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DALRYMPLEDIGEST

June2016–May2017 Issue#1

FortheinauguralissueofDalrymple

Digest,anannualnewsletterfocusingon

thegraduatestudentsoftheUniversityof

MississippiArchDalrympleIIIDepartment

ofHistory,weareverygratefultohavean

interviewwiththenewChairofour

department,ProfessorNoellHowell

Wilson,asourcoverstory:

AsChairoftheArchDalrympleIII

DepartmentofHistory,describeoneof

yourmaingoalsforthegraduateprogram.

Oneofourcoregoalsinthenext3-5

yearswillbetocontinuetoincrease

thestipendsweofferentering

graduatestudents,andpotentially

currentones,sothattheyhave

sufficientfundingtodevotethe

summermonthsexclusivelyto

researchandwriting.

Ifyoucoulddescribeourdepartmentin

twowords,whatwouldtheybe?

Dynamicandevolving.

Weareexcitedattheprospectofhosting

aHistorygraduatestudentconference

nextyear.Inwhatotherwayswouldyou

encouragegraduatestudentstoengage

withtheHistoryprofessionoutsideofthe

university?

Irecommendapproachingvarious

onlinepublications,suchastheAHA

blogs,aboutwritingoccasionalessays,

perusingweeklythewebsiteofthe

AmericanHistoricalAssociation,

submittingop-edpiecestodaily

newspapers,andscrutinizing/revising

Wikipediaentriesaddressingtopics

relatedtoyourresearch.


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ThisyeartheU.S.News&WorldReportranked

ourPhDprogramas#37inthenation,whatin

particulardoyouattributethishighrankingto

andinwhatwayscouldthedepartmentseekto

furtherimprove?

InlargepartIattributethisstaturetothe

previouschair,JoeWard’s,energetic

advocacyoftheDepartmentduringhis

tenure.Butthisrankingalsoreflectsa

growingcommitmentofourfacultytomentor

Ph.D.studentsnotonlyasscholars,butalsoas

professionalsintheacademywholandtenure

trackjobsandconverttheirPh.D.thesesinto

books.WiththegenerousDalrymplefunds,

movingforwardweshouldbeabletomore

fullysupportgraduateresearch,shortening

thetimetocompletionofthePh.D.

WhatkeyadvicewouldyougiveHistory

graduatestudentsashowbesttosucceedinboth

theirgraduateworkandonthejobmarket?

Ithinkoneofthemostunderappreciated

skillsforPh.D.studentsisnetworking–both

amongpeersandseniorfaculty--which

buildsacommunityofpotentialconference

panelists,referenceletterwriters,and

researchcollaborators.Thedisciplineof

Historygenerallyrewardssolitaryintellectual

activity,butprofessionalpositionsinthefield

resultfromstronginterpersonalskillsand

confidenceengaginginscholarlydebatewith

historiansyoumighthavenevermet.To

cultivatetheseskillsIrecommend(1)

presentingatconferencesasoftenaspossible

and(2)introducingyourselfto2peersand2

moreseniorscholarsateachoftheseevents.

Try#2inparticularforthenextacademic

year,andthensendmeane-mailtoshare

yourthoughts!

Lastyearthedepartmentbegana

Professionalizationclassforsecond

semesterPhDstudents,tohelp

explainthejobmarketandthe

activitiesinvolvedinbecominga

professionalhistorian.Haveyou

consideredfurtherwaysinwhich

thedepartmentcouldhelpguide

graduatestudentsthroughthe

hurdlesoffunding,fellowships,

teachingandenteringthejob

market?

Inadditiontoencouragingall

graduatestudentstomeet

candidatesfortenuretrackjobs,

attendtheirjobtalksand

participateincampusvisit

receptions,wehavebegunto

discussinformal“lunchand

learn”conversationswithfaculty

inadditiontothe

professionalizationseminarsand

facultyobservations/evaluations

ofgraduateteaching.Onthis

point,too,Iencourageall

graduatestudentstosendme

theirbestideas.

Asgraduatestudentsinthe

department,wewereexcitedbythe

launchingofourownpagethisyear

onthedepartmentwebsite.How

muchimportancewouldyouplace

ongraduatestudentshavinga

visibleprofessionalonlinepresence

intermsofdevelopingprofessional

relationshipsandfindingjob

opportunities?


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Asweallknow,virtualnetworkingisas

important,ifnotmoreso,thanperson-

to-personcontact,soavisibledigital

presenceiskey.Iamgratefultothe

graduatestudentassociationfor

spearheadingthisportionofour

webpageandhopethatyouwill

continuetomonitoritbythesemester

sothattheinformationisalways

current.

Publichistoryisanincreasingly“hot

topic,”especiallywithintherealmofU.S.

History.Doyouenvisagethedepartment

offeringgraduatestudentsopportunities

orclassestoengagewithpublichistoryin

thefuture?

Giventheemerginginterestsof

severalofourfacultyandgraduate

students,thisisanareaofstudythat

theDepartmentwillexplore

introducingtothecurriculuminthe

nextcoupleofyears.Justrecently,

weapprovedaddingaHistory

Internshipcoursetoour

undergraduateofferings,andthis

classwillbeanimportantstarting

pointforexpandingthegraduate

curriculum.Iencourageallgraduate

studentstosendmetheirthoughts

onwhatsortsofcoursesinpublic

historytheywouldliketosee!

• BryanKessler:“DavidArthurFerguson,”TheDictionaryofVirginiaBiography,Vol.5(Richmond:LibraryofVirginia).

• NicholasMosvick:

o “Expandthedrafttowomen–orrepealit?Alongconstitutionaldebatecontinues,”TheConversation,June21,2016<https://theconversation.com/expand-the-draft-to-women-or-repeal-it-a-long-constitutional-debate-continues-60505>

o “CourtroomWars:PopularConstitutionalDiscourse,StateJudgesandConscriptioninCivil

WarPennsylvania,”FaulknerLawReview.Pending.

• LauraSmith:o ““Nowlethimenforceit”:Thelonghistoryoftheimperialpresidency,”History@Work,March

27,2017,NationalCouncilforPublicHistory<http://ncph.org/history-at-work/now-let-him-

enforce-it-the-long-history-of-the-imperial-presidency/>

o “AtleastasreliableasAndrewJackson,”TheDailyPrincetonian,November8,2016,PrincetonUniversity<http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2016/11/at-least-as-reliable-as-

andrew-jackson>


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PRESENTATIONS:

• FionaFoster:“ScottishNationalWarMemorial:Memory,Gender,andIdentity.”PresentedatSouthernHistoricalAssociation'sEuropean

HistorySection,St.PeteBeach,FL.,November2016.

• JeffreyGlossner:“PoorWhites,SlaveInsurrections,andtheSocialOrder:BlackandWhiteInteractionandtheSpecterofRebellioninthe

AntebellumSouth.”PresentedatHistoryGraduateStudentAssociation

Conference,LouisianaStateUniversity,BatonRouge,L.A.,March2017.

• JustinIsaacRogers: o “TheMakingofaSouthernConfluence:ReligiousandRacial

AdaptationamongChickasaw,Enslaved,andWhitePeoplein

theMississippiHills,1825-1861,”SoutheasternIndiansin

UnexpectedPlaces:NativeAmericanHistoryintheNineteenth-

CenturyAmericanSouthandSouthwest.PresentedatSouthern

HistoricalAssociationAnnualMeeting,St.PeteBeach,F.L.,

November2016.(Co-organizedthispanel).

o “‘PlumSanctified’:EnslavedWomenandReligiousLifeinNorth

Mississippi,1820s-1860s.”PresentedatClaimingHistories:

SlaveryandRemembranceinNorthMississippi,RustCollege,

HollySprings,M.S.,October2016.

o “MakingSlaveryintheMississippiHills:Chickasaw

Slaveholders,Race,Religion,andGender,1810s-1840s,”

PresentedatUniversityofMississippi,J.D.WilliamsLibrary,

ArchivesandSpecialCollections,Fall2016LectureSeries,

October2016.

o “DrawingtheColorLine(s):Race,Religion,andChickasaw

SlaveholdinginAntebellumMississippi,”ThePeculiar

InstitutionintheNativeSouth.Presentedat38thAnnual

MeetingoftheSocietyforHistoriansoftheEarlyAmerican

Republic,NewHaven,C.T.,July2016.

• LauraSmith:o “Mainemorality:HenryClayandthePresidentialElectionof

1844throughthelensofTheDailyArgusofPortland,Maine.”PresentedatNewEnglandHistoricalAssociation

Conference(NEHA)atRivierUniversity,October2016.

o “TheHistoryofU.S.PresidentialElections:TheGood,the

BadandtheUgly.”PresentedatUniversityofMississippi.

InvitedtobepanelmemberforspecialUniversityof

MississippiHistoryClubandPhiAlphaThetalecture,

October2016.



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• ThomasStephens:“Apes,Blücher,andKaiserWilly:German‘Barbarism’inBritish

Children'sLiterature,1914-1918.”SpaceBetween Society2017Conference:MemoryandProphecyinthe SpaceBetween,1914-45.PresentedatUniversityof Mississippi,May2017.

• JeffreyWashburn:"'Thesoilandclimatehereiswelladapted':ChickasawCountryDuringthePlan

forCivilization."PresentedattheAmericanSociety

forEthnohistoryAnnualConference,November

2016.Organizedpanel:"LandscapesofSovereignty:

ChangeandPersistenceintheEighteenthand

Nineteenth-CenturyNativeSouth."

• AmandaWilliams:o “MothersintheFuture:TheAbortion

Procedure,CommunistMorality,andHousing

inSovietRussia,1955–1980.”Presentedat

MidwestSlavicConference,Columbus,O.H.,

April2017.

o “ReproductivePolitics:StatePower,

Propaganda,andPopularSocietyin

Khrushchev’sRussia.”PresentedatUniversity

ofAlabamaGraduateStudentAssociation

PowerandStruggleConference,Tuscaloosa,

A.L.,October2016.


• AbdulrahmanAjibola:

VentressGraduateSummer

Fellowship,Universityof

Mississippi.

• KristinBouldin:o Spring2017GraduateSchool

ResearchFellowship,

UniversityofMississippi.o Fall2016received$600

DissertationResearch

ScholarshipfromtheNational

SocietyofColonialDames.

• ChetBush:VentressGraduateSummerFellowship,Universityof

Mississippi.

• MonicaCampbell:ArchDalrympleIIIGraduateStudent

Fundingforsummerresearch.

• FionaFoster:May2017receivedan"AchievetheDream

OERGrant"todevelopanOER

CourseforWesternCivilizationsII.

• BryanKessler:o Summer2017Graduate

SchoolResearchAssistantship,

UniversityofMississippi.

o Fall2016ArchDalrympleIII

ResearchFellowship,


o SummerandFall2016Arch

DalrympleIIIResearchGrant,


o Summer2016Graduate

StudentCouncilResearch

Grant,Universityof

Mississippi.


• BethKruse:VentressGraduateSummerFellowship,UniversityofMississippi.

• AndrewMarion:VentressGraduateSummerFellowship,Universityof

Mississippi.

• NicholasMosvick:o Spring2017GraduateSchoolSpring

Fellowship,UniversityofMississippi.

o Fall2016McMinnFellowforthe

CenterforCivilWarResearch,


• JustinIsaacRogers:o SummerFellow,NationalEndowment

fortheHumanitiesSummerInstitute

forCollegeandUniversityTeachers,

"OnNativeGrounds:StudiesofNative

AmericanHistoriesandtheLand,"in

residenceattheLibraryofCongress,

Washington,D.C.,June12-June30,

2017.

o ResearchAssociate,"TwoHundred

YearsoftheArtsinMississippi,"

MississippiArtsCommission,2016.

o TravelGrant,SocietyforHistoriansof

theEarlyAmericanRepublic,Summer

2016.

• SummerSmith:VentressGraduateSummerFellowship,Universityof

Mississippi.

• JemarTisby:VentressGraduateSummerFellowship,UniversityofMississippi.

• JeffreyWashburn:2017PhillipsFundGrantforNativeAmericanResearchfromthe

AmericanPhilosophicalSociety.

• AmandaWilliams:AssistantshipfromtheUniversityofIllinois'Russian,East

European,EurasianCenter.


• FionaFoster: BecameanExecutiveCommitteeMemberforthe

ScottishHistoryNetworkasofJanuary

2017. • BryanKessler:

o ServedasSenator,Graduate

StudentCouncil,Universityof

Mississippi,2016-2017.

o ServedasExecutiveBoard

Officer,HistoryGraduate

Association,Universityof

Mississippi,2016-2017.

• EricRexroat:Officiallypassedhiscomprehensiveexamswithdistinction,

(April2017).

ChetBush,MA

ShelbyCarmichael,MA

RobertHarrison,MA

SarahParrish,MA

JamieSessions,MA

TravisJaquess,PhD

MahimaManchanda,PhD

StellaLindsayPrewitt,PhD


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CreatedbyLauraSmithandtheHistoryGraduateAssociation

IhopeyouhaveenjoyedthisinauguralissueofDalrympleDigest,a

newslettercelebratingtheachievementsoftheHistorygraduatestudentsofthe

ArchDalrympleIIIDepartmentofHistoryoverthepastacademicyear.Ifyou

wouldliketoe-mailanyofthegraduatestudents,thatinformationcanbefound

onthe“GraduateStudents”tabontheArchDalrympleIIIDepartmentofHistory

website.


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