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<strong>McMaster</strong> <strong>History</strong> <strong>Department</strong> <strong>Newsletter</strong><br />
<strong>Vol</strong>. 7, <strong>September</strong> <strong>2001</strong><br />
Table of Contents<br />
• Chair's Message<br />
• <strong>History</strong> Graduate Studies Reunion<br />
• New Faculty Appointments<br />
• Colloquium Series<br />
• Bertrand Russell Editorial Project News<br />
• Alumni News<br />
• Faculty News<br />
• Graduate Student News<br />
• Messecar Professors<br />
Chair's Message<br />
Greetings:<br />
It is my very great pleasure to welcome you to the <strong>History</strong> <strong>Department</strong>'s new electronic<br />
NEWSLETTER. Since the publication of the last newsletter in the Fall of 1999, the composition of<br />
the department and the undergraduate curriculum have changed substantially. Information about our<br />
new colleagues as well as the entire history department curriculum, including several course<br />
outlines, is now available through the main menu on this website. Many people have contributed to<br />
this NEWSLETTER. I am especially grateful to my Administrative Assistant, Wendy Benedetti, and<br />
to the history department webmaster, Stephen Streeter, for editorial and technical assistance.<br />
Highlights in this issue include the new Richard A. Rempel Graduate Scholarship in <strong>History</strong>, and the<br />
Fall 2000 <strong>History</strong> Graduate Studies Reunion. You are invited to peruse the colorful retrospectives of<br />
the <strong>McMaster</strong> history graduate program by Professor John Weaver and former graduate student<br />
Professor Nick Terpstra through special links provided below. In the future we hope to host a<br />
reunion for undergraduate alumni, which will require considerable planning. Please send us your<br />
news, comments, and opinions about our new means of communication with you.<br />
Welcome,<br />
Virginia H. Aksan<br />
Associate Professor & Chair<br />
vaksan@mcmaster.ca
<strong>History</strong> Graduate Studies Reunion<br />
In <strong>September</strong> 2000, the <strong>Department</strong> sponsored the Graduate Alumni Reunion. Graduates from the<br />
last three decades toured the Mills Library, pondered displays at the Museum of Art, and reminisced<br />
over the <strong>McMaster</strong> graduate student experience. In a speech entitled, "<strong>History</strong> in the Public Eye,"<br />
Nicholas Terpstra (class of 1983), now a professor in the history department at the University of<br />
Toronto, explained what made his graduate student years at <strong>McMaster</strong> so special. Professor John<br />
Weaver gave the faculty perspective in "The Way We Were," a personal and sweeping overview of<br />
the department's evolution. Weaver also announced the Richard Rempel Graduate Award, in<br />
recognition of Dr. Rempel's outstanding dedication and service to the graduate student program. For<br />
more about the reunion, see the <strong>McMaster</strong> Humanities Reunion News and reunion photos.<br />
New Faculty Appointments<br />
In 2000 the department gained two tenure-track appointments in U.S. history. Dr. Karen Balcom<br />
(Ph.D., Rutgers University, <strong>2001</strong>), who specializes in U.S. and Canadian social and cultural history,<br />
will also teach courses for Women's Studies. Dr. Stephen Streeter (Ph.D., University of Connecticut,<br />
1994), a specialist in modern U.S. foreign relations and Latin American history, joins us from<br />
Wilfrid Laurier University, where he taught for four years. Streeter will also teach courses in the<br />
Globalization theme school and Hispanic studies.<br />
In <strong>2001</strong> the department hired Dr. Stephen Heathorn, a modern British historian. Before joining our<br />
faculty, Dr. Heathorn was a newly tenured professor in history at Indiana University-Purdue<br />
University at Indianapolis. In addition to greatly strengthening <strong>McMaster</strong>'s program in British<br />
history, Dr. Heathorn will be actively involved with the Bertrand Russell Research Centre.<br />
Colloquium Series Lectures<br />
Our Visiting Speakers Series of 2000-01 included lectures from Professors John Merriman, Susan<br />
Neylan, Jack Granatstein, Joy Parr, former Mac student Matthew Trundle, and current Ph.D.<br />
candidate Bonnie Sallans. Among our other distinguished guests was visiting Hooker Professor Dr.<br />
Erich Gruen, who participated in our 2000 Graduate Colloquium and also presented a paper to the<br />
faculty entitled "The Near East and the Classical World: Creative Cultural Confusion." For a list of<br />
recent and upcoming lectures click here.<br />
Bertrand Russell Editorial Project News<br />
Modern British <strong>History</strong> doctoral candidates will be interested in the new Metcalfe Research<br />
Assistantship, which sponsors doctoral research on Bertrand Russell's Education Writings and the
Experimental School at Beacon Hill. The fellowship will be awarded to a student in <strong>McMaster</strong>'s<br />
<strong>Department</strong> of <strong>History</strong>.<br />
In the late 1920s and early 1930s Bertrand Russell wrote extensively on education and also, with his<br />
wife Dora Russell, ran a small experimental progressive school at Beacon Hill in England. While<br />
there have been philosophical studies of Russell's educational thought, little work has been done on<br />
the Beacon Hill School and its place in the history of progressive education. The Bertrand Russell<br />
Research Centre is currently editing Russell's writings from this period for inclusion in The<br />
Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell. The educational writings themselves are being edited by<br />
Professor William Bruneau of The University of British Columbia and Russell's other writings for<br />
the period are being edited by a team of researchers at <strong>McMaster</strong> University comprised of Dr.<br />
Stephen Heathorn (<strong>History</strong>), Professor Nicholas Griffin (Director of BRRC, and Canada Research<br />
Chair, <strong>Department</strong> of Philosophy) and Dr. Andrew Bone (Bertrand Russell Research Centre). The<br />
Bertrand Russell Archives at <strong>McMaster</strong> University has a virtually complete collection of Russell's<br />
published and unpublished work and offers a unique opportunity for original research.<br />
The position is effective <strong>September</strong> 2002. All interested applicants should contact the <strong>History</strong><br />
<strong>Department</strong>'s Administrative Assistant and Graduate Secretary, Wendy Benedetti, at<br />
histdept@mcmaster.ca<br />
Alumni News<br />
• John Bacher, Class of 1985 (Ph.D.) is the author of a recent book, "Petrotyrrany" detailing<br />
the connections between oil, war and dictatorship and a strategy for encouraging peace,<br />
environmental protection and human rights. Science and Peace and Dundurn Press.<br />
• Larissa Douglass, Class of 1999 (MA), is organizing a graduate conference at Oxford, 24-26<br />
May 2002 in Central European Studies entitled, "The Contours of Legitimacy in Central<br />
Europe: New Approaches in Graduate Studies." This is an international graduate conference<br />
in the Humanities and Social Sciences from the Early Modern period to the present.<br />
• Christine Cerdeira, Class of 1996 (Hons. B.A.) recently accepted a position with the West<br />
Mercia Constabulary as Intelligence Analyst for Hereford, England.<br />
• New! Anne Clendinning, Class of 1999 (PhD) has accepted a position teaching British and<br />
European <strong>History</strong> with the <strong>Department</strong> of <strong>History</strong>, Nipissing University. Congratulations<br />
Anne!<br />
• Karin Foster, Class of 2000 (M.A.) has taken employment as Archivist for Grey County.<br />
Congratulations, Karin!<br />
• Sean Gouglas, Class of <strong>2001</strong> (Ph.D.) has taken a position at the University of Alberta. Sean<br />
is Director of computing services for his faculty and also teaches history. As Sean was the<br />
creator of our original website, we are confident that he will do very well.<br />
• New! Samuel Kalman Class of <strong>2001</strong> (PhD) has accepted a tenure-track position with Salem<br />
College, in Winston-Salem, South Carolina. Congratulations, Sam!<br />
• Milena Kras, Class of 1997 (M.A.) is in her third year (part-time) of the Mastech-<strong>McMaster</strong><br />
MBA in Information Technology, and works at Canada Life in Toronto.
• Len Kuffert, Class of 2000 (Ph.D.) is living in Winnipeg and teaching at the University of<br />
Manitoba. He and Roisin have just become the proud parents of fraternal twins.<br />
• Julie Longo, Class of 1991(M.A.) and doctoral candidate at Wayne State University has<br />
become the Chair of the Applied Arts and General Studies <strong>Department</strong> at St. Clair College in<br />
Windsor, heading up both the Thames and South Campuses.<br />
• Rachelle Longtin, Class of 1997 (M.A.) and a Ph.D. candidate at York University recently<br />
published an essay in The Journal of the Classical and Medieval Numismatic Society. Her<br />
article, "Constantine and Christianity: The Numismatic Evidence," won the graduate prize of<br />
the Ferguson Foundation in 1997.<br />
• New! Ken MacMillan, Class of 2002 (PhD) has accepted a tenure-track position at the<br />
University of Calgary, teaching British history. Congratulations, Ken!<br />
• Peter Penner, Professor Emeritus of <strong>History</strong>, writes that he is grateful for having chosen<br />
history as a career. He claims to have had a most interesting life since retiring. Penner studied<br />
in our M.A. programme in 1962 and received his Ph.D. here in 1970. He remembers his<br />
years at <strong>McMaster</strong> fondly, especially certain professors who encouraged him to become an<br />
historian. Dr. Penner taught at Mount Allison University from 1965-1992, and has most<br />
recently traveled to his birthplace in Siberia as a volunteer with Rotary International's<br />
Program.<br />
• New! Brian Raychaba (PhD to 1999) has a new position as Executive Director of Canada's<br />
Save the Children Foundation. Brian is based in Vancouver, B.C. Every continued success in<br />
your new position, Brian!<br />
• New! Geoff Spurr, Class of <strong>2001</strong> (Ph.D.) has taken a position in the <strong>Department</strong> of <strong>History</strong><br />
at High Point University, North Carolina. Congratulations Geoff!.<br />
• New! Bruce Strang, Class of 2000 (Ph.D.) has taken a tenure-track position at Lakehead<br />
University with the <strong>History</strong> <strong>Department</strong>. Congratulations Bruce!<br />
• Fiona Tomaszewski, Class of 1992 (Ph.D.) is teaching at John Abbot College in Quebec.<br />
Praeger Publishing Co. has recently published her book, A Great Russia: Russia and the<br />
Triple Entente 1905-1914.<br />
• Derek Tucker, Class of 2002 (M.A.) defended his thesis, Successful Pioneers: Irish Catholic<br />
Settlers in the Township of Hibbert, Ontario, 1845-1887 in November. Derek has secured<br />
employment with the Provincial Government, Estates department.<br />
Donations to the <strong>Department</strong> of <strong>History</strong><br />
Over the years the <strong>History</strong> <strong>Department</strong> at <strong>McMaster</strong> University has received many generous<br />
donations from alumni and former members of the <strong>Department</strong> who wish to encourage the study of<br />
history by providing extra financial support for our best students.<br />
Graduate Scholarships in <strong>History</strong><br />
Buchanan's Bounty Trust Book Prize The Ezio Cappadocia Graduate Prize in European <strong>History</strong> The<br />
James Robertson Carruthers Memorial Award New! The Richard Fuller Memorial Awards (<strong>History</strong>)<br />
The Richard Fuller Memorial Scholarships for <strong>History</strong> (Research) The H.W. McCready Graduate
Prize in <strong>History</strong> Richard A. Rempel Graduate Scholarship in <strong>History</strong> New! The Edna Elizabeth Ross<br />
Reeves Scholarship Friends of E.M. Wightman Essay Prize<br />
The Edith M. Wightman Travel Scholarship<br />
Faculty News<br />
Conferences<br />
• In April <strong>2001</strong> Drs. Michael Gauvreau and Nancy Christie organized a two-day conference,<br />
"On The Margins of Family, " at Dundurn Castle in Hamilton. Bettina Bradbury of York<br />
University served as the keynote speaker. Dr. Christie is the winner of the <strong>2001</strong> Sir John A.<br />
Macdonald Prize for "Engendering the State: Family, Work, and Welfare in Canada",<br />
Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2000.<br />
• Dr. David Wright organized the sixth Hannah conference entitled "Hannah International<br />
Conference on the <strong>History</strong> of Mental Illness." The conference was sponsored by <strong>McMaster</strong><br />
University and the University of Toronto, with keynote addresses by Professors Roy Porter<br />
and German Berrios.<br />
• Dr. David Barrett, as president of the Historical Society for Twentieth Century China<br />
(HSTCC), was co-organizer of the conference, "Reinterpreting Twentieth Century China:<br />
New Perspectives," held in Hong Kong, June <strong>2001</strong>, at Hong Kong Baptist University.<br />
Inter-departmental Partnerships<br />
The English and <strong>History</strong> <strong>Department</strong>s collaborated on an Open House for local High School <strong>History</strong><br />
and English students 20 March 2002. The day was a great success, with over 100 students from area<br />
high schools attending.<br />
Post-Doctoral Fellows<br />
Matthew Hendley, who served as a Postdoctoral Fellow from 1999 to <strong>2001</strong>, has recently published<br />
two articles: "Anti-Alienism and the Primrose League: The Externalization of the Postwar Crisis in<br />
Great Britain, 1918-32", in Albion; and "Tradition and Innovation in the Historiography of British<br />
Conservatism", in Twentieth-Century British <strong>History</strong>. Dr. Hendley has recently been appointed to the<br />
the history department at the State University of New York, Oneonta.<br />
Collaborative Projects, Publications and News<br />
• Ken Cruikshank and Nancy Bouchier are consulting with Red Canoe Productions on a<br />
video about the history of Hamilton's waterfront.<br />
• Dr. Kathleen Garay, associate member of the department, served as a key members of the<br />
team that created the Mystic Women of the Middle Ages website. Dr. Garay co-authored
with Madeleine Jeay (<strong>Department</strong> of French and also a member of the team) "The Life of<br />
Saint Douceline, a Beguine of Provence", translated from the Occitan with Introduction,<br />
Notes and Interpretive Essay, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, <strong>2001</strong>.<br />
• Drs. John Weaver and Lori Chambers (Lakehead University) co-authored "Abuse and<br />
Desertion in Hamilton, 1859-1892," which appeared in Ontario <strong>History</strong>, Autumn <strong>2001</strong>. John<br />
Weaver also independently published "Exploitation by Design: The Dismal Science, Land<br />
Reform, and the Cape Boers, 1805-22" in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth<br />
<strong>History</strong>.<br />
• Drs. Ken Cruikshank, Karen Balcolm, and Stephen Streeter have recently launched the<br />
American <strong>History</strong> Website, a project funded by a grant from the Center for Leadership and<br />
Learning. The website can be accessed through the "links" portion of the <strong>McMaster</strong> <strong>History</strong><br />
<strong>Department</strong> menu or directly here.<br />
• Drs. C.M. Johnston and J. Greenlee (<strong>History</strong>, Memorial University) recently co-authored<br />
"Ideal Citizens: Missionaries and the British Empire", published by McGill-Queen's<br />
University Press.<br />
• Dr. Ruth Frager recently published an article, "Labour <strong>History</strong> and the Interlocking<br />
Hierarchies of Class, Ethnicity, and Gender: A Canadian Perspective" in the International<br />
Review of Social <strong>History</strong> 44 (1999).<br />
• Dr. Richard Harris, Professor of Geography and now an Associate of the <strong>Department</strong>, is<br />
based at University College London this year. He is studying the emergence and evolution of<br />
British Colonial housing policy, 1930's-1960's. He is especially interested in the Caribbean,<br />
Ghana, Kenya, and Singapore, and is dividing his time between the British Library, the<br />
Institute of Commonwealth Studies, and the Public Record Office. He is still in search of<br />
inexpensive, good coffee, but enjoys the cheapest tea in London at the Institute of Historical<br />
Research, where the furniture has not changed in living memory. In an earlier incarnation he<br />
did research on Canadian housing and housing policy. Recently, his co-authored paper on the<br />
Veterans Land Act was published in the Canadian Historical Review (vol. 82, no. 2), another<br />
on the Nova Scotia Housing Commission appeared this fall in Acadiensis. A chapter,<br />
"Canadian Cities in a North American context", was published last year in North America.<br />
The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent, eds. T. McIlwraith and T. Muller<br />
(Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, <strong>2001</strong>). He will be speaking about his earlier work on<br />
Toronto at a conference on English migration to Canada that is being organized by Phil<br />
Buckner at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in June, 2002.<br />
• Watch CBC Newsworld at 10 p.m. Wednesday January 16 to see Drs. Paul Fritz and David<br />
Russo(Professors Emeriti) in a segment on the Antiques Roadshow. Dr. Fritz is well-known<br />
for his expertise in antiques and his extensive collections. They are enjoying retirement in the<br />
Kingston area.<br />
• Dr. Stephen Streeter has published Managing the Counterrevolution: The United States and<br />
Guatemala, 1954-1961 (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2000) which has been reviewed<br />
favourably on H-NET. He is working on a second monograph that will encompass the<br />
Alliance for Progress years in Guatemala, and has initiated two new research projects. The<br />
first investigation will compare U.S. development and counterinsurgency strategies in<br />
Vietnam and Guatemala as part of the five-year MCRI Globalization project headed by<br />
Professor Will Coleman. The <strong>McMaster</strong> Arts Research Board has alos awarded Steve a seed<br />
grant to begin a study of the U.S. role in the 1973 coup that toppled President Salvador<br />
Allende of Chile.
• Dr. David Barrett was co-editor (with Professor Larry N. Shyu) of two volumes of<br />
conference papers published in <strong>2001</strong>: Chinese Collaboration with Japan, 1932-1945: The<br />
Limits of Accommodation (Stanford Univesity Press), and China in the Anti-Japanese War,<br />
1937-1945: Politics, Culture, and Society (Peter Lang, Inc.). Dr. Barrett also contributed two<br />
articles and three translations from the Chinese to these volumes.<br />
• New! Dr. Daniel Woolf, Professor of Early Modern and Tudor British <strong>History</strong>, and Dean of<br />
Humanities, has taken a position starting in July 2002. Dr. Woolf will be the new Dean of<br />
Arts at The University of Alberta in Edmonton. We wish him every success in his new<br />
position.<br />
Retirements<br />
The year 2000 marked the retirements of Richard A. Rempel and David J. Russo. Speeches from<br />
Drs. Alan Cassels, Ezio Cappadocia, John Campbell, John Browning and Louis Greenspan<br />
entertained those assembled with stories about the retirees. Both Richard and David made great<br />
contributions to the <strong>Department</strong>, to the teaching of <strong>History</strong> at <strong>McMaster</strong> and to the <strong>McMaster</strong><br />
community. Dr. Rempel has begun research on a history of Saskatchewan during World War II and<br />
Dr. Russo has produced two books at retirement: American <strong>History</strong> from a Global Perspective, and<br />
American Towns: An Interpretation. Click here for photos of the reunion.<br />
New! Dr. Daniel Geagan will be retiring on 30 June 2002 after 29 years in the <strong>Department</strong> of<br />
<strong>History</strong>. Dr. Geagan taught Ancient <strong>History</strong>, specializing in Ancient Greece, with an emphasis on<br />
social and institutional history. His research involves the editing and interpretation of documents<br />
from archaeological digs, with material from three different excavations. The largest set includes the<br />
dedicatory monuments and the correspondence with Roman administrators found in the excavation<br />
of the Athenian Agora. Dr. Geagan's teaching covered many of the cross-listed Classics/<strong>History</strong><br />
courses and will be missed by faculty and undergraduate and graduate students in both of these<br />
areas. Dr. Geagan was appropriately celebrated on 30 April by his friends, colleagues and students.<br />
We will miss his presence in the <strong>Department</strong> and we wish him well in his retirement. Click here for<br />
photo.<br />
In Memoriam<br />
Dr. Ezio Cappadocia (1920-2000). A commemorative service was held at <strong>McMaster</strong> University<br />
Convocation Hall on Friday, July 7th, 2000. Dr. Cappadocia arrived at <strong>McMaster</strong> in 1966 and<br />
became a well-known figure on campus. He served as Chair of the <strong>Department</strong> for seven years. After<br />
his retirement in 1989, he taught at the Centre for Continuing Education where he continued to draw<br />
large enrolments because of his long-standing reputation as an outstanding teacher of European<br />
history.<br />
Awards<br />
Dr. Harvey Levenstein, professor emeritus, has been awarded the Donald Sheppard (Triennial)<br />
Book Prize for his book, Seductive Journey: American Tourists in France from Jefferson to the Jazz<br />
Age. Dr. Levenstein shares this award with Dr. Katherine Dunbabin for her book on mosaics.
Visiting Professors<br />
• Dr. David Gentilcore, Hannah Visiting Professor in the <strong>History</strong> of Medicine has joined our<br />
faculty for the <strong>2001</strong>-02 academic year. Dr. Gentilcore is Reader in <strong>History</strong> at the University<br />
of Leicester (UK), where he teaches courses on early modern Europe and the history of<br />
medicine, including a course for third-year medical students. He was a research fellow at the<br />
Cambridge Wellcome Unit for the <strong>History</strong> of Medicine and, subsequently, holder of a<br />
Wellcome University Award at Leicester. His interests lie in the cultural and social history of<br />
Italy (1400-1800), especially health-related issues, and in the application of anthropology to<br />
historical problems. He has published two monographs and hopes to use the Hannah Visiting<br />
Professorship at <strong>McMaster</strong> to prepare his current project, Medical Charlatanism in Early<br />
Modern Italy, for publication. Dr. Gentilcore will give a lecture to the <strong>Department</strong> in the<br />
winter term.<br />
• In <strong>2001</strong>-02 Dr. James Moran, a CIHR Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the <strong>History</strong> of<br />
Medicine, will be cross-appointed with the <strong>History</strong> of Medicine Unit.<br />
• Richard Harris, an Associate member of the <strong>Department</strong> and Professor in the School of<br />
Geography and Geology, is spending the academic year at University College London. He<br />
has a Fellowship from the British Academy to research the history of colonial housing policy<br />
at the British Library and Public Record Office.<br />
Sessional Lecturers<br />
Dan Azoulay recently edited a book of "romance" letters from Western Canadians in the early 1900s<br />
called Only the Lonely (Fifth House 2000). His two previous publications were Canadian Political<br />
Parties: Historical Readings (Irwin 1999), and "Keeping the Dream Alive: The Survival of the<br />
CCF/NDP in postwar Ontario," in Ontario Since Confederation (University of Toronto Press, 2000),<br />
ed. E. Montigny and L. Chambers. He is currently writing an extensive history of romance in Canada<br />
from 1900-1930.<br />
Graduate Student News<br />
Congratulations to our graduates!<br />
Graduating Students: May <strong>2001</strong><br />
Ph.D.<br />
Samuel Kalman, "Vers un order nouveau: The Concepts of Nation and State in the Doctrine of the<br />
Faisceau and Coix de Feu/Parti social francais"<br />
Geoffrey Spurr, "'Those Who are Obliged to Pretend that They are Gentlefolk': The construction of a<br />
Clerking identity in Victorian and Edwardian London"
Sean Gouglas, "The Influence of Local Environmental Factors on Settlement and Agriculture in<br />
Saltfleet Township, Ontario, 1790-1890"<br />
Graduating Students: November <strong>2001</strong><br />
M.A. Stephen Burgess-Whiting William Campbell Tammy Chumley Carrie Dickenson Alana Foley<br />
Brent Jewell Margaret McFarlane John McKerrow M.A. (Thesis)<br />
Amy Meertens: "The 'New Eugenics': Psychiatry and Mental Health in Post-World War II Canada"<br />
Suzanne Meade: "Medieval Prostitution in Secular Law: The Sex Trade in Late Medieval London,<br />
Paris and Toulouse"<br />
News<br />
• Rhonda Hinther (Ph.D. candidate) has published "The Oldest Profession in Winnipeg: The<br />
Culture of Prostitution in the Point Douglas Segregated District, 1909-1912," in Manitoba<br />
<strong>History</strong>, <strong>Vol</strong>. 41, Spring/Summer <strong>2001</strong>. In October she presented "Raising Funds and Class<br />
Consciousness: Women, Gender and the Progressive Ukrainian Community in Canada, 1918-<br />
1991" at the one-day Women Studies mini-conference What We Did on our Summer<br />
Vacation: Recent Research from the Women's Studies Community at <strong>McMaster</strong>.<br />
• Dan Gorman (Ph.D. candidate) delivered a paper to the Institute of Strategic Studies at Yale<br />
University in February <strong>2001</strong>. This past October he successfully presented papers on John<br />
Buchan at the Western Conference on British Studies in Houston and the Victorian Studies<br />
Association of the Western United States at UCLA. Dan is a very active member of the<br />
Graduate Softball team, which just concluded another successful campaign under the skilled<br />
guidance of. Dr. Dr. Dan Geagan, a coach now with several decades of experience!<br />
• Amy Meertens (M.A. <strong>2001</strong>) defended her thesis this past summer and landed a full-time job<br />
with the Health Sciences as a public relations liaison in conjunction with Breakthrough<br />
Films.<br />
• Carrie Dickenson (M.A. <strong>2001</strong>) and William Campbell (M.A. <strong>2001</strong>) are now teaching<br />
English as a Second Language in Seoul, Korea, and both hope to pursue doctoral studies<br />
upon their return to Canada.<br />
• Alana Foley (M.A. <strong>2001</strong>) is studying for an M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies at University of<br />
Toronto. Alana won the Edith Wightman Essay Prize.<br />
• John McKerrow (M.A. <strong>2001</strong>) was awarded the Ezio Cappadocia Graduate Prize in <strong>History</strong><br />
at the November convocation. This prize honours excellence in graduate work in European<br />
history. John is currently in Scotland.<br />
• Tammy Chumley (M.A. <strong>2001</strong>) won the H.W. McCready Graduate Prize in <strong>History</strong> at<br />
November convocation, awarded annually to a worthy M.A. graduate on the recommendation<br />
of the <strong>Department</strong>.<br />
• Steven Burgess-Whiting (M.A. <strong>2001</strong>) is currently pursuing a doctorate in history at the<br />
University of Western Ontario.<br />
• David Leeson just returned from "The Western Conference on British Studies" in Houston,<br />
where he successfully presented a paper on recruiting for the Black and Tans.<br />
• Ken Macmillan (PhD candidate) held a Writing Workshop on 9 November for students.<br />
This session, as well as the TA Workshop Ken held earlier in the term were well-attended<br />
and helpful to TAs and students alike.
• Wendy Churchill (PhD candidate) co-authored a journal article with Dr. James D. Alsop,<br />
"The Prescribing Physicians and Sick Scholars of Oxford: Jeremiah Webbe's Apothecarial<br />
Notebook, 1653-54," in Vesalius: Official Journal of the International Society for the <strong>History</strong><br />
of Medicine, <strong>Vol</strong>. III, No. 2 (December <strong>2001</strong>): 73-77.<br />
Messecar Professors<br />
In 1950 Mr. W. M. Messecar, President of the Brantford Cordage Company, gave <strong>McMaster</strong><br />
University an endowment for the purpose of naming a professorship in <strong>History</strong>. The following is a<br />
list of past Messecar Professors to the <strong>Department</strong> of <strong>History</strong>. We hope to make a Messecar<br />
appointment in 2002-3.<br />
James Moore (Open University, U.K.) 1998<br />
David Phillips (Melbourne) 1991<br />
J.M.S. Careless (Toronto) 1988<br />
William Eccles (Toronto) 1987<br />
Kenneth McNaught (Toronto) 1984-85<br />
Royden Harrision (Warwick) 1981<br />
A.F. Thompson (Oxford) 1979<br />
The <strong>Department</strong> of <strong>History</strong> invites submissions and updates. Please send news to<br />
histdept@mcmaster.ca