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Fall 2001 Newsletter Welcome The history faculty welcomes everyone back for the fall 2001 semester. The number of history majors in both our undergraduate and graduate programs continues to grow. Please feel free to share this newsletter with anyone you may have an interest in history. We invite you to submit your ideas for this newsletter to the Editors at the downtown campus, room 724; Robin campus, room 600A or Box 360. Mark Your Calendars -Tenth Annual Roosevelt Lecture On 6 November 2001, at 11:30 a.m. at the Chicago Club (at 81 E. Van Buren), the Hon. Stephane Hessel will speak at a luncheon on the topic of human rights and world hunger. Mr. Hessel, a survivor of Buchenwald and member of the French resistance, is well known in Europe for his diplomatic and humanitarian efforts. He has received the Four Freedoms Award, served as the Ambassador from France to various posts in Africa, a permanent representative of France to the United Nations in Geneva from 1977 to 1981, and as the leader of the French Delegation to the Human Rights Commission and the World Conference on Human Rights in 1993. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt will host the luncheon. Reservations are $40.00; for students, faculty and staff, $20.00. For reservations, please call 312-341-3617. Sponsored by the Center for New Deal Studies, Roosevelt University and the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute. Welfare to Work/Brown Bag Lunch Symposium Please join us for a brown bag lunch on Tuesday, November 20 from 12:00 –1:30 p.m., in room 330 at the Robin Campus. We welcome Adam Rappaport, Program Director for Hope Now, Inc., which serves the homeless and near-homeless population in a seven township area in northwest suburban Cook County. Drinks and desserts will be provided. No RSVP is necessary. Sponsored by the Center for New Deal Studies. For more information, contact Dr. Rung at 847-619-8563. How to Write a Research Paper Watch for flyers announcing Dr. Jotham Parsons’ informative workshop, ‘How to Write a Research Paper’. The workshop lasts about an hour, and is for anyone in any discipline who seeks to hone their research skills or who is just starting out writing their very first paper. Check the history bulletin boards for the date or email mm6126@aol.com for more information. *** Help Wanted *** Are you a history student who would like to add archival experience to your vitae? James T. Struck, Reference Librarian at Roosevelt University’s Chicago Campus seeks a student to assist with filing, organizing, and processing archival material in the archives at Roosevelt for ten to fifteen hours per week. For more information, please contact Mr. Struck at 312- 341-3643 or email via his website at http://faculty.roosevelt.edu/struck History Activities On 21 April 2001, the Kappa Upsilon chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, the national history honors society, received an award for Outstanding Student Organization of the Year, Albert A. Robin Campus, Roosevelt University. Kappa Upsilon had their first meeting on 15 October 2001. Chapter officers were elected, and upcoming events were discussed. If you were unable to attend, it is not too late to join! For more information, please contact the faculty advisor Dr. Margaret Rung at mrung@roosevelt.edu or 847-619-8563. The Delano, a historical journal founded by members of Kappa Upsilon, published their second issue this past summer. The fall issue is now in the works, and submissions are welcome. The fall issue will have an American/Presidential theme, and we invite both students and faculty to contribute. The spring issue will center on the Holocaust. We accept a variety of items, including poetry, historical papers, research findings, interviews, and especially invite other disciplines outside of history to submit their work. We are especially seeking book reviews from either students or faculty. You do not have to be a member of Kappa Upsilon to have your article published. Preferably, all manuscripts should be in paper and disk, and should be mailed – marked DELANO SUBMISSIONS – directly to Professor Rung at her Robin campus office. Alternatively, articles can be submitted via email to the Editor of The Delano at mm6126@aol.com. Scholarships and Fellowships The Center for New Deal Studies offers a fellowship for graduate students. Those interested in applying for next year’s fellowship can pick up an application in room 724 downtown. The deadline is 15 April 2002. Roosevelt University also offers a variety of other scholarship opportunities. Partial graduate scholarships are available, and graduate assistantships, which offer full tuition and a stipend, are also available to graduate students in a variety of disciplines under the Department of History, Art History, and Philosophy umbrella. Check with the Financial Aid office at either campus for more information. Student News and Notes With great sadness, we report the death of Marilyn Perry, who received her BA (1995) and MA (1998) degrees in history from Roosevelt University. Marilyn was the recipient of the 1995 Hooker Award and then in 1998, the Ostrowsky Award for her MA Thesis entitled “Paper Dolls: Women of the Chicago Tribune.” During and after her Roosevelt career, Marilyn established herself as a freelance historian, contributing articles to numerous encyclopedias and reference works and most recently writing a history of the Chicago Association House for their anniversary. Faculty, students and staff will remember her for her fine historical skills as well as her keen sense of humor, bottomless generosity, and endless enthusiasm. Undergraduate Brian Prusko was awarded an internship in the summer of 2001 from the Walt Disney World College Program. He worked at the Wide World of Sports as a Quick Service Food and Beverage Host. Graduate student Wendy A. Maier, under the guidance of Professor Leon Stein, recently completed a summer fellowship at Northwestern University for the Sixth Annual Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization. She also finished two articles for the Dictionary of National Biography, three articles for the Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences: The Twentieth Century, 1914-2000, and will be contributing an article entitled “The Final Solution and the Culpability of Ordinary Germans,” for History in Dispute: The Holocaust, a Gale Press publication. Ms. Maier will be part of a panel entitled “Exploring Gender Roles,” which will be presented at the Social Science History Association conference November 15-18, 2001, at the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL. She will be presenting a paper she wrote for a class taught by Dr. Reed. The panel is scheduled for Sunday, November 18, from 8:00 a.m. until 10:00 a.m., and all are invited to attend. Faculty News Welcome back to Associate Professor of History Margaret Rung who just returned from Latvia, where she spent the last year on a Fulbright. Dr. Rung gave three lectures on American political culture at the U.S. Embassy in Riga as part of her Fulbright year at the University of Latvia. She also presented two papers, “Poverty in the USA: Liberalism and the Welfare State” at a conference entitled Human Development and Transition Economies held in Jurmala, Latvia and “Race and Merit in the Wartime Civil Service” at the fifth annual North American Studies conference held at the University of Tartu in Estonia. Professor Leon Stein presented, “Understanding Significance of Suffering: A Jewish/Christian Journey,” which was held from March 27 to April 3, 2001, and received an award from the Minority Economic Resources Corp., for his achievements in promoting understanding between Christians and Jews. He is currently writing a book about cultural identification with the Jewish people. Christopher R. Reed, professor of history, is finalizing Volume One (1833-1900) of Black Chicago's First Century, 1833-1933 for a scheduled publication by the University of Illinois Press in December 2002. Nationally, he serves on the ABC-CLIO America: History And Life Award Committee of the Organization of America Historians and locally as an advisor to The HistoryMakers. Professor Reed also presented the following papers: ”A Civil War Research Update on the 29th Illinois, U.S.C.T.” - Chicago Afro-American Genealogical Society, July 2001; “The Value Of Black Metropolis As An Historical Tool” - 86th meeting of the Association for the Study Of Afro-American Life and History, Washington, D.C., September 2001; and “Paradigmatic Solutions In Nineteenth Century Black Chicago Research, - Chicago Urban Research Group, Chicago Historical Society, October, 2001. Professor Dan Headrick is presenting lectures at Southwestern College in Texas, the University of Rochester, M.I.T., and Yale University, and is writing a book on technology in world history for Oxford University Press. Professor Jotham Parsons spent a month in Paris at the beginning of the summer on a faculty development summer grant, researching a major reform in French monetary policy in 1577. He is now writing a paper on the subject. His recent publications include: “The Roman Censors in the Renaissance Political Imagination.” History of Political Thought 22 (2001), and “Money and Sovereignty in Early Modern France.” Journal of the History of Ideas 62 (2001): 59-79. He also presented “The Censor in the Sixteenth-Century Political Imagination,” November 6, 2000, at the Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference 2000, Cleveland, OH, and will be presenting “Alchemy and Religious Conflict in France, 1560-1630,” on November 1 2001, at the Western Society for French History 2001meeting, in Indianapolis, IN. How To Study History Undergraduate Major: Thirty-three semester hours in history, including HST 106, 107, 111, 112, plus seven upper-level courses. Twelve hours must be taken at Roosevelt University. Minor: Two courses from HST 106, 107, 111, or 112 (western civilization surveys taken at other institutions may be substituted for Hist 111 or 112). Four upper-level courses in history, and at least two must be at the 300-level. Also note that undergraduates must complete three research papers in conjunction with three upper-level courses. After completion, the appropriate instructor will sign off on each paper. The papers will then remain in the student’s file. Graduate Thesis option: Thirty hours of coursework, including HST 401 and 450. Under the new catalog (2001-2003), students should take 30 classroom hours and then register for the thesis, HST 490, which is 3 hours for a total of 30 hours. Students entering prior to fall 2001 take a total of thirty hours, which includes the thesis. The student should also select an advisor as well as a second reader for their committee. Contact Professor Brigitte Erbe, Associate Professor, for thesis guidelines and thesis submission form, in room 818 or 312-341-3618, Chicago campus. Non-thesis options: Thirty-six hours of coursework, including HST 401 and 450. Both thesis and non-thesis options require the completion of comprehensive examinations in two fields of study. Contact the graduate advisors to schedule these exams. Current graduate advisors are: Chicago campus, Dr. Christopher Reed, room 701C, ext. 3736, and Robin campus, Dr. Leon Stein, room 600 N, extension 8564. Please note that graduate students will no longer be allowed to take 300-level courses. Consult the graduate advisors for more information. Spring 2002 Class Preview Chicago Campus:
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