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Making History - 2013 No. 56

Emeritus Faculty

A Historian's Guide to CopyrightMichael Les Benedict was visiting scholar at the University of Texas School of Law, February 2013-April 2013. His pamplet A Historian's Guide to Copyright was published by the American Historical Association (AHA). Professor Benedict published an assessment of the copyright case "Landmark Decision on Electronic Reserves for Courses" in AHA's Perspectives on History 50 (Septemeber 2012). He also served on a session on copyright, fair use, and new economic models of scholarly publishing sponsored by H-Net at the AHS Annuel Meeting. Professor Benedict also lectured on Abraham Lincoln and the Constitution and led teacher workshopd on post-Civil War constitutional issues and American consitutional issues in the 19th century.

Mansel Blackford was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award in Business History for 2013 by the Business History Conference.

Allan R. Millett's They Came from the North, 1950-1951, volume II in the trilogy The War for Korea, 1945-1954 (University Press of Kansas) was awarded the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum book award. Professor Millett, in collaboration with Ohio State doctorates in history, Peter Maslowski and William B. Feis, published the third edition of For the Common Defense: The Military History of the United States from 1607-2012. 

Our Graduates

Steven Bowman (PhD 1974) revised and expanded the Greek edition of Jewish Resistance in Wartime Greece. Professor Bowman contributed to "That Jesus Cover" in Shofar 30:3 (Spring 2012) and published "Survival in Decline: Romaniote Jewry post 1204" in Robert Bonfil, Oded Irshai, Guy C. Stroumsa, and Rina Talgram, eds., Jews of Byzantium: Dialectics of Minority and Majority Cultures (Brill, 2012), 101-132.

Kate Epstein (PhD 2011) was lauded in "Camden's Young Community Leaders Fight Tenaciously for the City's Future" for her testimony to the governing boards of Rutgers University. Professor Epstein wrote "Military-industrial complex? Blame the torpedos: How a 19th-century technology helped create the national security state" for The Boston Globe.
 

Judith L. French (MA 1988) became te 155th justice of the Ohio Supreme Court on January 1, 2013.

Linda Frey (PhD 1971) published, with Marsha Frey, "War and Society: Mars and Europe in the Early Eighteenth Century" in Peace Was Made Here: The Treaties of Utrecht, Rastatt and Baden, 1713-1714, eds., Renger de Bruin and Maarten Brinkman; and " 'The Reign of the Charlatans in Over': The French Revolutionary Attack on Diplomatic Practice," reprinted in International Diplomacy, eds., Iver B. Neumann and Halvard Leira. presented "What Can the French Revolution Teach Us About Crises in Government Today?" at the Wisconsin Center for the Study of Liberal Decomcracy and participated in a Liberty Fund meeting, "Political Philosophy, Political Economy and Liberty in the Thought of Alexis de Tocqueville."

Marsha Frey (PhD 1971) presented, with Linda Frey, "The Olive and the Horse: The Eighteenth-Century Culture of Diplomacy" at the Performance of Peace, Utrecht, 1713-2013 Conference; " 'The Pack of Wretches': French Diplomatic Garb during the French Revolution" at the Western Society for French History; and "That 'Ghostly Perpetuum Mobile': Diplomatic Ceremonial in the Court Society". They were inducted into the Masséna Society.

Bryan Gibby (PhD 2004) is commanding the U.S. Army's 707th Military Intelligence Battalion at Fort Gordon, Georgia. He published "The Best Little Army" in the Journal of Military History 77 #1 (January 2013) and "Battle for White Horse Mountain (October 1952)" in Army History No. 89 (Fall 2013).

Erin Greenwald (PhD 2011) curated Pipe Dreams: Louisiana under the French Company of the Indies, 1717-1731 at the Historic New Orleans Collection.

Marilyn Hegarty's (PhD 1998) Victory Girls, Khaki-Wackies, and Patriotutes: The Regulation of Female Sexuality during World War II has been published as an e-book.

Samuel Walker's (PhD 1973) Presidents and Civil Liberties from Wilson to Obama was awarded the 2012 Langum Prize for the Best Book in American Legal History.

Christopher Waldrep (PhD 1990) suffered a debilitating stroke in 2011. Scholarship prepared prior to 2011 continues to appear in print. "The Popular Sources of Political Authority in 1856 San Francisco: Lynching, Vigilance, and the Difference between Politics and Constitutionalism" was published in Lynching Beyond Dixie: American Mob Violence Outside the South; "Democracy and Lynching in America" appears in Signposts: New Directions in Southern Legal History, eds., Sally E. Hadden and Patricia Hagler Minter; the Law and History Review 30:4 (November 2012) published "The Use and Abuse of the Law: Public Opinion and United Methodist Church Trials of Ministers Performing Same-Sex Ceremonies"; and "Garrett Davis and the Problem of Democracy and Emancipation" was published in the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 110: 3&4 (Summer/Autumn 2012).

Jason W. WarrenJason W. Warren (PhD 2011) deployed to Afghanistan as a Strategist for the 3rd Infantry Division from August-March 2012/2013. He is pictured here on the right side of the flag.