Faculty Achievements
Publications
Books
Pierre Asselin
Vietnam's American War: A History (Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations)
Edward Beasley
The Chartist General: Charles James Napier, The Conquest of Sind, and Imperial Liberalism
Edward J. Blum
The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America
David P. Cline
From Reconciliation to Revolution: The Student Interracial Ministry, Liberal Christianity,
and the Civil Rights Movement
Stephen A. Colston
Imprints on Empire: Henry Wagner, Spain's North America, and a World of Books
Paula De Vos, Daneila Bleichmar, Kristin Huffine, Kevin Sheehan, eds.
Science in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires, 1500-1800
Kathyrn Edgerton-Tarpley
Tears from Iron: Cultural Responses to Famine in Nineteenth-Century China
Sarah S. Elkind
How Local Politics Shape Federal Policy: Business, Power, and the Environment in Twentieth-Century
Los Angeles
Joanne Ferraro
Venice: History of the Floating City
Annika Frieberg and Martin Chung, eds.
Reconciling with the Past: Resources and Obstacles in a Global Perspective
Annika Frieberg
Peace at all Costs: Catholic Intellectuals, Journalists, and Media in Postwar Polish–German
Reconciliation
Howard Kushner
On the Other Hand: Left Hand, Right Brain, Mental Disorder, and History
Lindsay A.H. Parker
Writing the Revolution: A French Woman’s History in Letters
Walter Penrose
Postcolonial Amazons: Female Masculinity and Courage in Ancient Greek and Sanskrit
Literature
John Putman
Class and Gender Politics in Progressive-Era Seattle
Elizabeth Pollard and Clifford Rosenberg
Worlds Together, Worlds Apart Companion Reader. Edition 2
Andrew Wiese and Becky Nicolaides, eds.
The Suburb Reader. Revised Second Edition.
William Earl Weeks
The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations. Volume 1. Dimensions of the
Early American Empire, 1754–1865.
Recent Articles and Chapters
Beasley, Edward. 2017. "British Views of Canada at the Time of Confederation," in Jacqueline D. Krikorian, Marcel Martel, and Adrian Schubert (eds), Globalizing Confederation: Canada and the World in 1867 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017): 161-177.
DeVos, Paula, “Methodological Challenges in Compiling the Nahua Pharmacopoeia” History of Science Volume 55, Issue 2, 2017, pp. 210-233.
DeVos, Paula, “Apothecaries, Artists, and Artisans: Early Industrial Material Culture in the Biological Old Regime” Journal of Interdisciplinary History Volume 45, Issue 3, Winter 2015, pp. 277-336. Nominated by the journal for the 2014 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians History Article Prize.
Edgerton-Tarpley, Kathryn. 2018. “饥饿符号学：从新文化史看灾害史研究” [The Semiotics of Starvation: New Cultural History Approaches to Disaster Studies], translated by Zhang Xia. In 灾荒与历史 [Disasters and History] 1 (October 2018): 1-18.
Edgerton-Tarpley, Kathryn. 2017. “A River Runs Through it: The Yellow River and the Chinese Civil War, 1946-1947.” Social Science History 41.2: 141-173.
Edgerton-Tarpley, Kathryn. 2017. “Famine in Imperial and Modern China.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History.
Ferraro, Joanne M. 2018. "Making a Living: The Sex Trade in Early Modern Venice." The American Historical Review: 123. 30-59. 10.1093/ahr/123.1.30.
Ferraro, Joanne M. "Venice Match. Ruling Cyprus as a Renaissance Queen." The London Times Literary Supplement, 2016.
Ferraro, Joanne M. "Youth in Peril in Early Modern Venice." The Journal of Social History 49, no.4 (2016): 761-783.
Frieberg, Annika, with Martin Chung. 2017. “Introduction. Reconciling with the Past: Resources and Obstacles in a Global Perspective.“ Edited by Frieberg and Chung. Routledge.
Frieberg, Annika. 2017. “Forget and Forgive? Central European Memory Cultures, Models of Reconciliation, Post-war Polish-German Reconciliation.” Reconciling with the Past: Resources and Obstacles in a Global Perspective. Edited by Frieberg and Chung. Routledge.
Kazemi, Ranin. 2016. “Of Diet and Profit: On the Question of Subsistence Crises in Nineteenth-Century Iran”. Middle Eastern Studies 52/2. 335-358.
Kazemi, Ranin. 2016. “Tobacco, Eurasian Trade, and the Early Modern Iranian Economy”. Iranian Studies 49.4. 613-633.
Kazemi, Ranin. 2017. “The ‘Black Winter’ of 1860-61: War, Famine, and the Political Ecology of Disasters in Qajar Iran”. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 37/1. 24-48.
Kuefler, Mathew. 2018. "Between Bishops and Barbarians: The Christian Rulers of the Later Roman Empire." In The Palgrave Handbook of Masculinity and Political Culture in Europe, ed. Sean Brady et al. (London: Palgrave Macmillan), 37-62.
Kuefler, Mathew. 2018. "The Convertible Saint: Expeditus through Time and Space." Journal of Religious History 42, no. 1: 25-51.
Kuefler, Mathew. 2018. "The Formation of the Homosexual Subject in Late Roman Antiquity." In La construction du sujet exclus (IVe-VIe siècle): L’individu, la société et l’exclusion, ed. Sylvie Joie, Maria Cristina La Rocca, and Stéphane Gionni (Turnout, Belgium: Brepols, 2018), 227-40.
Kuefler, Mathew. 2018. "Homoeroticism in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Acts, Identities, Cultures." American Historical Review 123, no. 4: 1246-66.
Kuefler, Mathew. “Physical and Symbolic Castration and the Holy Eunuch in Late Antiquity, Third to Sixth Centuries." in Celibate and Childless Men in Power: Ruling Bishops and Eunuchs in the Pre-Modern World, ed. Almut Höfert, Matthew M. Mesley, and Serena Tolino. London: Routledge, 2017, pp.177-91.
Kuefler, Mathew, “The Merry Widows of Late Roman Antiquity: The Evidence of the Theodosian Code.” Gender and History 27, no. 1 (2015): 28-52.
Kuefler, Mathew, “Clothes (Un)Make the (Wo)Man: Dress and Gender Crossings in Late Antiquity," in Il genere nella ricerca storica: Atti del VI Congresso della Società Italiana delle Storiche, ed. Saveria Chemotti and Maria Cristina La Rocca, vol. 1 (Padua: Il Poligrafo, 2015), 128-36.
Kuefler, Mathew, “Desire and the Body in the Patristic Period," in The Oxford Handbook of Theology, Sexuality, and Gender, ed. Adrian Thatcher (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), 241-54.
Csomay, E., E.A. Pollard, S. Bordelon, and A. Beck. “Researching Student Learning in a Two-Tiered General Education Program,” Journal of General Education 64, no. 3 (2015): 171-195.
Pollard, E.A. “’So Dearly Do We Pay for Our Luxury and Our Women:’ Women and the Margins of the Roman World.” in The Socio-Economic History and Material Culture of the Roman and Byzantine East: Essays in Honor of S. Thomas Parker. ed. Walter Ward. Gorgias Press, 2017. pp. 327-347. (Forthcoming).
Pollard, Elizabeth. 2017. “Leaky Women and the Fluid Margins of the Roman World.” in The Socio-Economic History and Material Culture of the Roman and Byzantine East: Essays in Honor of S. Thomas Parker. ed. Walter Ward. Gorgias Press, 2017.
Wiese, Andrew, with Becky Nicolaides. 2017. “Suburbanization in the United States after 1945”. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History.
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