History Department Newsletter October 2022 | |
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Professor Simon Doubleday's video series After the Plague: How Europe Recovered from the Black Death was released on the Wondrium.com streaming service in the spring; it’s also available as audio-only on Audible, and through Amazon, for those pesky commutes. I’m on leave for the current academic year with a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 2022-23, for a project entitled “Between Land and Water: Galicia, an Atlantic Realm”.
I was recently invited to be external examiner for two PhD theses in the UK, one at University of Oxford and the other at University of Birmingham [UK], and one in Finland, at Turku University.
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Professor Mario Ruiz spent his sabbatical in Spring 2022 working on his book manuscript and presenting his research on sex in nineteenth-century Cairo at the meeting of the World History Association in Bilbao, Spain. This research is scheduled to appear as an article next year in The Cambridge World History of Sexualities. He is currently completing the Arabic translation of his article, “Criminal Statistics in the Long 1890s,” which was published in The Long 1890s in Egypt: Colonial Quiescence, Subterranean Resistance (https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-long-1890s-in-egypt.html). In Fall 2022, he is teaching his survey course on the modern Middle East, a new version of History 103: Debating History, and a new course on the origins and development of modern law.
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In December, Professor Sally Charnow will be presenting her work on a panel entitled, Rethinking Zionism from France and the Colonies, at the Association for Jewish Studies Conference in Boston. She is also excited to be working on her syllabus for Stories from the Street: An Introduction to Public History, which will be offered as a First Year Seminar this spring, 2023! | |
Professor Brenda Elsey is preparing to oversee the anti-discrimination observation project for the FIFA 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Her team of observers has worked the past two years to report and punish racist, sexist, and homophobic behavior of the national soccer teams in North and Latin America. Together with her colleagues at the Fare Network (the NGO that FIFA has entrusted the project to), Brenda will monitor the matches, fan zones, and online behavior of players, officials, and fans in the world's largest sport tournament. | |
Professor Yuki Terazawa is presenting a paper, titled, “A New Tale of an Immigrant Japanese Midwife in Seattle: The Life of Toku Shimomura (1888–1968)” at the annual conference for the Mid-Atlantic Region, Association for Asian Studies, at the University of Pennsylvania (October 1-2, 2022). Photo is Toku Shimomura and her grandson in 1940. | |
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Hi Hofstra Historians! This is Chloe, Ryder, and Andrew, the student aides for the department this year. We hope you’ve all had a great start to your semester! In this student section, we’ll be promoting any and everything of interest to history students, including your projects, events, and ideas! If you’re interested in submitting something for us to promote, reach out to us on Instagram, we’re @hofhistory. You can also find event and class information, professor profiles, history memes, and other fun stuff there, so be sure to follow us!
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Julie Tamerler (formerly Rafatpanah) 2015 received her JD from Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law in 2020 and was a judicial law clerk for President Judge Michael J. Koury of the Northampton County Court of Common Pleas in Easton, Pennsylvania. She has published works focusing on intellectual property issues and fashion with Reuters, The Fashion Law, the Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal, and the Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal. She was recently appointed as a Master in Divorce with the Northampton County Court of Common Pleas. | Eric Leonardis 2014 recently earned his PhD in neuroscience at the University of California, San Diego. He writes, “I am so happy to be done with grad school! It has been a huge relief, and the aftermath has allowed me to focus more on the things that matter to me (history and cinema, of course!).” Eric started a post-doc at the Salk Institute! He is working on a collaborative project studying museum viewing behavior at the LACMA. “We are analyzing the museum goers’ bodily movements using artificial neural networks and trying to understand the narrative structure of exploring the museum,” Eric explains, “I have finally found a niche at the intersection of neuroscience and the humanities, and I couldn’t be happier! I have found my history training to be extremely valuable over the years! My only regret is not going to grad school for history!” | | |
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Erim Gulum 2015 works at the Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA as the program assistant for the U.S.-Japan NEXT Alliance Initiative. His job is to handle programming and research related to improving and deepening the nature of the U.S.-Japan alliance. This month, his events include a bilateral cybersecurity roundtable, deterrence in the new domains, and US-Japan task force command relationships. Given the precarious security environment in the world, allies and partners like Japan grow more important with each day. In September 2021, he moved to Arlington, Virginia with his partner, Samantha, and their Corgi, Nami. He misses the California sunshine, but he wakes up each day knowing that he is going to a job that he loves.
Jeanette Eileen Jones 1993
Presently Carl A. Happold Professor of History and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
After graduating from Hofstra in 1993, Jeanette enrolled in the graduate program in History at the University at Buffalo, where she earned her MA in 1997 and her PhD in 2003. In Fall 2004, she joined the faculty at the University of Nebraska and has had a distinguished career there ever since. Jeanette is a US historian with expertise in American cultural and intellectual history, African American Studies, and Pre-colonial Africa. A widely published scholar, she is the author of In Search of Brightest Africa: Reimagining the Dark Continent in American Culture, 1884-1936 (University of Georgia Press, 2010) and is presently completing a book. America in Africa: U.S. Empire, Race, and the African Question, 1821-1919, (Yale University Press).
email: jjones@unl.edu
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SAVE THE DATE NOVEMBER 9TH
Women, Sports, and THE WORLD CUP!
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