Bindas will present “Remembering the Past and Narrating the Future: Race and Memory in America,” at the International Oral History Association Conference, September 23-26, 2008 in Guadalajara, Mexico, and “Collective Memory and Community: A Warren Case Study,” at the Oral History Association Annual Conference, October 15-19, 2008 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His current writing and research include editing and writing extended introduction for the “Artistic Section” of The Great Depression and New Deal: A Social, Political, and Economic Encyclopedia, ABC-Clio, forthcoming, 2009, and with Professor Molly Merryman, Justice Studies, completing a book tentatively entitled Oral History, Collective Memory and Digital Technology: Applications for the Classroom. Pino will present “Constructing the Favelada in Rio de Janeiro.” Latin American Studies Association, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2009. He hopes to use 2009 to complete his book entitled “Afro-Latin Essays: Rethinking Race and Gender in Latin America.” He continues to research towards completing  "The Female in the Favela and the Favela in the Female." Pulju was off in the spring (2008) to work on her book manuscript, The Good Buyer:  Women, the Family, and the Creation of Mass Consumer Society in France, 1944-1965.  She also finished a book chapter for an edited collection, entitled:  The Woman’s Paradise: The American Fantasy, Home Appliances, and Consumer Demand in Liberation France. She will deliver “For Better and For Worse: Defining the Modern Family of the Postwar Years,” at the Western Society for French History in November, 2008, in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.  Sosnowski will deliver a paper for the Western Society for French History as well, and also plans to attend (and participate) in the Consortium on the Revolutionary Europe which will take place in Savannah, Georgia in mid-February.  Steigmann-Gall spent a month last summer in Oxford, on a visiting research fellowship to Oxford Brookes University, and published two articles, one in Journal of Contemporary History, the other in a collection of essays on Christianity and the Holocaust published by Indiana University Press.  This year, he has contributed the chapter on "Religion and the Churches" to the Short Oxford History of Germany: The Third Reich, edited by Oxford University's Jane Caplan, and the chapter on Germany in the Routledge volume on Clerical Fascism in Interwar Europe. Walmsey continues to work on her manuscript on the Inter-American Commission of Women, 1916-1938, and is a member of the Ohio Academy of History's Secondary Standard Committee. She has been invited to join Kathryn Kish Sklar and Thomas Dublin as an advisor for "The International and Transnational Agendas of United States Women, 1840-2000," online project (link not yet available). Jones, Greg (PhD candidate working with Dr. Hudson) presented paper "Worthy of Their Sires: Confederate Lyrics as a Renaissance of American Revolutionary Ideology" at Loyola University of Chicago on April 26, 2008. "Civil War Soldiers from Southeastern Ohio and the Election of 1864" at the Conference of Faith and History in Bluffton, Ohio in September, 2008. Mujic, Julie (PhD candidate) is currently in the research phase of her dissertation, entitled: "Between Campus and War: Understanding Responses to the Civil War at the University of Michigan, Indiana University, and the University of Wisconsin."   Archives: Faculty News for Fall 2006 Kevin Adams is currently revising his dissertation on the interplay of class, race, and ethnicity in the post- Civil War frontier Army for publication by the University of Oklahoma Press. Earlier incarnations of this work have been presented at annual meetings for the Society of Military History, the Western Historical Association, and, most recently, the Organization of American Historians, where he presented a segment of his research on the work culture of the frontier Army at the 2006 annual meeting in Washington D.C. Leslie Heaphy has edited Black Baseball in Chicago (McFarland Publishing, 2006) and, with Mel May, The Encyclopedia of Women in Baseball (McFarland Publishing, 2006). Mary Ann Heiss participated in a week-long teacher institute, “The Causes and Consequences of the Cold War,” at the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, Missouri, in July, at which she presented “Decolonization on a World Stage: Anglo-American Handling of Colonial Questions at the United Nations, 1945-1963.” She also published “Culture and U.S. Relations with the Middle East” in a special issue of the Organization of American Historians Magazine of History titled “The U.S. and the Middle East.” Leonne M. Hudson served as chair and commentator for a panel of the Ohio Regional Conference of Phi Alpha Theta at Ashland University in April 2006. He also chaired two sessions of the Ohio Academy of History at Muskingham College in April. The following month, Hudson presented "General Lee and the Enlistment of Black Soldiers" at the Conference on the Civil War at the University of Mississippi. Patti Kameya joined the history department at Kent State University in August 2006. She defended her dissertation, “Paupers, Poets, and Paragons: Eccentricity as Virtue in Kinsei kijinden (Eccentrics of our times, 1790)” in the spring of 2006, and is preparing the manuscript for publication. She specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of Tokugawa Japan (1600-1868), and her research interests include gender, the formation of national identity, intellectual exchange within Northeast Asia, and borderlands such as Okinawa and Hokkaido. Assad Pino presented “Jihad in the Land of the Kaafir: Muslim Slaves and Free Persons in Nineteenth-century Salvador, Brazil," Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, and “A Revolutionary Pedagogy for the African Diaspora in Latin America,” at the Association for the Study of World African Diaspora Conference in Rio de Janiero, Brazil (“Diasporic Encounters and Collaborations”) Rebecca Pulju presented a paper at the Society for French Historical Studies conference at the University of Illinois in March 2006. She received a small fellowship that allowed her to spend June in Paris working at the French national library and national archives. Pulju’s paper, presented earlier at the Western Society for French Historical Studies, was published in the conference proceedings in spring 2006, and her article, “Consumers for the Nation: Women, Politics and Consumer Organization in France, 1944-1965,” came out in the Journal of Women’s History at the end of August. Richard Steigmann-Gall is currently finishing his contributions to two collaborative projects. One is the chapter on “religion and the churches” in The Oxford Short History of Germany: The Third Reich, the other a chapter on Germany for a forthcoming volume on “Clerical Fascism” published by Routledge. Meanwhile, his book, The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945 (Cambridge UP) continues to generate scholarly debate. Three review essays have recently explored various aspects of the work: Milan Babík’s piece in History and Theory examines the question of Nazism as a “secular religion”; Mark Ruff’s article in Catholic Historical Review compares Holy Reich with a recent German-language monograph on a similar topic; and Neil Gregor’s extended review essay in Journal of Modern History explores the larger implications of the book for Third Reich historiography. In addition, in 2007 the Journal of Contemporary History will publish a symposium on Holy Reich, bringing together five scholars from Europe and North America, and concluding with a rejoinder by the author. Clarence E. Wunderlin, Jr., has published the final volume (1949-1953), of The Papers of Robert A. Taft, 4 vols. (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1997-2006). Archives: Faculty News Spring 2006 Kenneth J. Bindas, recently promoted to the rank of professor, is completing a new book, “Hoover Chickens and Other Tales of the Great Depression: Oral History, Memory and the American South,” which is under contract with the University Press of Florida for publication in the fall of 2006. He presented “Contradiction of Identity: A Comparison of Swing and Hillbilly Music in the 1930s,” at the Western Social Science Association Annual Meeting, in April 2005. In addition, Bindas organized the NEH Landmark Workshop, “Steel-making in Cleveland,” July 11-15, 2005 and has published book reviews in Business History Review, Popular Music & Society, and Gulf South Historical Review. Mary Ann Heiss presented “Oil, Allies, Anti-communism, and Nationalism: U.S. Interests in the Middle East since 1945,” at “The Anglo-American Middle East,” a conference at the Norwegian Technical University, Trondheim, May 2005. Later that summer she participated in two Teaching American History institutes at Bowling Green State University: for “History Links” she presented units on U.S. policy before Pearl Harbor and the Anglo-American special relationship during World War II and for “Expanding America” she covered the Arab-Israeli conflict and gender and cultural issues in U.S. relations with the Middle East. She published “On Becoming the Dictatress of the World,” in “John Gaddis’s Surprise, Security, and the American Experience: A Roundtable Critique,” Passport: The Newsletter of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations 36, No. 2 (August 2005): 7, 8-9. Hongshan Li published “Recent ‘Anti-Americanism’ in China: Historical Roots and Impact” in China’s Foreign Policy Making: Social Forces and Chinese American Policy, ed. Yufan Hao and Su Lin (Hampshire, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2005), 41-68, and “Teaching Modern United States History at Wuhan University,” in Perspectives 5 (September 30, 2004): 44 47. Assad Pino authored the following encyclopedia entry, “Latin America,” in The Seventies in America, ed. John C. Super (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press. 2006), 543-45. He also presented “A Revolutionary Pedagogy for the African Diaspora in Latin America” at the Association for the Study of World African Diaspora Conference in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, “Diasporic Encounters and Collaborations,” in October 2005. In March 2005, Pino presented “A Day in the Mind of the Malê: Muslim Slaves and Free Blacks in Nineteenth-century Salvador, Brazil,” at the Southwest Social Science Association, Annual Meeting, in New Orleans. In 2005, Pino also contributed to the video Globalization and Latin America: Another World is Possible, produced by Lakeland Community College, Ohio. Thomas C. Sosnowski published “Revolutionary Emigres and Exiles in the United States: Problems of Economic Survival in a New Republican Society,” revised version of a paper presented at the George Rude Seminar on French History (Melbourne, Australia; July 2004), in French History and Civilization: Papers from the George Rude Seminar (2005), 45-52, and “A ‘Noble” Attraction: French Revolutionary Exiles in the Trans-Appalachian West,” revised version of a paper presented to the Ohio Academy of History (April 2003), in Proceedings of the Ohio Academy of HIstory (Spring 2005), 31-40. In addition, he served as commentator and chair for a session of the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe in Lakeland, Florida, 17-19 February 2005, commented at a session of the Western Society for French History in Colorado Springs, Colorado, 27-29 October 2005, and commented at a session of the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 2-4 Mar. 2006 in Atlanta, Ga. Richard Steigmann-Gall’s book, The Holy Reich (Cambridge UP, 2003), came out in Italian and Portuguese translations in the last year, with Spanish and Greek editions forthcoming. He’s been involved in several collaborative projects, including one with the Holocaust Museum on antisemitism and the Holocaust – with a conference volume out in 2007 through Indiana UP – and another on “Clerical Fascism” in Oxford, with a conference volume forthcoming through Routledge. He continues to serve as director of the Jewish Studies Program. Clarence E. Wunderlin, Jr., recently promoted to the rank of professor, published Robert A. Taft: Ideas, Tradition, and Party in U.S. Foreign Policy in the series “Biographies in American Foreign Policy,” ed. Joseph A. Fry (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005).