of dusty
magazines or perusing
sundry collections of
other primary sources,
Professor Woesthoff
enjoys following one of
her other major passions:
researching and eating
good food. Her ventures
have helped her discover
hidden gems such as
centuries-old beer halls in
Cologne, fish markets in
Hamburg, and doner
kebab stands in Berlin.
Professor Woesthoff
considers working in a
profession that allows her
to combine her different
interests in such unique
ways·and sharing them
with students and
colleagues·one of the
biggest benefits of her
job.
When taking a break
from scouring finding
Our Graduates:
2013-2014
Minors
Alexander Adam
Molly Clark
Katherine Cliff
Joan Duron
Michael Homola
Nicole Johnson
Daniel Junk
Jason Kates
Kathren Larsen
Abigail Marchione
Leslie Montoya
Erika Munoz
Caelin Niehoff
Samuel O'Brien
Lauren Ponto
David Pukszta
Eric Ratajczak
Olivia Reading
Alexandra Siciliano
Joshua Stern
David Waite
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FosterÊs primary source analysis again presented me
with novel challenges. Dr. Valentina TikoffÊs Atlantic
history class opened my eyes to the institutional
support and scholarly community available to
someone interested specifically in the diverse
interaction taking place in transatlantic communities
during the early modern era. This knowledge has
influenced my search for a PhD program.
As much as I would love to go straight into a PhD
program, I do have to work for a short while to pay
some student loan debt. However, my heart has been
set on obtaining a PhD for nearly five years now, and
I hope to start in the 2016-2017 school year. I have a
short list of programs I am considering for their
prestige, faculty, and geographical benefits. I have my
sights set on these programs because I do want to
teach at the college level one day.
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Masters
Chad Beckman
Joseph Holwell
Gerald Kelly
Michael MacCormac
Michael Miles
Gail Parson
Sarah Stasukewicz
Majors
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Ismael Biyashev
Callie Bretthauer
Danielle Brod
Gerald Busse
Burton Cann
Elliot Crumpley
Erin Dunaway
Sean Dunn-Reynolds
Anna Eger
Carly Faison
Jordan Frank
Patrick Frazier
Nathaniel Garcia
Ramiro Hernandez
Maribeth Hudzik
Kevin Kauffman
Sean Kenney
Alec Kent
James Koziarz
Ethan Krenzer
Marie Kukielka
Sekordri Lewis
Emily Mackmiller
Erica McClendon
Elizabeth McCullough
Devin Miller
Joseph Mullins
Emily Murphy
Daniel Nepomuceno
Eric Ohman
Regan O'Kane
Andrew Pascus
Alec Piotrowski
Jacqueline Roman
Pat Rosner
Danielle Rossi
Sonia Sanchez
Christopher Sangster
Mateusz Siek
Chris Smith
Jacqueline Spitzack
Kailee Swolley
Caroline Thee
Michael Todorovic
Michael Turner
John Williams
Nathan Youngblood
Monica Guerrero
Karolina Kolpak
Ginny Nem
Aleksandra Sebaseva
Elizabeth Sokol
Aiden Bettine
Michelle Cahill
Katelyn Carlson
Edward Conley
Clark Fox
Monica Guerrero
Brittany Harrison
Madison Higgs
Colin Humanski
Austin Kiesewetter
Xavier Klonowski
James Langston
Michael MacCormac
Caelin Niehoff
Eric Ratajczak
Brittany Schmitt
Alexander Seifert
Laura Springman
Tyler Stone
Jake Walker
Saxby Wiles
Joseph Williams
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2014
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Currently Professor
Miller is working on
several projects. He is
reworking an article
entitled „A BishopÊs
Household vs. the
Royal Household under
Edward
I
(r.
1272-1307): The
Swansong of Episcopal
Power in Medieval
England?,‰ which
examines the mighty
struggle between the
Bishop of Lincoln and
the royal household
over the right to bestow
a valuable benefice – in
the heart of the bishopÊs
estates – to a candidate
of their choosing in the
1290s. By overlaying
extensive episcopal
memoranda (diary-like
entries) with a variety of
royal and judicial
records, this analysis
challenges several
perceptions about the
nature of power and
lay-clerical relations
and identities during
this important period of
medieval European
history, and provides a
detailed snapshot of the
English church
increasingly submitting
to the royal will, but not
without a bloody fight.
This article is, in fact, a
microcosm of the larger
book project on which
he is also working. In it,
Professor Miller focuses
on several welldocumented conflicts
between the royal
household and various
episcopal households
throughout the
kingdom during the late
thirteenth and early
fourteenth centuries,
which is during the time
that scholars have
determined to be a
turning point in
relations between clergy
and laity: afterwards the
English Church would
be largely submissive to
the power of the
Crown.
Professor MillerÊs plans
for the future are to
continue teaching,
researching, writing,
and to spend as much
time with his wife and
two children. His
children, observes
Professor Miller, „are
surprisingly normal
given that both their
parents
are
medievalists. Although
after I wrote about
people docking an
adversaryÊs horse in the
Middle Ages, my
daughter would chase
around my son
pretending to cut off his
tail while he yelled,
Âneigh, neigh!ʉ.
Professor Miller is
thankful for „teaching
at DePaul alongside
such a welcoming and
committed band of
scholars and supported
by a first rate,
gregarious staff.‰
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across the country doing a variety of historical
research. She eventually focused almost solely on
litigation support at History Works, where she was
required to thoroughly analyze records and document
all of her sources so they could stand up in court. The
experience Jessica gained doing extensive and
annotated bibliographies at DePaul was helpful in this
process. The thought process of questioning every
document was helpful as well, since that was required
in both her previous classes and professional position.
Currently Jessica is a Prospect Research Analyst at
Northwestern University where she responds to
research requests from the Alumni Relations and
Development Department. The tasks range from
finding an alumniÊs current contact information to
writing a lengthy profile complete with historic family
information. Jessica could not have gotten this job
without the research skills she developed throughout
her time at DePaul, at graduate school, and at History
Works. The ability to use a variety of databases,
electronic sources, and hard copy sources is very
valuable in her day-to-day work.
In her private life, Jessica uses the critical thinking
skills and skepticism she learned in history classes
when reading a news article or seeing something on
TV. She considers any source and its bias before
blindly accepting something as fact. History has also
influenced her travels and where she wants to visit.
Jessica had the opportunity to travel abroad after
graduating from DePaul and chose Istanbul, Turkey,
because of its rich history and blend of cultures. If she
had not studied the region, Jessica might never have
visited such a beautiful and interesting place.
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Books
History department faculty continue to publish fascinating
research on a broad range of topics, including the following
books:
Thomas Foster
Sex and the Founding Fathers: The American Quest for a Relatable Past (Philadelphia:
Temple University Press, 2014).
Robert Garfield
Civilizations of the Second Millennium, 4th edition (San Diego: University Readers Press,
2014) and Readings in Fascism and Counter-Revolution, 4th edition (San Diego: University
Readers Press, San Diego, 2014).
Thomas Mockaitis
Soldiers of Misfortune? (Carlisle Barracks, PA: US Army War College Strategic Studies
Institute, 2014).
Articles
Our faculty members have also published an impressive
variety of articles and chapters, including the following:
Thomas Foster
“Early America,” in Roundtable: Intimate Matters at 25, Reflections on the History of U.S.
Sexuality, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 35 (2014): 20-25; “Sex and Public
Memory of Aaron Burr,” Common-Place 15 (Fall 2014); and “Sexual Diversity in Early
America,” in Leila J. Rupp and Susan Freeman, eds., Understanding and Teaching U.S.
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press,
2014): 123-31.
Lisa Sigel
“Flagrant Delights: Folk Art and Folk Erotica,” Antiques Magazine (July/August, 2014):
104-111.
Margaret Storey
“Southern Dissent,” in Aaron Sheehan Dean, ed., A Companion to the U.S. Civil War
(Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, Ltd., 2014): 867-890.
Amy Tyson
Director of Voices of Charity Oral History Project (2014) and, with Azie Mira Dungey, “‘Ask
a Slave’ and Interpreting Race on Public History’s Front Line: Interview with Azie Mira
Dungey,” The Public Historian 36 (2014): 36-60.
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Department Chair, Thomas Foster, earned promotion to full professor. Professor Foster specializes
in the social and cultural history of early America focusing on women, gender, and sexuality. His
most recent book, Sex and the Founding Fathers: The American Quest for a Relatable Past, explores the
changing interpretations of the sex lives of the Revolutionary EraÊs leading politicians
The Department welcomed Professor Authens Oppong
Wadie as a Visiting Professor. Professor Wadie earned her
PhD from Northern Illinois University and researches
African American education prior to desegregation.
Carly Faison earned the Albert Erlebacher-Cornelius Sippel Award for
outstanding achievement in History. Each spring the Department recognizes
the top graduating senior with the Erlebacher-Sippel Award. Ms. Faison
received this top honor during the annual Student History Conference.
The department would like to thank everyone who contributed last year. We appreciate your generosity
and encouragement. Thank you so much for your support.
You can support the History Department by making your gift online at
giving.depaul.edu
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Click “Make a Gift Now”
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Please denote “History Department” in the memo line.
For additional information, please contact Sara Miller Acosta, CFRE, Senior Director of
Development, at 312/362-5383 or email [email protected].
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Yugoslavia. His dissertation was titled, „Liberal
Reform in Croatia, 1872–1875: The Beginning of
Modern Croatia under Ban Ivan Mažuvanić.‰ After
graduating, he worked for a little over a year at the
Indiana University Archives before accepting a job at
DePaul in 1981.
Professor KrokarÊs teaching spanned a range of
topics. He taught the Historical Methods classes for
the past twenty years. At first, these courses were only
one class before going to the current two class/two
quarter format. Professor Krokar taught one of the
first Gateway/Practicum sequences which combined
historiography and independent research. One of his
teaching highlights was leading the course „Maps in
History and Culture‰ at the Newberry Library where
students had access to the extensive map collection.
Professor Krokar found it especially gratifying that
two of his students in his „The Nation and
Nationalism‰ class went on to earn PhDs, teach at
universities, and write books on the topic of
nationalism. He developed and taught the Eastern
European survey as well as advanced courses on
Yugoslavia and on the Balkans.
Professor Krokar closely linked his teaching and
scholarship. He edited both editions of Rhetoric and
Civilization, the world history and composition
textbook used in DePaulÊs Common Studies
program, the precursor to the current Liberal Studies
program. After attending a National Endowment for
the Humanities seminar, "Using Maps in Teaching
the Humanities,‰ at the Newberry Library, Professor
Krokar pursued an interest in the history of
cartography. He channeled this interest into the
creation of classes as well as scholarly research. His
article, „New Means to an Old End: Early Modern
Maps in the Service of an Anti-Ottoman Crusade,‰
appeared in 2008 in Imago Mundi. In January 2015,
his most recent article, „Constant Desjardins:
Peripatetic Cartographer,‰ was published by the same
journal.
Serving in administrative positions was also an area
that Professor Krokar contributed to DePaul. He was
chair of the History Department and participated in
summer advising for numerous years. Most recently,
Professor Krokar served as the departmentÊs associate
chair. In this position, he mastered the task of
scheduling all of the departmentÊs courses for each
academic year while diplomatically soothing
disgruntled colleagues.
With his retirement, Professor KrokarÊs daily routine
has changed. He misses the interaction with students
and colleagues. But now he is focusing his time on
researching the history of cartography and
nationalism. He plans to stay in Chicago while
visiting family and friends across the United States.
Meanwhile he is savoring the freedom of not having a
rigid schedule.
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