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Robert Stacey Selected Dean of 2012-13 Lectures the College of Arts and Sciences and Symposia IN FEBRUARY 2013, the University of Washington selected Professor Robert Stacey, a longtime member of the Department of History, to be the new Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. He emerged as the leading candidate after a broad national search for a Dean to oversee the University's largest college. Stacey brings to this job a wealth of experience. He has served in many other leadership roles, most recently as Divisional Dean for three of the College's four divisions, and before that as Chair of the Department of History and Chair of the Jewish Studies Program. He is the first member of the History Department since Solomon Katz (who was also a Medieval historian with a strong focus on Jewish history) to serve as Dean of Arts and Sciences. "Because I've always admired Sol Katz so much," Stacey remarked, "I am particularly pleased about this." Generous Gift to the Department THE DEPARTMENT WOULD LIKE TO RECOGNIZE the ongoing generosity of Lenore Hanauer. Over the past five years, her support has been critical to maintaining and enhancing the study of History at the University of Washington. As a result, despite unprecedented financial challenges, the Department remains a nationally recognized center of historical scholarship across a broad range of geographic and temporal fields. In the past year, faculty have used Hanauer funds to conduct archival research in a variety of locations, including New England, Peru, Spain, Russia, and the Philippines. This research, which would not have been possible without Hanauer support, has enabled the publication of groundbreaking books and articles. In addition, promising graduate students have received critical support from Hanauer fellowships. The time to degree is shortened and the quality of theses and dissertations is improved when students have the opportunity to focus exclusively on the research and writing process. Hanauer funds have also recently supported Professor Jon Bridgman's teaching. Last spring, Bridgman taught HIST204 "Europe & America, 1914-45" to over forty undergraduates and a number of Access students (individuals 65 years of age or older who take classes for a minimal fee when space is available). In explaining her decision to donate to the Department, Lenore Hanauer stressed wanting to share her love of history with others. "History is like a good novel that never ends," she commented. "The more you know, the more interesting it becomes. I want to make the teaching and writing of history exciting and rewarding for both students and instructors." PAGE 4 University of Washington IN OCTOBER 2012, Professor Margaret O'Mara presented a fourpart series Pivotal Tuesdays: Four Presidential Elections That Made History. Focused on the contests of 1912, 1932, 1968, and 1992, the lectures explored how these election-year dramas provide a window into major economic, political, and cultural shifts in twentieth century American society. In May 2013, the Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest co-sponsored Empires of Capital: Race across the Atlantic and the Pacific. Speakers at the two-day symposium sought to theorize and historicize racial capitalism in the modern world, uncovering the multiple layers — ideological, cultural, economic, and social — of capitalist expansion. Professors Moon-Ho Jung and Stephanie Smallwood, along with Chandan Reddy and Alys Weinbaum, Professors in English, organized the event. In April 2013, a Symposium on Sephardic Jewry and the Holocaust: the Future of the Field was co-sponsored by the Hanauer Outreach Fund of the Department of History and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D. C. Professor Devin Naar served as co-convener (along with Leah Wolfson, Senior Program Officer at the USHMM's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies). The symposium brought together a dozen scholars from across the country to discuss the Holocaust from the perspective of the Mediterranean world. Professor George Behlmer delivered the University of Washington Alumni Association 2012 History Lecture Series on Revenge and Reconciliation in Modern Ireland. The three-part series, which touched on more than three centuries of Irish history, explored the origins of political and social unrest in Ireland as well as prospects for lasting peace there. In December 2012, U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Clay Mountcastle, Professor and Chair of the UW Department of Military Science, delivered a lecture on "The World War I Christmas Truce." The truce was not officially sanctioned by military authorities and on some parts of the front did not occur. Mountcastle's talk aimed to separate myth from reality, analyzing the only holiday truce of the conflict. The Pleasures of History Librarianship By Theresa Mudrock ONE OF THE GREAT PLEASURES of being a History Librarian is shopping for books. Each year, I look at some 10,000 new book notices and must decide which 1,500 or so to buy. Which books will be perfect for a professor's research interest? Which would attract an undergraduate student looking for an interesting term paper topic? Which would help a graduate student working towards her dissertation? Curious about my choices? Browse the monthly new book list for History at guides.lib.washington.edu/ history-newbooks.

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