History Department News - 1998-99

4/4/99 - Congratulations to Dr. Iris Engstrand on the marriage of her daughter Kristin to Daniel Moran April 3 at the San Diego Hilton Beach and Tennis Resort - see pictures. Congratulations also to Dr. Molly McClain who has been awarded a Residential Fellowship at the Winterthur Musuem to research a book on "Beauty and Faith in Early American Life."

9/21/98 - The History Department and Phi Alpha Theta invite students to a lecture and discussion by Professor Richard Unger of the University of British Columbia on the topic of "Seapower, the Economy and the Impact on the Environment in Northern Europe in the Renaissance," Thursday, October 1, at 4 p.m. in the University Center, Room 107. Reception will follow. For more information, please contact Dr. Molly McClain, x4044.

8/11/98 - The annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association hosted at USD last week was a great success. Dr. Iris Engstrand was inaugurated president for the 1998-1999 term. Steven Schoenherr presented portions of the Old Town San Diego CD-ROM. James Gump presented a paper on "Sir George Grey's Encounter with Maori and the Xhosa, 1845-1868." Yi Sun presented a paper on "The Role of Xinjiang in the Development of China." Kyle Ciani presented a paper on "Definitely Feeble-Minded: Responses to 'Pathological' Parents in Progressive-Era Detroit." Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman presided over the session on "Arming for Armageddon: The Military-Industrial-Scientific Complex in the 1950s." The 1999 Meeting of the PCB-AHA will be in Hawaii and the deadline for the Call for Proposals is November 15, 1998.

3/17/98 - Louis Warren's book The Hunter's Game: Poachers and Conservationists in Twentieth- Century America,has been published by Yale University Press and recently won the Western Heritage Award for best non-fiction book of 1997, presented by the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City. Dr. Warren has received a Graves Award to do research on Buffalo Bill Cody in Europe next year. Iris Engstrand has been elected President of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association. The PCB will hold its annual meeting on the USD campus Aug. 6-8, 1998. Dr. Engstrand has published "Ranchos of North County" in the Spring 1998 issue of San Diego's North County Magazine. Dr. Engstrand has recently published "Seekers of the Northern Mystery: European Exploration in California and the Pacific," in California History, Summer/Fall 1997. Dr. Michael Gonzalez, Assistant Professor of History, has also contributed "The Child of the Wilderness Weeps for the Father of Our Country: The Indian and the Politics of Church and State in Provincial California" to the same volume. Dr. Engstrand has completed an essay "The Impact of the U.S. Mexican War on the Spanish Southwest" that will appear in Culture y Cultura, a bilingual catalog to accompany an exhibit on the Mexican War at the Autry Museum of Western Heritage opening on May 2, 1998, and which features essays by Richard Griswold del Castillo and Elena Poniatowska. Dr. Engstrand will chair and comment on a session called "Migration of the Mind" at the Forum for European Expansion and Global Interaction to be held at the Huntington Library on April 3 and 4. She will also deliver an address on Spain's role in the exploration of Alaska to the Cook Inlet Historical Society at the Anchorage Museum in Anchorage, Alaska, on April 16. Molly McClain's forthcoming book, Schaum's Quick Guide to Essay Writing, will be published by McGraw-Hill in August, 1998. It shows students how to research and write a well-reasoned and coherent essay which is backed up by authoritative evidence. Yi Sun has 2 essays accepted for publication: "Crisis Management: John Foster Dulles and the First Taiwan Strait Affair" in China and the United States: A New Cold War History, edited by Xiaobing Li and Hongshan Li (Lanham, MD: The University Press of America, 1998), and "Progress or Regress: Women and the Economic Reforms in China" in Weaving a New Tapestry: Asia in the post-Cold War World, edited by William P. Head and Edwin G. Clausen (Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1998). Dr. Sun was elected Secretary for the Association of Third World Studies at the annual meeting in Hartford, CT, in October, 1997, and delivered a paper on "The Changing Economic Landscape and the Making of China's Foreign Policy During the Post-Cold War Era" at this meeting.