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
(larobbins1
sbcglobal.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 RoundtableFebruary 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.
