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Anderson’s ‘The Second’ Continues to Garner Widespread Attention

Dr. Carol Anderson‘s new book, The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America (Bloomsbury, 2021), continues to garner widespread attention in the press. The work analyzes the Second Amendment in the context of the citizenship rights and human rights of African Americans. We previously cataloged some of the press coverage of The Second in this story: “Anderson Publishes ‘The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America.’” Read more of the extensive and continuing coverage in the following:

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Camp’s ‘Unnatural Resources’ Reviewed in ‘Journal of American History’

Unnatural Resources

The Journal of American History recently published a review of Dr. Michael Camp’s first book, Unnatural Resources: Energy and Environmental Politics in Appalachia After the 1973 Oil Embargo. Camp is a 2017 alumnus of the Emory History doctoral program. Dr. R. Mcgreggor Cawley, Professor at the University of Wyoming, reviewed Unnatural Resources. Read an excerpt from the review below along with the full piece here.

“Camp’s study provides an accessible and detail-rich narrative about the interactions between national policy goals and the localized political landscape in east Tennessee and nearby areas of West Virginia and Kentucky. On the face of it, this region appeared well suited to contribute to solving the energy crises of the 1970s. It was a major coal-producing area, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory was engaged in state-of-the-art nuclear technology, and the Tennessee Valley Authority had established the potential for hydroelectric power. Yet, as Camp deftly demonstrates, union strikes and railroad regulation disputes created obstacles for coal production. Similarly, he uses the struggle over the Clinch River Breeder Reactor to highlight problems with increasing the use of nuclear power. Finally, he explains how the Tellico Dam controversy presented a classic confrontation between energy and environment.”

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Michael Camp (PhD, ’17) Publishes Piece in ‘Salon’

Dr. Michael Camp, a 2017 graduate of the doctoral program, recently published an article in Salon. The piece, “Sorry, Republicans: Joe Biden isn’t Jimmy Carter — and these aren’t the 1970s,” interrogates the comparisons that political opponents of Joe Biden have made between the current U.S. president and ex-president Jimmy Carter. Camp is the author of Unnatural Resources: Energy and Environmental Politics in Appalachia after the 1973 Oil Embargo (University of Pittsburg Press, 2019). Read an excerpt of the Salon piece below along with the full article.

“Perhaps it’s understandable that the Trumps might want to link Biden to Carter, who left office in 1981 in shame, having been thoroughly defeated in his bid for re-election by Ronald Reagan. But the comparison likely won’t stand for long, because our current situation bears little resemblance to the political morass of the late 1970s that doomed Carter’s quest for a second term in office.”

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Anderson Publishes ‘The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America’

Dr. Carol Anderson has published a new book, The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America (Bloomsbury, 2021). Examining the establishment of the right to bear arms in relationship to the citizenship rights and human rights of African Americans, Anderson’s work argues that the Second Amendment has consistently kept African Americans “powerless and vulnerable.” Dr. Anderson, who is Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies, Department Chair, and Associated Faculty in the History Department, has spoken about this newest work with multiple media organizations and on a book tour. Find a list of some of the coverage of her newest work below:

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Suddler Pens Piece in WaPo: “George Floyd changed the world of athlete activism”

Dr. Carl Suddler, Assistant Professor of History, recently published an article in The Washington Post’s “Made by History” series. The piece examines how athletes have become more outspoken in their criticism of police brutality and, at the same time, more directly involved in supporting social justice and anti-racism. Suddler locates this trend to the previous decade, beginning with the founding of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2012 and reaching a new peak in the last year in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd. Suddler also discusses how Black athletes – including Floyd, himself a former college basketball player – navigate the threat and reality of police violence and brutality. Read an excerpt below, along with the full piece: “George Floyd changed the world of athlete activism.”

However, one of Floyd’s most lasting legacies may well be his impact on the sports world. As a former athlete, his life story, which had a special meaning for a generation of athletes, underscored the fine line separating athletic heroes and victims of police violence. His death cemented a new generation of athletes as activists against police violence and professional sports leagues, at minimum, as performative allies. The history of athlete activism reminds us that this movement is one of radical possibility.

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Alumni Update: Ellen G. Rafshoon (’01 PhD)

The History Department recently received an alumni update from Dr. Ellen G. Rafshoon, a 2001 graduate of the doctoral program. This year Dr. Rafshoon was promoted to Professor at Georgia Gwinnett College. In addition, she won the school’s outstanding faculty for student engagement award, a recognition that includes the honor of leading the student processional at GGC’s graduation ceremony. Rafshoon’s most recent publication is “Pave it Blue: Georgia Women and Politics in the Trump Era,” in Stacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow, Suffrage at 100: Women in American Politics Since 1920 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020). The essay is based on interviews that she conducted with neophyte activists and candidates who contributed to the Blue Wave in Georgia.

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Michael Camp (PhD, ’17) Publishes Chapter in ‘Energy in the Americas: Critical Reflections on Energy and History’

Dr. Michael Camp, a 2017 graduate of the doctoral program, has written a chapter in a forthcoming volume Energy in the Americas: Critical Reflections on Energy and History (University of Calgary Press). Camp’s chapter is titled “Tellico Dam, Dickey Dam, and Endangered Species Law in the United States during the 1970s.” The volume grew out of an energy history conference convened in Calgary in October 2014. The University of Pittsburg Press published Camp’s first book and a related project, Unnatural Resources: Energy and Environmental Politics in Appalachia after the 1973 Oil Embargo, in 2019. Dr. Joseph Crespino, Jimmy Carter Professor of History and Department Chair, served as Camp’s advisor.

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Alumni Update: Dr. Claudia Kreklau (PhD, ’18)

Dr. Claudia Kreklau is a 2018 graduate of the doctoral program and associate lecturer at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Kreklau offers an update of recent publications, presentations, and podcast contributions in the list below. Kreklau completed her dissertation, titled “‘Eat as the King Eats’: Making the Middle Class through Food, Foodways, and Food Discourses in Nineteenth-Century Germany,” under the advisement of Dr. Brian Vick.

Journal article:

“Neither Gendered nor a Room: The Kitchen in Central Europe and the Masculinization of Modernity, 1800-1900,” in Special Section: The Kitchen in History, Global Food History, T&F, 7:1, (January 2021 e-version, March Issue 2021 paper), 5-35. DOI: 10.1080/20549547.2020.1863744.

Keynote Papers and Plenary Contributions:

“Otto von Bismarck’s Devouring Masculinity: Identity Shortcomings and Culinary Compensation of a Political Titan, 1815-1898,” Keynote, Devouring Men: Food, Masculinity and Power, University of St Andrews, (4th September 2020). 

“Making Modern Eating. How the German Middling Shaped our Culinary Practices, 1780-1914,” Plenary Lunch Lightning Round Presentation “Food for Thought,” German Studies Association (GSA) 43rd Annual Conference, Portland, USA (3-6th Oct. 2019).

Podcasts

“‎Episode1: Making Cows Brains your Oyster.” Season 1. Looking the Part. 90 Second Narratives on Apple Podcasts. Accessed March 31, 2020. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/making-cow-brains-your-oyster/id1503904443?i=1000470033190

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Smith Publishes Review Essay in ‘Southern Spaces’

Dr. Kylie M. Smith, Associate Professor in the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing and Associated Faculty in the History Department, has published a review essay in the Emory-headquartered journal Southern Spaces. The essay, “Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South,” centers on two recent publications: Mab Segrest’s Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum (The New Press, 2020) and Wendy Gonaver’s The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 1840–1880 (UNC Press, 2019).

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Montalvo Publishes Chapter in ‘Southern Scoundrels: Grifters and Graft in the Nineteenth Century’

Dr. Maria R. Montalvo, Assistant Professor of History, published a chapter in the recently-released edited collection Southern Scoundrels: Grifters and Graft in the Nineteenth Century (LSU Press, 2021). Montalvo’s chapter, “Bernard Kendig: Orchestrating Fraud in the Market and the Courtroom,” investigates the deceptive and violent business dealings of a New Orleans trader in enslaved people. Montalvo’s work centers on histories of slavery, capitalism, and the law in the nineteenth-century United States.