Department News
Professor Matthew Crocker has been invited to speak at Quincy House at Harvard College. Dr. Crocker will address the life and legacy of Josiah Quincy as it relates to the democratic movements of nineteenth century America. Fall 2011
Congratulations to Professor Susan Wade, our new hire in the History Department! Dr. Wade received her Ph.D. in history from New York University and is a specialist in medieval Europe with fields in gender, religion, the late-antique Near East, and the medieval Muslim world.
Assistant Professor Nick Germana's book, The Orient of Europe: The Mythical Image of India and Competing Images of German National Identity, was published in 2009 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. He is also the author of two articles forthcoming in 2010: "Self-Othering in German Orientalism: The Case of Friedrich Schlegel" (The Comparatist); and "The Beauty of Enervation: Woman, India, and the Anxiety of System in Hegel's Philosophy" (German Studies Review).
Assistant Professor Graham Warder served on the editorial board for the Encyclopedia of American Disability History, coming out in the summer of 2009 from Facts on File. Professor Warder also led a one-day Teaching American History Workshop at the Hampshire Education Collaborative in Northampton, Massachusetts on March 21, 2009. His talk was entitled "Helen Keller: Identity, Disability and American History."
Professor Andrew Wilson's essay "The Unity of Physics and Poetry: H.C. Orsted and the Aesthetics of Force," has been accepted for publication in the Journal of the History of Ideas 69.4 (October 2008).
Lecturer John Lund's essay, "The Contested Will of 'Goodman Penn': Anglo-New England Politics, Cultures, and Legalities, 1688 - 1716," appears in volume 27:3 (Fall 2009) of the Law and History Review.
Associate Professor Matthew Crocker's essay "The Missouri Compromise, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Southern Strategy," is included in the 2008 edition of Major Problems in the Early Republic,1787 - 1848.
Assistant Professor Nicholas Germana addresses the German Studies Association annual conference in St. Paul, Minnesota. October 2008. www.thegsa.org
Assistant Professor Graham Warder addresses the "Disability History: Theory and Practice" conference at San Francisco State University and present his work on a panel called “Referencing Disability: The Encyclopedia of American Disability History Project.” July/August 2008. Disability
Associate Professor and Chair Greg Knouff addresses the 14th Annual Omohundro Insitute of Early American History and Culture Conference, Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts.June 2008 Program
Lecturer John Lund addresses The Historical Society’s 2008 Conference, "Migration, Diaspora, Ethnicity, & Nationalism in History," Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. June 2008. Program
NEH Grant for Helen Keller Project
The department is pleased to announce that in May 2007 the College received a grant of $199,740 from the (NEH) for a project entitled "Helen Keller in Her Times." Assistant Professor of History Graham Warder is the project director. The project addresses several themes, including the historically rooted experiences of disability, class, and gender; how models of language acquisition have changed over time; Keller's use of and manipulation by various media as an international celebrity; and her efforts as a human rights activist. Over the next three years, a partnership between Keene State, the Hampshire Educational Collaborative, and the Disability History Museum will develop curriculum materials for secondary and higher education that will place the life and legacy of Helen Keller in historical context.
The institutional grant administrator is Mary-Ellen Fortini. All materials financed by the grant will be made publicly available on both the Disability History Museum and PBS websites.
The work is connected with the ongoing production of a documentary film, Becoming Helen Keller, produced by Laurie Block and tentatively scheduled to be broadcast nationally by PBS in 2010. Through the grant, primary sources about Helen Keller from various archives will be collected, digitized, and annotated for classroom use. Background essays by scholars from across the nation will also be produced, and classroom activities will be outlined and piloted.
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