Recent Faculty Publications - Department of History

Faculty members of the Department of History take pride not only in their skill as classroom teachers but also in their roles as leading scholars and researchers. Read below to get a brief sense of the breadth and quality of the historical research published by department members over the past few years.

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Ronald C. Finucane, Contested Canonizations: The Last Medieval Saints, 1482-1523 (Washington, D.C: Catholic University of America Press, 2011). Published posthumously.

Craig Martin, Renaissance Meteorology: Pomponazzi to Descartes (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011).

Derek Hastings, Catholicism and the Roots of Nazism: Religious Identity and National Socialism (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010; paperback 2011).

Linda Benson, Across China's Gobi: The Lives of Evangeline French, Mildred Cable, and Francesca French of the China Inland Mission (Norwalk, Connecticut: EastBridge, 2008).

Luke Harlow and Mark Noll, eds., Religion and American Politics: From the Colonial Period to the Present (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007).

Matthew Avery Sutton, Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007).

Weldon Matthews, Confronting an Empire, Constructing a Nation: Arab Nationalists and Popular Politics in Mandate Palestine (London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2006).

Todd Estes, The Jay Treaty Debate, Public Opinion, and the Evolution of Early American Political Culture (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006; paperback 2008).

Sara Chapman, Private Ambition and Political Alliances: The Phelypeaux de Pontchartrain Family and Louis XIV's Government, 1650-1715 (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2004).

Linda Benson, China Since 1949 (London: Pearson, 2002; expanded edition, 2011).

2013

Ian Greenspan, "Updated Media, Outdated Themes: An Overview of Web-Based Antisemitic Activism" in Antisemitism in North America: Theory, Research, and Methodology, eds. S.K. Baum, F. Cohen, and L. Rensmann (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2013), forthcoming.

Ian Greenspan, "The Aryanization of Higher Education and the History Curriculum: Youth for Western Civilization, the Recurring Myth of Jewish World Dominance, and the Rise of Antisemitic Historical Consciousness," Journal for the Study of Antisemitism 4 (2013), forthcoming.

Ian Greenspan, "Hate in the Publishing Trade: A Historical Perspective on Recent Antisemitic E-Books," Journal for the Study of Antisemitism 4 (2013), forthcoming.

Derek Hastings, "Positive Christianity in a Catholic Context: Religion and the Early Nazi Movement" in Catholics, Protestants, and Nazis: A Reader, ed. Mark Edward Ruff (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013), forthcoming.

Yan Li, “Envisioning Liberty and Equality: Soviet Films, Socialist Utopia, and Chinese Women in the 1950s,” in Gender and Chinese Cinema: New Interventions, eds. Mary Ann Doane and Lingzhen Wang (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013), forthcoming.

Craig Martin, "Humanism and the Assessment of Averroes in the Renaissance," in Averroism and Its Aftermath, eds. Anna Akasoy and Guido Giglioni (Dordrecht: Springer, 2013), 65-80.

Craig Martin, "Causation in Descartes' Les Météores and Late Renaissance Meteorology," in The Mechanization of Natural Philosophy, eds. Sophie Roux and Daniel Garber (Dordrecht: Springer, 2013), 217-36.

George Milne, "Clerics, Cartographers, and Kings: Mapping Power in the French Atlantic World, 1608-1752," in Religion and Space in the Atlantic World, eds. John Corrigan, David Bodenhamer, and Trevor Harris (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013), forthcoming.

2012

Keith Dye, "Lessons in Hearing Human and Divine Discontent: The Black Manifesto and Episcopal Leaders and Congregations in the Detroit Area," Journal of African American History 97 (2012): 72-91.

Todd Estes, "Jefferson as Party Leader," in A Companion to Thomas Jefferson, ed. Francis Cogliano (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2012), pp. 128-144.

Craig Martin, "Meteorology for Courtiers and Ladies: Vernacular Aristotelianism in Renaissance Italy," Philosophical Readings 4:2 (2012): 3-14.

Don Matthews, "How Does a Gangster Regime End? The Uprising in Syria," Oakland Journal 23 (Fall 2012): 5-17.

2011

Linda Benson, "The Question of Women: Discovering Uyghur Women's History in Northwestern China," Archiv Orientalni: Journal of African and Asian Studies 79 (2011): 47-70.

Todd Estes, "The Connecticut Effect: The Great Compromise of 1787 and the History of Small State Impact on Electoral College Outcomes," The Historian 73:2 (Summer 2011): 255-83.

Todd Estes, "What We Think About When We Think About Thomas Jefferson," Oakland Journal 20 (Winter 2011): 21-46.

Don Matthews, "The Kennedy Administration, Counterinsurgency, and Iraq's First Ba'thist Regime," International Journal of Middle East Studies 43 (2011): 635-53.

Don Matthews, "The Long View on the Arab Spring," Passport: Newsletter of the Society for the History of American Foreign Relations (September 2011).

Sara Chapman Williams, “Chronicles of a ‘New World’: Marc Lescarbot and the French Colonies” in Lendemains de guerre civile: reconciliation et reconstruction en France sous Henri IV, ed. Michel De Waele (Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval, 2011).

2010

Jace Crouch, “The Judicial Punishment of Decalvatio in the Visigothic Realm: A Proposed Solution Based on Isidore of Seville and the Lex Visigothorum,” The Mediterranean Review 3:1 (June 2010): 59-77.

Keith Dye, "The Black Manifesto for Reparations in Detroit: Challenge and Response," Michigan Historical Review 35:2 (Fall 2009): 53-84.

Craig Martin, ""The Ends of Weather: Teleology in Renaissance Meteorology," Journal of the History of Philosophy 38 (2010): 259-82.

Don Matthews, “The Consequences of the 1967 War for the Palestinians,” in Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, ed. Cheryl Rubenberg (Boulder, Col.: Rienner, 2010).

Sean Farrell Moran, "Creating a University of Distinction," Oakland Journal 19 (Fall 2010).

Sara Chapman Williams, "Teaching About the French Colonies in North America," World History Bulletin 27:1 (Spring 2010).

2009

Getnet Bekele, "Weaving the Bread Basket: The Political Roots of a Globalizing Food Market in Ethiopia, 1907-1955," Archiv Orientalni: Quarterly Journal of African and Asian Studies 77 (2009): 89-121.

Getnet Bekele, "Food Matters: The Place of Development in Building the Postwar Ethiopian State, 1941-74," The International Journal of African Historical Studies 42 (2009): 29-54.

Todd Estes, "Cautionary Tales from the Clinton Administration: First Year Lessons the New Democratic President Can Learn from the Last One," The Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics 7:1 (2009).

George Milne, “Picking up the Pieces: Natchez Coalescence in the Shatter Zone,” in Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South, eds. Robbie Etheridge and Sherri M. Shuck Hall (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009), 388-417.

2008

De Witt Dykes, "De Witt Sanford Dykes Sr." in African American National Biography, eds. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).

Todd Estes, "The Voices of Publius and the Strategies of Persuasion in The Federalist," Journal of the Early Republic 28:4 (Winter 2008): 523-558.

Derek Hastings, "Fears of a Feminized Church: Catholicism, Clerical Celibacy, and the Crisis of Masculinity in Wilhelmine Germany," European History Quarterly 38:1 (2008): 34-65.

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