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D.
S. Chandler,
professor
Ph.D. (1970) Duke University
chandlds@muohio.edu
238 Upham Hall; 513-529-5142
Office hours: MWF 12-1
Latin America
D.S. Chandler teaches the history of Latin
America, particularly Mexico. He wrote Social
Assistance and Bureaucratic Politics: The
Montepios of Colonial Mexico. He is currently
working on a broader study of the secularization
of social welfare services in 18th century
Mexico. He is an affiliate of the Latin American
Studies Program.
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Daniel Cobb, assistant professor
Ph.D. (2003) University of Oklahoma
cobbdm@muohio.edu
234 Upham Hall; 513-529-9294
Office hours: W 2-3, R 12-1
American Indian History, 20th C. U.S.
Dan Cobb specializes in American Indian
and 20th C. United States history. Before
coming to Miami, he served as Assistant
Director of the Newberry Library's D'Arcy McNickle
Center for American Indian History. His essays
have appeared in the Western Historical Quarterly,
American Indian Culture and Research
Journal, Ethnohistory, and American Indian
Quarterly. With Loretta Fowler, he is co-editor of
Beyond Red Power: American Indian Politics and
Activism Since 1900 (2007). His monograph, Native
Activism in Cold War America (2008), explores the
struggle for tribal sovereignty during the 1950s and
1960s. In addition to teaching and writing, he has
served as program director for a series of public
events devoted to Indian activism and curated an
exhibit on the life and legacy of Clyde
Warrior for the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma.
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Wietse
de Boer, associate professor
Ph.D. (1995) Erasmus University
deboerwt@muohio.edu
274 Upham Hall; 513-529-5146
Office hours: T 2-4, W 9:30-11, R 1:30-3
Early
Modern Europe
Wietse
de Boer teaches courses on
Renaissance and Reformation Europe, as well
as the Western Civilization survey course and
the graduate course on Theories of History. The
research for his book, The Conquest of the
Soul: Confession, Discipline, and Public Order
in Counter-Reformation Milan (2001), was
funded by the Villa I Tatti Postdoctoral
Fellowship, and the book subsequently won the
Howard R. Marraro Prize. He also received two
grants, the Rome Prize and the Frederick
Burkhardt Residential Fellowship, for his current
project entitled The Education of the Senses:
Theories and Practices of Perception in
Renaissance and Baroque Italy.
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Curtis
W. Ellison, professor
Ph.D. (1970) University of Minnesota
ellisocw@muohio.edu
323 King Library, 513-529-3991
American Regionalism and Popular Culture,
History of Miami University
Curtis W. Ellison is Interim Director of the
McGuffey Museum and Professor of History
and American Studies. He is author of
Country Music Culture: From Hard Times to
Heaven, a history of country music featuring
ethnography of fan and artist performance.
He also co-edited The Big Ballad
Jamboree, a 1950s novel about country
music by poet Donald Davidson. His early
books were accounts of the critical reception
of African-American novelists William Wells
Brown, Charles W. Chesnutt and Martin
Delaney. Ellison's current project places the
social history of Miami University in the
context of local culture, national social and
economic forces, and the history of higher
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David
M. Fahey, professor
Ph.D. (1964) University of Notre Dame
faheydm@muohio.edu
297D Upham Hall; 513-529-5134
On leave First Semester 2008-09
Curriculum
vitae
Modern Britain, Temperance in Britain and
America, World and Comparative History
David M. Fahey has published on 19th
and early 20th century temperance and
fraternal societies in Britain and America.
Currently his is writing a book tentatively
called "Everyone is a Temperance
Reformer Now": John Bull and the Politics
of Drink from Gladstone to Lloyd George,
that will place the English story in
international perspective. He is the author
of Temperance and Racism: John Bull,
Johnny Reb, and the Good Templars and
was co-editor of the internatonal
encyclopedia, Alcohol and Temperance in
Modern History. Formerly president of the
Alcohol and Temperance History Group
(ATHG), he helps edit the blog of its
successor organization, the Alcohol and
Drrugs History Society, and at one time
edited the Social History of Alcohol and
Drugs. He served as president of the Ohio
Academy of History, edited two H-Net lists
(H-World and H-Teach), published a book
about African American fraternal lodges,
and edited a collection of essays on British
neutrality during the American Civil War.
His most recent articles include such
varied topics as old-time breweries and
saloons in Ohio, Gandhi and prohibition,
and a bibliography for world history.
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Carrie
A. Foster, associate professor
Ph.D. (1984) University of Denver
fosterca@ham.muohio.edu
544 Mosler Hall, Hamilton Campus;
513-785-3244
20th Century U.S.
Carrie Foster authored The Women and the
Warriors: The U.S. Section of the Women's
International League for Peace and Freedom.
She has presented numerous lectures about the
Kennedy assassination. Her current book
project is entitled Assassinations in American
History. Her teaching interests include
examination of the historical evolution of
enduring issues in the development of the U.S.
(such as the rights of women, the rights of
blacks, and war-making rights) and the way
they have been argued at various times in the
national history. She received the university's
Alumni Enrichment Award for excellence in
teaching. |
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Nishani Frazier, assistant professor
PhD (2008), Columbia University
frazien@muohio.edu
281B Upham Hall
Office hours: T R 11:00-1:30
African-American History
Nishani Frazier received her PhD from Columbia
University in 2008. Her dissertation is under
consideration for publication by Palgrave McMillan.
She is co-editor with Manning Marable of Freedom
on My Mind: The Columbia Documentary History of
the African American Experience (2003). "To Die
For the People: Prophecy and Death in the Rhetoric
of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and Fred
Hampton" will appear in Homegoings, Crossings,
and Passings: Life and Death in the African
Diaspora. Former positions include Associate
Curator of African American History at Western
Reserve Historical Society, Assistant to the Director
of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Archives at the Martin
Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change,
and the personal assistant to Dr. John Hope
Franklin, during his tenure as Chair of the
Presidential advisory Board on "One America under
President Bill Clinton."
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Mary
E. Frederickson,
associate professor
Ph.D. (1981) University of North Carolina
frederme@muohio.edu
242 Upham Hall; 513-529-5145
Office hours: TR 10-12, W 1-3
U.S. Women, Labor, Social History of the U.S.
Mary Frederickson was named Distinguished Educator for the College of Arts and Science in 2005. Her teaching interests include the history of race, class, and gender in the United States and she is an affiliate in the American Studies and Women's Studies programs. Her Ph.D. is from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has had a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Center for Research on Women at Wellesley College, a Visiting Bye-Fellowship at Selwyn College, Cambridge, UK (2000), and a Fulbright-Hays Scholar on the Silk Road Project in China, Kryzgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Turkey (2006). She is co-editor, with Joyce L. Kornbluh, of Sisterhood and Solidarity: Workers Education for Women (Temple), and the author of numerous articles in labor and women's history. Her research on women's labor history has included both academic scholarship and activism. Recent scholarship has focused on American women and travel abroad from 1830-1930, gendered resistance to slavery and economic oppression, and the effects of globalization on inner city communities in the United States. Named a Wilks Faculty Scholar in 2006, she is leading a team of Miami University students in civic engagement and research on the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood in Cincinnati during 2007-08.
Connect to website: MEFrederickson
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