Faculty Achievements

Charles Postel's new book, The Populist Vision (Oxford University Press, 2007) has won the Frederick Jackson Turner Award AND the Bancroft Prize!!

Afshin Marashi has published Nationalizing Iran: Culture, Power, and the State, 1870-1940 (University of Washington Press, 2008).

Aaron Cohen has published Imagining the Unimaginable: World War, Modern Art, and the Politics of Public Culture in Russia, 1914-1917 (University of Nebraska Press, 2008)

Arthur Williamson has published Apocalypse Then: Prophecy and the Making of the Modern World (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2008)

Professors Chloe Burke and Chris Castaneda co-edited a special issue of The Public Historian (Summer 2007) on the history of eugenics and co-authored the introductory article, "The Public and Private History of Eugenics: An Introduction." The issue includes Professor Becky Kluchin's article "Locating the Voices of the Sterilized." The Public Historian is published by the University of California Press and is available on-line at http://caliber.ucpress.net/loi/tph.

Professor Mona Siegel presented two invited lectures at Stanford University on January 18th. The first, "History and Collective Memory," was presented to the nationalism seminar of the Asia-Pacific Research Center. The second, "History, Memory, and Reconciliation in France and Asia: Lessons for Asia" was jointly sponsored by Stanford's Asia-Pacific Research Center and European Forum.

Professor Lee Simpson and Public History PhD candidate Paul Sandul have co-authored a pictorial history of Fair Oaks. The work, published by Arcadia, was published in January.

Professor Arthur Williamson has recently co-edited a volume titled Shaping the Stuart World, 1603-1714: The Atlantic Connection (Leiden, 2006). The volume, co-edited with Allan Macinnes of the University of Aberdeen, includes an essay by Prof. Williamson titled "Education, Culture, and the Scottish Civic Tradition." He will also deliver an address to the Humanists of Roseville on Sunday, May 5th, titled "Religion and Barbarism (again): The Decline of Public Life and the Rise of Transcendent Religion, 1975-2005."

Professor Jeffrey Dym was recently awarded a prestigious Fulbright research fellowship to pursue his research on Japanese paper play theater (Kamishibai). He will be spending the Spring 2007 semester in Japan carrying out his research.

On February 20th, Professor Joseph Palermo spoke on local radio station KFBK, AM 1530, on the significance of President's Day.

The Spring 2006 "Heroes of Capitalist Labor" award has been symbolically awarded to Lecturer Loretta Reed for the largest enrollments across all her classes (220 students). This semester, she is teaching the most number of students for any faculty member in the Department.

runners up:
Scott Lupo (161)
Al Holland (129)
Philip DiMare (128)

Professor Loretta Reed will present a talk at San Francisco State University titled "In the Eye of the Beholder: Perceptions of the Beautiful and the Grotesque in the Classical World." Her talk is part of a lecture series being sponsored by the Classics Department.

Professor Afshin Marashi was an invited lecturer at Princeton University's Near Eastern Studies department in February. The title of his talk was "Imagining Hafez: Rabindranath Tagore in Iran, 1932." He will also be among the presenters at a conference at UC Davis on modern Iranian history and culture titled, "Modern Iran: Film, Photography, Poetry, and Nation." The conference will be held on May 17th from 4-8pm at the UC Davis International House.

Former CSUS lecturer Kathleen Cairns is now teaching at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. She has a new book coming out on Nellie Madison, the first woman on death row in California. It will be published in spring 2007 by the University of Nebraska Press.

Patrick Ettinger has an article forthcoming in the Western Historical Quarterly (Summer 2006) titled "‘We sometimes wonder what they will spring on us next’: Immigrants and Border Enforcement in the American West, 1882-1930."

Becky Kluchin is giving a paper at the annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM) on May 5th. The conference is being held in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The title of the paper is "Collaborative Efforts: The Movement to Regulate Contraceptive Sterilization in the United States, 1970-1980."

Mona Siegel presented the paper "Paroles féministes et pacifistes en temps de la Grande guerre" (Feminist and pacifist words during the Great War) at an international colloquium in Carcassonne, France (April 21-22, 2006). She will be presenting an English-language version of the paper at Sacramento State on May 7 as part of the humanities conference "Artful Strategies and Negotiated Risks: Gender and Identity across Borders and Disciplines." For more information on this upcoming conference, go to http://www.csus.edu/hum/conference2006/index.html.

Michael Vann presented a paper, "When Post-Colonialism is Not Funny: Identity and Empire in the Cartoons of the Prophet Controversy," at a College of Arts and Letters colloquium sponsored by Dean Jeffrey Mason on May 3rd.

Arthur Williamson is giving a paper at the University of St. Andrews on July 10th as part of a conference on the political theorist George Buchanan (1506-1582) and the early modern Atlantic World. The paper has the title, "George Buchanan and 'the Patriot Cause'."