Student Accomplishments

Fall 2008

Accepted for Publication:

Matt Jacobs
"Unforeseen Consequences: The Eisenhower Administration and Fidel Castro's Revolutionary Nationalism in Cuba, 1959-1961"
Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians
Slated for publication in 2009

Encyclopedia entry for: “The Berlin Blockade/Airlift”
American Espionage: A Historical Encyclopedia
Slated for publication in spring 2009

Book Review: NATO and the Warsaw Pact: Intrabloc Conflicts. Edited by Mary Ann Heiss and Victor Papacosma. Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 2008.
The Southern Historian
Slated for publication in April 2009

Rob Morrison
"Faith Fights Communism: The United States and Islam in Saudi Arabia During the Cold War"
Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians
Slated for publication in 2009

Jobs & Internships:

Jo-el Smith
Part-time Job
Collections Assistant
Bellamy Mansion
Wilmington, NC

Internship
Exhibit Development
Old Baldy Lighthouse and Smith Island Museum
Bald Head Island, NC

Julia Yannetti
Part-time Job
Program Designer & Educational Program Instructor
Battleship North Carolina
Wilmington, NC

Internship
Historic Wilmington Foundation
Wilmington, NC

Christine Jamet
Part-time Job
Battleship USS North Carolina
Assistant Education Programmer
Spring 2008
Wilmington, NC

 

Summer 2008

Publications:

Matt Jacobs
“Why Economic Sanctions Often Fail.”
Op-Ed., History News Service
History News Network
http://hnn.us/articles/51797.html
June 30, 2008.

Spring 2008

Awards:


Nina La Ferla
Graduate Teaching Award
UNCW
2008-2009

Nina La Ferla
Brauer Award
UNCW
Funds to study in China
2008-09

Sharad Shad
Graduate Summer Research Stipend
$1000
UNCW

Robyn Carofine
Graduate Summer Research Stipend
$1000
UNCW

Presentations:

Katie Perry
"Mau Mau Revolt in Kenya between 1952 and 1959."
Phi Alpha Theta/ North Carolina Assocation of Historians Conference
University of North Carolina Pembroke
Pembroke, NC
March 28, 2008

Rob Morrison
"Faith Fights Communism: The United States and Islam in Saudi Arabia During the Cold War"
North Carolina Association of Historians Conference
University of North Carolina Pembroke
Pembroke, NC
March 28, 2008

Rob Morrison
"Faith Fights Communism: The United States and Islam in Saudi Arabia During the Cold War"
Panel Discussion "Fighting for the Periphery - The Cold War and American Involvement in the Post-Colonial World During the Eisenhower Era"
History Between the Hedges Conference
University of Georgia
Athens, GA
April 5, 2008

Keith Clark
"To the Brink and Back: United States Strategy in the Quemoy-Matsu Crisis of 1954-1955"
Graduate Research Symposium
The College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, Virginia
March 28-29, 2008

Keith Clark
"To the Brink and Back: United States Strategy in the Quemoy-Matsu Crisis of 1954-1955"
Panel Discussion "Fighting for the Periphery - The Cold War and American Involvement in the Post-Colonial World During the Eisenhower Era"
History Between the Hedges Conference
University of Georgia
Athens, GA
April 5, 2008

Rebecca "Becky" Zimmer
"All But Forgotten: The Battle of Wyse Forks"
North Carolina Association of Historians Conference
University of North Carolina Pembroke
Pembroke, NC
March 28, 2008

Rebecca "Becky" Zimmer
Panel Commentator
"Late Antebellum and Civil War America"
History Between the Hedges Conference
University of Georgia
Athens, GA
April 5, 2008

Greg Seltzer
“Domestic Anxiety Projected: The New York Times Depicts the Paris Commune of 1871.”
North Carolina Graduate Student History Conference
North Carolina State University, Raleigh
February 16, 2008

Chris Moreland
"Challenges to Catholic Hegemony in the Philippines During the Early American Occupation."
North Carolina Graduate Student History Conference
North Carolina State University, Raleigh
February 16, 2008

Laura Walters
"Malibu Barbie: From Savvy Fashionista to California Girl.”
Middle Atlantic American Studies Association (MAASA) and the Great Lakes American Studies Association (GLASA)
Rochester, New York
April 4-5, 2008

Matt Jacobs
“Unforeseen Consequences: The Eisenhower Administration and Fidel Castro’s Revolutionary Nationalism in Cuba, 1959-1961.”
Graduate Research Symposium
The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
March 28-29, 2008

Matt Jacobs
“Unforeseen Consequences: The Eisenhower Administration and Fidel Castro’s Revolutionary Nationalism in Cuba, 1959-1961.”
Panel Discussion "Fighting for the Periphery - The Cold War and American Involvement in the Post-Colonial World During the Eisenhower Era"
History Between the Hedges Conference
University of Georgia, Athens.
April 5, 2008


Publications:

Sharad Shah

“Operation TPAJAX and Blowback in the Middle East.”
Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians
16 (April 2008): 1-33

Matt Jacobs

Encylopedia entries for: "Jose Miguel Gomez" & "Ramon Grau San Martin"
Encyclopedia of Caribbean History
Slated for publication in 2009

Robyn Carofine
"Congress Hall: A Mainstay in Upper Class Victorian America"
Madison Historical Review (James Madison University)
Slated for pubication in June 2008


Fellowships:


Rebecca “Becky” Zimmer
George M. Nethken Fellowship at
The George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War
Summer 2008
Shepherdstown, West Virginia


Internships:

Kawan Allen
Home and Community Life Fellowship - "The African American Imprint"
Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Summer 2008
Washington DC

Shannon Walker

North Carolina Museum of Forestery
Collections Specialists
Summer 2008
Whiteville, NC

Christine Jamet
Lattimer House
Lower Cape Fear Historical Society
Summer 2008
Wilmington, NC

Jesse Bricker
Fort Fisher State Historic Site
Educational Program Developer 
Fort Fisher, Norrth Carolina

Shannon Sancartier
Fort Fisher State Historic Site
Educational Program Developer 
Fort Fisher, Norrth Carolina

Shannon Walker
Bellamy Mansion
Assistant Collections Manager
Spring 2008
Wilmington, NC

Robyn Binns
Onslow County Museum
Digitizing Architectural History Project
Jacksonville, NC
2008

Jo-el Smith
Old Baldy Lighthouse & Smith Island Museum of History
Research on Lighthouse keepers and use of kitchen area
Bald Head Island, NC
2008

Laura Walters
Wrightsville Beach Museum of History
Research, develop & test docent tour and training manual
Wrightsville Beach, NC
2008

 

 


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