Jim Gump finished an article to be published in the next issue of the Pacific Historical Review on "A Spirit of Resistance: Sioux, Maori and Xhosa Responses to Western Dominance, 1840-1920." He spent 3 weeks in June in South Africa at Rhodes University, at The Capes Archive, and at the South African Library researching a book on the same subject to be published by Yale University Press in 1998. Iris Engstrand completed the book Quest for Empire with Donald Cutter (published by Fulcrum in Golden, Colorado) and a short article for the summer Newsletter of the Historical Society of Southern California titled "The University of San Diego: Modern University with a Renaissance Flavor" (see this article on our Local History Page). She also finished her Fulbright Fellowship sabbatical at the Archives of The Royal Botannical Garden in Madrid researching 18th century Spanish scientific expeditions, completed her term on the Board of Editors of the Pacific Historical Review at the annual meeting in San Francisco, and spent 10 days in Guadalajara, Mexico, as Chairperson of the USD-Guadalajara Oversight Committee. Ray Brandes finished the second volume, titled Lane Field 1946-1957, of his trilogy history of the San Diego Padres. Jim Otte taught the seminar on "Man, Ships, and the Sea" in the summer session, then spent 2 weeks in Germany for research on an article on the Roman army diet.
His essay review of Bernhard Pabst's Atomtheoriem des lateinischen Mittelalters was published in the July issue of Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies.
Steve Schoenherr taught the Civil War seminar in the summer post-session, presented a paper in Boston on "New Tools of the Trade: Using Multimedia in the History Classroom" and traveled to Washington, D.C. for research at the Woodrow Wilson House (picture at left of Wilson's piano is from Dr. Schoenherr's web page of Woodrow Wilson House Pictures). Lisa Cobbs Hoffman will be on sabbatical through January 1997. Ken Serbin began his one-year Social Science Research Council Fellowship in Brazil. Molly McClain attended a summer faculty seminar at Claremont College sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Louis Warren finished his manuscript for publication by Yale University Press titled The Hunter's Gone: Poachers, Conservationists and 20th Century America. Michael Gonzalez was married June 29 to Olga Alvarez in Elmendorf, Texas, and honeymooned in Paris for 2 weeks. Olga is a graduate of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Government at UT Austin with a Master's degree in Public Policy. Congratulations, Michael and Olga!
8/30/96
