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A major in history is intellectually rewarding.

The Department of History is home to a diverse community of scholars whose interests span a wide range of historical fields, regions, and time periods. Faculty and students are engaged in research that contributes to historical understanding and expands our knowledge of the past.

Departmental research reflects the diverse interests and expertise of our faculty members, while students contribute original work through independent research projects and theses.

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Faculty Research and Recognition

Elena Albarrán

  • "The Three Faces of the Family, 1870-present," Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Latin American History [online], ed. William H. Beezley, September 2015, http://latinamericanhistory.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199366439.001.0001/acrefore-9780199366439-e-22
  • "Los niños colaboradores de la revista Pulgarcito y la construcción de la infancia, México 1925-1932" ("Child Contributors to Pulgarcito Magazine and the Construction of Childhood, Mexico 1925-1932"), Iberoamericana 15:60, 2015.
  • "El niño proletario: Jesús Sansón Flores and the New Revolutionary Redeemer, 1935-1938" in Mexico in Verse: A History of Music, Rhyme, and Power, eds. Stephen Neufeld and Michael Matthews, University of Arizona Press, 2015.
  •  Seen and Heard in Mexico: Children and Revolutionary Cultural Nationalism, University of Nebraska Press, 2014.  Winner of the 2016 Maria Elena Martinez book award of the Conference on Latin American History.
  • Contributor and co-editor, with Susana Sosenski, Nuevas miradas a la historia de la infancia en América Latina: entre prácticas y representaciones (New Approaches to the History of Childhood in Latin America: Between Practice and Representations), Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2012.
  • "Mexico on the Move: A Return from Timelessness," Smithsonian Institution, Archives of America Art Blog, December 2012.
  • "En busca de la voz de los herederos de la Revolución. Un análisis de los documentos producidos por los niños, 1921-1940," Relaciones, estudios de historia y sociedad.  Special issue:  Infancia: Un archipiélago por explorar, Vol. XXXIII, n. 132 (Fall 2012).
  • "A Century of Childhood: Growing up in Twentieth-Century Mexico," in William H. Beezley, ed., A Companion to Mexican History and Culture, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

Renée Baernstein

  • "The Nuns of Early Modern Italy: New Directions in Anglophone Scholarship" in La storia di genere in Italia in etá moderna: Un confronto tra storiche nordamericane e italiane, Elena Brambilla and Anne Jacobson Schutte, ed., Viella, 2014.
  • Miami University College of Arts and Science 2014 Distinguished Educator.
  • Ohio Academy of History Distinguished Teaching Award for 2013.
  • "'In My Own Hand:' Costanza Colonna and the Art of the Letter in Sixteenth-century Italy," Renaissance Quarterly 6 n. 1, 2013.
  • "Regional Intermarriage Among the Italian Nobility in the Sixteenth Century" in Marriage in Premodern Europe: Italy and Beyond, Jacqueline Murray, ed., Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2012.

Wietse de Boer

  • Co-editor, with Giuseppe Marcocci, Aliocha Maldavsky and Ilaria Pavan, Space and Conversion in Global Perspective, Intersections 35, Brill, 2014.
  • "The Counter-Reformation of the Senses," Ashgate Research Companion to the Counter-Reformation, ed. Mary Laven, Alexandra Bamji, and Geert Janssen, Ashgate, 2013.
  • Contributor and co-editor, with Christine Göttler, Religion and the Senses in Early Modern Europe, Brill, 2013.
  • "Trent, Saints, and Images: A Prehistory" in Trent and Beyond: The Council, Other Powers, Other Cultures, ed. Michela Catto and Adriano Prosperi (Turnhout: Brepols, 2017), 121-41.
  • "Reformations and Counter-Reformations: The Contested Terms of Reformation History" in Martin Luther: A Christian between Reforms and Modernity (1517-2017), ed. Alberto Melloni. 3 vols. (Berlin-New York: De Gruyter, 2017), vol. 1, 43-58.  Also appeared in German (Berlin-New York: De Gruyter, 2017) and Italian (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2017).
  • "Figments of the Imagination: Medical and Moral Discourses on Love in the Counter-Reformation" in Ut pictura amor: The Reflexive Imagery of Love in Artistic Theory and Practice, 1500-1700, ed. Walter S. Melion, Joanna Woodall, and Michael Zell (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2017), 28-56.
  • "Die Disziplinierung der Sinne. Innenraum und Religion in Italien zur Zeit der Gegenreformation" Randgänge der Mediävistik, 6 (2016), 9-49
  • "The Early Jesuits and the Catholic Debate about Sacred Images" in De Boer, Enenkel, and Melion, Jesuit Image Theory, 53-73.

Kimberly A. Hamlin

  • From Eve to Evolution: Darwin, Science, and Women's Rights in Gilded Age America, University of Chicago Press, 2014.
  • "'The Case of a Bearded Woman': Hypertrichosis and the Construction of Gender in the Age of Darwin," American Quarterly 63, December 2011. Winner of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association's Emerging Scholar Award for 2012. Winner of the Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize, History of Science Society, November 2014.
  • Public Scholar Award, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2017-18, for work on biography of suffragist Helen Hamilton Gardener.
  • 2017 Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics, from the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics, Iowa State University, for her book project, "Woman Citizen: Helen Hamilton Gardener and Women's Suffrage in America."

Erik Jensen

  • Body by Weimar: Athletes, Gender and German Modernity, Oxford University Press, 2010.

Martin P. Johnson

Amanda Kay McVety

  • "Fear, Want, and the Internationalism of the Early Cold War," The Routledge Handbook of the Cold War, ed. Artemy M. Kalinovsky and Craig Daigle, Routledge, 2014.
  • Truman-Kauffman Research Fellow, Truman Presidential Library, 2013-14.
  • Enlightened Aid: U.S. Development as Foreign Policy in Ethiopia, Oxford University Press, 2012.

Stephen M. Norris

  • Blockbuster History in the New Russia: Movies, Memory, and Patriotism, Indiana University Press, 2012.
  • Contributor and editor, Russia's People of Empire: Life Stories from Eurasia, 1500 to the Present, with Willard Sunderland, Indiana University Press, 2012.
  • "The Sharp Weapon of Soviet Laughter: Boris Efimov and Visual Humor," Russian Literature 74/1-2, 2013.
  • "Pliuvium's Unholy Trinity: Russian Nationhood, Anti-Semitism, and the Public Sphere after 1905," Experiment 19, 2013.
  • "Patriot Games: The Ninth Company and Russian Convergent Cultures after Communism," Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian, and Central European New Media 8, 2012.
  • "Landscapes of Loss: The Great Patriotic War in Central Asian Cinema" in Michael Rouland and Gulnara Abikeyeva, eds., Central Asian Cinema: Rewriting Cultural Histories, I.B. Tauris, 2013.
  • "A Kiss for the KGB: Putin as Cinematic Hero" in Birgit Beumers, ed., Russia's New fin de siècle: Contemporary Culture Between Past and Present, Intellect Books, 2013.
  • "Blessed Films: The Russian Orthodox Church and Patriotic Culture in the 2000s" in Christian Schmitt and Liliya Berezhnaya, eds., Iconic Turns: Religion and Nation in East European Films Since 1989, Brill, 2013.

Andrew Offenburger

  • "Cultural Imperialism and the Romanticized Frontier: From South Africa and Great Britain to New Mexico's Mesilla Valley," Amerikastudien / American Studies 59, no. 4, 2014.

Daniel Prior

  • The Sabdan Baatir Codex: Epic and the Writing of Northern Kirghiz History, Edition, Translation and Interpretations, with a Facsimile of the Unique Manuscript, Brill's Inner Asian Library 28, Brill 2012.

Lindsay Schakenbach Regele

  • "Early National Bro Culture in Daniel Parker's War Department," Common-place: the journal of early American life 17, no. 2, Winter 2017.
  • "The World's Best Carpets: Erastus Bigelow and the Financing of Antebellum Innovation," Technology & Culture 59, no. 1, January 2018.
  • Robert L. Middlekauff Fellowship, Huntington Library, 2017-18.

Helen Sheumaker

  • "True Collector: The Collecting Narratives of Alice Van Leer Carrick," Journal of the History of Collections, March 2012.
  • "'Downhill from There': Drunk History in the Classroom," Perspectives on History, 53:7, October 2015.
  • Artifacts from Modern America, Greenwood, 2017.

Susan V. Spellman

Student Research

Selected Honors Students' Theses:

  • Jessica Baloun, "Before the Numbers Disappeared: Media and Perception of the 1937 Soviet Census," 2021 (Stephen Norris, advisor)
  • Taylor Bryan, "That's a Man's Job!: Soviet and American Airwomen at War," 2021 (Stephen Norris, advisor)
  • Lyndsey Case, "Biopolitics of AIDS: Framing Disease; Challenging Homosexual Marielitos' Relationship to the State through United States Immigration Law, 1980-1990," 2021 (Jose Amador, advisor)
  • Gillian Davis, "The Gendered Experience of French Women in Allied Media," 2021 (Erik Jensen, advisor)
  • Alex Gregory, "Sex, Comstock, and Subversion: Obscenity as a Concept and Methods of Subversion, 1873-1965," 2021 (Kimberly Hamlin, advisor)
  • Peyton Rayburn, "Untitled," 2021 (Cameron Shriver, advisor)
  • Kari Savoie, "The Trial and the Temple: How Legal and Buddhist Perspectives Have Shaped the Commemoration of the Cambodian Genocide," 2021 (Erik Jensen, advisor)
  • Matthew Stork, "The Trial and the Temple: How Legal and Buddhist Perspectives Have Shaped the Commemoration of the Cambodian Genocide," 2021 (Amanda McVety, advisor)
  • Jaycee Streeter, "'A Witch, a Sorceresse, an Enemy to Parliament': Witchcraft Accusations and Factionalism in Early Modern England," 2021 (Renée Baernstein, advisor)
  • Junyu Sun, "People, Taxes and the Land: The Fiscal Administration of Arab-Islamic Egypt (7th-10th Century)," 2021 (Matthew Gordon, advisor)
  • Hannah Zmuda, "The White Slave Trade and the Yellow Peril: Anti-Chinese Rhetoric and Women's Moral Authority," 2021 (Kimberly Hamlin, advisor)
  • Justin Macke, "Silence and Complicity in an African Genocide: Examining the British Response to the Herero Genocide in German Southwest Africa," 2020 (Sheldon Anderson, advisor)
  • Bridget Dickens, "Expelling Jesus: Catholic Reactions to the Ban on School Prayer," 2020 (Steve Conn, advisor)
  • Spencer Green, "Power Foods: The Struggle over Ethnic Food Identity in America," 2020 (Andrew Offenburger, advisor)
  • Noah Klinsky, "International Law Before International Law: The Development of a Legal Mindset," 2020 (Wietse de Boer, advisor)
  • Karli Schivitz, "Skin in the Game: The Social and Economic Pressures of Prostitution in the Early American Republic," 2020 (Lindsay Schakenbach Regele and Kimberly Hamlin, advisors)
  • Meghan Murphy, "Unheralded Champions: The Influence of the Suffrage Movement on First Ladies of the United States, 1889-1933," 2020 (Kimberly Hamlin, advisor)
  • Benjamin Kallen, "From Opium to Opioid: How Medicine's Paramount Drug Spiraled Out of Control," 2020 (Nishani Frazier, advisor)
  • Samuel Purkiss, "It's a Revolution, Dammit! The Revolutionary Qualities of Broadway's Hair and 1776," 2020 (Nishani Frazier, advisor)
  • Anonymous, "A Revolution of Romance: How Romantic Love Influenced Patriotic Rhetoric and Early Identity in the American Revolution," 2020 (Lindsay Schakenbach Regele and Kimberly Hamlin, advisors)
  • Jonathan Maxwell, "Humanizing a Massacre: Diversity of the Victims of Kamianets-Podolsky, 1941," 2020 (Francesca Silano, advisor)
  • Avery Comar, "Polite Propaganda: Narratives of Progress and Stagnation in Brezhnev-Era Soft Power," 2020 (Stephen Norris, advisor)

Selected Graduate Students' Theses: 

  • William Elgin, "The Influence of Jan Huyghen van Linschoten's Itinerario", 2021 (Wietse de Boer, advisor)
  • Nathaniel Hieber, "Changes on the Horizon: Evolution of Transportation Methods and Infrastructure in the American Southwest, 1870-1920." 2021 (Andrew Offenbruger, advisor)
  • Bre Madsen, "Universal Education and the Simultaneous Expansion of the Carceral State: The Institutionalization of Deaf African Americans as a Precursor to the School-to-Prision Pipeline", 2021 (Kimberly Hamlin, advisor)
  • Louis Grun, "The Legacy of Quakerspeisung”, 2020 (Erik Jensen, advisor)
  • Patrick Mwanjawala, "Malawi's Invented Tradition: Kamuzu Banda and the Marginalization of Matricidal Power, 1964-1994", 2020 (Nishani Frazier, advisor)
  • Kristin Osborne, “The Last Abbey: Crossraguel Abbey and the Scottish Reformation”, 2020 (Renee Baernstein, advisor)
  • Zinaida Osipova, “Engineering a Soviet Life: The Continuity of Gustave Trinker’s Written and Material Practices Across 1917”, 2020 (Stephen Norris, advisor)
  • Min A. Park, “The United States’ Food Aid toward South Korea and the Changes of Korean Dietary Culture in the 1960s-1970s”, 2020 (Amanda McVety, advisor)
  • Danialle Stebbins, “Championing Labor: Labor Diplomacy, The AFL-CIO, and Polish Solidarity”, 2020 (Dr. Sheldon Anderson)
  • Ben Susman, “Washington Gladden’s Social Gospel and Public Health in Columbus, 1882-1908, 2020 (Steve Conn, advisor)
  • Zachary Logsdon, “Subjects into Citizens: Puerto Rican Power and the Territorial Government, 1898-1923”, 2020 (Amanda McVety, advisor)

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