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Faculty News
Andrew Hsieh
– on January 21 he presented a lecture at the Institute
of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan entitled:
Inviting the Guests in: Twice-Serving Officials' Patronage
of the Ming Loyalists in the Early Ch'ing, 1660-1680.
Dan Kaiser
– since he is on sabbatical leave, he is devoting as much
time as possible to completing the text of his book on "Domestic
Life in Early Modern Russia.” He has recently been working
on "Sexuality, Gender, and Domestic Relations,”
a chapter for which he has written several papers over the last
few years. He plans to continue work on other chapters in the
book over the rest of the spring and summer. Although the book
is his main project, he does have some other plans that will
take him away from campus occasionally.
From March 31 till April 2 he attended
the Midwest Slavic Conference at the University of Illinois,
where he chaired a panel devoted to "New Directions in
Muscovite History.”
April 10-12 he was part of a three-person
panel of external reviewers for the Department of History at
Williams College. And from July 29-August 3 he will take part
in the VI World Congress for Central and East European Studies,
convening in Tampere, Finland. His paper, "Charity and
Philanthropy in Early Modern Russia,” will use sixteenth-
and seventeenth-century Russian wills to trace the history and
understanding of death-bed charity.
Victoria Brown
- will be leaving Iowa in June to set up a home away from home
in Los Angeles for a year. During the summer and fall semester,
she will be working on her book and will be a scholar-in-residence
at the Huntington Library in the Pasadena area. In the spring,
she will be the Ray Allen Billington Visiting Professor of History
at Occidental College where she will teach Immigration History
and Modern U.S. History. She will return to her department, her
home, and her husband in the summer of 2001 and will, she is
sure, be happy to do so.
Phil Kintner
- he has finished a long article concerning the City of Memmingen,
Germany, in the year 1600, an article which has occupied much
of his spare time for several years now. And in mid-April he
and his wife moved to a duplex at the Mayflower, 716 Broad Street
in Grinnell.
Marci Sortor
- recently delivered a paper on the "Social Networks
of Immigrants in Fifteenth-Century France and Flanders: The Case
of Saint-Omer" as part of a panel on "Capitalism
and Urbanization: Merchants, Artisans and the Urban Environment"
at the 35th International Congress of Medieval Studies. |
