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Friends of Cal History Annual Newsletter 2007Greetings from the ChairContentsProfessor Mary Elizabeth Berry reports on the Department's activities this yearHomework by Our New Faculty"What I Did During My Summer Vacation," by Mark Peterson, Associate Professor, Colonial American History"What I Did During My Summer Vacation," by Jonathan Sheehan, Associate Professor, Early Modern European History"Relating to Britain," by Ethan Shagan, Associate Professor, Early Modern European HistoryInterview with Professor Thomas W. LaqueurProfessor Laqueur, Winner of the Mellon Foundation's Distinguished Achievement Award, responds to ten questions fromProfessor Mary Elizabeth BerryIn Memoriam, Gerald D. FeldmanStaff ProfileVictor Rotenberg (Student Affairs Officer for Curriculum Planning) interviews Deborah Kerlegon (Assistant to theDepartment Chair)Faculty News & NotesNotes from the History Graduate AssociationHistory of Science graduate student Emily Hamilton reports on the History Graduate Association's activities during the fallsemester and the group's plans for the spring.Undergraduates in the FieldNotes from Phi Alpha ThetaUndergraduate student Stephanie Krol reports on the activites of the history honor society, Phi Alpha Theta.Recent Degree RecipientsPhD Job Placements

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Friends of Cal History Annual Newsletter 2007Dear Friends,Greetings from the ChairWith this new electronic newsletter, I send you the warmest holiday greetings. All of us who have had a hand in this projecthope that you welcome the format, which allows us (among other things) to include a substantial photo gallery as well as avideo clip of Professor John Efron playing blues guitar during a recent holiday party for the faculty and staff. John's wonderful(eye- and ear-opening) performance is now part of our collective e-memory. We also hope to add responses from readerson a periodic basis. Do send us by email (history@berkeley.edu) any notes you might like to contribute to the "Your Mail"section of the newsletter.The greatest blow of the year, as many of you know, was the loss of our beloved colleague Gerry Feldman on Octoberthirty-first. Gerry was at the core of our work and our strength since 1963, when he joined the faculty as an assistantprofessor. We grieve with his family and lean every day on his legacies.Our lives have also been deeply changed by the retirement last spring of our colleague Leon Litwack after forty-three yearsof teaching at Berkeley (and more than a few studying here as well). A celebrated scholar and teacher (legendary for hissignature course 7B, U.S. History from the Civil War to the Present), Leon has added to armfuls of honors with his recentappointment as president of the Southern Historical Association and receipt of its highest tribute, the John Hope FranklinLifetime Achievement Award. We trust he has several lifetimes to go as an inspiration and tireless counselor to ourcommunity.You will find much more news about the faculty throughout this newsletter. Let me draw particular attention to theintroductions to our three newest members (Mark Peterson, Ethan Shagan, and Jonathan Sheehan) and to the interview withThomas Laqueur. Apparently Tom, too, is old and virtuous enough for a career award (which I prefer to regard as a midcareermarker). The Mellon Foundation has just granted him a (monumental) Distinguished Achievement Award. Theseawards provide "recipients and their institutions with resources for furthering scholarship and teaching. Amounting to as muchas 1.5 million dollars each over the course of three years, the awards also call attention to the role the humanities play inAmerican intellectual life."There is also great news on the graduate program front. Thanks to years of work by many peerless workers (preeminentlyProfessor Mark Healey and Student Affairs Officer Barbara Hayashida), we launched with the admission of our currententering class a five-year funding plan for every new graduate student. This is possible because of significant new gifts,scrupulous husbanding of endowments, and the coordination of all projected resources. We are not entirely home free on thefinancial front. Nor are our five-year packages as generous as those of our wealthy private sisters. But through the enormoussupport of our splendid donors, we are definitely in the funding game.We have always been leaders in the intellectual enterprise. Our graduate students remain among the very best in theprofession. One clear indication is our continuingly high and distinguished record of placement. We awarded twenty-sixdoctoral degrees during the past year. And, as you will see, thirty-two of these and other recent Ph.D. recipients securedappointments since last December, twenty of them in tenure-track assistant professorships. For other news on the activitiesof current graduate students, click to the section on the Graduate Student Association.You will also find descriptions by several of our undergraduates of the research trips they were able to undertake this year

with funds from our friends. The history major still is (we hope always will be) distinguished by the lauded (and sometimesterrifying) requirement of a senior thesis (History 101), which must be based on research in primary sources. Dozens of ourmajors travel every year to research sites to expand the sources and the experiences vital to original work. Here we offer ataste of what they do. This section will expand considerably in future newsletters.Permit me to insert a word about daily life on the ground. I am delighted to mention that our departmental library (stockedwith titles relevant to the oral qualifying examinations) is now open all day everyday to graduate students (via key-card). Thisdevelopment falls in my own mind under "superior housekeeping," a group of initiatives spear-headed by our terrificManager, Linda Finch Hicks, and my extraordinary predecessor as chair, Professor David Hollinger. Through (again) acombination of generous gifts and thoughtful stewardship, they have worked toward real environmental improvement--notjust library improvement but painting, carpeting, redesign, and excellent signage throughout our public spaces. We replacecomputers. We serve good food and reasonable drink at significant gatherings. We buy flowers. Nothing cushy. But many ofus do feel a lift of spirit in spaces now better fitted to the dignified mission of the university. One person with a fastidious eyedaily on our physical arrangements is Deborah Kerlegon, Assistant to the Chair, who is profiled in this newsletter by theredoubtable Victor Rotenberg. I couldn't do my job without her.On the subject of physical space, I must shout with joy about the C.V. Starr East Asian Library, which was dedicated onOctober 12 and will be opened to the public this coming March. (Click "News and Events" on the departmental home pageto find an article about the library by Professor David Johnson.) Many members of our department have worked for manyyears to make this dream real. The first purpose-built, free-standing building in the United States dedicated to an East Asiancollection, it is also a transforming space (especially inside) that just ennobles anyone who enters. The architects (ToddWilliams and Billie Tsien), the driving force (former Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien), the planners, the prescient donors--all havedone something magnificent.You will find a list of the many generous donors to the department this year later in this newsletter. To provide an occasion tothank and exchange further news with them, as well as all our friends and alumni, we have scheduled a cocktail reception atthe Women's Faculty Club between 5:30 and 7:30 on February 22. Tom Laqueur will give a talk (focusing on undergraduateeducation) and we expect to introduce some of our colleagues currently leading campus units. There are, as usual, quite a lotof them. Jon Gjerde is dean of the Division of Social Sciences, Carla Hesse is chair of the Budget Committee, CathrynCarson is Director of the Office for the History of Science and Technology, John Efron is director of the Institute forEuropean Studies, Yuri Slezkine is Chair of the Center for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Wen-hsin Yeh isDirector of the Institute for East Asian Studies, and Peter Zinoman is chair of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies.Another reception will take place on Cal Day (April 12), following the now traditionalpanel of history faculty talking about "History in the Movies." We shall mail you noticeof both events well in advance.I close with thanks to the people who have helped produce this newsletter--AndrewKeating above all (our Webmaster and a graduate student in British History),Stephanie Krol, Linda Finch Hicks, and Deborah Kerlegon.All warm regards,Beth Berry, Chair

Friends of Cal History Annual Newsletter 2007Homework by Our New FacultyWe are delighted to welcome three new colleagues to the faculty. Mark Peterson (formerly on the faculty of the University ofIowa) joined us this fall, Ethan Shagan (formerly on the faculty at Northwestern) and Jonathan Sheehan (formerly on thefaculty of the University of Michigan) join us in the spring semester. We set them the beloved essay topic "What I Did duringMy Summer Vacation" as a framework for introducing themselves. Ethan bailed out and chose his own topic. We may dockhis grade."What I Did During My Summer Vacation,"by Mark Peterson, Associate Professor, Colonial American History"Relating to Britain,"by Ethan Shagan, Associate Professor, Early Modern European History"What I Did During My Summer Vacation,"by Jonathan Sheehan, Associate Professor, Early Modern European History

Friends of Cal History Annual Newsletter 2007What I Did During My Summer Vacationby Mark Peterson, Associate Professor, Colonial American HistoryWhen the historian's little gray cells get to feeling a bit overheated, I like to do manuallabor of one kind or another. Most days, at the very least, this means cooking dinner formy wife, Mary Woolsey, and our two children, Abby and Thomas, ages 14 and 11. Butsometimes I get more ambitious. Mary's family lives in Petersham, Massachusetts, in thewooded and hilly country about 75 miles west of Boston. Petersham is within strikingdistance of some major research archives for my work in early American history, but it'salso a peaceful and relaxing place to spend summer vacations.On one of these vacations, I lived out an unfulfilled childhood fantasy by building atreehouse -- for the kids, of course. I'm not particularly handy or skilled in carpentry, butwith the aid of a book called, "Treehouses You Can Actually Build," two semi-eagerchildren, and a barnful of old lumber, I managed to build the treehouse pictured here,nestled among the white pines typical of a southern New England second-growth forest.

That fall, when we returned to Iowa City, where I taught at the University of Iowa for a number of years, I felt compelled topractice and refine my newfound skills, this time in the 300-year-old black oak in our backyard. Here it is -- a somewhatdifferent style, with cross-hatched ropes instead of found wood to make the safety railings.Once I had run out of trees in need of development, I looked for a new outlet for my handiwork. A summer camp that mydaughter attended had a wood-burning beehive oven made out of stone, sand, and clay. I wanted to make one for ourbackyard, so I found another how-to book. The Iowa soil has plenty of clay, I scrounged broken paving stones fromneighbors, and used sand from the kids' sandbox (by then seldom used). I rounded up some friends from our Iowa Cityneighborhood, and we went at it on the weekend before Thanksgiving.

This story has no happy ending, at least not yet. Whether it was my inexperience at mixing clay and sand in the proper ratio,or the onset of Iowa winter, rain, and snow the following weekend, I don't know. But beehive-oven version 1.0 collapsedthe following spring, no bread was baked, no pizzas were made.However, one of the many benefits of moving to Berkeley, as I observeon the eve of my first Thanksgiving in California, is that the weather iswarm and sunny, and the backyard of our new house has lots of stonesand bricks for making ovens, and a number of trees calling out to me.Of course, I have plans to exercise the historian's little gray cells now thatI'm here -- in particular, a book on Boston in the Atlantic World has alsobeen calling out to me for some time. But there's always summervacation. The question is, when we finally get the boxes of booksunpacked, which will I find first, the treehouse guide, or the beehive ovenmanual?

Friends of Cal History Annual Newsletter 2007Relating to BritainEthan Shagan, Associate Professor, Early Modern European HistoryI have always had a peculiar relationship with Britain, which makes me apeculiar sort of British historian. Most Americans who enter the field areunabashed anglophiles, ranging from rather mild cases, who only orderthe British editions of Harry Potter books, to potentially lethal cases,whose diagnostic signs include fondness for monarchy and ostentatioususe of words like "torch" and "lift." I cannot claim lifelong immunity; as achild I watched Monty Python and listened to Led Zeppelin. But Ithought my parents' obsession with "Upstairs, Downstairs" was unnatural,and I thought all the fuss about Charles and Diana (whose wedding I wasforced to watch at an obscenely early hour) was downright nauseating.So by the time I was a teenager, when my father got a job with a Britishcompany, I was temperamentally predisposed to find the country and itspeople otherworldly. This impression was reinforced by a harrowing evening in the port town of Holyhead as I backpackedthrough Wales, where I stayed at a Bed and Breakfast owned by a two-meter-tall transvestite (with three dogs namedCoco, Chanel, and Dior) who insisted upon driving me up into the hills to "see the lighthouse." It was reinforced again by myaccommodations when I first moved to London as an adult: my "flat" had a gas meter into which I had to feed coins to turnon the stove, and the house I moved into later was webbed with exposed electrical wires whose constant shocks wereevidently supposed to substitute for more conventional interior heating.Of course, my accumulated time living in Britain has softened my attitude considerably, and I adore spending time there now.However much I resented as a child being forced to watch Princess Diana's wedding, as an adult I went to Green Park towatch her casket pass by. And I have found that people in Britain, despite some occasional stereotypical reserve, are thekindest and warmest I have ever met. But as a historian, my early impressions still color my work, and I tend to gravitatetowards topics which challenge traditional understandings of British identity. Most recently, I am writing a book arguing thatthe stereotypical ideal of "moderation" in English society, which appears so inclusive and ecumenical, in fact has served as anaggressive polemical weapon and a tool of ideological violence in English history. In this project, as in my past work, I like tothink that my own fraught relationship with British culture enables me, at least in part, to avoid the trap of imagining Britishhistory as the progressive rise of modernity, and instead to see the British past as an alien land.

Friends of Cal History Annual Newsletter 2007What I Did During My Summer VacationJonathan Sheehan, Associate Professor, Early Modern European HistoryI'd like to write about what I did last summer, but I'm not quite sure that Iremember yet. Memories of Maine oceans, Michigan rivers, and sunlitmeals with happy children float about in hazy disarray. But the hard drivewas nearly reset by the recent chaos of moving to Berkeley. Packing hasthat effect, I guess. The labor of categorizing the last ten percent of ahouse--the miscellaneous boxes of paper clips, snorkels, and sparechange--consumes so many mental watts that the rest of the circuits godead. Nor was winter ready for me to leave the Midwest, showing its irewith ice-drenched roads, freezing rain, and a final blizzard on DonnerPass. But the chains in the trunk of the car eventually won out, and lastThursday I tumbled into the Bay Area, heaved of a sigh of relief as the icemelted, and bade welcome to green and flowering hills. Home again, andnow perhaps those memories of summer can begin to thaw and return.

Friends of Cal History Annual Newsletter 2007Interview with Professor Thomas W. LaqueurProfessor Thomas Laqueur has just been honored with The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Distinguished AchievementAward. We quote the Foundation: "Intended to underscore the decisive contributions the humanities make to the nation'sintellectual life, the awards, amounting to as much as $1.5 million each, honor scholars who have made significantcontributions to humanistic inquiry. They enable awardees to teach and do research under especially favorable conditionswhile enlarging opportunities for scholarship and teaching at the academic institutions with which the recipients are affiliated.The awards will provide the recipients and their institutions with resources to deepen and extend humanistic studies. Incontrast to other notable academic award programs that benefit individual scholars exclusively, the DistinguishedAchievement Awards are designed to recognize the interdependence of scholars and their institutions. Accordingly, while thisgrant program honors the achievements of individuals, the grants themselves will support specific institutional programs ofactivities that will enhance both research and teaching."Beth Berry seized this opportunity to ask Tom some questions.Berry: How is it that you decided to go to college at Swarthmore?Laqueur: Being completely uninformed on such matters, I was inclined to believe what I read. The Atlantic Monthly in thefall of 1962 published an article saying that Swarthmore was the best college in the United States. It was also near a city,unlike Beckley, W.Va.. I applied.Berry: I notice that your first book was about schooling, your next books were about sex, and your current project is aboutdeath. Any pattern here?Laqueur: What other subjects are there?Berry: What books are at the top of your lifelong favorites list?Laqueur: There are lots of books that have given me great pleasure and have changed my life. But no book or poemcontinues to touch my soul as some music has over the years: Schubert's C Major Quintet and the Opus 960 piano sonata;the Bach cello suites and St. Mathew Passion; Mozart and Wagner operas.Berry: What books do you think are seriously overrated?Laqueur: One of my best friends thinks George Eliot's Daniel Deronda is great. I can't get into it. Another of very bestfriends thinks Remembrance of Things Past is the key to all mythologies. I don't get it.Berry: What's the best thing we do at Berkeley for undergraduates?Laqueur: We talk to them as the serious, highly intelligent people they are even when they don't act the part. We performthe pleasure of the life of the mind.Berry: What's the worst thing we do for undergraduates?Laqueur: We don't take them as seriously as we should. We act bored.

Berry: What's the greatest reward of playing the cello every day?Laqueur: Hearing music from the bottom up; in my case from the cellar but slowly making my way to daylight. I have awonderful teacher and every so often he helps me to make beautiful sounds for a few minutes at a time. I hope for this everyday.Berry: What phrases dominate your conversations with your dog, Leo?Laqueur: I sometimes discuss my work with him. I try to encourage him by praising himas a "great dog," and not just a "good dog." Mostly I ask him to come and to desist fromeating paper: "Leo stop that!." He used to eat books, generally about the early modernperiod, but now he limits himself to scrap paper and cardboard, so I have become lessnegative in my conversations with him.Berry: As a Rosarian, what advice would you offer the landscape architects of theuniversity?Laqueur: A good dressing of compost in the spring is important. I spray with an oilevery so often. I pick my roses often.Berry: As a distinguished achiever, how would you define achievement?Laqueur: I think there is a deep truth in Woody Allen's remark that showing up is 90% of success. Keeping faith with one'svocation during a lifetime of self-questioning is an achievement. It is an achievement to have enough confidence in one'sintellectual intuitions to pursue them where they lead. It is an achievement to have helped build a wonderful community offriends with and through whom I work.

Friends of Cal History Annual Newsletter 2007Staff ProfileVictor Rotenberg (Student Affairs Officer for Curriculum Planning) interviews Deborah Kerlegon (Assistant to theDepartment Chair).I walked into the office of Deborah Kerlegon, the History Department staffer with the most campus seniority (not the mostdepartmental seniority -- that would be me), expecting mock-grudging cooperation: we'd been kidding around for weeksabout my interviewing her for the newsletter, and while I think she was secretly pleased to be featured in this issue, it wouldhave been entirely out of character for her to show it. But when I appeared in her door, she gave me a pained look."Guess what?" she said."What?" I said, displaying my customary quick wit and ready tongue."Can't do it," she said.I dropped my little pad and pen in faux shock."Why not?" I said."Too busy," she said, nodding her head at the stacks of paper on the spare desk along the side of her office.I suspected a ruse, but I do have to say this: when Deb's busy, she's really busy.I went back to my office and thought about it. Then I called her."Department of History, Chair's office," she said, sounding busy. (She's the Chair's Assistant)."How long have you worked on campus?" I said without preamble."29 years in June," she said."How long in the department?" I said."Since '92," she said."Where were you before you were here?" I said."Office of Relations with Schools," she said. "And before that, the Partnership Program.""Okay, I think that's it," I said, all business."You gonna tell 'em how they slave me and beat me?" she said."Gotta run," I said, and hung up.I went back later and filled in the holes.

VR: Who was your first boyfriend?DK: Wallace Walton, but he doesn't know it.VR: Who was your favorite teacher?DK: Donald Furnell. He had a great sense of humor, and spoke impeccable Spanish for an African American man. He was agreat motivator, too; way back then, in the 60s, he was encouraging us young African Americans to better ourselves througheducation.VR: What have you seen change on campus in the time you've been here?DK: There's so much less support for staff. We used to get regular cost-of-living increases as well as merit raises; nowadayswe think we're lucky to get little tiny merits. And as all these big non-academic units decentralize, we -- the staff out here inthe departments -- end up doing lots more work. So compared to 20 years ago, we're working much harder and gettingpaid less for it.VR: Nice hat you've got on today. How many do you have?DK: Around here, I feel like I wear about a hundred different hats. But if you mean how many real hats do I own -- about20.

Friends of Cal History Annual Newsletter 2007Anthony AdamthwaiteFaculty News & NotesOn the lecture front the big one for me in fall 2006 was the commemoration of the seventieth anniversary of the outbreak ofthe Spanish Civil War. I gave a paper in Madrid on the internationalization of the conflict. Went back to Spain in 2007 - toPamplona this time - fortunately not for the "Sanfermines", otherwise I might not now be writing- but for an internationalconference at the University of Navarra on social change and modern identity. I discussed the relationship between war andidentity in twentieth century Europe. In October 2007 Opus Dei, a Roman Catholic community with a house in Berkeley,invited me to talk on "Hitler and Stalin: Twin Tyrants". Most recently, Berkeley Model United Nations (BMUN) asked me totalk on "The European dream v the American dream". Apart from the usual public lectures and conference papers, one of themost stimulating experiences over the past year or so has been working with a number of visiting scholars with interests in myfields of twentieth century Europe and international history. Equally rewarding in a different way has been the experience ofmentoring several Decal classes. The enthusiasm for history and energy of undergraduate organizers and their students hasbeen a real inspiration.Thomas G. BarnesTom Barnes gave a series of three lectures on "Decisive Battles of the 18C: Fontenoy, Culloden, Quebec," to theAssociation of Emeriti in April; was gratified to receive a festschrift from his former students edited by Buchanan Sharp andMark Fissell, published by the Delaware University Press in January; sent off to Stanford University Press his ownmanuscript, Shaping the Common Law: From Glanvill to Hale, 1188-1688, in October, and had a heart attack the same day(moral of the story: don't publish or you might perish).Andrew BarshayThis past year I finished my second term as graduate adviser for the department, and headed off (temporarily) into the sunsetto return to work on my study of the collapse of the Japanese empire in northeast Asia. The part I'm writing now concernsthe internment in the Siberian gulag of more than 600,000 soldiers of the Kwantung Army--this was the main Japanese forcein Manchuria--who were put to hard labor and underwent reeducation along with millions of Soviets and other former AxisPOWs. Eventually I'll write the companion section on the dissolution of civilian colonial society. Put together, as they shouldbe, these stories really do take on the character of an epic, and make you think very hard about what it means to talk aboutany people's historical responsibility. I'd also like to mention that my 2004 book on Japanese social science appeared inJapanese translation this past spring.Mary Elizabeth BerryI spent the last year on the road, the first extended travel I've been able to undertake in twelve years. I was in New Delhi forone month, in Cambridge (UK ) for three, and in Kyoto for six. My research addressed the cultural and economic history ofthe seventeenth century in Japan with the question "Why Work So Hard?" But a lot of my time was given to play. In Kyoto Ilived on the left bank of the Takase River, looking out on cherry and willow and maple trees, looking down on herons andsnakes playing in the water. Thank to my daughters, I celebrated my sixtieth birthday at Kitcho in Arashiyama (which CraigClaiborne rightly called the best restaurant in the world). By the way, I kept a Kyoto diary for a month and would be happy

to send it to anyone interested. Just let me know (meberry@berkeley.edu).Thomas A. BradyI was the Heiko A. Oberman Visiting Professor of Late Medieval and Reformation History at the University of Arizona forthe Fall semester and taught one graduate seminar. Life in the desert was interesting and exotic. Kathy and I are glad thatFINALLY in November it started cooling off during the daytime hours. We returned to Berkeley in mid-December and I willteach Irish History in the Spring semester. This fall I gave a talk "The Stettmeister and the Teacher: There were two Sturmsat Strasbourg" at a conference in Strasbourg which gave us a chance to return to the city where 40 years ago I beganresearch in the archives. In late October at the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference in Minneapolis I was presentedwith a splendid two-volume Festschrift entitled "Politics and Reformations--Histories and Reformations--and Communities,Polities, Nations and Empires," edited by Christopher Ocker, Michael Printy, Peter Starenko and Peter WallaceMark BrilliantRichard Candida SmithAfter my first three wonderful, whirlwind, years as an assistant professor,I received my first sabbatical semester in the fall of 2007. During thattime, I poured myself into the final round of revisions for my forthcomingbook, tentatively entitled Color Lines: Racial Liberalism on America's"Racial Frontier," 1945-1975 (Oxford University Press, 2009). Prior tothen, in the spring of 2007, I added a new course to my teaching rotation.That course, "Schooling America: Education in the United States inHistorical Perspective," grew out of a long-standing interest in the historyof education which I acquired during four pre-graduate school years as ahigh school teacher in Brooklyn, New York.During the past year I finished the manuscript for a new book that the University of Pennsylvania Press will release in 2008.The title is THE 'THIRD SPACE': CALIFORNIA ARTISTS AND THE POLITICS OF IMAGINATION. The bookspans more than a century to examine factors that supported the broadening of the arts world to include a broader crosssectionof the population. Sam Rodia, the builder of the Watts Towers; Jay DeFeo, one of the state's best-known abstractpainters; Noah Purifoy and Betye Saar, leader figures in the African American assemblage movement are among thosewhose careers and work are discussed. I have also been working closely with the San Francisco Museum of Art helping themuseum documents its history for its 75th anniversary coming up in 2010. This project had provided opportunities forstudents interested in the history of museums and cultural institutions to participate.Cathryn CarsonIn spring 2007 I finished off two things. One is the manuscript for the Heisenberg book -- finally. It will be out next year fromCambridge University Press. The other is a year's worth of coursework in Berkeley's nuclear engineering department. This isfor the second project I'm working on, on the history of the science behind nuclear waste management. Since then I've alsobeen to a bunch of nuclear waste research centers and archives in Germany, photographing documents at rates previouslyunseen. This fall I'm teaching a new course, "Nuclear Berkeley, Nuclear World" and working on a website on local nuclearhistory.Margaret Chowning

I have been on leave this year, finishing up research for a book tentatively titled: "Catholic Ladies and Culture Wars: Gender,the Church, and Mexican Politics, 1750-1940." I made several trips to Mexico City, Morelia, Guadalajara, Zamora, andCelaya using church archives, for the most part, to test my hypothesis that women's various relationships to the church--theirleadership of devotional associations, their role in religious education, their role as activist nuns--had an important impact onpolitics throughout this period.Thomas DandeletThe past year was marked by the publication of "Spain in Italy, 1500-1700," a volume that I co-edited with John Marino. Itbrings together nineteen essays by leading Italian, Spanish, German, French and American historians in the field, and includesmy essay entitled "Paying for St. Peter's." I was also invited to give a paper on the Colonna family, the present topic of myresearch, at a conference at the Spanish Academy in Rome this past May. In that same month, I traveled to New York toreceive a Guggenheim fellowship that I was awarded to continue work on the Colonna project.Jan de VriesJan de Vries returned this year to full-time teaching after serving seven years as Vice Provost for Academic Affairs. Hisbook, The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present, is scheduled forpublication in April by Cambridge University Press.Beshara DoumaniBeshara Doumani is spending 2007-2008 academic year as a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, HarvardUniversity. He is working on a book on gender, law, and the political economy of family life in the Eastern Mediterraneanduring Ottoman times. His recent publications include the production of a special issue of the Jerusalem Quarterly, "SocialBiographies and Family Histories." and an article, "Palestine Versus the Palestinians? The Iron Laws and Ironies of a PeopleDenied," in the Journal of Palestine Studies.Paula FassAs a recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, Paula Fass was able to spend the last academic year at the Centerfor Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. While there, she worked on her book on parents and children in Americanhistory since 1800 and led an international group of scholars in conversations on the history of children and youth. Her bookof essays, Children of A New World: Society, Culture, and Globalization (New York University Press) was published earlierthis fall. Several of the essays that appear in the collection have appeared in journals published in Chile, France and Turkeyduring the past two years. She also made an appearance at an international symposium on public fears about children at theNew School in New York, which aims to bring scholars and the general public together to talk about subjects of generalconcern.Victoria FredeMy most exciting pedagogical experience in the academic year 2006-2007 was a freshman seminar I taught on Heresy andBlasphemy in Modern Europe (including Russia): the charisma of Berkeley's first-year students is impressive. I was alsodelighted by the inquisitiveness of students in my lecture survey of Imperial Russia. This academic year, I am on leave,finishing my book on atheism and other forms of unbelief among educated Russians in the nineteenth century. Next year, Ilook forward to teaching a course on Russian intellectual history.

Kathleen FrydlI spent fall of 2006 on leave in Washington DC working on my book; looking back, I have memories of a beautiful autumnreplete with long walks, relaxing dinners with friends, and enough time to get productive work done. I'm sure this is thenostalgic effect that a busy teaching schedule has on memories of sabbatical. Still, all of those things happened for at leastsome of the time I was away.When I returned to Berkeley in the spring of 2007, I returned to the classroom. I lectured for the first time with amicrophone, something I will do again in spring of 2008 when I teach history 7b, the large lower division lecture taught formany years by Leon Litwack. Another first for me last spring: after my move to San Francisco in January of this year, I cameto campus via BART. I am now part of a small but energetic and growing band of Berkeley history faculty who live in SF.Like the others (I daresay), I am extremely satisfied with my life in the city, but of course campus and the halls of Dwinellecontinue to be another sort of home and, as it sometimes seems, my real residence.Samuel HaberI've thoroughly enjoyed teaching my Freshman/Sophomore Seminar, Concept & Image: Movies as Historical Documents forUnderstanding of United States' History, 1920-1945. The students are lively and some of the discussions have been exciting.I have continued my research in American Jewish history and have gone public with two articles for the just publishedEncyclopedia of American Jewish History (Stephen H. Norwood and Eunice Pollack, eds.). The first article is on HoraceKallen, the creator and advocate of the notion of cultural pluralism, and the second is a study of the thought of Robert KingMerton, the perpetrator of the new subdiscipline, the sociology of science.Roger HahnI helped plan, chaired and spoke at Humanities West's weekend program on Voltaire and the French Enlightenment lastOctober in San Francisco. My talk was focused on reconciling Voltaire's strong belief in religious toleration, even as hewrote and spoke against Judaism and Islam.David HenkinI have spent a fair amount this past year speaking about my book, The Postal Age: The Emergence of ModernCommunications in Nineteenth-Century America (Chicago, 2006), in a wide variety of venues -- at the Berkeley PostOffice, the American Philatelic Society, the National Postal Museum, various bookstores, a bar in the Mission District, onthe radio, and wherever else people have seemed disposed to listen. I also participated in a recent conference at NewsweekMagazine entitled "Bookishness: Reading and Writing After Print Culture."Carla HesseThis past year I taught two courses--a lecture course and a graduate seminar--both focused on the French Revolution. Thestudents in both courses were absolutely fantastic, I learned a huge amount from them, and they remind me every day justhow lucky and privileged I am to teach at Berkeley. Two undergraduates in the lecture course have become my researchassistants and they are helping me to finish my book about the infamous Revolutionary Tribunals and the problem of politicaljustice during the French Revolution. I also have a graduate student research assistant who is close to completion of a 10year project we have been working on with the Bancroft Library, to catalogue and make accessible about 10,000 FrenchRevolutionary pamphlets. We have discovered that a significant number (in the 100s) of these pamphlets were previouslyunknown anywhere in the world--including at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Allez les ours! And, oh yes, vive la

République!David HollingerIn June I finished my term as Chair of the Department and am spending the 2007-08 year on leave thanks to a fellowshipfrom the American Council of Learned Societies. During the past year I have presented papers at a number of scholarlyforums, and delivered keynote addresses at international conferences in Texas, Italy, and Norway. My most recentpublication is "Religious Ideas: Should they be Critically Engaged or Given a Pass?" in REPRESENTATIONS (January2008).Martin JayAmong the highlights of the past year were a number of invited lectures here and abroad: "Historical and AestheticExperience: A 21st-Century Constellation," History Dept, UCB, October, 2006; Conference on Contemporary ArtMuseums, Baeza, Spain, December, 2006; Conference on "Ahistoric Occasions," MASSMoCA, North Adams,Massachusetts, February, 2007; California College of the Arts, San Francisco, April, 2007; "Pseudology: Derrida on Arendton Lying in Politics," Institute for the Humanities, Temple University, October, 2006; Institute for the Humanities, SimonFraser University, Vancouver, Canada, November, 2006; "Scopic Regimes and the 21st-Century Museum," Conference on"Oltra Visualidad" Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA), Spain, November, 2006; "The Virtues ofMendacity: On Lying in Politics," Faculty Research Lecture, UCB, February, 2007; Berkeley Foundation, May, 2007;University of Wroclaw, Poland, June, 2007; Conference on 'The Politics of the Past'. Jyvaskyla, Finland, June, 2007;European University of St. Petersburg, Russia, June, 2007.I also published the following texts: "Taking on the Stigma of Inauthenticity: Adorno's Critique of Genuineness," New GermanCritique, 97 (Winter, 2006); and Theory as Variation, eds. R. Radharishnan et al. (Delhi, India, 2007); "Ocularity," inSensorium: Embodied Experience, Technology, and Contemporary Art, ed., Caroline A. Jones (MIT Press, Cambridge,Mass. 2006); Reprint of "Cultural Relativism and the Visual Turn," in Images: A Reader, eds. Sunil Manghani, Arthur Piperand Jon Simons (Sage, London, 2006); Korean translation of "Must Justice Be Blind? The Challenges of Images to theLaw," in Bol, 4 (Seoul, Winter, 2006); Spanish translation of "Force Fields and Theorization of Intellectual History: A Replyto Fritz Ringer," Prismas, 10 (Quilmes, Argentina, 2006); "No State of Grace: Violence in the Garden," Sites Unseen:Landscape and Vision, eds. Dianne Harris and D. Fairchild Ruggles (Pittsburgh, 2007); "1990: Straddling a Watershed?" (inRussian), New Literary Review (Moscow, Russia), spring, 2007; Interview, European University Newsletter (St.Petersburg, Russia), June, 2007 Interview, Tygodnik Powszechny, Krakow, Poland, July 1, 2007.David S. KeightleyI have virtually finished my latest book: "Working for His Majesty." I just have to find a publsher.Leon LitwackIn announcing to my colleagues that I planned to retire in May 2007 after forty three years at Berkeley, I told them, "I intendto continue lecturing (when invited), writing, and rockin'." I taught History 7B in the spring semester for the last time. That ishard to believe. The semester was memorable in many ways. I was presented the Golden Apple Award by UC Berkeleystudents (the only student-initiated teaching prize), and I was asked by the Department to give the commencement address inMay. It was, as usual, a very busy semester, giving a welcome address to incoming freshmen, meeting for dessert anddiscussion with students at the Clark Kerr campus (part of the Secret Lives of Professors program), addressing the Regents'and Chancellor's Scholars luncheon, traveling to Park University, Missouri, to keynote the Midwest Phi Alpha Theta

Conference, meeting with the Golden Key Society chapter at UC, and speaking to the Regents and Chancellor's ScholarsAssociation (RCSA). In April, at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Minneapolis(commemorating its bicentennial) I participated in a panel, "The OAH and the Teaching of History in the Schools andColleges," and in the Plenary Session on "[OAH] Presidential Memories." I have also continued my work with high schoolteachers of history, speaking in the summer institute sponsored by the UC History-Social Science Project. During thesummer of 2007, I spoke at Stanford to the annual session of The Junior Statesmen Summer School, in September I gavethe James Herndon Lecture at the San Francisco African American Historical and Cultural Society, and in November Ilectured at Kent State University and Oberlin College. In November I also attended the annual convention of the SouthernHistorical Association in Richmond, Virginia, where I was installed as the new president. I was also deeply honored to bedesignated by the SHA the first recipient of the John Hope Franklin Lifetime Achievement Award. (I first met Franklin as hisreader in a course in U.S. social history at UC in the summer of 1957.) I will be giving the presidential address in October2008 at the SHA meeting in New Orleans, and that should coincide with the publication of How Free is Free? The BlackStruggle from Jim Crow to the Present (Harvard Univ. Press), based on the Nathan Huggins lectures. I am now writing thethird volume of my trilogy on the African American experience in the South, Never Turn Back: The Black South and WorldWar II.Maureen MillerAfter spending the entire spring 2007 semester empanelled on a jury in the most boring civil case ever heard in the HaywardCounty Court House, I fled the country. Just in the nick of time, too, since the Vatican Library had announced that it wasclosing for three years, beginning July 15th, in order to undertake a major structural renovation of its palazzo. Undeterred byobvious cracks in the ceiling over our heads in the Sala di Manoscritti and by construction equipment already lurchingmenacingly in the courtyard, I and hundreds of other scholars enjoyed last glimpses of medieval manuscripts from theVatican's incomparable collections. For all that, it was really quite pleasant. I returned with excellent material on vestingprayers and began writing my book on clerical clothing in medieval Rome on a welcome leave supported by a fellowshipfrom the American Council of Learned Societies.Carlos NoreñaI have been on leave this last year, completing my book, The Circulation of Imperial Ideals in the Roman West, on the figureof the Roman emperor as a unifying symbol for the western Roman empire.Sheldon RothblattMy book on the controversies over merit selection, elitism and affirmative action appeared in January 2007 under the title"Education's Abiding Moral Dilemma: Merit and Worth in the Cross-Atlantic Democracies, 1800-2006." The countriesinvolved in the study are England, Scotland and the U.S. I will be giving the keynote address to a conference on privatizationin higher education to be held in January 2008 at the Technion, Haifa, Israel. I have also been invited to give the annual SirDouglas Robb Lectures at the University of Auckland in New Zealand in March 2008. The University is celebrating itsJubilee, and the subject of the lectures will be Clark Kerr, former president of the University of California who died at age 92in 2003.Raphael Sealeytwo scripts of mine were published in the first half of 2007:1. an article: "Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 57.4: Trial of Animals and Inanimate Objects for Homicide," in Classical Quarterly56 (2006)475-485,

2. a chapter: "Democratic Theory and Practice," in Loren J. Samons II, ed.: "The Cambridge Companion to the Age ofPericles," 238-257.Ethan ShaganBesides the not inconsiderable task of winning a job at UC Berkeley (hooray!), I published two scholarly articles in 2007:"Protestant Radicalism and Political Thought in the Reign of Henry VIII" in the journal Past and Present, and "The TwoRepublics: Conflicting Views of Participatory Local Government in Early Tudor England" in an edited collection onrepublicanism in early modern England. In between diaper changes and episodes of Sesame Street, I also managed to givetalks in Oxford, Chicago, and Minnesota and occasionally work on my book.Yuri SlezkineI gave talks in Washington, Moscow, Jerusalem, and Nottingham (UK); took the Zhmerinka Express from Kiev toVinnytsia; failed to witness the filming of Taras Bulba in Kamianets-Podylskyi because one of the actors got drunk; translatedthe Russian translation of my first book back into Russian; and devoted the rest of my time to presiding over Berkeley'sInstitute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.Randolph StarnI continue to find retirement heady work by laptop in Berkeley and on the road for talks, research, and editorial or awardscommittee assignments in New York, Turin, and Paris. In 2007 I published articles on Renaissance art and historiographyand, in connection with an ongoing project, "Authenticating the Past," on historical chronologies and museum history. Havingwritten about museums, I finally had my real-world apprenticeship as co-organizer (with the Open Society Archives of theCentral European University in Budapest) of a multinational, multimedia exhibition. The show on the explosion of interest inreal and imagined medieval pasts in post-Communist East Central Europe opened in November 2007 at the TownsendCenter for the Humanities, and plans are to have it travel to other venues in this country and abroad: see "The ContagiousMiddle Ages Comes to Berkeley".

Friends of Cal History Annual Newsletter 2007Notes from the History Graduate AssociationHistory of Science graduate student Emily Hamilton reports on the History Graduate Association's activities during the fallsemester and the group's plans for the spring.This year, the History Graduate Association is running a number of new programs for the graduate community, as well ashistory undergraduates and faculty and staff of the History Department. The HGA has instituted a series of panel colloquia onmethodology and historical focus, with an aim of offering students a forum to discuss current trends in the field with interestedfaculty. The first in the series, a panel titled "Going Global: The world history perspective" was led by professors Alan Karrasand Mark Healey. This panel was a resounding success, and set the stage for the next three panels of the semester, all ofwhich enjoyed a great turnout and a stimulating question-and-answer period following the presentations. These panels were"Talking History: Working with oral histories" (Richard Cándida Smith and Vic Geraci); "Building on the Past: What is urbanhistory" (David Henkin and Robin Einhorn); "Rethinking the Past: New perspectives in history" (James Vernon and PaulaFass.) To follow this programming, the HGA is excited to announce a dissertation colloquia series planned for the spring, inwhich advanced graduate students will present their original research, writing strategies, funding resources, and other topicsrelated to the dissertation stage.The HGA is also hosting a number of social events throughout the year to create a greater sense of community among thedepartment's graduate students. We have had great success so far with our first events. To kick off the year, the HGAhosted the Welcome Reception for faculty, staff, graduate students, and friends of the History Department. This first evendrew a large crowd and, with the help of the faculty, new events were implemented into the program to help our expansivecommunity get to know one another. The Department also sponsored a number of different prizes, including books, giftcertificates, and the wildly popular "Lunch with a Professor." Following this, the HGA had great turnouts at the First YearBarbeque and a Cal Bears kick-off party, as well as a number of informal gatherings for graduate students that were heldthroughout the semester as an opportunity for socializing, relaxing, and enjoying a bite to eat. The spring semester promisesto hold more events, including the much anticipated return of the Historians' Classic Basketball Game between students andfaculty.The members of this year's HGA are Jon Cole, Emily Hamilton, Hannah Murphy, Sam Redman, Jeff Wolf, and Phil Wolgin.Many events are open to alumni. Please feel free to contact any of the members for more information.

Friends of Cal History Annual Newsletter 2007Undergrads in the FieldThe following students were among many who undertook research travel, supported by the Friends of Cal History, whilepreparing their theses as history majors.Scott AltoRecognizing the absence of comprehensive histories concerning California's role in the American Civil War, I decided towrite my thesis on what happened in California during the war. I wrote about the state's volunteer troops to argue thatCalifornia was vital to the Union war effort. My thesis discusses the constant fear of attacks that would disrupt thetransportation of gold and silver to the East and the multiple wartime activities of California soldiers (including limited action inthe East and the occupation of Arizona and New Mexico after a Confederate invasion of the territory). One of the mostinteresting subjects of my thesis was an early War Department plan to invade Texas via Mexico using California troops. Theplan was scrapped due to the Confederate invasion of New Mexico.I was very fortunate to have the funds from the Department's travel program. The funds allowed me to meet with experts inChico and to make several visits to Sacramento to visit the California State Military Museum and the state's archives. Thesetrips made my thesis stronger. I hope to keep working on the topic (even though I have turned in my thesis) so that a gap inCalifornia's history can filled.Joseph BoertieMy research looked at the military and civil defense measures taken between the years 1939 to 1974 in the San FranciscoBay Area. Instead of dealing with the pleasantries of civility normally focused on between nations, my research went into themeasures the United States undertook in reaction to hostile relationships with foreign countries. As the twentieth centurywore on, the United States' global military responsibilities grew and consequently ever more dangerous enemy threatscoalesced, and so the nation needed to develop protective efforts to negate the dangers of foreign attack. The massivedefensive expansion from slit trenches to ward off invasion assaults in the 1940's and into the Nike missiles, which couldshoot down ICBMs, shows the range of defenses employed. However, though the defensive weaponry and militaryoperations manifested into a highly technological state of readiness, their eventual obsolescence has left most bunkers andoutposts in disrepair around the Bay Area. We live in an age where there is little defense against a determined enemy. Theremnants of previous endeavors for national defense are all around the San Francisco Bay Area and can be visited by thesmallest toddler. Since the dissolution of the Nike missile system in 1974, the United States has not had a viable defensivemeasure against nuclear annihilation. Though my paper does not go into future policy, I believe it ends questioning the futuredefensive viability that can be measured strictly by concrete and the diameter of a gun barrel.I was able to conduct a good deal of my research on campus, using the Ethnic Studies Library, Environmental DesignLibrary, Main Stacks, Moffitt Library, and Bancroft Archives. With the opportunity afforded by the research grant, I tookmy paper further by visiting the one Nike missile sit remaining in the Bay Area, talking with the rangers and looking throughthe missile magazine underground. Also, the details required by my paper spurred me to conduct research at the PresidioArchives. Without the research grant, it would have been extremely difficult to make my paper the way I wanted it to turnout.

Brianna BrickerAfter studying the ancient Mediterranean since freshman year, Iwrote my 103 seminar research paper on the Parthenon, butsubmitted it feeling entirely unqualified to write on the timelesstemple without ever having seen it. For my 101 thesis I turned againto this monument, but this time with new questions and as acomparison to its archaic predecessor. My trip to Athens wasinvaluable for my thesis, as it allowed me to conduct originalresearch and rely less on modern scholars. I spent four days battlingschool crowds and tour groups in museums and on archaeologicalsites for a firsthand look at contemporary iconography, gaining abetter understanding of spatial aspects in the process. Despite theswarms and scaffolding, my time on the Acropolis allowed me totrace the sacred route of the ancient Athenians and view the marble masterpieces as they would have, getting more into theirmindset than any book would allow. Two layovers later and in need of much sleep, I arrived back home confident and moreinspired than ever to work on my thesis and apply what I had absorbed during my stay.Libby KennedyWhen I enrolled in my History 101 class, I knew that I wanted to research Argentina's relationship with the military and itsmemory of the dictatorship (1976-1983) during democracy. During the year that I studied in Buenos Aires this was a topicthat I found fascinating because it seemed to be constantly present despite the fact that the dictatorship had ended overtwenty years ago. I contemplated different ways in which I could research this difficult topic and I decided to look intocomics. I love the humor genre because it is so particular to the time and place in which it was created. Thus, I specificallychose to look at the representations of the military found in comics during the post-dictatorship period. I also limited myscope to newspaper comics because these provided an immediate response and interpretation of the events of thesetumultuous years. After researching which libraries had the newspapers I needed, I originally thought I would have to go toAustin, Texas. However, on a whim I went with a group of students to Stanford and discovered that the Hoover Institute hadjust received a collection of Argentine newspapers on microfilm which were yet to be catalogued. While the collection wasspotty, it did have most of the dates that I needed to complete my research. So, for the next few weeks I would make myway to Stanford—a trip that most of us undergraduate researchers are all too familiar with! And the comics did notdisappoint: ridiculous and biting in their commentary, they gave me insight into the ways in which Argentine humor hasgrappled with the legacy of the military.Linda NybergSeptember and October were especially hot this year. The sun bore down from a cloudless sky, mocking me as the DD280series found a new home on my bedroom floor, away from the sleek Main Library shelves. I had started with a simple ideaananalysis of October 7, 1964, one relatively normal day in East Berlin-but it soon evaporated in the heat. Instead ofexamining one day, I would study time itself.But time is a slippery subject, one that has vexed philosophers, anthropologists, sociologists, and psychologists alike. Andhistorians, though their craft is based in particular understanding of time, have generally shied away from its discussion. Madeaware of the existence of a History Department travel grant just two days before the deadline, I knew I had to apply. Iwould need to go to great lengths to study the experience of time in East Germany; I would have to go to Berlin.And thanks to the travel grant, I could. On October 10, I left sunny Berkeley for a cloudy, 40-degree Berlin. Unfortunately,

several of the interviews I had planned came to naught, although I did have the opportunity to interview former East Germancitizen Irmtraut Petersson, whose experiences I made extensive use of in my thesis. Also valuable was my visit to theDeutsches Rundfunkarchiv (Archive of German Broadcasting or DRA) in Potsdam, where I watched footage from EastGerman anniversary celebrations with the helpful support of DRA historians. Upon my return to Berkeley on October 15, theoppressive sun had given way to a comforting drizzle. I was ready to write.

pFriends of Cal History Annual Newsletter 2007Notes from Phi Alpha ThetaUndergraduate student Stephanie Krol reports on the activites of the history honor society, Phi Alpha Theta.Phi Alpha Theta (PHAT) is the University of California-Berkeley's undergraduate history honor society. The primary goal ofPHAT is to provide a means for history students to come together in a variety of academic, scholarly, and social settings.PHAT organizes many events during both the Spring and Fall Semesters. Many of the popular functions the organization putstogether include: visits from guest lecturers (often history department faculty) discussing various topics and historicalconcepts, a student-faculty dinner that gives undergraduates a chance to meet their professors outside of the classroom, andan upcoming "101 Circus" that will allow students to present the topics of their history honor theses to fellow students andfaculty. Overall, PHAT attempts to enrich the experience of all history students by helping to enhance interaction betweenundergraduates and the history department's larger academic community. Take a look at some pictures from our latestevents!

Friends of Cal History Annual Newsletter 2007Fall 2006Master of ArtsRachel Deborah BernardAlejandra DubcovskyMelisa Catarina GalvanStephen Gerard GrossDaniel MellenoDoctor of PhilosophyJason Randolph AmbroiseLauren Ashley AraizaWinson W ChuKavita Saraswathi DatlaRuben FloresAaron Charles FreundschuhKristin L HuffineEric Gregory KlockoKaren Ann Mc NeillNita Verma PrasadMelissa Mary PtacekTimothy Francis RoseGerard Henry SasgesDavid Andrew Michael SpaffordKathleen Anne StewartSpring 2007Master of ArtsHelaine Debra BlumenthalBrandon Scott CohenAfshin DarianDesmond Fitz-GibbonJed Shaver-Rivera FolandMichael Andrew GonzalesBlake Spenser JohnsonAndrew Prescott KeatingRecent Degree Recipients

Filippo MarsiliMackenzie Katherine Lee MooreMiriam Beth NeirickKnightcarl RaymondAriel RonLena SalaymehJulian Thiesfeldt SaltmanDoctor of PhilosophyThabiti A AsukileStephen Christopher BrainCorrie Ruth DeckerEydoxios DoxiadisAmy Aisen ElouafiJacqueline Lee FriedlanderMichelle Tien KingJoyce MaoMiriam Beth NeirickMary Clay OshatzCharity Leah Urbanski

Friends of Cal History Annual Newsletter 2007Recent Job PlacementsName Field Job ObtainedChristopher L. Agee United States U Colorado - DenverAmy Aisen Middle East Syracuse University*Stephen Brain Late Modern Europe Mississippi State University*Jennifer Burns United States F07Postdoc Hoover Inst (Stanford) F08 Univ of Virginia*Winson Chu Late Modern Europe U Wisconsin - Milwaukee*Corrie Decker Africa Lehman College*Evdoxios Doxiadis Late Modern Europe Postdoc PrincetonLouise Nelson Dyble United States U Southern California, Assc Dir Research, Keston Inst.Andrea S. Goldman East Asia China Univ. of Maryland College Park*John Holmes Late Modern Europe San Francisco State UniversitySarah Jackson United States Colorado U - Boulder, Ctr Amer.West-Fac Res AssocAndrew Jewett United States Harvard University*Lisa Kaborycha Early Modern Europe Postdoc 3y Medici Archive Project (Florence, Italy)Eric Klocko United States Monterey Peninsula College (Librarian)James Krapfl Late Modern Europe McGill University*Seung-Joon Lee East Asia China Singapore University*Joyce Mao United States Northern Kentucky University*Dalia Muller Latin America Loyola Marymount (L.A.)*Miriam Neirick Early Modern Europe Cal State Univ-Northridge*Molly Oshatz United States Florida State U*Lubna Qureshi United States Postdoc Northwestern UShakhar Rahav East Asia China University of Haifa*Padraig Riley United States Postdoc NY Historical Society & New School lecturerDon Romesburg United States Sonoma State University (Lect) Women's StudiesGerard Sasges Late Modern Europe Ohio University*Kevin M. Schultz United States U Illinois - Chicago*William Scott United States University of DelawareDavid Spafford East Asia Japan University of Washington*Justin Suran United States Modesto CollegeDeborah H. Yalen Late Modern Europe F07 postdoc U Michigan; F08 Colorado St. U-Fort Collins** denotes tenure track position

Friends of Cal History Annual Newsletter 2007DonorsAll of us in the department are enormously grateful to the people and organizations listed below for generous gifts during thepast year. We couldn't do without you.Please note that we have included in a separate list the donors to the Frederic E. Wakeman, Jr. Graduate Student SupportFund. Their gifts honor a beloved colleague and monumental scholar who died on September 14, 2006. We shall long mournhim.We urge all within our extended circle to consider tax-deductible contributions to the department of any amount. They areused overwhelmingly for the support of undergraduate and graduate research, though may be directed by donors to otherspecific purposes. Donors may make contributions via the Web (click the box "Give to History" on the left side of mostdepartment web pages) or by mail (please make out checks to the Regents of UC and send them to the Department ofHistory, University of California, Berkeley CA 94720-2550).Major GiftsAnonymousThe Leonard Pearlman FundBarbara & Thomas R. MetcalfJoan P. & Malcolm Cochrane RossDoris G. Quinn FoundationSilicon Valley Community FoundationFrederic E. WakemanUp to $10,000AnonymousPaul ClarkBeatriz & Peter Mark EsparzaBeth L. Kelly & Roy Steven GeigerCarol Diane SocFrances and Randolph StarnErik Michael & Pamela Ryan SternbergUp to $1,000Stephen H. AbelCarol Lee AllenElizabeth C. & Peter Joseph AltieriJudith L. AndersonMargaret L. Anderson & James J. SheehanMilton C. Axt

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Friends of Cal History Annual Newsletter 2007Photo (and Movie) GalleryHoliday Party (December 13, 2007)View a movie of Professor John Efron's musical performance at the party!