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The GPMP brought together eleven universities to produce the physical and digital content for a traveling exhibit on the long history of the US naval station at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. At Minnesota, Professors Jeani O'Brien and Kevin Murphy team-taught a course with twenty-eight students who produced an exhibit panel that addressed the questions "Can we close Guantánamo?" and "What are visions for Guantánamo's future?" as well as three innovative digital projects http://gtmoproject.umn.edu/.
In this video from the Institute for Advanced Study, GPMP Director Liz Sevcenko discusses the project and the impressive contributions made by the U of M undergraduate participants in Fall 2012 semester of HIST 3001/AMST 3003.
This video features an Access Minnesota interview with Professors O'Brien and Murphy about the project:
Hist 3416 Imperialism and its Critics: Ethical Issues, Literary Representations
Instructor: LORCIN,PATRICIA M.E.
Description: During the course of the semester this course will seek to answer the following questions: What ethical discourses form part of imperialist ideology? What ethical discourses form part of anti-imperialist activity? How successful is each group in subverting the ethical messages of the other? What role does literature play in promoting or subverting the ideologies and ethical issues related to imperialism and anti-imperialism? By examining different genres (novels, poems, memoirs, letters and orations) the class will explore the discursive power of literature and the ways in which it influenced or was influenced by social and political discourses and practices. It will explore how these different forms of communication served different personal, political, social and cultural agendas without forgetting their collective relevance. The focus on ethics will help to highlight the ambiguities and distortions that occur between ethical discourses and political, social and cultural practices. The concentration on different genres of literature will help students to understand that the boundaries between fiction and reality are often as blurred in memoirs and letters as they are in novels and poetry. The course is not about the imperialism as practiced by one particular power; nor is the approach strictly chronological. Rather it uses different episodes in the imperialist trajectory of a number of imperial nations to underscore themes that are relevant to the understanding of the ethical issues and literary representations connected to imperialism.
Hist 3492 Hinduism
Co-Instructors: Skaria,Ajay & Sawhney,Simona
Description: Development of Hinduism focusing on sectarian trends, modern religious practices, myths/rituals, pilgrimage patterns/ religious festivals. Interrelationship between Indian social structure/Hinduism.
HIST 3001 Public History
Instructor: Murphy,Kevin P.
Description: This course is both an introduction to public history and an examination into the meanings and impacts of security and anti-terrorism policies in Minnesota since September 11, 2001. It provides an upper-level undergraduate introduction to the theory, methods, practice, and politics of public history and digital history. It allows students to explore the possibilities and challenges of the producing history in settings outside of academia. Students' work will be part of the Guantanamo Public Memory Project, a collaboration involving universities and colleges across the United States, and will be featured in an exhibition at the Minnesota History Center.
HIST 3837 Minnesota History
Instructor: Stone,Paul Clois
Description: The long middle third of the 20th century was one in which Minnesota played a disproportionately powerful role in the political, social and cultural life of the United States. It was a period that saw the last years of authors F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis (the first American to win a Nobel Prize for Literature), and the early years of actor Jessica Lange and "the Artist" now, again, known as Prince, and the beginning of the era of the extremely influential local band The Replacements. The middle period of the middle century, the late Fifties and Sixties, was dominated by Minnesota journalists like Harrison Salisbury of the New York Times and Eric Sevareid of CBS, NAACP leader Roy Wilkins, Senators Eugene McCarthy, Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mondale, Governor and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman, U.S. Appellate Court Justice Gerald Heaney, former Governor and frequent Presidential candidate Harold Stassen and, especially, singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. McCarthy became a prominent Presidential candidate in 1968 and Mondale Vice President in 1977 and a Presidential candidate in 1984. However, if there is one figure whose career, ambitions and influence more than any others defines this middle portion of the century it is Hubert H. Humphrey, 1911 to 1978. A native of South Dakota who graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1939, Humphrey was both a teacher and a politician, ultimately Vice President between 1965 and 1969. By the time of his death from cancer in 1978 he had become both the respected and controversial face of a particular kind of Minnesota liberalism distinct in many ways from the optimistic liberalism of the New Deal and the pessimistic radicalism of the New Left. While this course explores the time, place (largely Minnesota) and numerous persons who were prominent in the Age of Humphrey it also focuses on Minnesota and the northern center of the United States during the Progressive Era (1880s to about 1917) and what we now think of as the Upper Midwest during the period from 1848 to 1893. These dates mark the period between Wisconsin's statehood (which prompted a drive toward territorial status, then statehood for Minnesota) and the national financial panic of the late 19th century. Of course, the Civil War took place between 1861 and 1865, and the importance of the state in that singular conflict is key to the course. Requirements are a mid term and final exam, a short three-page ungraded paper due the fourth week of class and a 12-page thematic paper due the last week in April. Grading is A-F and S and N. Auditors are also welcome. The course is mainly lecture (including guest lectures), with a moderate reading list but will also feature discussions, music and segments from films and television broadcasts. There will be field trips to the Minnesota Historical Society, the Mill City Museum and the James J. Hill House. Other individual and small group field trips are possible.
Donna Gabaccia is one of the recipients of the 2013 University Outstanding Community Service Award
Donna Gabaccia has been awarded the Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society for Foreign Relations: American Immigration in Global Perspective.
Elaine Tyler May has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2013 by The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
Kevin Murphy is a 2013 recipient of the UofM's Award for Outstanding Contributions to Postbaccalaureate, Graduate, and Professional Education.
Kay Reyerson has been awarded the Robert L. Kindrick-CARA Award for Outstanding Service to Medieval Studies by the Medieval Academy.
Barbara Welke has been named one of the new Distinguished McKnight University Professors.
The University of Minnesota Outstanding Community Service Awards recognize faculty, staff, students, and University-affiliated community partners who, by devoting their time, talents, and expertise to serve the public good, have made significant, demonstrable, and direct contributions to society's well-being.
Donna Gabaccia has been awarded the Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society for Foreign Relations: American Immigration in Global Perspective (Princeton University Press, 2012)
Immigration and Ethnic History Society's Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award is awarded for the book judged best on any aspect of the immigration history of the United States. "Immigration history" is defined as the history of the movement of peoples from other countries to the United States, of the repatriation movements of immigrants, and of the consequences of these migrations, both for the United States and the countries of origin. To be eligible for the award, a book must be based on substantial primary research, and must present a major new scholarly interpretation.
Elaine Tyler May has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2013 by The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
The Guggenheim Foundation website offers the following description of her project:
"[Prof. May] plans to use the Guggenheim Fellowship to work on a new book project, "The American Quest for Security, 1960 to the present." In the last half-century, Americans across the political and economic spectrum have come to live by a pervasive belief that the world is a dangerous place and that individuals are responsible for their own protection. This preoccupation with personal security transcends culture wars and partisan politics, weaving its way tightly into the fabric of American society. The project explores how and why that culture of security emerged, how it changed over time, and its impact on how Americans pursue their daily lives, act politically, and relate to each other. Ultimately, this project is an effort to illuminate how individual citizens embraced or challenged security culture, and how American social, political, and cultural life changed as a result."
Kevin Murphy is a 2013 recipient of the UofM's Award for Outstanding Contributions to Postbaccalaureate, Graduate, and Professional Education.
Since 1998-1999, the University of Minnesota has recognized a select group of faculty members for their outstanding contributions to postbaccalaureate, graduate, and/or professional education. This honor is awarded annually to exceptional candidates nominated by their colleges in their quest to identify excellence in postbaccalaureate, graduate, and/or professional education. In addition to honoring individual faculty members, the award contributes to the improvement of postbaccalaureate, graduate, and professional education at the University by publicizing their work to serve as resources to the whole faculty.
Full list of award recipients
Kay Reyerson has been awarded the Robert L. Kindrick-CARA Award for Outstanding Service to Medieval Studies by the Medieval Academy.
The Robert L. Kindrick-CARA Award for Outstanding Service to Medieval Studies recognizes Medieval Academy members who have provided leadership in developing, organizing, promoting, and sponsoring medieval studies through the extensive administrative work that is so crucial to the health of medieval studies but that often goes unrecognized by the profession at large.
Barbara Welke has been named one of the new Distinguished McKnight University Professors.
Barbara Welke, History & Law Professor
Law and the Conditions of Freedom in Everyday Life
Professor Welke's pioneering interdisciplinary research traces the relationship between law and economy and legal selfhood and citizenship from the founding era of the United States through the development of a mass production, mass consumption economy in the twentieth century. Her work has provided a crucial foundation for understanding the relationship between power and abundance on the one hand and security and the character of American democracy on the other. Welke's research has been published by top university presses and journals and has had broad national and international influence.
Full list of 2013 Distinguished McKnight Professors
To view Gus Gleiter's video, follow this link and click on the last thumbnail to the right of the big central rectangle viewer.
]]> On October 25, 2012, more than three hundred donors, students, and faculty gathered at the McNamara Alumni Center to celebrate the power of scholarships and fellowships to change students' lives. The afternoon provided an opportunity for donors to meet the recipients of their awards, and for students to thank donors in person for their generosity.Given by the American Historical Association and named in memory of Joan Kelly, this prize is awarded annually for the book in women's history and/or feminist theory that best reflects the high intellectual and scholarly ideals exemplified by the life and work of Joan Kelly (1928-1982).
]]>Erika Lee received the award at the Celebrating University Women Awards Program on October 12, 2012.
]]> More Info at Women's Center]]>Prof. Jeffrey Pilcher's new book, Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food, published September 2012 by Oxford University Press, is featured in the Fall 2012 issue of the UofM Alumni Association's MINNESOTA Magazine, and was recently profiled in a Washington Post article published on August 3, 2012.
]]>For a full position description and application instructions, please visit the University employment posting requisition #179535. Please click on "APPLY FOR THIS POSTING" and follow the instructions. Application materials must be submitted online
In addition to the materials submitted electronically, applicants are asked to arrange for THREE letters of recommendation to be e-mailed to nelso808@umn.edu, or mailed directly to:
Chair, Early Modern History Search Committee
Department of History, University of Minnesota
271 19th Avenue South, Rm. 1110
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Early Modern History.pdf
]]>Crime After Crime tells the dramatic story of the legal battle to free Debbie Peagler, an incarcerated survivor of domestic violence. She was wrongly convicted of the murder of her abusive boyfriend, and given 26 years in prison.
Her story takes an unexpected turn two decades later when two rookie land-use attorneys step forward to take her case. Through their perseverance, they bring to light long-lost witnesses, new testimonies from the men who committed the murder, and proof of perjured evidence. Their investigation ultimately attracts global attention to victims of wrongful incarceration and abuse, and becomes a matter of life and death once more.
Tuesday, October 16
University of MN Law School
7PM in Mondale Hall, Room 25
The film director, Yoam Potash, and an attorney featured in the film will both come for a Q&A session afterwards.
Full list of National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellows for 2012
]]>The Department of History is proud to announce that 5 Bachelor level and 2 Graduate level Fulbright Scholarships have been awarded to History students. There were a total of 19 Fulbrights awarded for 2012-2013. Congratulations to all!
Bachelor level Fulbright Scholarships
Amy Conner, a 2012 alumna of the College of Liberal Arts and the University Honors Program, will be a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Croatia working with English students at the university level. Conner graduated magna cum laude and with high distinction this spring with majors in history, political science and Spanish studies.
Andrew Larkin, who earned his bachelor of arts in history with a minor in economics before graduating with distinction in December 2011 from the College of Liberal Arts, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to the United Kingdom to pursue a master's degree in history.
Michael McGarrah has been awarded a Fubright English Teaching Assistantship to Spain. McGarrah graduated from the College of Liberal Arts and the University Honors Program this spring summa cum laude and with distinction, earning a major in child psychology and minors in Spanish studies and history.
Tanya Wacholz is one of two U of M Twin Cities students awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Germany during the coming year. Wacholz is a spring 2011 graduate of the College of Liberal Arts with majors in history and German studies.
Emilia Witthuhn is the recipient of a Fulbright-affiliated Austrian Government Teaching Assistantship. Witthun is a 2008 graduate of College of Liberal Arts with a major in German studies and a minor in history.
Graduate level Fulbright Scholarships
Jesse Wolf Izzo, a Ph.D. student in history, will spend the academic year at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel.
Melissa Kelley, a Ph.D. student in history, will travel to select German universities.
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