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Faculty News
Victoria Brown - gave a talk on the Cultural Encounters
course to a group of alums in Chicago over fall break. She stated
that there were lots of former History majors there and they
all wanted to take the class!
Phil Kinter - his 1993 article on the “beautiful
Judith” (Schoene Judita) in the Memmingen history journal
inspired a feminist drama which opened on October 15 in Memmingen.
He had heard rumors about it, but was surprised to recieve a
transcript of the play and an invitation to the opening night.
As of November, he was still hacking away at the Keller embezzlement
article, and expected to complete revisions before the millennium
closes.
Dan Kaiser - In September he was in Chicago to begin
the planning for an all-ACM faculty conference next spring on
“Integrating Post-Communist Transformations into the Liberal
Arts Curriculum.” The conference is scheduled for next March,
hosted by St. Olaf and Carleton Colleges. Later that month he
participated in a panel for Department of History Graduate Student
Forum at the University of Iowa on “Preparing for the Job
Search.”
In early October he went to Washington, DC as part of a meeting
of project directors for the Schools for a New Millennium project
of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Last summer, Grinnell
High School won one of these grants to design a new interdisciplinary
course that will focus upon the Great Depression. Together with
Dr. David Stoakes and Mr. Roger Henderson, both of Grinnell Community
High School, they spent time consulting with NEH officers as
well as other grant winners, and visited as well with Congressman
Leonard Boswell and Senator Chuck Grassley.
In mid-November he traveled to St. Louis to attend the annual
convention of the American Association for the Advancement of
Slavic Studies (AAASS). While there he delivered a paper titled
“Marking a Life: The History and Meaning of Muscovite Gravestones”
(He gave a part of this paper as a history department colloquium
November 4). While in St. Louis, he also convened the annual
meeting of the Early Slavic Studies Association; with that meeting,
his two-year term as President of ESSA has come to an end. The
editorial board of SLAVIC REVIEW, of which he is a member, also
meets during the AAASS convention.
Finally, he is on sabbatical leave this spring, and plans
to work full-time on his book on “Family Life in Early Modern
Russia.”
Marci Sortor - served on the dissertation defense committee
for Erin Jordan, ‘93, who is pursuing a PhD in medieval
history at the University of Iowa. Professor Sortor happily reports
that Erin has written a fine dissertation and that she defended
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