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PERSONNEL In the Fall of 2008 the department welcomed Dr. Frank Wetta to the resident faculty. Dr. Wetta takes over operations of the department's KeanOcean program. He is veteran faculty member with multiple publications and extensive teaching and administrative experience. In the Fall of 2007 the history department added three new resident faculty members whose specialties have added significantly to the department’s already wide range of disciplines and course offerings: Dr. Elizabeth Hyde (Renaissance-Reformation and early modern Europe), Dr. Jonathan Mercantini (Colonial America), and Dr. Brian Regal (History of science, technology and medicine). See the history department’s faculty webpage for more details on these new additions. 2008-2009 Detailed list of faculty activities TEACHING
SCHOLARSHIPThe record of scholarly publication or presentation in the History Department has been especially impressive over 2005-2009. Faculty edited or authored 20 published books (including an e-book), and multiple articles and reviews in prestigious journals; they also took part in dozens of paper presentations and public history projects.
Books: Argote-Freyre, Frank, A Brief History of the Caribbean (2008), co-authored with Danilo Figueredo. Argote-Freyre, Frank, Fulgencio Batista: From Revolutionary to Strongman (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2006). Bellitto, Christopher, 101 Questions & Answers on Popes and the Papacy, (2008) Bellitto, Christopher, Ten Ways the Church Has Changed (Pauline Books and Media, 2006). Bellitto, Christopher, co-editor, Reforming the Church Before Modernity: Patterns, Problems, and Approaches (Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing, 2005). Esposito, Frank, and Tara Preston, Manhattan’s Musical Heritage (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2005). Esposito, Frank, and Donald Lokuta, Victorian New Jersey: Photographs by Guillermo Thorn (Union, NJ: Kean University, 2005). Hyde, Elizabeth, Cultivated Power: Flowers, Culture, and Politics in the Reign of Louis XIV (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005) was the recipient of 2007 Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Award from the Society of Architectural Historians for most distinguished work of scholarship in the history of landscape architecture or garden design. Klein, Dennis, editor, Empire and Cultural Conquests/ Comparative Cultures Journal E-book of student/faculty papers (http://www.kean.edu/~orsp/online_ journal/comp_journal.htm), 2005. Klein, Dennis, editor, The Genocidal Mind (New York: Paragon House, 2005) Lender, Mark Edward, “This Honorable Court”: The United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, 1789-2000 (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006).Lender, Mark Edward and James Kirby Martin, “Á Respectable Army”: The Military Origins of the Republic, 1763-178. Second Edition (Arlington Heights, IL: Harlan Davidson, 2006).Mercantini, Jonathan, Who Shall Rule at Home?: The Evolution of South Carolina Political Culture, 1748-1776 (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007).Regal, Brian, Icons of Evolution, 2 volume (Greenwood, 2008). Regal, Brian, Human Evolution: a guide to the debates (ABC-CLIO, 2005). Spaulding, Jay, The Heroic Age in Sinnar. Second English edition, Asmara, Eritrea: Red Sea Press, 2007. Spaulding, Jay, The Sudanese Travels of Theodoro Krump, selected for inclusion by ALUKA, the leading online source for Africa, 2008. Spaulding, Jay, editor, Dimensions of Gender in the Sudan, special issue of Northeast African Studies (new series), Vol. 8, No. 2 (2001 [appeared 2005]). Spaulding, Jay and Stephanie Beswick, editors, Women in the Horn of Africa, special issue of Northeast African Studies (new series), Vol. 8, No. 3 (2001[appeared 2006]).Articles/Chapters Klein, Dennis. “Trauma and Forgiveness,” in Proceedings of the 7th Annual Rocky Mountain Disaster Mental Health Conference, ed. George W. Doherty, Laramie, WY: Rocky Mountain Region Disaster Mental Health Institute, Inc., 2009; "Freud's Little Secret: Birthday Musings on 'the Master' at 150," Yale Review. Vol. 95, no. 3. July, 2007; "The Movies: Notes on the Ethnic Origins of an American Obsession," in Jews in American Popular Culture . Volume 1. Ed. Paul Buhle, Westport, CT : Praeger, 2007, 1-11; and "Antisemitism: A Modern Canon," Report of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (2006). Two new online installments in Comparative Studies Journal (gen. ed. D. Klein): The Bystander: On the Politics of Disengagement (2008) and Peace: Its Conceptions and Conditions (forthcoming): http://orsp.kean.edu/Klein.html. "The New Social Contract," 6-part series for the New Jersey Jewish News and the Anglo-Jewish wire service Jewish Telegraphic Agency (January-June, 2006). Lender, Mark Edward, “The ‘Cockpit’ Reconsidered: Revolutionary New Jersey as a Military Theater,” in Barbara Mitnick, ed., New Jersey in the American Revolution (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005). “Photographers and Historians: An Introduction,” pp. 8-10, in Esposito, Frank, and Donald Lokuta, Victorian New Jersey: Photographs by Guillermo Thorn (Union, NJ: Kean University, 2005). Regal, Brian, "Entering Dubious Realms: Grover Krantz, Science and Sasquatch," Annals of Science 66:1 (January, 2009). "Amateur Versus Professional: the search for Bigfoot," Endeavour 32:2 (June 2008): 53-57. “Monkey Trials,” “Piltdown and the Almost Men,” “Peking Man,” and “Intelligent Design,” in Icons of Evolution (Greenwood, 2008). Spaulding, Jay, "Suakin: A Small City of the Early Modern Sudan," in Kenneth Hall, ed., Secondary Cities and Urban Networking in the Indian Ocean Realm, c. 1000-1800. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, forthcoming 2008.) "The Pardon of Hasan Rajab," Sudan Studies Association Bulletin, Vol. 25, No. 2 (April 2007), 21-25. "Pastoralism, Slavery, Commerce, Culture and the Fate of the Nubians of Northern and Central Kordofan under Dar Fur Rule, c. 1750 - c. 1850," International Journal of African Historical Studies 39, 3 (2006), 393-412. “The Micropolitics of Elite Marriage on Echo Island,” in Spaulding, Dimensions of Gender, pp. 23-34. “Conflict in Dar Fur: a View from the Old Sudan,” Sudan Studies Association Newsetter, Vol. 24, No. 2 (February 2006), pp. 21-23. Contributions to reference works: “Badi IV,” Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, Vol. 1 (2005), 430; “Dongola,” Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, Vol. 2 (2005), 191; “Funj,” Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, Vol. 2 (2005), 591-592. Spaulding, Jay and Lidwien Kapteijns, “The Conceptualization of Land Tenure in the Precolonial Sudan: Evidence and Interpretation,” in Donald Crummey, ed., Land, Literacy and the State in Sudanic Africa (Asmara: Red Sea Press, 2005), pp. 21-41. Reviews/Review Essays: Hyde, Elizabeth, Luke Morgan, Nature as Model: Salomon de Caus and Early Seventeenth-Century Landscape Design. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007, American Historical Review. 113.1 (February 2008): 262-263. Lender, Mark Edward, Review of Taverns and Drinking in Early America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 2002), by S.V. Salinger, in American Historical Review, April 2005, 513-14. Review of A Proper Sense of Honor: Service and Sacrifice in George Washington’s Army (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004), by Caroline Cox, in American Historical Review, October 2005, 1165-66. Review of Spirits of America: A Social History of Alcohol (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004), by Eric Burns, in Indiana Magazine of History 102. No. 1 (2006), 54-56. Mercantini, Jonathan, The Dawn of Religion Freedom in South Carolina, James Lowell Underwood and W. Lewis Burke, eds., (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006) American Journal of Legal History, November, 2007.Regal, Brian, Review of Marianne Sommer’s “Bones and Ochre: the Curious Afterlife of the Red Lady of Paviland,” Isis 100:1(2009): 188-189.
Papers/Presentations (selected listing only): Bellitto, Christopher, “Per viam rationis…per legem vite: Pierre d’Ailly and the Last of the Fathers.” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo MI, May 2006; “The Early Church as Model Church: Nicolas de Clamanges and the ecclesia primitiva.” American Catholic Historical Association, Philadelphia PA, January 2006; and “Church History Today: Comforting the Afflicted and Afflicting the Comfortable.” Villanova University, September 2005. Gronewold, Sue Ellen, “Sentiments of Hope: Relations of Rescue Remembered and Reinterpreted at a Shanghai Mission,” Conference on Gender, Culture, and Power: Chinese and Western Women Interact in Late Imperial and Modern China, Ricci Center of the University of San Francisco, 2006. (paper has been accepted as one of the chapters in a forthcoming volume to be published by the Ricci Center as a result of the conference); “New Life/New Faith/New Women: Competing Images of Modernity at Shanghai’s Door of Hope,” Oxford University’s Rothermere American Institute on “Competing Kingdoms: Women, Mission, Nation, and American Empire 1812-1938,” 2006. Klein, Dennis, “Living with Genocide: Expressions of Forgiveness in Post-Traumatic Testimonies,” Keynote Address, 29th Annual Millersville University Conference (2009); “Witnesses: Narratives and Counter-Narratives,” CUNY Graduate Center (2009); “Forgiveness in Holocaust Survivor Testimonies,” University of Wyoming (2008); “Forgiveness and Trauma,” Rocky Mountain Disaster Mental Health Association (Laramie, WY, 2008); “The Secret Life of Forgiveness: Re-Reading Holocaust Survivor Memoirs,” Association for Jewish Studies (Washington, DC, 2008); “’Deep Memory’ Testimony: Origins of Forgiveness,” Creativity and Madness Conference (Santa Fe, 2008); and six talks in London during a 6-month, 2006 sabbatical leave. Most recent book is The Genocidal Mind (Paragon House, 2005). Book in progress: “The Secret Life of Forgiveness: Re-Reading Holocaust Survivors’ Testimonies.” "The Secret Life of Forgiveness: Re-Reading Holocaust Survivor Memoirs," Association for Jewish Studies (Washington, DC, 2008. "'Deep Memory' Testimony: Origins of Forgiveness," Creativity and Madness Conference (Santa Fe, 2008). "The Present Moral Climate of Forgiveness." Two-Part Seminar, Lakeside (Ohio) Chautuaqua Forum (2008). "70 Years Later: Kristallnacht and the Question of Forgiveness," Ocean Community College Holocaust Commemoration keynote (2008)"The Return of Repressed Memory: Freud and Other Jews at the Genesis of Psychoanalysis," Institute of Contemporary History at the Wiener Library (February 15); "Antisemitism: A Modern Canon," Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (February 22); "The Conversion Fantasy in Modern Jewish History," European Studies Centre of St. Antony's College, Oxford University (March 7); "Jews and Jersey: Origins of the Motion Picture Industry," University of Kent (April 2) ; "Freud's Struggle with Judaism," Leo Baeck College (April 27); "Freud and Judaism: Some Observations on Denial, Distortion, and Illumination," The Freud Museum (May 2); "Freud's "Jewish National Affair": Dreams, Myths, and Their Obsolescence," Kingloss Learning Centre (May 30). Dr. Klein also taught two seminars at the London Jewish Cultural Centre: "Origins of the Political Antisemitism" and “Freud’s `Jewish National Affair’.” Lender, Mark Edward, “The Historiography of the Lower Federal Courts,” Historical Society of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey,” 6 June 2006, Newark, NJ. Regal, Brian, "Where Have all the Werewolves Gone? Darwinian Evolution and the Image of the Monstrous," Annual Meeting British Society for the History of Science (BSHS), Leicester, UK, July, 2009. "Writing Letters about Monsters: Fans Confront a Scientist about Bigfoot," Three Societies Meeting, Oxford University, July 4-6, 2008. "Crackpots and Eggheads: The Search for Anomalous Primates," Darwin Theater, Grant Museum, University College London, UK, July 10, 2008. “Scientific Authority in Dubious Realms: Grover Krantz and the Anomalous Primates,” History of Science Society (HSS) annual meeting, Washington, DC, November 7-9, 2007.
Spaulding, Jay, Chaired panels and presented
papers at the Sudan Studies Association Meetings in 2007 (Providence, RI)
and 2008 (Tallahassee, FL). Sponsored website: “The Ironworking Industry of Precolonial Nubian Kordofan,” at http://www.kean.edu/~jspauldi/KORDOFANIRON.HTML Chaired panels and read papers at the 2005 and 2006 meetings of both the African Studies Association and the Sudan Studies Association.
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Manuscripts Reviewed
Spaulding, Jay, African Studies Review
Public History Projects: Banit, Thomas, Curator, New Jerseyans on the New Jersey. Exhibit mounted aboard USS New Jersey, based on over twenty interviews; opened in fall 2005. Lender, Mark Edward and Esposito, Frank J., “Far from Normal: A Sesquicentennial History of Kean University,” Kean Magazine, 150th Anniversary Issue, 2005, 22-35, 65. This article was reprinted in Parade (Newark Star-Ledger) as part of the University’s 150th anniversary publicity effort. Lender, Mark Edward, Chief Historian, “New Jersey World War II Memorial Project,” 2006, contract with New Jersey Historical Commission/New Jersey Council for the Arts to write the project narrative and collaborate with exhibit designers on photographic selections.
Grants and Awards:Banit, Thomas, Battleship New Jersey grant, to produce history teacher materials based on the oral history program for the ship (conducted 100 interviews), the Paul Stillwell Collection, and the Veterans Oral History Project of the Library of Congress. Materials will be suitable for the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards in Social Studies.Gronewold, Sue Ellen, National Consortium on Teaching about Asia Grant. Project supported a 30-hour course at Kean University for New Jersey teachers, “Seminar on Teaching East Asian History,” ID 5000. As a teacher in the NCTA program Gronewold was asked to be the China scholar for the New York teachers’ trip to East Asia in 2005. Klein, Dennis, Fulbright Senior Specialist award for research and program collaboration in the United Kingdom, and the 2008 Schering-Plough Research Mentor Award. Also named to two editorial boards in 2008-09: Prism: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Holocaust Educators and Equity in Education. Founder and chair of the New York Metropolitan Faculty and Graduate Student Seminar, which meets at the CUNY Graduate Center; 2008-09 theme: “Age of the Witness” Perspectives on Post-Traumatic Testimony.” Also founder and chair of Kean University’s Faculty Seminar; 2009-10 theme: “Testimonies, Memoirs, & Other Perspectives ‘From Below.’” Scholar in Residence at the Ivry Prozdor of the Jewish Theological Seminary. Lender, Mark Edward, Richard J. Hughes Award, from the New Jersey Historical Commission, November 2005; this is the Commission’s highest award for service to New Jersey history. Service/Professional/Related Activity (selected listing only) Banit, Thomas, National Council for the Social Studies Evaluation / NCATE (National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education) of the K-12 B.A. History / Teacher Certification Program. Resulted in an added History review course, Western Civilization II, and the expansion of required History courses to assure inclusion of a course in each of the areas – Africa, Asia, Middle East and Latin America. The K-12 B.A. History / Teacher Certification Program is now fully certified for the next seven years. Bellitto, Christopher, Paulist Press, Academic Editor at Large-- two dozen books currently under contract; creator and series editor of “Rediscovering Vatican II,” an 8-book series being written by a team of scholars from the United States, Great Britain, Italy, and Australia. Media appearances/interviews on papal/church history on CNN, Washington Post Radio, Washington Post, St. Petersburg Times (FL), and Journal News (Westchester County NY). He also coordinated the complete redesign of the History Department's website, now line online at www.kean.edu/~history. Gronewold, Sue Ellen, Kean University Historical Society, adviser. Over 2005-2006, the KHS featured presentations by Profs. Banit, Bellitto, Klein, and others (including off-campus speakers), as well as a trip to the Benjamin Franklin Exhibition at the National Constitution Center, Philadelphia. The KHS also sponsored events at the Constitution Day talks of September 21, 2005 and advertised the society at the Campus Awareness Festival on September 28. Roundtable/conference member, “Facing Asia Through Fiction: Using Novels to Teach about Asia,” at the New York State Asian Studies Conference, 2005. H-NET (History) site participant; site established (H-Women and Global Missions) with Oxford conference participants actively involved in administering the site. College of Humanities and Social Sciences Curriculum Committee, Secretary, 2005-2006; chair, 2006-. Klein, Dennis, appointment to the Editorial Board of Prism: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Holocaust Educators. Speaker series coordinator, David Denby (The New Yorker), James Shapiro (Columbia University); Margaret O’Brien Steinfels (Commonweal Magazine); J.J. Goldberg (The Forward); Andrew Silow-Carroll (New Jersey Jewish News); Jonathan Tobin (Philadelphia Jewish Exponent); Tony Kushner (Playwright); Leonard Lopate (WNYC New York Public Radio). While on sabbatical in London, he was a radio guest: “Freud and Other Jews," radio interview for Spectrum Radio (London), 2006; "Freud and Religion," radio interview for the BBC World Service (London), 2006. Coordinator, Kean University Faculty Seminar on Comparative Cultures, with presentations by Drs. Klein, Spaulding, Gronewold, and others. Jewish Museum of New Jersey, historical consultant. Jewish Studies Program, director. National Catholic Institute for Holocaust Studies, Academic Advisory Board. Lender, Mark Edward, First Vice President, Board of Trustees, Crossroads of the American Revolution Association, 2005-2206. The Crossroads Association is a 501 (c) 3 corporation working to preserve New Jersey open spaces and sites associated with the American Revolution within a legally-designated State Heritage Area, with national designation pending. Visiting Committee [long-range exhibit planning], New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ. Spaulding, Jay, Elected to the Executive Board of the Sudan Studies Association, 2008-2011. Professional Consultations
Spaulding, Jay, Consultant to the Southern Peoples’ Liberation
Army/Movement concerning the Government of the Sudan’s appeal of the report
of the Abyei Boundary Commission before the Permanent Court of Arbitration,
The Hague. (All semester.) |
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