Faculty
Professor Glen Harris published Social Justice and Liberation Struggles: The Photojournalistic and Public Relations Career of Alexander McAllister Rivera, Jr. (Lexington Books, April 2023). He was also named Coordinator and Advising Committee member for UNCW’s Africana Studies Program and capped the year off by delivering the 2023 the North Carolina Central University History Department’s Earlie E. Thorpe Lecture at Horton Grove on October 22, 2023.
Associate Professor Nathan Crowe partnered with Drs. Nicole Fogarty and Jake Warner, from UNCW’s Department of Biology and Marine Biology, to earn a $1,458,095 grant from the Coral Research and Development Accelerator Platform (funded by the G20 nations). He will receive $114,727 of that grant over three years to study the ethical, environmental, social, and political implications of releasing genetically modified corals into the oceans. Dr. Crowe also received the UNCW Board of Trustees Teaching Excellence Award as well as the university’s Distinguished Professor of Teaching Award in October 2023.
Associate Professor Lynn Mollenauer, with Drs. Tiffany Gilbert of UNCW’s English Department and Cara Ward of the university’s Watson College of Education, was awarded a $167,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to create a summer institute for K-12 teachers on “Wilmington 1898: Geographies of Rage, Resistance, and Resilience.”
Assistant Professor David Houpt published To Organize the Sovereign People: Political Mobilization in Revolutionary Pennsylvania (University of Virginia Press, November 2023)
Associate Professor Yixin Chen’s book When Food Became Scarce: Life and Death in Chinese Villages during the Great Leap Forward Famine, 1959-1961 will be published in 2024 by Cornell University Press.
Associate Professor Jarrod Tanny, the Charles and Hannah Block Distinguished Scholar in Jewish History, published The Seinfeld Talmud: A Jewish Guide to a Show About Nothing (Academica Press, June 2023) and “‘I Didn’t Know There Were Epsteins in Puerto Rico:’ Jewish Ethnicity in American Comedy,” Beyond Whiteness: Revisiting Jews in Ethnic America. Edited by Jonathan Karp. An Annual Review of the Casden Institute for the Study of American Life Annual Review, Vol. 21. West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 2023.
Associate Professor Jennifer LeZotte’s chapter “The Cultural Economies of Secondhand Clothes” was published in The Routledge History of Fashion and Dress, 1800 to the Present, Veronique Pouillard and Vincent Dubé-Senécal, eds. (Routledge, September 2023).
Associate Professor Angela Zombek’s article, “Defending the U.S.’s Southernmost Possessions: Union Volunteers’ Occupation of Fort Jefferson and Key West, Florida” is forthcoming in the Journal of Military History. She has also contributed to three episodes of the Florida History Podcast on issues related to Key West and the Civil War.
Assistant Professor Nathan Pilkington’s article, “Forbidden to Sacrifice Humans or Eat Dogs: Revisiting the Tophet through a Demographic Lens”, appeared in Cartagine. Studi e Ricerche.
Associate Professor Venkat Dhulipala completed his year-long National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, during which he labored on his book manuscript, Between Yan’an, Pakistan, and Hindustan: Communism, Islamism, and Indian Nationalism in Hyderabad, 1935-1952.
Professor Mark Spaulding received a $10,000 grant from the J.W. Pope Foundation to help fund the activities of the Research Community in International Trade and Exchange, which he founded and co-directs with Dr. Peter Schumann of the Economics Department.
Lecturer Kimberly Sherman’s article, “‘Without the Smallest Recompense’: Scottish Loyalist Women in Colonial North Carolina,” appeared in the September 2023 issue of Atlantic Studies.
Lecturer Kristofer Ray published Cherokee Power: Imperial and Indigenous Geopolitics in the Trans-Appalachian West, 1670-1774 (University of Oklahoma Press, September 2023)
Professor Michael Seidman’s book Republic of Egos: A Social History of the Spanish Civil War (University of Wisconsin Press, 2002) was named by Risbel magazine (Spain) in October 2023 as one of the ten best books about the Spanish Civil War.
Professor David LaVere’s book Erasure and Tuscarora Resilience in Colonial North Carolina will be published by Syracuse University Press in April 2024. His article, "Making War on the Deer: Deer Hunting and Deer Skins in Colonial North Carolina" was published in the January 2024 issue of The North Carolina Historical Review.
Assistant Professor Liz Timbs published “To cool the hot blood of a martial race…”: Balancing Zulu Martiality and British Colonial Anxieties, 1879-1906,” in Making Martial Races: Gender, Society, and Warfare in Africa, Myles Osborne, ed. (Ohio University Press, December 2023).
Professor Emerita Lisa Pollard published a co-edited volume (with Dr. Mona Russell of ECU), History, Women and Gender in the Modern Middle East: from Orientalism to the Arab Spring (Routledge, December 2023).
Graduate Students
Aeris Carter (M.A. 2023) is currently pursuing an ALM at Harvard University.
Jessie Goodwin (M.A. 2020) was named executive director of the Wilmington Children’s Museum in Spring 2023. She was also named in December 2023 as a “rising star” by WilmingtonBiz magazine and among the “WilmingtonBiz 100,” “the next generation who are already making waves” in Wilmington.
Karla Berrios (M.A. 2024) received a Summer 2023 Junior Fellowship at the Library of Congress’s Professional Learning and Outreach Initiatives Department.
Edward Tatum (M.A. 2024) was selected as one of two students from the State of North Carolina to serve as a student representative on the Executive Board of the North Carolina Maritime History Council. He also received internships at Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia and Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut.
Chase Warchol and Cameron Kinard (M.A. 2024) worked as Historical Interpreters at the Fort Fisher State Historic Site in Summer 2023.
Qurat Khan (M.A. 2023) and Kevin Gallagher (M.A. 2024) received a $2,000 Summer Research Stipend from UNCW’s Graduate School in 2023 to assist them in their thesis research.
Thomas Carr delivered a paper at the Southeast Regional Seminar in African Studies in Charlottesville, VA, which took place from March 3-4, 2023. The title of his paper was “Diplomatic Chain Reactions: The VELA Incident, a Nuclear South Africa, and International Antinuclear Diplomacy."
Casandra Murray (M.A. 2024) presented her paper, “Enslaved African Americans' Use of the Environment.” at the Brian Bertoti Innovative Perspectives in History Graduate Research Conference At Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA in March.
Rachel Gentry attended and volunteered at the 2023 National Council on Public History Conference in Atlanta, GA in April. Her review of Daniel T. Fleming’s Living the Dream: The Contested History of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day will appear in the Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians.
Robert Murphy (M.A. 2023) received a departmental Neal & Clayton Research Award to travel to the National Archives in College Park, MD to conduct research for his M.A. thesis.
