Graduate

Graduate Student Seminar

The Graduate Student Seminar meets twice a month on Fridays from 4-5pm. All graduate students are welcome to present either their own research or more general issues of historiographical interest. For further information please contact Lonnie Robbins (larobbins1sbcglobal.net) or Strother Roberts (s-roberts2northwestern.edu).

Winter 2006

  • June 2, 2006: Bill Heyck and Matt Sterenberg, "Team Teaching."
  • May 26, 2006: Sarah Ross, "Defending the Dissertation and the Job Market."
  • February 24, 2006: Elise Lipkowitz, "The AHA--What you should know; why you should go."
  • February 10, 2006: Liz Casteen and Gergo Baics, "Envisioning and Teaching Your Own Class."
  • January 27, 2006: Erin-Marie Legacey, Strother Roberts, and Andreana Prichard, "570--The Real Story."
  • January 13, 2006: Jane Silloway and Darcy Hughes Heuring, Grant Writing Discussion

Fall 2005

  • November 18, 2005: Courtney Kneupper, "Identities discovered: the many surprises regarding a heresy trial in 14th century Metz."
  • November 4, 2005: Karl Gunther, "Peace with Satan: George Joye’s Arguments Against Religious Unity in Early Tudor England."
  • October 21, 2005: Erin-Marie Legacey, "Saturn’s Children Are Eating Themselves: Considering Suicide as Violence in Revolutionary France."
  • October 7, 2005: Meghann Pytka, "A Completed 580!"

Spring 2005

  • May 27, 2005: David Brodnax Sr. and Guy Ortolano, "Navigating the Job Search: Two Wise Veterans of the Market Tell All."
  • May 13, 2005: Meghann Pytka, "Policing the Binary, Patrolling the Nation: Roman Dmowski and the Polish Right on the Eve of the Holocaust."
  • April 29, 2005: Karl Gunther, "Love them or terrorize them? Early Elizabethan Protestant attitudes about Catholics."
  • April 15, 2005: Getting Published! The Process of Book Reviews and Article Submissions.
  • April 1, 2005: Beth Condie-Pugh, "Taming Pazzia: Madness in Late Renaissance Italy."

Winter 2005

  • March 4, 2005: Teaching Roundtable
  • February 18, 2005: 570 Roundtable
  • February 4, 2005: Matthew Miller, "Neanderthals, Gutenberg, and a Bloody Puppet - Imagining History at the end of a Century of Progress - Chicago, 1933-34."
  • January 7, 2005: Alphonse Otieno, "Conservation Politics: Forestry Policy in Colonial and Postcolonial Kenya, 1940-1980."

Fall 2004

  • December 3, 2004: Charlotte Cahill and Mike Green, "Crafting a Dissertation Proposal -- Hints, Tips, and Pitfalls to Avoid: An Informal Discussion."
  • November 12, 2004: Elise Lipkowitz, "Matters of Family, Matters of State: A Cultural History of Inoculation in France 1754-1774."
  • October 29, 2004: Marygrace Tyrrell, "The “Domestic” Policy of the US in Puerto Rico, 1934-1940."
  • October 15, 2004: Brian J. Maxson, "Reges et Tyranni: Leonardo Bruni and the Hiero in Early Quattrocento Italy."
  • October 1st, 2004: Nicholas Baker, "Neither flesh nor fish: The difficulty of being Florentine in the early sixteenth century."

Spring 2004

  • May 28, 2004: Karl Gunther, "Liberating Toleration from Liberalism: John Frith and Religious Toleration in Reformation England."
  • April 30, 2004: David Davidson, "Persuasive Capital: The Popular Appeals of New York City's Democrats."
  • April 9th, 2004: Jarod Roll. "The 'Radical' Roots of the Far Right: The Interracial and Socialist Origins of American Pentecostalism."

Winter 2004

  • March 5th, 2004: Brian Maxson, "Biondo Flavio and the Fourth Crusade: The Historiographical Methods of a Prominent Humanist."
  • February 20th, 2004: 570 support group
  • February 6th, 2004: Debs Cane, Teaching Workshop
  • January 23rd, 2004: Erik Gellman, "Writing a Successful Grant Proposal."
  • January 9th, 2004: Kathryn De Luna, "The History of Ancient Hunting Practices West of Lake Victoria, ca. 800-1600 CE: Reuniting Food Collection and Food Production in Lakes Bantu History."

Fall 2003

  • December 5th, 2003: Amy Whipple, "Being on the Market: The Job Application Process."
  • November 7th, 2003: Rhiannon Stephens, "Motherhood, Politics and Agriculture in Interlacustrine East Africa, ca.1000-ca.1800 CE."
  • October 24th, 2003: Nicholas Baker, "The Perfect Cavalier. Publishing Masculinity in Sixteenth-century Italy."
  • October 10th, 2003: Guy Ortolano, " 'Decline' as a Weapon in Cultural Politics."

Spring 2003

  • June 5, 2003: Greg Downs, "Mapping Power: Personality, Imagination, and Rural Geographies in North Carolina Politics."
  • May 15, 2003: Karl Gunther, "Footnotes to Plato: exploring the importance of traditions in the history of ideas."
  • May 1, 2003: Kathryn Burns-Howard, "Beyond the Cultural Turn."
  • April 17, 2003: Erik Gellman, "Conservative History: a Panel Discussion."
  • April 3, 2003: Matt Sterenberg, "What Is History For?: A Discussion of Perspectives and Prospects."

Winter 2003

  • March 11, 2003: Nafsika Thalassis, University of Salford: "Intelligence testing and the British Soldier, 1939-1945."
  • March 6, 2003: Shuji Otsuka, "Diversity in the Classroom: Graduate Student Perspectives."
  • February 20, 2003: Dana Weiner, "Designing and teaching your own course: a workshop."
  • February 6, 2003: Jarod Roll, "About Environmental History. Should the rest of us care?"
  • January 23, 2003: Rhiannon Stephens, "Ignorant Mothers: Morality, Missionaries and Motherhood in Early Colonial Buganda, 1890-1920."
  • January 9, 2003: Justin Behrend, "Freedpeople's Politics: Establishing a Political Community in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1865-1868."

Fall 2002

  • December 4, 2002: Guy Ortolano, "Re-thinking the Rise of the Social Sciences: Social History in the 1960s."
  • November 6, 2002: Michael Allen, "'This is not the America I grew up in.'"
  • October 2, 2002: Thom Hajkowski, "Defending Britishness: The BBC and National Identity in the 1930s," and Elizabeth Prevost, "Separate Spheres? Gender and Authority in a Madagascar Mission.