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Polly Myers came to UW and the department during the 2014-15 academic year, as a full-time lecturer in the university's new Integrated Social Sciences (ISS) degree program. ISS is an online program that provides students with a flexible and affordable way to earn a UW bachelor's degree. Myers has taken a leading role in developing and teaching the ISS program's core curriculum. Myers's research, which focuses on the intersection of capitalist economics, business practices, gender, and sexuality, was recognized with an article prize from Feminist Studies in 2009. Her first book, Capitalist Family Values: Gender, Work, and Corporate Culture at Boeing, is due out this fall. NEW COURSES John Findlay offered "American Citizenship" for the first time in Autumn 2014. This course was designed to supplement the department's introductory survey course in United States history, while maintaining a clear, thematic focus on citizenship—an issue that is of enduring interest, and of great importance in present-day cultural and political debates. Susan Glenn taught the new course "The Holocaust and American Life" in Winter 2015. In most accounts, "the Holocaust" is told as a European story, but it was also a transatlantic story. This course examined U.S. responses to the Holocaust and the impact of the Holocaust on American society and culture from the wartime period to the present. In it, Glenn drew on film, literature, journalism, diaries, and other primary sources to analyze how events in Europe affected and were affected by developments in U.S. history. The course was developed with the support of a grant from the Robert A. Nathane, Sr., Endowed Fund in History. Robin Stacey introduced "Reacting to the Past: Religion and Politics in Medieval Europe" in Winter 2015. Derived from a curriculum first introduced at Barnard College, the course aims to get students to think about history in a new way. Instead of just absorbing information, it challenges students to experience history, by placing them into real situations drawn from the history of medieval Europe, and helping them learn and research historically-appropriate responses. Development of the course was aided by a grant from the Hanauer Discretionary Fund. Faculty Bookshelf Dan Berger Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era (University of North Carolina Press, 2014). Elena Campbell The Muslim Question and Russian Imperial Governance (Indiana University Press, 2015). Benjamin Schmidt Inventing Exoticism: Geography, Globalism, and Europe's Early Modern World (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015). Carol Thomas Greece: A Short History of a Long Story, 7000 BCE to the Present (Wiley, 2014). The Department of History is also pleased to announce three new faculty members for the 2015-16 academic year. NEW FACULTY Josh Reid takes up the position of associate professor of Native American history of the Pacific Northwest, with tenure. Born and raised in Washington State, Reid arrives at UW from the University of Massachusetts, Boston, where he was assistant professor and director of the university's program in Native American and indigenous studies. His first monograph, The Sea Is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs, was recently released by Yale University Press. He also sits on the editorial advisory board of Pacific Northwest Quarterly and on the American Historical Association Council. Matthew Mosca has accepted the position of assistant professor specializing in the history of Imperial China. Mosca was previously assistant professor of Chinese history at the College of William & Mary. He has also held research fellowships at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Hong Kong, and the Institute for Advanced Study. His first book, From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy: The Question of India and the Transformation of Geopolitics in Qing China, was published in 2013. Daniel Sheffield joins the department as assistant professor for the history of the Islamic world before 1850. Sheffield recently completed a Link-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Princeton University Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, a post which also allowed him to lecture in the Princeton Near Eastern Studies Department. He is currently completing a book manuscript entitled Cosmopolitan Zarathustras: Religion, Translation, and Prophethood in Iran and South Asia. 10  U N I V E R S I T Y O F W A S H I N G T O N

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