Faculty Activities November 2017
Professor Matthew Newsom Kerr is on a well-deserved sabbatical, having received tenure and promotion to full professor AND published the book Contagion, Isolation, and Biopolitics in Victorian London.
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Professor Amy Randall’s chapter "Gender and the Emergence of the Soviet 'Citizen Consumer' in Comparative Perspective" appears in the book Material Culture in Russia and the USSR: Things, Values, Identities, edited by Graham Roberts.
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Professor Nancy Unger’s article “Adda F. Howie: ‘America’s Outstanding Woman Farmer,’” about a woman who increased milk production by innovative methods including playing the mandolin to her cows, appears in the 100th anniversary edition of the Wisconsin Magazine of History.
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You can watch Professor Robert Senkewicz shattering myths in an interview with Rachel Myrow for the KQED program Bay Curious, concerning "El Camino Not-so-Real: The True Story of the 'Ancient Road.'"
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Professor Naomi Andrews, president of the Western Society for French History, presided over a very successful national conference in Reno, Nevada concerning “Diasporas, Displacements, and Migrations.”