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GW History Ph.D. student Diana Xiong's article "Reaching Out to Chinese on Campus" was published in the Washington Post.

GW History Ph.D. student James Person is featured in a four paragraph story in an October 2006 issue of US News and World Report The story describes Person's research on North Korea in the 1950s, and notes that the documents he uncovered in Moscow concerning failed efforts by the USSR to get North Korea to "reform" its oppressive ways provide insight into why North Korea finds itself so isolated today.

Congratulations to Tom Faith, who will be the Charles C. Price Fellow at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia during the 2006-2007 academic year, and to Goshka Gnoinska who will be a Fulbright Fellow in Poland, in the 2006-2007 academic year.

Elizabeth Charles, James Person, and Goshka Gnoinska, History Ph.D. students and members of the George Washington Cold War Group attended a conference in Moscow in March 2006 held at the Gorbachev Foundation in honor of Mikhail Gorbachev's 75th birthday.

Publications

Jeff Burson, "The Problem of Enlightenment Theology in France: Towards a New Comparative History of European Enlightenments." Southwestern Historical Association Conference (SWHA) San Antonio, TX: April 2006.

Jeff Burson, "'Tyrants and Sovereigns': The Forgotten Political Thought of Sir John Eliot, 1625-1633." Southwestern Historical Association Convention, New Orleans, LA: March 2005. Walter G. Craddock Prize Winner

Cathleen Lewis, "World's Fairs in the Space Age: A Tale of Two Spacecraft" Presented at the Hagley Museum and Library Lecture series "Centuries of Progress: American World's Fairs, 1853 to 1982" Wilmington Delaware, May 2005.

Cathleen Lewis, "The Birth of Soviet Space Museums: Creating the Earthbound Experience during the Golden Years of the Soviet Space Programme, 1957-68." In Showcasing Space, ed. Martin Collins and Douglas Millard (East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press, 2005), 142-158.

Craig Daigle, "The Russians Are Going: Sadat, Nixon, and the Soviet Military Presence in Egypt, 1970-1971." Middle East Review of International Affairs 8 (March 2004): 1-15.

Helena Kaler, "Muslim Responses to Modernity: Ayman al-Zawahiri and Farid Esack" paper presented at the 34th Annual Conference of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists, Philadelphia, Sept. 2005.

John Emrich, "The First Clone War: Creating a National Recombinant DNA Policy in the United States," paper delivered at The International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology Conference, University of Guelph, July 2005.

Kevin Herrick, "The merger of two systems: Chinese adoption and Western adaptation in the formation of modern international law," Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law 33 (2005): 685-703.

Macabe Keliher, Out of China, or Yu Yongehe's Tales of Formosa: A History of Seventeenth-Century Taiwan (Taipei: SMC Publishing, 2003)

Macabe Keliher, Small Sea Travel Diaries: Yu Yonghe's Records of Taiwan (Taipei: SMC Publishing, 2004).

Jeff Burson, "Abdication of Legitimate Heirs: The Use and Abuse of Locke in the Jesuit Journal de Trévoux and the Origins of Counter-Enlightenment, 1737-1767," Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 7 (2005): 297-327.

Jason Roberts, "New Evidence in the Hiss Case: From the HUAC Files and the Hiss Grand Jury," American Community History (December 2002): 143-162.

Robert Stephan, Stalin's Secret War: Soviet Counterintelligence Against the Nazis, 1941-1945 (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2004).

Andrew Hartman, "The Rise and Fall of Whiteness Studies," Race and Class 46 (Oct.-Dec. 2004), pp. 22-38.

________, "The Social Production of American Identity: Standardized Testing Reform in the United States," Socialism and Democracy 17 (2003), pp. 131-164.

________, "Language as Oppression: The English-only Movement in the United States," Socialism and Democracy 17 (2003), pp. 187-208.

________, "The Red Template: U.S. Policy in Soviet-Occupied Afghanistan," Third World Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 3 (2002), pp.467-489.

________, "A Crisis of Transition: Becoming Mature in the Cold War" at the International Conference on the History of Childhood, Universite Francois-Rabelais, Tours, France, November 19, 2005.

Kristen Gwinn, Participant in "Advocates of Internationalism" Roundtable, Berkshire Conference of Women's History, Claremont, CA, June 2005.

________, "The Gentler Sex? Response of the Women's Movement to the First Workd War 1914-1919," Women's Activism for Peace: from International Goals to National Implementation, University of London, September 2005.

Christopher Bright, "'Proud to lend My Name and Whatever Strength I May Have;' U.S. Senator Carter Glass and World War II Interventionism." Southern Historian 22 (Spring 2001): 66-80.

________, "Nike Defends Washington; Antiaircraft Missiles in Fairfax County, Virginia During the Cold War, 1954-1974" Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 105 (1997): 317-346.

Melani Miller (PhD 2000): Envoy To The Terror: Gouverneur Morris And The French Revolution (Potomac Books, 2005).

Bell Clement, "Pushback: The White Community's Dissent from Bolling," Washington History 16 (Fall/Winter 2004-2005): 86-109.

________, "Breathing Life Into the Body Politic: The Irish in 1850's Washington," 30th Annual Conference on Washington, D.C. Historical Studies, November 2003.

Margaret K. Gnoinska, "Poland and Vietnam, 1963: New Evidence on Secret Communist Diplomacy and the 'Maneli Affair'" (March 2005), Cold War International History Working Paper #45: http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/pubs/CWIHP_WP_45b.pdf

________, "Peacekeeping and the Cold War in Asia: Lessons from the Past." Annual Conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, University of Maryland College Park, June 2005.

________, "Japan, Poland, and the Vietnam War: Peace Initiatives (1966-68)." Paper delivered at Thirty Years On: The Unanswered Questions and the Search for Documentary Evidence, Conference of the Vietnam War, Temple University, June 2005.