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Fox Center Fellow Junyi Han (20C) Researches Post-WWII Collective Memory in China

Senior Junyi Han, a History and Media Studies double major, recently contributed a post to the Fox Center Fellows’ blog about her research. Han is completing her honors thesis on collective memory of World War II in China with a micro-historical study of the Tengchong Guoshang Cemetery, the earliest and largest burial ground in mainland China for Guomindang soldiers killed in World War II. Read the Fox Center’s biography of Han below along with the full article, “Guoshang Cemetery and Chinese Collective Memory, 1945 and Beyond.”

Junyi Han is a senior double majoring History and Media Studies. She is currently working on an honors thesis that examines war memories through the case of the Chinese Expeditionary Forces, a military unit dispatched to Burma and India by the Nationalist government in 1942 in support of the Allied efforts against Japanese invasion in Asia. The thesis will answer how and why the war efforts of the Chinese Expeditionary Force started to be recognized in mainland China in the late twentieth century. It will explore how war memories and post-war politics have mutually shaped each other, and thus provide new  insights into contemporary Chinese history.  

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Suddler Discusses ‘The Last Dance’ and McDaniels’ Passing on ‘The Black Athlete’ Podcast

Dr. Carl Suddler, Assistant Professor of History, recently appeared on The Black Athlete podcast. In this episode, Dr. Suddler joins a conversation about the first episodes of The Last Dance, a 2020 American sports documentary miniseries focusing on the 1997–98 Chicago Bulls. Suddler also addresses the passing of his friend, mentor, and sports historian Dr. Pellom McDaniels, III. Listen to the episode on SoundCloud.

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Virtual Undergraduate Town Hall this Friday, April 24, 3:30 – 4:30pm (EST)

This Friday, April 24, the History Department will host its first undergraduate town hall via Zoom. History majors, History minors, and friends of the History Department are invited to attend. See the Zoom details and flyer below. We hope to see you there!

https://emory.zoom.us/j/99040343293?pwd=SlcrMEh0OUJuOWlZd1grbTU0K2w5QT09

Meeting ID: 990 4034 3293
Password: BowdenHall

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History Department Joins Emory Community in Mourning Sudden Passing of Dr. Pellom McDaniels, III

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The History Department mourns the loss of an extraordinary human being. Our friend and colleague Dr. Pellom McDaniels III, curator of African American Collections in the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, passed away unexpectedly in his home this past Sunday. Pellom enriched the life of every person who knew him. Our History students benefited enormously from his knowledge and kindness. He will be so greatly missed! Read more about McDaniels life and career on the Emory Scholar Blogs.

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Ben Nobbs-Thiessen (PhD, 16) Publishes ‘Landscapes of Migration’ with UNC Press

Congratulations to PhD alumnus Ben Nobbs-Thiessen on the publication of his first monograph – Landscapes of Migration: Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia’s Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present – with UNC Press. Nobbs-Thiessen is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Washington State University. Dr. Jeffrey Lesser advised Nobbs-Thiessen’s 2016 dissertation, “The Cultivated State, Migrants and the Transformation of the Bolivian Lowlands, 1952-2000.” Read a blurb about the book below and see more on the UNC Press website.

In the wake of a 1952 revolution, leaders of Bolivia’s National Revolutionary Movement (MNR) embarked on a program of internal colonization known as the “March to the East.” In an impoverished country dependent on highland mining, the MNR sought to convert the nation’s vast “undeveloped” Amazonian frontier into farmland, hoping to achieve food security, territorial integrity, and demographic balance. To do so, they encouraged hundreds of thousands of Indigenous Bolivians to relocate from the “overcrowded” Andes to the tropical lowlands, but also welcomed surprising transnational migrant streams, including horse-and-buggy Mennonites from Mexico and displaced Okinawans from across the Pacific.

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History Major Ellie Coe Receives 2020 ECLC Excellence in Language Studies Award in Russian

Congratulations to history major Ellie Coe, the recipient of the 2020 ECLC Excellence in Language Studies Award in Russian. Last year, Coe received a Clio Prize for Best Research Paper in a Freshman Seminar for her work, “A Mythic Spaceman: The Cultural Influence of Yuri Gagarin.” Below, the Emory College Language Center offers details on Coe’s work and the award:

Coe is a second-year studying History and Russian & East European Studies. She first began learning Russian in high school under the tutelage of a private teacher, and immediately fell in love with the language and culture. Through her Russian language classes at Emory, Ellie has discovered a passion for Russian poetry of the early 20th century; her favorite Russian writer is Vladimir Mayakovsky. Specializing in Soviet history, Ellie is interested in studying the Soviet space program, which launched the first man into space in 1961. In October 2019, she was able to put her Russian skills to use when she interviewed five cosmonauts at NASA’s Johnson Space Center for an independent research project. Ellie is grateful to her professors Dr. Elena Glazov-Corrigan, Dr. Juliette Stapanian-Apkarian, and Dr. Matthew Payne for encouraging her to follow her passion!

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Undergraduate Senior Prizes for 2019-20

The Emory History Department Undergraduate Committee is pleased to announce the recipients of the History Department’s Undergraduate Senior Prizes for 2019-2020:

George P. Cuttino Prize for the Best Record in European History: Hannah Mariska Fuller

James Z. Rabun Prize for the Best Record in American History: Isaiah Simon Sirois

The Latin America & Non-Western World Prize for Best Record in Latin America & Non-Western World History: Kate Elizabeth Sandlin

Matthew A. Carter Citizen-Scholar Award: Yazmina Adi Sarieh

These awards will be presented at the Senior Celebration on Wednesday, April 29, 2:00 – 3:30 pm via Zoom (details to follow). Read more about each of these prizes, including previous years’ winners, at Senior Prizes.