Articles: history

Pinnow Presents Papers at Two Conferences in England

Associate Professor of History Kenneth Pinnow recently gave papers at two conferences held in England. In June, he presented “Therapeutics and the Doctor-Patient Relationship within Early Soviet Medical Ethics” at the workshop on Continuity and Change in Russian Therapy, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford. He presented “From All Sides: Soviet Criminology, Interdisciplinary Knowledge, and

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Wu Publishes Article on “Historiography, Memory, and Myth in Maoist China”

Associate Professor of History Guo Wu’s research article “Recalling Bitterness: Historiography, Memory, and Myth in Maoist China” has been accepted for publication in Twentieth Century China, vol. 39, no. 3 (October 2014), pp. 247-271. His Chinese-language review essay “1956-1966: The Role and Responsibility of Deng Xiaoping” will appear in the October issue of Twenty-First Century

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Shapiro Publishes Paper on Frederik van Zyl Slabbert and the South African Transition

Professor of History Barry Shapiro’s article “Performing ‘Middlingness’: Frederik van Zyl Slabbert and the South African Transition” has been published in the Quarterly Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa. The article is an expanded version of a paper Professor Shapiro presented in November 2013 to the annual meeting of the African Studies Association

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Pinnow Presents Research on Early Soviet Criminology

Associate Professor of History Ken Pinnow was invited to present his draft article on early Soviet criminology and interdisciplinary knowledge at the October 11th Colloquium of New York University’s Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. Additionally, he was appointed a Center Associate at the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Russian and East European Studies.

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Binnington Publishes “Confederate Visions: Nationalism, Symbolism, and the Imagined South in the Civil War”

Associate Professor of History Ian Binnington published a book, Confederate Visions: Nationalism, Symbolism, and the Imagined South in the Civil War, with the University of Virginia Press in November. He argues that the creation of American national identity was fraught with struggle, political conflict, and bloody Civil War. Confederate Visions examines literature, newspapers and periodicals, visual imagery, and formal state documents

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Wu Research Respected Throughout History Discipline

In June 2013, Associate Professor of History Guo Wu was invited to be a visiting scholar at the National Center for Advanced Humanistic Studies at Fudan University in Shanghai, where he pursued and presented current research titled “Evidential Research, Statecraft, and Local Knowledge: The Compilation of Zunyi Prefectural Gazetteer in the 1820s.” Professor Wu’s article “The Social Construction and Deconstruction

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History Department Researches Around the World

The History Department is pleased to announce the following 2013 summer research grants: Professor Barry Shapiro will use support from the Jonathan E. and Nancy L. Helmreich Research and Book Grant Fund to help cover a research trip to Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa. He will be gathering materials on the political leader Frederik van Zyl Slabbert’s parliamentary and extra-parliamentary activities during

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History Professor Presents Part from Upcoming Book

Associate Professor of History Ian Binnington presented an invited lecture at the 25th Annual Meeting of the Southern Intellectual History Circle at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. His paper “Confederate Americanism; or, the Imagined Nationalism of the South in the American Civil War” comes from his book Confederate Visions: Nationalism, Symbolism, and the Imagined South in the

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