GRADUATE STUDENT NEWS AND AWARDS
Andrew Donnelly (doctoral candidate in Medieval History): Donnelly participated in the first season of an archaeological excavation at the Palazzo Imperiale in Ostia Antica, Italy in June/July 2008. The Palazzo -- a large, multi-functional building -- contains a bath complex, and excavating the site allowed for both the opportunity to investigate a well-preserved bath (for structure, stratigraphy, decor, hydraulics) and to analyze the bath in its urban context. The trip was funded by a grant from the Graduate School at Loyola. Donnelly was also awarded a Fourth-Year Fellowship from Loyola for the 2008-09 academic year. Finally, Donnelly chaired a session at the 2008 Vagantes conference at The Ohio State University.
Theresa Embrey (doctoral student in the joint program in US History and Public History): Embrey published “Visiting and Researching Medals at the Pritzker Military Library,” JOMSA, Vol. 58, No. 6 (November- December 2007), pp. 37-38. Embrey also curated with Leighton Shell and Devin Hunter “Faces of Valor: American Soldiers from the Spanish-American War and the War in the Philippines” (March 20-May 30, 2008) at the Pritzker Military Library. She curated two other exhibits with Leighton Shell at the Pritzker Military Library: “Uncle Sam” (January 10 - February 29, 2008) and “Howard Chandler Christy: American Illustrator” (September 18 - December 14, 2007).
Thomas Greene (doctoral candidate in Medieval History): Greene successfully defended the proposal for his dissertation, “Emotions and Religious Culture: The Carolingian Pastoral Ideal in the Archdiocese of Sens, 798-981” in December 2007. Loyola University Chicago awarded him a Spring Fellowship in 2008 and a Fourth-Year Fellowship for the 2008-09 academic year. He is also the first alternate for the Medieval Academy of America’s Birgit Baldwin Fellowship. The Hill Museum and Manuscript Library at St. John's University, one of the largest repositories of medieval manuscripts on microfilm in the United States, awarded Greene a grant to reside as a Heckman Scholar during the summer of 2008. Greene published a book review, “Review: Thomas Merton. Cassian and the Fathers: Initiation into the Monastic Tradition,” Mystics Quarterly 33 (May/June 2007): 64-66. A session which Greene organized (with Dan O'Gorman), "Manifestations of the Body in Ninth-Century Biblical Commentary," has been accepted by the Southeastern Medieval Association for inclusion in their 34th Annual Meeting held at St. Louis University on October 2-4, 2008. As part of that session Greene will present a paper,“Cum timore et tremore: Religious Culture, Bodily Comportment and Affective States in Auxerrois Commentaries.”
William J. Holderfield (doctoral student in the joint program in US History and Public History): Holderfield published Schaumburg's Woodfield Mall (Arcadia Publishing, 2007). In 2007, Holderfield participated in a research project on Randhurst Mall for the Mt. Prospect Historical Society. The project culminated in a series of essays available on the Historical Society’s website. Holderfield also began teaching as an adjunct instructor at Oakton Community College in spring 2008. In addition to teaching, he is also involved in the revising and redesigning of the History and Policy Studies website.
Kevin Kaufmann (doctoral candidate in US History): Kaufmann was awarded a travel grant from the Graduate School for summer 2008 to complete research for his dissertation. He also published a book review of Dime Novel Desperadoes: The Notorious Maxwell Brothers by John E. Hallwas for Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (Spring 2009).
Dejan Kralj (doctoral candidate in US History): Kralj published a book review of My Detroit: Growing Up Greek and American in Motor City by Dan Georgakas for Michigan Historical Review, vol. 33, no. 2 (Fall 2007), pp. 170-171. Kralj was also awarded a Schmitt Dissertation Fellow from Loyola for 2007-08 academic year. He is an Alpha Sigma Nu Nominee for 2008-09.
Elizabeth Matelski (doctoral candidate in US History): Matelski wrote three encyclopedia entries, “Beauty Pageants,” “Cheerleaders” and “Movie Stars” for the forthcoming Women in American History: An Encyclopedia, edited by Hasia R. Diner. She also presented two papers: “The Color(s) of Perfection: Beauty Ideals in Ebony and Life Magazines, 1945-1966,” at the Loyola University Chicago History Graduate Student Conference in April 2008 and “Blonde or Bust: Marilyn Monroe and the Rise and Fall of the1950s Blonde Archetype,” at the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Graduate Student Conference on Gender and Sexuality in April 2008. Matelski also presented, “Blonde or Bust: Marilyn Monroe and the Rise and Fall of the 1950s Blonde Archetype,” as part of the Gannon Center for Women and Leadership Center Lecture Series at Loyola University Chicago in January 2008.
Jason Myers (doctoral candidate in Modern European History): Myers was awarded two fellowships and one grant. He was awarded a Spring Fellowship for 2008 and a Fourth-Year Fellowship from Loyola for the 2008-09 academic year. He was also awarded a summer research grant from the Graduate School. Myers wrote an encyclopedia entry on Bob Dylan for The Encyclopedia of the Culture Wars (2008).
Kelly O’Connor (doctoral candidate in US History): O’Connor presented “A Shout in the Wilderness of Pop Culture: The Grunge Phenomenon” at the Loyola University Chicago History Graduate Student Conference in
April, 2008.
Jilana Ordman (doctoral candidate in medieval history) successfully defended the proposal for her dissertation, "Feeling Like a Crusader: Crusader Affect and Crusade Theology 1095-1291" in December 2007. In Spring 2008 she received a service award bonus for her performance as an instructor of record for the history department. In Summer 2008 she was granted a Graduate School Dissertation Research Assistance Grant, which has been used to aid in the production of both a dissertation chapter and paper for presentation. The paper, "Creating the Crusader, 1095-1098" will be presented at the Society for the Study of the Crusades in the Latin East's 2008 Conference in Avignon France.
Stella Ress (doctoral student in US History): Ress helped to research and write a successful district nomination for a Chicago neighborhood to be included on the National Register of Historic Places. She also presented a poster, “Building a History: Developing the Sauganash Community through Individual Home Ownership,” at the National Council on Public History Conference, Louisville, Kentucky in April 2007. She will present “Who's Your Daddy?: Gender and Age in Early Twentieth-Century American Adoption,” at The Great Lakes History Conference in October 2008. Her article, “Bridging the Generation Gap: Little Orphan Annie in the Great Depression” is forthcoming in Journal of Popular Culture (Spring 2009).
Maria Reynolds (doctoral candidate in the joint program in US History and Public History) presented "Interpreting Sagamore's Ruins: The Debate over Non-Conforming Structures in Wilderness Landscapes" at the American Society for Environmental History 2008 Annual Meeting in Boise, ID. In July 2008, Reynolds finished her two year stint as Graduate Assistant for the Loyola Oral History Project where she completed candidate in the joint program in US History and Public History over fifty oral history interviews documenting the history of Loyola's Law School and Rome Center Campus. Reynolds also contributed three articles to the Encyclopedia of the Jazz Age (2008). She was awarded a Fourth-Year Fellowship from Loyola for the 2008-09 academic year.
Cord Scott (doctoral candidate in US History): Scott published various entries in Encyclopedia of the Jazz (2008). He also presented “Creating the perfect superhero: eugenics in comic books” at the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference in April 2008. In May 2008, Scott was chosen as one of two American scholars to participate in the Gregg Centre’s (University of New Brunswick) Canadian Battlefield Tour of Sicily and Italy. He spent 11 days visiting World War II battlefield sites. The tour was both professional (as part of his dissertation on war-related comics) as well as personal (his maternal grandfather served in the Italian theatre). Scott has three forthcoming publications: An article and two exhibit reviews for the fall issue of The International Journal of Comic Art. He also has a chapter in the forthcoming book, Captain America: Truth, Justice and the American Ideal, Robert Weiner, editor (McFarland Press) and an essay forthcoming in The Chicago Sports Reader, Steven Riess, editor (University of Illinois Press).
Albert Vogt (doctoral student in US History): Vogt was the co-editor of Rivers of the Green Swamp: An Anthology (2008). He also has a chapter in the collection entitled “Deserter: A Short Story.” He presented “They Looked like the Devil Himself: Franciscan Representations of Indians in Spanish Florida” at the Loyola University Chicago History Graduate Student Conference in April, 2008.
