Supported by over 50 volunteers from IUP and the community, the History Department faculty judged entries from 177 middle and high school students who had prepared exhibits, papers, documentaries, performances, and websites on the topic. In the course of their research, students carry out individual or group research projects though use of libraries, archives and museums, and historical societies. 45 entries were sent on to the State Competition in Mechanicsburg, Pa., to be held on May 3.

For more information, read the following articles from the Indiana Gazette:

• Students place at history competition
• Students compete in History Day
• Reliving History
• IUP to Hold National History Day Competition

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In the introduction to the double issue, “Other Places: Ottomans Traveling, Seeing, Writing, Drawing the World—Essays in honor of Thomas D. Goodrich,” the editors note, “We are pleased to offer this volume 39 of the Journal of Ottoman Studies, and the coming volume 40, to Prof. Thomas D. Goodrich, who taught at Indiana University of Pennsylvania for many years, and has been a pioneer of Ottoman Studies in the US.

“In particular, the study of Ottoman maps, travelogues, and cosmographical works is simply unimaginable without the groundbreaking works of Prof. Goodrich, culminating in his monograph The Ottoman Turks and the New World: A Study of Tarih-i Hind-i Garbi and Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Americana (1990).”

Botelho is in London working on a new book that explores the nature of old age and the aging body in early modern England.

The Botelho interview can be streamed or downloaded here.

The lecture examines reactions among members of the Italian Royal Academy to private and state-sponsored anti-Semitism through the fall of Mussolini.

This talk analyzed how anti-Semitism intersected the lives of Italians engaged in high culture through the prism of the Royal Italian Academy, Fascism’s preeminent institution of high culture. By drawing on letters and diaries in private hands, published sources from the New York Public Library, and the extensive archive of the Italian Royal Academy, it considers what they reveal about anti-Semitism among Italian elites and what lessons can be drawn today from them for cultural life in Italy and the United States.

This research is part of a book project entitled Luigi Federzoni, Standard-Bearer of Italianità from Liberal Italy to Post-Fascism.

The lecture is available for download or streaming. 

The project was directed by Jeanine Mazak-Kahne, IUP’s history graduate program coordinator.

Created by treaty in 1948, the US-UK Fulbright Commission is the only bi-lateral, transatlantic scholarship program, offering awards for study or research in any field at any accredited U.S. or U.K. university. The commission is part of the Fulbright program conceived by Senator J. William Fulbright in the aftermath of World War II to promote leadership, learning, and empathy between nations through educational exchange. Award recipients will be the future leaders for tomorrow and support the “special relationship” between the U.S. and U.K.

Lynn Botelho received her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. Named University Professor at IUP, she specializes in old age and ageing in early modern England. Author or editor of six books, including History of Old Age, 1600–1800 and Old Age and the English Poor Law, she has been the Keck Foundation and Mayer Fellow at the Huntington Library and currently holds the Pain Fellowship at Birkbeck University of London. Lynn has served as treasurer of the North American Conference on British Studies and is on the board of the American Friends of the Institute of Historical Research, University of London. A longtime competitive fencer, Lynn is currently the U.S. national champion for her age group. As a Fulbright Scholar, she will work on her book The Ageing Body: The Paradox of Growing Old.

Commenting on receiving the award, Botelho said: “Upon learning that I received the award, I was so thrilled that I had to double-check to make sure it was me! As a Fulbright Scholar, I will be working on a book that explores the nature of old age and the ageing body in early modern England. I hope to challenge modern misconceptions about what it was like to be old and to show that older people simply did not withdraw from society and the world around them. In fact, they fought hard for good health and an active lifestyle, as well as economic independence. I am also very excited about the opportunity to fence competitively in England—and to meet new fencers—as I try to qualify for the Veteran World Championships.”

The Fulbright Commission selects scholars through a rigorous application and interview process. In making these awards, the commission looks not only for academic excellence, but a focused application, a range of extracurricular and community activities, demonstrated ambassadorial skills, a desire to further the Fulbright Programme, and a plan to give back to the recipient’s home country upon returning.

Nearly 300,000 extraordinary women and men from all over the world have had their lives changed as participants in the Fulbright Programme. Of these alumni, approximately 15,000 U.K. nationals have studied in the U.S. and 12,000 U.S. nationals in the U.K. on Fulbright educational exchange programs.

Notable alumni of the US-UK Commission include: Malcolm Bradbury, novelist; Liam Byrne, politician; Milton Friedman, economist and Nobel Prize Winner 1976; Charles Kennedy, politician; John Lithgow, actor; Tarik O’Regan, composer; Sylvia Plath, poet; Lord William Wallace, politician; Ian Rankin, novelist; Sir Christopher Rose QC, judge;
Baroness (Shirley) Williams, politician; Vanessa Heaney, journalist BBC World Service; and Toby Young, journalist and playwright.

The US-UK Commission is funded partially by the Department of Business, Innovation, and Skills in the U.K. and the U.S. Department of State, with additional support coming from a variety of individual and institutional partners, including many leading U.K. universities and an annual contribution from the Scottish Government.

Hess is emeritus distinguished research professor at Bowling Green State University.

Hess’ publications include:

• Vietnam: Explaining America’s Lost War (Blackwell, 2008)
• Presidential Decisions for War: Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf (Johns Hopkins, 2001); rev.ed., Presidential Decisions for War: Korea, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, and Iraq (Johns Hopkins, 2009)
• Vietnam and the United States: Origins and Legacy of War (Macmillan/Twayne, 1990; rev. ed., 1998)
• The United States' Emergence as a Southeast Asian Power, 1940-1950 (Columbia University, 1987)
• The United States at War, 1941-1945 (Harlan Davidson, 1986; rev. eds, 2000, 2010)
• Editor, America and Russia: Cold War Confrontation to Coexistence (Thomas Y. Crowell, 1973)

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Students will be able to meet their LS History requirement by taking one of the following:

• History 196: Explorations in U.S. History
• History 197: Explorations in European History
• History 198: Explorations in Global History

These classes are designed to explore a variety of topics, and the topics will vary by semester. For example, this Fall the classes will include “Greece and Rome,” “The Middle Ages,” “Empires and Colonies, 1492 to the Present,” “A Spotlight on Revolutionary Europe and Colonialism,” “Europe from 1799 to the Present,” “Modern Europe, A Tale of Two Revolutions,” “The 20th Century World,” and “The West and the World.”

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The article is an outgrowth of her dissertation research on organized crime in Pennsylvania.

Baumler's research interests center on the political and cultural history of the Chinese Republic. The interview, which took place on September 13, 2011, is now available online for download.

This year, the Annals were dedicated to the centennial of the Italo-Turkish War which resulted in the further destabilization of the Ottoman Empire, the creation of Italian colonial control over Libya, and the Italian occupation of twelve of the Dodecanese Islands.

His article, entitled “The Battle over Nationalism and the War for Libya,” connects foreign policy and domestic cultural and political developments. In the article he analyzes how neoconservative opponents to democratic reform in Italy manipulated the antiwar stance of leading members of the prodemocracy movement to co-opt patriotism and nationalism for their antidemocratic political agendas.

Around the Oak Grove is produced by the Office of Communications, hoping to increase awareness about all the good things happening on campus.

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She will be interviewed about aging by show host Dawn Pellas, a 1979 IUP Journalism graduate.

The show airs from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. on Comcast cable channel 193.

Botelho is a historian of old age and the aging body in early modern England and Europe. Her current work, being completed as part of her role as IUP’s University Professor, is a five-part book, The Aging Body, the first wide-ranging study on old age in Europe in the 1700s.

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The letter, “Commemorate Those Who Died by Working for Peace,” reflects both his thoughts as a New Yorker personally affected by the 9/11 attacks and as a member of September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows.

From the group’s website: Peaceful Tomorro­ws is an organization founded by family members of those killed on September 11th who have united to turn our grief into action for peace. By developing and advocating nonviolent options and actions in the pursuit of justice, we hope to break the cycles of violence engendered by war and terrorism. Acknowledging our common experience with all people affected by violence throughout the world, we work to create a safer and more peaceful world for everyone.

This year’s institute, themed “The Dynamics of Cultural Unity and Diversity in Southeast Asia,” will be held at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, on June 20–July 22, 2011.

As the executive body of Peaceful Tomorrows, the steering committee oversees the daily administration of the organization and serves in an advisory capacity.

Dr. Arpaia will contribute his expertise in history and will serve as a spokesperson on issues relating to the Rule of Law and the protection of civil liberties, especially ones targeting Muslim-American communities.

The organization is planning a series of special national and international events for this coming September that will commemorate those lost in the attacks of September 11, 2001, and the subsequent bloodshed that resulted.

The conference took place at Pennsylvania State University Abington.

Her talk for the address was entitled “The Disappearing Female: The Medically Male Composition of Ageing Women.”

Cultural and literary theorists have considered the case of escaped-nun tales; but, relatively few have situated nuns in their specific social and historical contexts.

Dr. Mannard employs a social approach to escaped-nun tales to show how the image of the Catholic nun epitomized “the Other” for many American Protestants. He focuses on the case of one “escaped nun,” Olivia Neale, a Carmelite sister who made what some contemporaries described as a deranged flight from her Baltimore monastery in 1839.

This event ignited three nights of rioting. Her story produced a longstanding controversy in the press and pulpit, and her alleged fate helped foster a petition campaign in the 1850s to regulate convents in the state of Maryland.

The case of Olivia Neale thus reflected and generated three expressions of anti-convent sentiment: riot, rhetoric, and regulation.

Less remembered today than other “runaway nuns” like Rebecca Reed and Maria Monk and less studied by recent scholars, Olivia Neale, nevertheless, was a highly controversial figure in antebellum America, one whose notoriety uniquely bridged the gap between the two major waves of anti-convent sentiment in the 1830s and 1850s.

The contested nature of her story, especially over the issue of her sanity, served as a kind nineteenth-century Rorschach test of public attitudes toward the Catholic Church in America. Her story also complicates and qualifies important points in the recent scholarly interpretations of escaped-nun tales offered by cultural and literary theorists.

They have organized a panel discussion titled “Secession, States’ Rights, and Slavery: A Conversation on the Sesquicentennial of the U.S. Civil War,” which is scheduled as part of the Six O’Clock Series in the Ohio Room of the Hadley Union Building on Monday, March 14, 2011, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.

A panel of six members of the IUP faculty and two IUP graduates will portray different historical figures in the sectional debate between the North and South. They will assume roles of nineteenth-century panelists as if they had been resurrected and found themselves in contemporary Western Pennsylvania. Of course, they’ll be ready and willing to talk to the IUP community and answer questions posed by Dr. Torges.

Additional historical context and contemporary insights will be offered by Dr. Wang Xi, playing himself.

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It will be published in the latest issue of Choice Magazine, a serial published by the American Library Association to provide book reviews for collection development and scholarly research.

The talk, “Pyla-Koutsopetria: Investigating a Harbor Town,” will explore Dr. Moore’s seven seasons of work in Cyprus.

The Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project (PKAP) is an archaeological exploration of the region around the modern village of Pyla, Cyprus. Since 2003, a team of scholars has been conducting an archaeological survey of the area to determine the relationship between this stretch of coastline and other coastal sites on the island, and the Eastern Mediterranean more generally. Making use of all available methods (pedestrian survey, excavation, and geophysical survey), the PKAP team has created a picture of the mid-sized site of Koutsopetria that suggests a high level of connectivity between exurban and rural regions in Cyprus and broader Mediterranean currents.

Botelho also serves as executive treasurer of the NACBS, as well as the a member of the foundation board.

She also serves as secretary and director of the American Friends of the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), University of London. This international charity supports the activities of the IHR through gifts to the library, as well as subsidizing graduate student Ph.D. research in England.

In terms of her own research, she has published a short essay called “Old Age Outside the Bosom of the Family: Elizabeth Freke of Norfolk, England”; chaired a panel on religion, belief, and the body in early modern England at the NACBS conference; and continues to edit a monograph series, “The Body, Gender, and Culture, 1450–1850,” for Pickering Chatto Press, LTD, London.

The highlight of her academic year was getting “stranded” after a conference in Ghent, Belgium, for an extra week because of Iceland’s volcano.

Using versions of edited and unedited Fascist diaries and memoirs, he will explore the appropriateness of the term “Fascist war memoir” as an explanatory tool to illustrate a particular narrative desire within national and comparative contexts. He will analyze the role memoirs and memory play in the (re)creation of Fascist and post-Fascist identities. And, he will consider methodological issues relating to war memoirs as both literary and historical genres.

Arpaia has incorporated the topics of memoirs, memory, and Fascism that he will discuss at this conference in a senior seminar course this semester in the History Department on the mediation of the memory of Fascism in Germany, Italy, France, and Spain through film.

In addition to presenting his paper at the conference, Arpaia has been asked to chair a session on Memoirs and National Identities. The conference is sponsored by the Australia Research Council and the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

Affiliated with the American Schools of Oriental Research and the Council of American Overseas Research Centers, CAARI provides an important research center for the scholarly study of archaeology, history, and culture in the Eastern Mediterranean.

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Franklin-Rahkonen serves on the Academic Committee examining the Finnish content of curriculum and programs at Finlandia University.

Dr. Scott Moore from the History Department, along with Anthropology Department faculty members Beverly Chiarulli, Sarah Neusius, and Ben Ford, and Marion Smeltzer, a graduate student in the M.A. in Applied Archaeology program, wrote the article. Anthropology News is a monthly publication of the American Anthropological Association.

“Public Archaeology in Virtual Worlds” describes an initiative at by IUP’s Anthropology and History departments to establish a presence in Linden Lab’s virtual environment Second Life. Archaeology Island contains recreations of archaeological sites in Belize, Cyprus, and Pennsylvania and an underwater site recreating a shipwreck in Lake Ontario, all based on archaeological data. Through a program of guided tours, discussion sessions, and interactive technologies, the site has become a venue for archaeological education for IUP students as well as the broader virtual community.

The development of Archaeology Island has been funded through an IUP Provosts' Academic Excellence and Innovation Award (2007). The IUP Department of Communications Media, and especially Allen Partridge and his students in the Applied Media and Simulation Games Center, provided technical assistance during the first year of the project.

For more information, visit Archaeology Island in Second Life.

For more information about IUP’s presence in Second Life, see an article published in the online version of IUP Magazine.

The conference, which will be held from September 15–17, 2010, is sponsored by the Belgian Academy in Rome and brings together scholars from across Europe.

Dr. Arpaia will present on new research he carried out through self-financed research trips to public and private archives in Italy over the past two summers. His discoveries, his paper, and his participation in this important conference will enrich his class offerings on Nazism and Fascism in the History Department.

His work is part of a multi-year project on Luigi Federzoni, a Fascist leader or gerarca. A description of the conference and the program in English can be found by following the link above. Dr. Arpaia will gladly share his paper with IUP students, faculty, and alumni interested in reading it. You may contact him at paul.arpaia@iup.edu.

An international team of scholars under the direction of R. Scott Moore (IUP Department of History) has worked in this area since 2003 documenting a sprawling Archaic to Late Roman settlement at the site. This year, the PKAP team took low-altitude helikite photographs of the entire site, sampled the subsurface remains using ground-penetrating radar, and conducted several experiments to calibrate the results of earlier fieldwork. This work will allow the PKAP team to correlate more accurately the relationship between material on the surface of the ground and material still safely buried.

Another part of the PKAP team worked in the Larnaka District Archaeological Museum to document the nearly 13,000 finds collected since 2003. The ceramic, architectural, and stone artifacts have revealed a vibrant community that existed through most of antiquity, with trading ties spanning the Mediterranean basin.

The study of these finds has revealed that a site on the coastal height of Vigla was a fortified settlement from Archaic to Hellenistic times, complete with a fortification wall and a significant quantity of domestic ceramics. This is an unusual type of settlement on Cyprus, and may have served as the base for a garrison protecting the eastern flank of Kition and the Larnaka bay. In Late Roman and Early Byzantine times, the town of Koutsopetria stretched across the coastal plain below Vigla. This settlement appears to have been a bustling, cosmopolitan market town during at the end of antiquity, and may have met its demise after a series of earthquakes. The ceramic evidence demonstrates economic and cultural ties to Asia Minor, North Africa, Egypt, and Aegean.

Preparations for publication are now under way.

The presentation took place at at Sichuan University (China) in early June 2010.

Club members raised funds to contribute to the endowment of the Eric Slebodnik Scholarship at IUP. The scholarship is named after Eric, a History major and a member of the Pennsylvania National Guard who was killed in action in Iraq in 2005.

Each year, the scholarship is awarded to a History or Social Studies Education major through a competitive selection process.

This year’s recipient of the Eric Slebodnik Scholarship was Jena Antonelli. She is working on her degree in Social Studies Education and plans to work with Native American children upon graduation.

The grant will help support research undertaken this summer by the Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project. This archaeological project, which is directed by Moore and will be beginning its seventh season in May, is the archaeological investigation of a stretch of coastline along the southern shore of the island of Cyprus.

Beginning in the 1830s with books allegedly authored by Rebecca Reed and Maria Monk, the phenomenon of the “escaped nun” became a staple of anti-Catholic literature and sentiment in nineteenth-century America. This paper examines the case of one “escaped nun,” Olivia Neale, a Carmelite who fled from her Baltimore monastery in 1839 and produced great controversy. In one sense Neale appeared to embody a stock character in anti-convent fiction—the nun who loses her mind because of forced confinement. In other ways, however, Neale’s story was unique. This paper analyzes how those differences complicate our understanding of the historical and cultural significance of the “escaped nun” phenomenon in antebellum America.

Dr. Lu will present some of the research she has been doing since the summer of 2009. This research will serve as the basis for a chapter in a book project on the overseas Chinese and U.S. Cold War policy.

The article focuses on Reverend Charles Ignatius White, a leading member of the Catholic press in antebellum America. Scholars have long neglected White’s significant contribution to advancing a Catholic version of the ideology of domesticity. Most noteworthy in this regard was his book Mission and Duties of Young Women (1858), a translation of a popular advice book by the French author Charles Sainte-Foi. Through his writings promoting a Catholic version of true womanhood, Charles White served as a mid-century bridge between an older culture dominated by a native-born, Anglo-Catholic elite and that of an emerging immigrant church in Baltimore, the nation’s oldest archdiocese.

Dr. Franklin-Rahkonen, of the Department of History, examines ways that Finnish-Americans have viewed Finland and Finns over the past century. She considers what little remains of a Finnish cultural identity among first-, second-, and third-generation Finnish-Americans. She demonstrates that despite this loss, Finnish-Americans still cherish their hyphenated identity and have strong ideas of what being Finnish means that can contrast starkly with how Finns (in Finland) view themselves and what they consider to be Finnish identity.

She is working on the Overseas Chinese and U.S. Cold War Policy. Her focus is on the Chinese in Southeast Asia. The research project looks at how immigrant societies, decolonization, and Cold War geopolitics become entangled in the 1950s.

In Beijing, she has been working in the Chinese Foreign Ministry Archives. In Taipei, she is working in the archives at the Academia Sinica and the Academia Historica.

She is currently on sabbatical, and will return in Fall 2010.

The volume is one of a series of sixty-five volumes designed to provide convenient, inexpensive access to a wide range of current, carefully selected articles form some of the most respected magazines, newspapers, and history journals published today. It is a nationally recognized supplement to traditional historical textbooks for the classroom.

Her paper, “Methodological Approaches to Writing the Social History of Elite Peasants: England in the 16th and 17th Centuries,” explores methods for studying the lives of social groups whose history has hitherto been unexplored by historians. In addition, she will chair and comment on three papers dealing with new perspectives on early modern poor relief in England, and she will chair a panel titled “Global Labour Relations and Work Ethics 1500–2000.”

Choice is a scholarly journal published in print and on line by the American Librarian Association. Choice is used by over 35,000 American librarians and faculty members to make decisions about acquisitions for academic libraries. Historians write book reviews as part of their scholarly obligation to service in their discipline.

The talk is entitled “Archaeology in Cyprus: Under Fire and On the Beach.”

For many years, ancient and medieval historians have viewed the island of Cyprus as a sleepy backwater containing a few coastal cities surrounded by an empty countryside. Recent archeological work on the island, however, is painting a different picture of the island and its place in the Roman and Late Antique world.

Since 2003, a team of researchers and students have been conducting an archaeological survey around the modern village of Pyla along the southern coast of Cyprus. By making use of many different techniques (pedestrian survey, excavation, geophysical survey, ground-penetrating radar, and satellite imagery) the Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project (PKAP) has been able to recreate a history of the region from the Classical Period through the Late Antique period that portrays a vibrant landscape at odds with its more traditional depiction.

His talk is titled “The U.S. in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Irish, Italian, and Japanese Immigrations and Migrations.”

The conference, which will take place on May 1, 2010, at Juniata College, will bring together the college’s community partners, students, faculty, and staff interested in learning more about service-learning and civic engagement.

As a council member, Dr. Arpaia will collaborate with other council members in providing support to the American Academy in Rome and its fellows, residents, and affiliates. He is particularly interested in sponsoring national and international events promoting the work of the fellows and the academy, including coordinating with other fellows in Modern Italian Studies, a scholarly publication for 2011 celebrating the centennial of the foundation of the American Academy and the sesquicentennial of the unification of Italy.

The lecture is presented as part of National Women’s History Month.

She also served the History Department in other spheres as she taught HIST 195, an introductory course for non-majors, offered a popular course on U.S. history in the 1920s and 1930s, and presented specialty courses. Her publications were in political history and labor history.

A Ph.D. from Auburn University and public teaching experience provided her with an excellent foundation for her IUP career, 1992–2004. In addition to her professional achievements Judy had a rich private life which included a circle of close friends, a loving relationship with her children, and the “joys of grandmotherhood.” 

Her presence left fond memories of her as a colleague and as a friend.

By Irwin Marcus

The conference was hosted by the National Library of China, Beijing.

The 2009 field season was PKAP’s largest and most complex to date with a staff of thirty students and colleagues from the U.S., Canada, the UK, and Cyprus.

Over a five-week season, the PKAP team opened six small trenches at the sites of Vigla, Koutsopetria, and Kokkinokremos, each designed to test the results of intensive pedestrian survey and remote sensing. The trenches on the prominent coastal height of Vigla produced significant evidence of a Hellenistic (4^th–3^rd c. B.C.) settlement. An imposing fortification wall surrounded domestic quarters whose collapsed mudbrick walls sealed valuable ceramic material on the floors. These buildings may have been the houses for mercenary or garrison forces positioned to protect a vulnerable stretch of coastline near the cosmopolitan city of Kition, or perhaps the homes of local residents who had settled in fortified villages during politically unstable times.

The soundings on the neighboring coastal ridge of Kokkinokremos revealed two sections of complex perimeter wall dating to the Late Bronze Age. This wall suggests that the site itself was not properly fortified, but only ringed with a series of interlocking structures. While these structures would have presented an imposing vista to an attacking foe, the presence of doorways leading through the exterior wall indicates that residents of the Late Bronze Age settlement regarded practical needs over the need for an impregnable defense.

The final area of trial trenches was the Early Christian basilica at Koutsopetria. PKAP’s work near this long-known building sought to unravel the complex history of repair and rebuilding that occurred during the fifth, sixth, and seventh centuries A.D. To gather information on the building’s tumultuous life cycle, the soundings focused on an annex room that suffered several incidents of significant damage before its roof and second story collapsed under seemingly dramatic circumstances.

In conjunction with this work, the PKAP team conducted ten days of geophysical survey with ground penetrating radar in collaboration with Dr. Beverly Chiarulli of IUP’s Anthropology Department. This work revealed several areas of significant subsurface features.

The project enjoyed the generous assistance of the Estate Manager of the British Sovereign Area—Dhekelia Garrison, the Larnaka District Archaeological Museum, and the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute. The 2009 season’s fieldwork was funded by grants from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, University of North Dakota, Institute of Aegean Prehistory, and generous private donors. All field work was completed with the permission and cooperation of the director of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, Dr. Pavlos Flourentzos.

His promotion was the result of recommendations by the department faculty, the department chair, a universitywide committee of peers, and the granting of the new rank by the university president.

The paper presented the results from the project’s 2009 season of excavation of three areas in the Pyla region (Bronze Age fortress, Hellenistic military garrison, and Late Roman village) and described the project’s plans for next season.

The first talk (July 20) focused on the period 1880–1910 and looked at economic development, labor clashes, and civic contributions. The second talk (July 27) will look at organized crime, politics, and ethnic and racial relations from 1910–1940. The final talk (August 3) will examine Mayor Richard Daley, deindustrialization and its effects, and ethnic and racial relations for 1940–1980.

His article, “Show me the Yuan,” can be viewed on the Glimpse website.

This event includes a short program, workshops, a picnic, and a kickball game between the faculty and History majors.

The project is a collaboration between Dr. Scott Moore of the Department of History at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and scholars from the University of North Dakota and Messiah College (Pa.). The PKAP team includes undergraduates and graduate students from these institutions and numerous others in the U.S. and Europe.

This season, the PKAP team will excavate three sites on the south coast of Cyprus dating to the Late Bronze Age (1200 B.C.), Classical period (480 B.C.–330 B.C.), and Late Roman period (A.D. 330–A.D. 650). Together, these sites shed light on the history of a two-kilometer stretch of the Cypriot coastline and place this part of the island in larger economic, political, and cultural relationships with sites elsewhere across the ancient Mediterranean.

As in previous years, PKAP will take full advantage of new and emerging media tools. In collaboration with the Working Group in Digital and New Media at the University of North Dakota, PKAP will produce a digital documentary and will host photographer Ryan Stander, a UND Masters in Fine Arts student, as their annual artist in residence. PKAP will also document their ongoing fieldwork with a series of frequently updated weblogs. The blogs capture the daily experiences of archaeological fieldwork from the perspectives of project staff, graduate students, and undergraduate volunteers. As one of the first Mediterranean archaeological projects to blog from the field, thousands of readers from around the world have read this unique perspective on the inner workings of Mediterranean archaeology.This year, links to the three main PKAP blogs have been aggregated here.

For more on PKAP’s work, visit the Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project website.

The five-week trip will include visits to numerous sites, such as Istanbul, Ephesus, Hattusa, Cappadocia, Paphos. and Nicosia. In addition to the study tour, several IUP faculty members are participating in the Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project (PKAP). Dr. Beverly Chiarulli (Anthropology) and Dr. Nick Karatjas (Economics) will be joining Moore in Pyla, Cyprus, for the seventh field season of the archaeological project, which is investigating the development of a coastal site from the Bronze Age through the medieval period.

This collection of essays honors the contributions of Timothy E. Gregory to our understanding of Greece from the Roman period to modern times. Evoking Gregory's diverse interests, the volume brings together anthropologists, art historians, archaeologists, historians, and philologists to address such contested topics as the end of Antiquity, the so-called Byzantine Dark Ages, the contours of the emerging Byzantine civilization, and identity in post-Medieval Greece.

He also presented “Wollstonecrafts in America” at the Australia New Zealand American Studies Conference in Sydney on July 6, and “‘A Standing Dish of Family Cares’: Mary Wollstonecraft as an Atlantic Basin Kinworker” at the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women at the University of Minnesota on June 13.

Professor Bodle is a member of IUP’s History Department.

In addition, she was elected treasurer to the executive committee of the North American Conference on British Studies, and she is president of the Mid-Atlantic Conference of British Studies.

Moore is the leader of an international team of faculty and students, including five IUP students, working on the the Pyla-Koutsopetria project, which is a regional survey of a coastal territory east of Larnaca, Cyprus.

For the past five years, project members have focused on the archaeological remains on the surface of the ground. This year, thanks to funding from the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, the IUP anthropology and history departments have purchased a special device, the Trimble GNSS R8 base station and rover, to help with accurate mapping of excavation and survey projects.

IUP students involved in the project include Jon Crowley, of Boyertown; Jessica Freas, of Somerset; Joe Kochinski, of Windber; and graduate student Nick Wise, of Kinzers.

The site of Pyla-Koutsopetria was a wealthy late Roman village that served as an important regional trading hub for the southeastern area of the island.

“The advantage of the R8 for archaeological surveys is that it provides extremely accurate mapping in seconds, allowing a survey team to collect hundreds of survey points in a day,” Moore said. “This is compared to the use of hand-held units, which are less accurate and take much longer for each reading.

“During a three-week period, the team was able to take more than 5,000 measurements over a two-kilometer square area, permitting the creation of an extremely accurate topographic map of the coastal region.”

Moore said that the six seasons of fieldwork in the region have revealed a dynamic and wealthy Mediterranean landscape filled with towns, fortifications and religious centers.

“The careful documentation of this material is particularly important as more and more of the Cypriot coastline succumbs to development. Plans are already under way for a larger, more extensive field season in the summer of 2009.”

Funding for the 2008 season’s fieldwork was provided by grants from IUP, the University of North Dakota, Messiah College, American Schools of Oriental Research, Institute for Aegean Prehistory, the Brennan Foundation, the Mediterranean Archaeological Trust and private donors. All fieldwork was completed with the permission and cooperation of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus.

In 2007, the Anthropology and History departments received funding through a State System of Higher Education Technology Fee Special Project Grant to purchase a Trimble GNSS R8 base station and rover for sub-centimeter accuracy in mapping excavation and survey projects.

This past summer, Drs. Beverly Chiarulli (Anthropology) and R. Scott Moore (History) took the R8 on the road to test its capabilities in several field projects.

This summer, Chiarulli and three students—undergraduates Justin De Maio and Tiara Bey and graduate student Germaine McArdle—used the R8 to map nineteenth-century artifacts and survey areas in the Gila National Forest, New Mexico; test units at the Lemon House in the Allegheny Portage National Historic Site in Cambria County, Pennsylvania; and at the IUP Archaeological Field School site near Blairsville, Pa.

Moore and four students—undergraduates Jon Crowley, Jessie Freas, and Joe Kochinski and graduate student Nick Wise—took the R8 to Cyprus to map the coastal site of Pyla-Koutsopetria. The site of Pyla-Koutsopetria was a wealthy Late Roman village that served as an important regional trading hub for the southeastern area of the island.

The advantage of the R8 for archaeological surveys is that it provides extremely accurate mapping in seconds, allowing a survey team to collect hundreds of survey points in a day compared to the use of hand-held units, which are less accurate and take much longer for each reading. During a three-week period, the team was able to take more than five thousand GPS measurements over a two-kilometer square area, permitting the creation of an extremely accurate topographic map of the coastal region.

In the Gila Archaeological Project, the IUP survey team joined with students and faculty from Howard University in Washington, D.C., students from the Mescalero Apache Tribe, and archaeologists from the National Park Service and the Gila National Forest (GNF). The focus of the project is the Apache Wars of the 1870s and 1880s, which pitted Buffalo Soldiers (the African-American regiments formed after the Civil War) against the Apache.

Dr. Eleanor King of Howard University directs the project, which focuses on how both sides used the landscape, not only for battle but for everyday life, by identifying camp sites and battle sites. Chiarulli, De Maio, Bey, and McArdle used the R8 and other hand-held GPS units to map structures and artifacts in a nine thousand-acre section of the Black Range district of the GNF.

The eastern slopes of the Black Range were among the most hotly contested landscapes in this prolonged fight.  Homeland to the Warm Springs Apache, they witnessed many of the most important battles in the Victorio War. This uprising began in the late 1870s under the leadership of chief Victorio and his allies and did not effectively end until well after his death, with the surrender of Geronimo and his allies in 1886.

The Black Range saw some of the last battles fought for freedom and self-determination by the Apache on United States soil. It was also a proving ground for the 9th Cavalry, one of the Buffalo Soldier regiments. One battle alone in these mountains won the regiment three medals of honor. Even though there are some fifty-five known battle sites on Forest land on the eastern slopes of the Black Range, many have never been properly recorded. Although located on National Forest land, these sites remain vulnerable to relic hunters. With their destruction goes important information on exactly what took place in these mountains, as usually all we have are the brief military records of engagements. Even more important is information about where the Apache camped or the soldiers stayed and how they traveled away from the forts and roads.

During the nine days of field work, the IUP team mapped artifacts and structures in nine survey areas, including standing structures and possible structures in an abandoned nineteenth century mining town and cemetery, several prehistoric sites, a battle site, and several historic Apache artifacts. They also used a Bartingdon Magnetic Susceptibility survey loop to survey possible residential or camp sites.

For the past five years, PKAP has concerned itself primarily with the archaeological remains present on the surface of the ground. The goal of this fieldwork has been to collect data without disturbing the archaeological remains protected beneath the surface. The results of this work include the discovery of what may be a previously unknown shrine from the Archaic to Classical periods (600–300 B.C.) and an extensive Roman to Late Roman (100 B.C.–700 A.D.) settlement at the site.

In 2008, PKAP conducted limited excavations for the first time to confirm and expand the results of the surface survey. A series of small trenches brought to light the remains of a fortified settlement on a prominent coastal ridge called Vigla. This settlement appears to have been occupied from the Cypro-Archaic to the Hellenistic period (600–100 B.C.). The most dramatic feature of this settlement was a fortification wall that ringed the entire plateau. It seems probable the shrine of the same date served this small community. Nearby, the PKAP team excavated three small soundings close to the known site of Kokkinokremos. This work expanded the known extent of this Late Bronze Age site (ca. 1200 B.C.) We based this conclusion on the discovery of a section of wall datable to the Late Bronze Age that was located considerably outside the area of use proposed by earlier studies. The six seasons of fieldwork in the region of Pyla-Koutsopetria revealed a dynamic and wealthy Mediterranean landscape filled complete with towns, fortifications, and religious centers. The careful documentation of this material is particularly important as more and more of the Cypriot coastline succumbs to development. Plans are already underway for a larger, more extensive fieldseason in the summer of 2009.

The project enjoyed the generous assistance of the Estate Manager of the British Sovereign Area–Dhekelia Garrison, the Larnaka District Archaeological Museum, and the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute. The 2008 season’s fieldwork was funded by grants from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, University of North Dakota, Messiah College, American Schools of Oriental Research, Institute for Aegean Prehistory, the Brennan Foundation, the Mediterranean Archaeological Trust, and generous private donors. All field work was completed with the permission and cooperation of Director Pavlos Flourentzos of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus.

One of her most profound works is her book entitled Old Age and the English Poor Law, 1500-1700, the first to examine the elderly in early modern England. She continues to publish various works related to this research interest, including a coauthored book entitled The History of Old Age. This book has been published in England, North America, and Germany, where it was a Book of the Month Club selection.