History Department

Faculty Scholarship

Members of the UWSP History Department are active scholars as well as teachers, contributing new research in their respective disciplines and bringing new insights back to their classrooms. Please scan below for a summary of recent books, articles, and professional and public talks.

BOOKS

	Michael Laver, Japan's Economy By Proxy in the Seventeenth Century: China, the Netherlands, and the Bakufu (Cambria Press, 2008)
	Nancy LoPatin-Lummis, ed., Public Life and Public Lives: Politics and Religion in Modern British History: Essays in Honour of Richard W. Davis (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008)
	J. Rixey Ruffin, A Paradise of Reason: William Bentley and Enlightenment Christianity in the Early Republic (Oxford University Press, 2007)
	Gregory Summers, Consuming Nature: Environmentalism in the Fox River Valley, 1850-1950 (University Press of Kansas, 2006)
	Valentina Peguero, Colonizacion y Politica: Los Japoneses y otros inmigrantes en la Republica Dominicana (Santo Domingo: Banco de Reservas. Alfa y Omega, 2005).
	Valentina Peguero, The Militarization of Culture in the Dominican Republic, from the Captains General to General Trujillo (University of Nebraska Press, 2004)
	Christian Jennings and Toyin Falola, eds., Sources and Methods in African History: Spoken, Written, Unearthed (University of Rochester Press, 2004)
	Lelis, Arnold A., William A. Percy, and Beert C. Verstraete, The Age of Marriage in Ancient Rome (Edwin Mellen Press, 2003).
	Christian Jennings and Toyin Falola, eds., Africanizing Knowledge: African Studies Across Disciplines (Transaction Publishers, 2002)
	Dorothy Dore Dowlen Enduring What Cannot be Endured: Memoir of a Woman Medical Aide in the Philippines in World War II,Edited with an introduction by Theresa Kaminski (McFarland Press, 2001).
	Theresa Kaminski, Prisoners in Paradise: American Women in the Wartime South Pacific (University Press of Kansas, 2000)
	Nancy LoPatin-Lummis, Political Unions, Popular Politics and the Great Reform Act of 1832 (Palgrave Macmillan, 1999)
	Susan Brewer, To Win the Peace: British Propaganda in the United States during World War II (Cornell University Press, 1997)
	Valentina Peguero, Pena y Reynoso y Amantes de la Luz (Santiago: Amantes de la Luz Press, 1985.
	Valentina Peguero. Vision General de la Historia Dominicana, with Daniolo de los Santos (Santiago: Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra Press, 1978.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

Susan Brewer
Publications:

"'As Far as We Can': Culture and U.S. Foreign Relations" in Blackwell's Companion to the History of U.S. Foreign Relations. Robert Schulzinger, editor. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, July 2003. Pages 15-30.
"Propaganda" in The Oxford Companion to United States History. Paul S. Boyer, ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Produced The Progressive Legacy: Wisconsin Politics and Society since 1945. Twelve-Part video series. 1995.

Presentations:

"Crusaders vs. Barbarians: American Propaganda during World War I," invited lecture presented at the International and Interdisciplinary Conference, “Huns vs. Corned Beef: Representations of the Other in American and German Literature and Film on World War I," University of California, Los Angeles, October 2006.
"'Don't Fence Me In': Selling Internationalism to the American Public in World War II," presented at the annual Conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, University of Kansas, Lawrence, June 2006.
“The Demise of the West/The Rise of the Western: Propaganda and the War in Iraq,” presented at the Culture and International History III Conference, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main, Germany, December 2005.

Brian Hale

Christian Jennings
Publications:

"Beyond Eponymy: The Evidence for Loikop as an Ethnonym in Nineteenth-Century East Africa." History in Africa 32 (2005), 199-220.

Theresa Kaminski
Publications:

“Joyce Johnson” entry in William T. Lawlor, ed., Beat Culture: Lifestyles, Icons, and Impact, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2005.
"Ethel Thomas Herold: Doing Women’s Work in a Philippines at War," in Kriste Lindenmeyer, ed., Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Lives. Scholarly Resources, 2000.
Review of Winifred Breines, The Trouble Between Us: An Uneasy History of White and Black Women in the Feminist Movement. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006, for H-1960s, h-1960s@h-net.msu.edu, November 2006.
Review of Alison Piepmeier, Out in Public: Configurations of Women’s Bodies in Nineteenth-Century America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004, for The Historian, 2006 (68:1): 161-162.
Review of Laura J. Lipson, director, Standing on My Sisters’ Shoulders. Women Make Movies, 2002, for H-Net Media Review, h-1960s@h-net.msu.edu, May 26, 2005.

Sarah Kent

Publications:

"State Ritual and Ritual Parody: Croatian Student Protest and the Faltering of Celebrity Monarchy of the End of the Nineteenth Century," book chapter in The Limits of Loyalty: Imperial Symbolism, Popular Allegiances, and State Patriotism in the Late Habsburg Monarchy (2007)
Review of Alice Freifeld, Nationalism and the Crown in Liberal Hungary, 1848-1918 (Washington and Baltimore: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000), for Nationalities Papers, 2003
"Writing the Yugoslav Wars: English-Language Books on Bosnia (1992-1996) and the Challenges of Analyzing Contemporary History," American Historical Review, vol. 102, no. 4 (October 1997), pp. 1085-1114
"Hrvatski odvjetnici i politika profesije: Dilema profesionalizacije 1884-1894" [Croatian Attorneys and the Politics of Profession: The Dilemma of Professionalization, 1884-1894], Historijski zbornik, LIII:1, pp. 249-269

Presentations:

Comment on "Croatian Light Musical Theater in the Southern Slavic Lands of the Habsburg Monarch, 1860-1918" and "The Ottoman Empire and Its Legacy in East-Central Europe and the Balkans," American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, New Orleans, Louisiana (November 2007)
"The Forestry and Agricultural Jubilee Exhibition in Zagreb in 1891," invited paper for symposium on "Exhibiting the Nation," University of Texas, Austin, Texas (October 2007)
"Yugoslavia 101" and "Children, Art, and the Holocaust," Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian [CREECA] K-12 Teacher Workshop, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin (June 2007)
"The Bolshevik Revolution," History Teachers' Alliance, UW-Marathon County, Wausau, Wisconsin (November 2006)
Chair for "Jews in Interwar Hungary," American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington, D.C. (November 2006)
"Eastern Europe and the Cold War," History Teachers' Alliance, University of Wisconsin-Marathon County (April 2003)
Participant in "Nationalism and Music" roundtable, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies 36th National Convention, Boston, Massachusetts (December 2004)
Comment on "Young Slovene Scholars," American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies 36th National Convention, Boston, Massachusetts (December 2004)
Chair, panel on the Ottoman/Habsburg borderlands, at the National Convention of the American Historical Association, Washington, D.C. (January 2004)
"State Ritual, Ritual Parody: Croatian Student Protests in 1895 and the Faltering of Celebrity Monarchy," presentation at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies 34th National Convention, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (November 2002)

Michael Laver
Publications:

A Strange Isolation: The Japanese, the Dutch, and the Asian Economy in the Seventeenth Century (in progress).

Arnold Lelis
Publications:

Lelis, Arnold A. “The View from the Northwest: The Chronicle of Novgorod as the Mirror of Local Experience of Rus’ History, 1016 – 1333.” Russian History/Histoire Russe 32, nos. 3 – 4 [Festschrift 2 for Th. S. Noonan] (Fall-Winter 2005): 389 – 400.
Review of The Secret Order of Assassins: The Struggle of the Early Nizârî Ismâ’îlîs Against the Islamic World, by Marsall G. S. Hodgson. Medieval Encounters 12, no. 1 (2006): 128 – 9.
Review of The Norman Conquest of Southern Italy and Sicily, by Gordon S. Brown. Medieval Encounters 12, no. 1 (2006): 129 – 30.

Presentations:

The Involvement of Western Slavs in Carolingian Commercial Expansion.” At the 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 2005 – Kalamazoo, MI)

Nancy LoPatin-Lummis
Publications:

Doing the Business: The Life and Politics of Joseph Parkes, in progress, London: Pickering and Chatto, Ltd.
Public Life and Public Lives. Essays in Modern British Political and Religious History in Honor of Richard W. Davis, ed., Parliamentary History, Basil Blackwell, forthcoming, 2008
Lives of Victorian Political Figures. By Their Contemporaries, volume 1, ed., Partridge & Gaunt, 2006. Co- co-general editor of series with Michael Partridge, London: Pickering & Chatto, ongoing through 2012.
“Whigs, Radicalism and the Cultivation of a Liberal Leader:Joseph Parkes and Lord Durham”, under revision for Parliamentary History.
“Birmingham Political Union” in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, in press.
“The 1832 Reform Act Debate: Should the Suffrage be based on Property or Taxpaying?” in press, Journal of British Studies, vol 46, no.2, April 2007.
“Joseph Parkes, Electioneering and Corruption in Post-Reform Bill Elections”, in press, Proceedings: Selected Papers from the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 2006 Florida State University Press.
“With all my oldest and native friends...”, Joseph Parkes: Warwickshire Solicitor and Electoral Agent in the Age of Reform’ in Public Life and Public Lives. Essays in Modern British Political and Religious History in Honor of Richard W. Davis, ed., Basil Blackwell, forthcoming, 2008.
“George IV”, in John Merriman and Jay Winter, ed., Encyclopedia of Europe 1789-1914, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2006.
Review of Jonathan Parry, The Politics of Patriotism. English Liberalism, National Identity and Europe, 1830-86, Journal of Modern History, forthcoming.
Review of Laura J. Synder, Reforming Philosophy. A Victorian Debate on Science and Society, The Historian, forthcoming.
Review of Peter Jupp, The Governing of Britain, 1688-1848. The Executive, Parliament and the People, Parliamentary History, forthcoming.
Review of Amanda Goodrich, Debating England’s Aristocracy in the 1790s: Pamphlets, Polemics and Political Ideas, in The Historian, forthcoming.
Review of William Hay, The Whig Revival, 1808-1830, in The Historian, forthcoming.
Review of Sally Mitchell, Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. Victorian Periodicals Review, Spring 2006.
Review of Arthur Burns and Joanna Innes, ed., Rethinking the Age of Reform: Britain 1780-1850, Journal of Modern History, vol, 78, March 2006.
Review of Simon Cordery, British Friendly Societies, 1750-1914, in Journal of Social History, vol. 39, Fall 2005.
Review of Joseph Meisel, Public Speech and the Culture of Public Life in the Age of Gladstone, Journal of Victorian Culture, 10.1 Spring 2005.
Review of Thomas Bartlett, David Dickson, Daire Keogh, Kevin Whelan, ed., 1798: A Bicentenary Perspective, in Journal of British Studies, Vol. 44, no. 2, April 2005.

Presentations:

“Joseph Parkes and Political Corruption,” College of Letters and Sciences, Humanities Forum, 12 April 2006.
Interviewed by Caryn Rousseau, asap @ Associated Press, 4 May 2006 concerning health study arguing British are healthier than Americans.
“Joseph Parkes, Electioneering and Corruption in Post-Reform Bill Elections “, Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, Atlanta, March 3, 2006.

Valentina Peguero
Publications:

Review of Teresita Martinez-Vergne, Nation and Citizen in the Dominican Republic, 1880-1916 American Historical Review, volume 111, no. 3 (June 2006), 881-881.
"Caribbean Women's Grassroots Organizations: Real and Imagined Female Figures in the Dominican Republic" in Caribbean Societies and Globalization, eds. Franklin W. Knight and Teresita Martinez Vergne (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005): 160-182.
"Las hermanas Mirabal: Lucha politica y la no-violencia contra las mujeres" in La Escritura de la Historia de las Mujeres en America Latina: El Retorno de las Diosas, ed. Sara Beatriz Guardia (Vienna: Foro de Estudios Culturales de Latinoamerica y CEMHAL: Lima, Peru, 2005): 425-445.
"Beats in the Mountains" and "New Orleans" entries in Beat Culture: Lifestyles, Icons and Impact, ed. William Lawlor (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2005): 241-252; 252-253.
Review of Daniel M. Masterson, with Sayaka Fumada-Classen, The Japanese in Latin America by University of Illinois, 2004. Wisconsin Magazine of History (Winter-2004-2005): 54.
"Mujeres Dominicanas en la Trinchera Politica: La Lucha de Mirabal" in Historia de las Mujeres en America Latina, eds: Juan Andreo and Sara Beatriz Guardia (Murcia, Spain: Universidad de Murcia, 202): 307-322.
"United States Military Intervention in the Dominican Republic in 1965" in The Sixties in America, ed. Singleton, vol. I. (Pasadena: Salem Press, 1999): 227-229.
"Teaching the Haitian Revolution: Its Place in Westernand Modern World History." The History Teacher, 32:1 (1998): 33-41.

Presentations:

"Change and Globalization: Dominican Women and Grassroots Organizations" North Central Council of Latin Americanists Conference, UW-Eau-Claire. October 13, 2007.
"Origins and Impact of Japanese Immigration in the Dominican Republic." Speech given at the Banco Reservas in Santo Domingo during the reception for the public presentation of Colonizacion y Politica: Los japoneses y otros immigrantes en la Republic Dominicana. November 3, 2005.
"Global Connections," Keynote speech at 12th Commencement at Tompkins Cortland Community College, Dryden, New York. August 5, 2005.
"Caribbean Women and Social Protest," The 5th Caribbean Scholars Association of New York at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York. April 15, 2005.
"The Tragedy of the Mirabal Sisters and the Origins of the International Day Against all Violence Towards Women." Poetry and Art Exhibition: Elimination of All Forms of Violence Against Women at UWSP. March 3, 2005.
Guest on STV "Let's Talk About It" a program hosted by Dean Gerry McKenna and Dr. Susan Brewer. The discussion centered on The Militarization of Culture in the Dominican Republic, From the Captains General to General Trujillo. February 21, 2005.
"Latin American Women in Politics: Mama Tingo." The Latin American Visions of Social Justics in a Global World. The North Central Council of Latin Americanists, Decorah, Iowa. October 22, 2004.
"The Beats in Mexico City. "Beat Meets East: an International, Interdisciplinary Conference on the Age of Spontaneity, in Chengdu, China. June 4, 2004.
Talk on "Teaching Race and Ethnicity Across the Curriculum" at the Infusing Latin American Studies in the Post-Secondary Curriculum conference at Hefter Center, UW-Milwaukee. April 17, 2004.
"The Bridge: History of the Dominican-Haitian Interaction." The Latin American Studies Association (LASA) conference in Dallas, Texas. March 29, 2003.
Visiting Professor at Sichuan University in Chengdu, China. "From the Maine to Fidel: One Hundred Years of United States--Cuban Relations." College of Foreign Languages and Culture, Sichuan University. June 15, 2001.
"From the Land of the Rising Sun to the Sol of the Caribbean: Japanese Immigration to the Dominican Republic." The Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW-Madison. April 9, 2001.
"Dominican Women in Political Struggle: The Fight of Minerva Mirabal." Second International Conference on Women in the History of Latin America, Lima Peru. October 19, 2000.

J. Rixey Ruffin
Publications:

A Paradise of Reason: William Bentley and Enlightenment Christianity in the Early Republic, 1783-1805, (Oxford University Press) November 2007.

Presentations:

"Human Rights and the Colonial Era," Marathon County History Teaching Alliance, UW-Marathon County, June 2004.
"William Bentley and the Politics of Rational Christianity in Revolutionary America," The Humanities Forum, College of Letters & Science, UWSP. April 2004.
"Lewis and Clark in the American Mind," Learning is For Ever (LIFE) Program. May 2004.

Gregory Summers
Publications:

The Comforts of Nature: A Natural History of the American Home (in progress).
“A River of Paper? Part I: Working with Nature,” Voyageur Magazine 23 (Winter/Spring 2007): 44-49.
“Wisconsin’s Outdoor Living Room” in History Today, Newsletter of the Outagamie County Historical Society (Winter 2007): 4-7.
“A River of Paper? Part II: Enjoying the Great Outdoors,” Voyageur Magazine 24 (Summer/Fall 2007), 35-40.
“Finding New Ways Back to Basics—One Skeptic’s Experience,” in Susan Gingrasso and Leslie Owen Wilson, eds., Views from the Bridge: Reflections into Changed Practice, online publication, http://www.uwsp.edu/education/facets/views/articles/gregSummers.htm, May 2006.
Review of Thomas G. Smith, Green Republican: John Saylor and the Preservation of America's Wilderness (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006) in History: Reviews of New Books, forthcoming.
Review of Paul Charles Milazzo, Unlikely Environmentalists: Congress and Clean Water, 1945-1972 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006) in History: Reviews of New Books, forthcoming.
Review of Jason Scott Smith, Building New Deal Liberalism: The Political Economy of Public Works, 1933-1956 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005) in Reviews in American History, 35 (March 2007): 105-110.
Review of Aaron Sachs, The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism (New York: Viking, 2006) in History: Reviews of New Books, 34 (Summer 2006), 115.
Review of Paul R. Josephson, Resources Under Regimes: Technology, Environment, and the State (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005) in Environmental History, 10 (July 2005), 542-543.

Presentations:

“Environmentalism & Sense of Place,” Wisconsin Book Festival, Panel Discussion, October 21, 2006.
“A River of Paper? The Beginnings of Environmentalism in the Fox River Valley (and What We Can Learn Today)” an invited lecture, Brown County Public Library, Local History Series, October 19, 2006.
“A River of Paper? The Beginnings of Environmentalism in the Fox River Valley (and What We Can Learn Today)” an invited lecture, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, September 27, 2006.
“Hearth and Home: A Natural History of the American Living Room,” UWSP Humanities Forum, March 9, 2006.
“Consuming Nature: The Rise of Environmentalism in the Fox River Valley,” Symposium on Wisconsin History, Northeast Wisconsin Teachers’ Academy, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, February 10, 2006.
“Recreation, Industry, Agriculture: The Legacies of Conservation in Wisconsin,” Northern Great Plains History Conference, Eau Claire, WI, October 1, 2005.
“From Daylight Savings to Swimming Pools: Consumer Society and the Meaning of Nature as a Public Good,” American Society for Environmental History, Annual Conference, Houston, TX, March 16-20, 2005.
“Nature and Progress: Conservation in the Fox River Valley,” Annual Conference of the Wisconsin Association of Land Conservation Employees, March 2, 2005, Appleton, WI.

Eric Yonke