Faculty Accomplishments

Dr. Patricia Howe

Dr. Howe attended the 5th Annual Conference of the Association of Franco-Irish Studies, May 21-23 at University College, in Cork, Ireland where she presented a paper entitled "French Politics and the Rebellion of 1798"  It is to be published in the Proceedings of the 5th Annual Conference of the Association of Franco-Irish Studies, 2009.

Dr. Joseph Fitzharris

Dr. Fitzharris felt fortunate to have the privilege of accompanying three UST History
students to the Missouri Valley History Conference in Omaha, NE. On Thursday and Friday, 5-6 March, 2009, Madison Bruber, Danielle Scotti, and Shaun Sticka made presentations of their research. Bruber worked under the guidance of Dr. Schrunk on her Young Scholar project,"War and Society: An Adriatic Island in Late Antiquity;" Scotti worked under the guidance of Dr. Fitzharris on her Young Scholar project, "The Female Army Nurse: Her "Transformation Since World War II;" and Sticka worked under the guidance of Dr. Howe on his 2008 Ireland Prize-winning Seminar paper, "Sir Francis Walsingham: The English Machiavel." The students' professional conduct, fine presentations, and their manner of handling comments and questions reflected well upon themselves and the History Department at UST. Dr.Fitzharris did a Review of "The Civil War Veteran: A Historical Reader", ed, Larry M. Logue and Michael Barton, in the Journal of Military History, 73:1 (2009): 284-285.

Dr. David Foote

"Mendicants, the Italian Communes & the Conversion of the Barbarians?" - a study of the Franciscans and their influence in medieval Italian cities is scheduled to appear in spring 2010 in a book of collected essays on the Mendicant Orders in the Middle Ages.
 
Dr. Foote is scheduled to deliver a paper titled "Unity of Process, Diversity of Outcomes: Ecclesiastical Institutions and the Conversion of the Barbarians in the Middle Ages"  at the 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2010. The paper will be delivered as part of a panel titled, "Not Your Grandmother's Institutional History," which will expore new approaches to institutional history.

Dr. Anne Klejment.

During the summer of 2009 Dr. Klejment participated in the CIEE Faculty Seminar in Ghana at the University of Ghana (Legon) and the Aya Centre as a Ping Fellow.  Among the highlights of the visit was a trip to the infamous slave castles on the Atlantic Ocean.  Dr. Klejment is giving presentations this semester on the Ghana seminar to her African American History classes and to the History Club. 

Dr. Klejment's article, "Dorothy Day's Spirituality of Pacifism," appeared in the Spring 2009, volume 27,  No.2 of US Catholic Historian, a refereed journal. The article was submitted to the Dorothy Day Guild in support of her canonization as a Roman Catholic saint. 

Two forthcoming book reviews:
For American Catholic Studies, a review of Paul Wilkes’s memoir: In Due Season: A Catholic Life and for the Journal of American History, a review of Joseph Kip Kosek’s Acts of Conscience: Christian Nonviolence and Modern American Democracy.  She is reading a book manuscript for Palgrave Macmillan. 

Dr. Thomas Mega

In the recent past, Dr. Mega has published a review of Dreisbach, Hall, and Morrison, eds., The Founders on God and Government, presented a paper, “Republicanism, Class, and Independence” at the Northern Great Plains History Conference, and chaired a session entitled “Survival Abroad: How to Live and Succeed in a Foreign Nation, also at the Northern Great Plains History Conference.

Dr. Scott Wright

Dr. Wright was elected to the board of the Dakota Country Historical Society in January 2009.  He wrote numerous essays for "The Eighties in America", "Great Lives from History: The Twentieth Century" and "International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences".  Dr. Wright also did a book review of Justin Nordstrom, Danger on the Doorstep: Anti-Catholicism and American Print Culture in the Progressive Era in American Catholic Studies, Vol. 119, No. 1.