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Check out what the incredibly accomplished faculty<\/a> members of the UTC Department of History<\/a> have been up to!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Julia Cummiskey<\/strong><\/a> received a Holmberg Grant for Faculty Excellence<\/a>, which she will use for a course release to spend time developing her second book project on the history of health marketing in East Africa. She\u2019ll be consulting physical and digital archives and working on applications for grants to support additional research in Europe and East Africa. Dr. Cummiskey is attending the African Studies Association meeting<\/a> in November, for which she served on the committee that selected the presentations for the health and medicine subtheme of the program.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fang Yu Hu<\/strong><\/a> received the 2022\u00a0University of Tennessee Alumni Association Outstanding Teaching Award<\/a>. She\u00a0was also on the CAS Dean\u2019s List for\u00a0Outstanding Faculty Advising and Mentoring for 2021-22.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Mark Johnson<\/strong><\/a> was promoted to associate lecturer.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Will Kuby<\/strong><\/a> was appointed Associate Dean of the UTC Honors College.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Carey McCormack<\/strong><\/a> was promoted to associate lecturer.\u00a0She is presenting a teaching demo on paleo skills at the Southeast World History Association<\/a> conference in November.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Kelli Nelson<\/strong><\/a> was promoted to associate lecturer.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Kira Robison<\/strong><\/a> is on faculty development leave for Fall 2022.\u00a0She is beginning work on her next major book project that explores the medico-magical practices of \u00a0face- and palm-reading, which were used by medieval physicians for various purposes such as developing long-term prognoses for patients, or providing the means of identifying evil through examination of exterior bodily features and associating those features with the state of the soul.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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John C. Swanson<\/strong><\/a> spent last semester (January-June 2022) as a Senior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies<\/a> in Freiburg, Germany,\u00a0where he was also a Marie Curie Fellow of the European Union. He published a book chapter, \u201cExplaining German Expulsions through the Lens of Postcatastrophy: New Discussions\u00a0concerning the Shoah and the Expulsions,\u201d in the book\u00a0The Afterlife of the Shoah in Central Eastern European Cultures<\/a>: Concepts, Problems, and the Aesthetic of the Postcatastrophic\u00a0Narration<\/em>\u00a0(2022), edited by Anna Artwinska and Anja Tippner. In the last few months he finished articles concerning the German minority in Hungary, Hungarian-Ukrainian relations, as\u00a0well as a photo-essay about \u201cpeople and places.\u201d In May 2022 he led a group of UTC students on a Holocaust study tour in Germany. He also continues to give talks and write articles about the Russian war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Kathryn Taylor<\/strong><\/a> completed a monograph entitled\u00a0Ordering Customs: Ethnographic Thought in Early Modern Venice,\u00a0<\/em>which will be published in spring 2023 by The University of Delaware Press.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Mike Thompson<\/strong><\/a> will be attending two conferences this fall semester. In early September he will travel to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to chair a panel at the biennial meeting of the\u00a0Southern Labor Studies Association<\/a>. Mike serves on the SLSA executive board, and will be organizing its next conference scheduled for 2024 in Chattanooga. Later in September Mike will visit the New Bedford Whaling Museum to present content from his chapter in the book\u00a0Sailing to Freedom: The Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad<\/a><\/em>. This conference coincides with the\u00a0\u201cSailing to Freedom\u201d museum exhibition<\/a>, which is available from May-November 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Annie Tracy Samuel<\/strong><\/a> was awarded tenure and promoted to associate professor.\u00a0 Her short article, \u201cIran\u2019s Nuclear Diplomacy,\u201d was published in Origins<\/a>: Current Events in Historical Perspective<\/em> (The Ohio State University) in June 2022.\u00a0 She discussed her book, The Unfinished History of the Iran-Iraq War<\/a>: Faith, Firepower, and Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards<\/em> (Cambridge University Press<\/a>, 2022), available on Amazon<\/a>, in a New Books Network<\/a> podcast interview in July and in a Conversation Six<\/a> podcast in August.\u00a0 She was featured in a BBC Persian<\/a><\/em> special on the 40th<\/sup> Anniversary of the Liberation of Khurramshahr (a battle during the Iran-Iraq War) in May (Clip 1<\/a>, Clip 2<\/a>, Clip 3<\/a>, Clip 4<\/a>).\u00a0 She delivered an invited expert briefing to the United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in July and book talks at the University of Pennsylvania<\/a> in April and at Princeton University<\/a> in March.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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