Joint University of Wisconsin and University of Chicago Workshop: "Crisis and Continuity in a Globalized Political History"

Date:  February 15, 2008 Time:  8:30 AM - 5:30 PM Location:  University of Chicago, John Hope Franklin Room, Social Science 224 Phone:  (608) 265-8038 Email:  dcmeiners@wisc.edu Contact:  Deborah Meiners Sponsor:  UW-Madison Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE), UW-Madison Center for Humanities with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, University of Chicago History Department, University of Wisconsin History Department Cost:  Free and open to the public

PARTICIPANT BIOGRAPHIES

Charlotte Cahill
Charlotte Cahill is a graduate student in history at Northwestern University.  Her dissertation, "'What Their Manhood Demanded: Vietnam Veterans and Public Policy, 1966-1984," argues that the slow expansion of veterans benefits in the Vietnam era was the result of policy makers’ efforts to create a masculine image of Vietnam vets, a tactic that they believed would help them control the impact of the war on American political culture.  She hopes to defend in March.

Michael Carriere
Michael Carriere is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Chicago, where he focuses on twentieth-century US history. His dissertation, titled "Between Being and Becoming: On Architecture, Student Protest, and the Aesthetics of Liberalism in Postwar America," seeks to explore the relationship between issues of architecture, space, and urban renewal and the events of the 1960s.

Joshua Gedacht
Joshua Gedacht is a third-year graduate student in Southeast Asian history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  He is broadly interested in empire and imperialism, and he is currently focusing his research on the predominantly Muslim regions of the Southern Philippines under U.S. colonial role between 1900 and 1946.

Ingu Hwang
Ingu Hwang is a second-year Ph.D. student studying Korean history at the University of Chicago.  Ingu's main interests are in human rights history and diplomatic history, particularly the history of relations between the U.S. and Korea. 

Miranda Johnson
Miranda Johnson is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Chicago.  From New Zealand, she worked as a historical researcher in the area of indigenous claims before beginning her doctoral studies.

Christine Lamberson
Christine Lamberson studies American society and culture during the 1960s and 1970s.  She is currently working on her dissertation, which looks at how a broad American public reacted to rising levels of violence in the United States during this period. It examines how politicians reacted to growing public anxiety about the issue and looks at how these combined reactions led to a remaking of American identity.

Julie Lane
Julie Lane is a doctoral candidate in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at UW-Madison. Her research focus is political communication of the Cold War era. Her professional experience includes eight years in Washington, D.C. as a congressional aide and a public affairs consultant.

yeri lopez
A returned Peace Corps volunteer (Bolivia 2003-'05), yeri lopez is currently a third-year graduate student in the Latin American history program of the University of Wisconsin, and a recent graduate of La Follette School of Public Affairs.  His work focuses on 20th century Bolivian history, particularly indigenous identity and politics.

Grant Madsen
Grant Madsen studies American Intellectual and Political History in the 20th century. His dissertation focuses on the international origins of American economic policy in the 1950s.

Deborah Meiners
Deborah Meiners is a third-year graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she studies U.S. foreign policy in Africa during the Cold War.  She recently completed her Master’s thesis, which focuses on the operations of the Peace Corps in several African countries during the 1960s.  In addition to her historical studies, she is finishing her last semester of law school.

Jennifer Miller
Jennifer Miller earned her BA from Wesleyan University and MA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  She is currently working on a dissertation on post-occupation U.S.-Japanese relations, exploring the impact of the Cold War on both state and society within this alliance.

Sarah Miller-Davenport
Sarah Miller-Davenport is a second-year history PhD student at the University of Chicago.

Sean Mills
Sean Mills is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  He has published many articles on subjects related to Quebec and Canadian history, and is currently in the process of completing The Empire Within: Montreal, the Sixties, and the Forging of a Radical Imagination, a manuscript based upon work he completed during his PhD, and New World Coming: The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousness, a major international collection of essay (for which he is a co-editor).

Andy Warne
Andy Warne is a second year PhD student in history at Northwestern University, where he studies late twentieth-century American culture and international relations.  His first year project examined the discourse of Judeo-Christianity and the conservative evangelical turn toward philo-Semitism and pro-Israel politics between the 1960s and 1980s.  He is currently researching immigration and the politics of multiculturalism in the 1970s and '80s.

FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES

Mark P. Bradley
Mark Bradley is Associate Professor of International History and the College at the University of Chicago.  Professor Bradley specializes in twentieth century U.S. international history and postcolonial Southeast Asian history.  He is the author of Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam (2000), which won the 2002 Harry J. Benda Prize from the Association for Asian Studies, and is co-editor of Truth Claims: Representation and Human Rights (2001).  Professor Bradley is currently working on a book that explores the history of the contested and contingent meanings of the global human rights revolution in the twentieth century for Cambridge University Press and an international history of the wars in Vietnam for Oxford University Press.

Bruce Cumings
Bruce Cumings is the Department Chair and Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in History and the College at the University of Chicago.   He received his B.A. from Denison University in 1965 and his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1975.  He is the author of numerous award-winning books, including the two-volume study, The Origins of the Korean War (1981, 1990), War and Television (1992), Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History  (1997), and Parallax Visions: Making Sense of American—East Asian Relations (1999).  His new book, Dominion from Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American Power, will be published this year by Yale University Press.  Professor Cumings is also contracted with The New Press to publish a new, single-volume edition of The Origins of the Korean War.

Jane Dailey
Jane Dailey is Associate Professor of American History at the University of Chicago.  Professor Dailey received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1995.  She specializes in study of modern U.S. social and political history, African American history, the American South, and legal history.  Her publications include Before Jim Crow: The Politics of Race in Post-Emancipation Virginia (2000), a co-edited volume of essays entitled Jumpin’ Jim Crow: Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights (2000), and articles appearing in the Journal of American History, Labor History, and The Berlin Journal, a magazine of The American Academy in Berlin.

Michael Geyer
Michael Geyer is the Samuel N. Harper Professor of German and European History at the University of Chicago.  His main field of study is twentieth-century German and European history, and he has written on a wide range of topics such as German armaments, resistance against the Third Reich, politics of memory, intellectuals in contemporary Germany, the work of Hannah Arendt, religion and belief, and, most recently, love and friendship.  Professor Geyer is currently working on a study of German defeat and its aftermath in World War I and World War II. This project explores the social experience and catastrophic imagination of extreme violence during the late phases of both wars.

James Sparrow
James T. Sparrow is Assistant Professor of U.S. History at the University of Chicago.  His research and teaching focuses on the state and social citizenship in the modern United States.  Professor Sparrow is especially interested in national political culture and its formation within specific social, cultural, and institutional contexts.  His current manuscript, Americanism and Entitlement: Authorizing Big Government in an Age of Total War, is a history of the social politics of the national state as its foundations shifted from welfare to warfare at mid-century.  Its central concern is to examine the ways in which different groups of citizens encountered the burgeoning warfare state and in the process accepted, rejected or otherwise contested the legitimacy of expanding federal authority in everyday life.

Jeremi Suri
Jeremi Suri is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Senior Fellow at the UW Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE).  Professor Suri's research focuses on the cross-national connections between domestic social change and foreign policy-making.  His publications include The Global Revolutions of 1968 (2007), Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Détente (2003), and numerous scholarly articles published in International Security, Diplomatic History, Reviews in American History, Cold War History, Journal of Cold War Studies, and other journals.  His most recent book, Henry Kissinger and the American Century (2007), is an examination of the role that transnational ideas, movements, and institutions played in the formation of Henry Kissinger’s career and his policy-making.