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The annual History Lecture Series, held in November and December 2014, focused on "The Great War and the Modern World." Professors Raymond Jonas, Devin Naar, Jordanna Bailkin, and John Toews considered themes of domination, integration and betrayal, the transition from empires to nation- states, the tension between "home fronts" and "battle fronts," and the impact of the Great War on European intellectual traditions. In Summer 2014, John Findlay and Bruce Hevly (co-authors of the book Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American West) shared their expertise with a national audience of K-12 educators by facilitating workshops on the development of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State. Carol Thomas discussed her new book, Greece: A Short History of a Long Story, 7000 BCE to the Present, as part of the September 2014 launch of the Allen Library's exhibit "Expanding the Greek Legacy: A Historical Odyssey." James Felak presented an October 2014 lecture on "John Paul II's Pilgrimage to Poland in June 1979: How Poland's Communists Interpreted It," as part of the Distinguished Speakers Series. In November 2014 the Department of History, the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies and the Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest helped to sponsor "Empire is in the Heart: A Conference on Carlos Bulosan." Stephanie Smallwood, Dan Berger, and Moon-Ho Jung helped facilitate a campus-wide teach-in event in January 2015. Entitled "Ferguson and Beyond: Race, State Violence, and Activist Agendas for the 21st Century," it was also featured in the Seattle Times. 2014 - 15 Lectures & Symposia Antony Adler, "The Ocean Laboratory: Exploration, Fieldwork and Science at Sea." Chair: Bruce Hevly. Steven Beda, "Landscapes of Solidarity: Timber Workers and the Making of Place in the Northwest, 1900-1964." Chair: James Gregory. Xiaolin Duan, "Tourism Around West Lake in Southern Song Hangzhou." Chair: Patricia Ebrey. Mira Green, "In and Out: Food, the Body, and Social Hierarchies in Roman Households." Chair: Sandra Joshel. Christopher Johnson, "Turn on the Sunshine: A History of the Solar Future." Chair: Linda Nash. Kirsten Pochop, "Learning Liberalism: Seattle Schools and the Changing Face of American Racial Politics, 1960- 1980." Chair: Susan Glenn. Catherine Warner, "Shifting States: Mobile Subjects, Markets, and Sovereignty in the India-Nepal Borderland, 1780-1930." Chair: Anand Yang. Jennifer Webster, "Toward a Sacred Topography of Central Asia: Shrines, Pilgrimage, and Gender in Kyrgyzstan." Chair: Joel Walker. Kate Brown (PhD, 2000) won two major prizes for her book Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters: the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize and the 2014 Heldt Prize. Xiaolin Duan (PhD, 2014) accepted a faculty position at Elon University in North Carolina. Mira Green (PhD, 2015) has accepted a position as lecturer in ancient history at the University of Washington for the 2015-16 and 2016-17 academic years. Seung Kye (PhD, 2006) writes that he is now working as a professor in the Department of History at Sogang University in Seoul, Korea. Kirstin Pochop (PhD, 2014) accepted a position with the Idaho State Charter Commission. Paulina Przystupa, (BA., 2012) is in her third year of graduate school and beginning research for her PhD in anthropology at the University of New Mexico. In May 2015 the department hosted a two-day conference in honor of Professor Stephanie Camp, who passed away last year. The meeting, entitled "Ever Closer to Freedom: The Work and Legacies of Stephanie M. H. Camp," was designed as a sequel to a watershed conference on American slavery organized by Camp in 2002. Like the 2002 conference, the 2015 event was charged with emotional and intellectual energy, highlighted by the keynote lecture of UCLA Professor Robin Kelley, which underscored the many ways Camp had advanced the study of slavery in America. The conference sought to advance the fields of study that had inspired Stephanie Camp, but it also gave those who knew her an opportunity to reflect on her passionate spirit, eloquent scholarship, and warm affection. In this, participants were aided by her parents, Don and Marie Camp, who came from Philadelphia. RECENT DISSERTATIONS ALUMNI NEWS history matters D E P A R T M E N T O F H I S T O R Y 5

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