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Jennifer Duffy<\/strong> was interviewed on <\/span>NPR’s midday national news program Here & Now about St. Patrick’s Day.\u00a0 You can listen to the interview here: https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/hereandnow\/2026\/03\/17\/st-patricks-day-irish-catholics<\/a><\/div>\n

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Joshua Rosenthal<\/strong> published the chapter \u00a0The Role of the Haitian Revolution in a Modern Latin American History” in S. D. Crawford & K. E. Zimmerman (Eds.), Understanding and Teaching Modern Latin America<\/em> University of Wisconsin Press, 2026. . p. 34-54.<\/p>\n

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Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox <\/strong>published a new article:<\/strong> \u201cLaos, North Vietnam, and the Credibility of Nehru\u2019s Leadership in Asia, 1954-1962,\u201d\u00a0Journal of Lao Studies\u00a0<\/i>9:1 (December 2025): 56-80<\/p>\n

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Katherine Allocco <\/strong>gave a talk about Catalina de Erauso, the sixteenth century lieutenant nun, at Middlesex Community College on November 4.<\/p>\n

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Katherine Allocco <\/strong>presented her conference paper \u201cDefending Monsters and Redefining the Monstrous in Kazuo Ishiguro\u2019s The Buried Giant <\/em>(2015)\u201d at the Medieval + Monsters conference hosted by the Newberry Library and held at Dominican University in Chicago and at the Newberry from October 16-19.<\/p>\n

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Leslie Lindenauer<\/strong>\u00a0 will be giving a talk \u201cThe Devil in New England: Witch Belief and Witch Trials in the Seventeenth Century\u201d at the Torrington Historical Society on October 15 at 6:30 pm. https:\/\/torringtonhistoricalsociety.org\/event\/though-shalt-not-suffer-a-witch-to-live-witch-trials-in-early-new-england<\/a><\/p>\n

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Leslie Lindenauer<\/strong>\u00a0 will be giving a talk \u201cLiberty\u2019s Gender: Women, Popular Culture, and the American Revolution\u201d at the Keeler Tavern Museum on October 9, 2025 at 7 p.m. in the Garden House. https:\/\/keelertavernmuseum.org\/events\/544\/declaration-deep-dive-dr-leslie-lindenauer\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Anna Malavisi<\/strong> and Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox<\/strong> presented conference papers at the\u00a0 European Conference on South Asian Studies in Heidelberg, Germany on October 4. Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox’s paper:\u00a0 “Th\u00edch N\u1eef Di\u1ec7u Kh\u00f4ng, Moral Education, and Female Leadership in Vietnam\u2019s Buddhist Protests of 1963” and Anna Malavisi’s paper:\u00a0 “Understanding (in)compatibilities between Religion and Human Rights” were part of the roundtable titled Are Religion and Human Rights (In)Compatible Value Systems? Buddhist and Hindu Religious and Cultural Perspectives from South and Southeast Asia https:\/\/ecsas2025.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Kevin Gutzman<\/strong> has been invited to give the Constitution Day Talk at Clemson University on September 18, 2025. His talk is entitled \u201cJames Madison: Constitutionalist,\u201d\u00a0 and is sponsored by the Snow Institute for the Study of Capitalism.\u00a0https:\/\/events.clemson.edu\/powersbusiness\/event\/20954-constitution-talk<\/a>. You can listen to his talk here: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fJl6k1Mf3A0&t=391s\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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Leslie Lindenauer <\/strong>led an experiential learning trip to Salem with 15 WCSU students as part of her Conversing With the Devil course this Fall to study the Salem Witch Trials at a number of historical sites on September 13.<\/p>\n

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Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox<\/strong> appeared on the radio program Wake Up! With Bill Finch, along with CT Senator Sujata Gadkar-Wilcox, on August 31, 2025. \u00a0My contribution was to talk about our current immigration enforcement in the context of the history of anticommunist refugees. You can listen to the discussion here: https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/podcast\/wicc-the-voice-of-connecticut-06794\/episodes\/wake-up-with-bill-finch-august-31-2025-6df6c<\/a><\/p>\n

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Kevin Gutzman<\/strong> has published an essay as part of\u00a0 The Papers of James Madison<\/em>, “a nonprofit documentary editing project established to procure, edit, annotate, and publish the lifetime correspondence of James Madison”, housed at the University of Virginia, and which is nearly complete. https:\/\/pjm.as.virginia.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Kevin Gutzman<\/strong> has been invited to serve as editor-in-chief of the special semiquincentennial commemorative issue of The Independent Review<\/i>, a prominent libertarian review headquartered in Oakland. Dr. Gutzman will select the scholars who write essays in the issue, essay topics and themes for this special 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. https:\/\/www.independent.org\/research\/independent-review\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Kevin Gutzman<\/strong> has been appointed by the United States Postal Services as one of the scholars selecting commemorative stamps for the 250th<\/sup> anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence next year. https:\/\/about.usps.com\/newsroom\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Leslie Lindenauer<\/strong> led an experiential learning trip to Paris with 30 WCSU students in May 2025 as part of her \u201cAmericans in Paris\u201d course which she co-teaches with Don Gagnon.<\/p>\n

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Danielle King<\/strong> earned her Ed.D. this May from Central! Her dissertation “Navigating Crossroads of Culture and Gender: Experiences and Outcomes of Caribbean Immigrant Women in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York\u2019s Higher Education Institutions” is a qualitative, autoethnographic study with narrative inquiry of intersectional analysis that explores how Caribbean immigrant women from Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York universities handle challenges and assert their identities, while pursuing academic and career goals in academic environments. Congratulations!<\/p>\n

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Kevin Gutzman<\/strong> has been appointed as a Summer Fellow with the American Institute for Economic Research in Great Barrington, MA. https:\/\/aier.org\/visiting-research-fellowships\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Katherine Allocco<\/strong> and Leslie Lindenauer<\/strong> volunteered as judges at the 2025 History Day Regional Competition at Southern CT State U on March 8.<\/p>\n

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Anna Malavisi<\/strong> spoke at the Kathwari Honors Spring Seminars about Ethics, engaging in the debate over the ethical question: “What is Right Right Now?” on March 3.<\/p>\n

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Leslie Lindenauer<\/strong> has published a workbook about open sources and pedagogy. Here is a link to the workbook that was just published through GoOpenCT, the repository for open educational resources.\u00a0\u201cOpen Sources, Open Pedagogies, and Open Minds\u201d Open Educational Resources Workbook for American History Online Learning Edition | GoOpen CT<\/a><\/p>\n

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Kevin Gutzman<\/strong> was invited to a book signing at the The Danbury Barnes & Noble from noon to 2 p.m. on Sunday, February 9 at Barnes & Noble, 7 Backus Ave., Danbury<\/div>\n
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Katherine Allocco<\/strong> volunteered as a guest judge at the 2025 WSMSA History Day Competition at Westside Middle School Academy in Danbury on January 14.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Joshua Rosenthal<\/strong> presented his conference paper \u201cTeaching the Haitian Revolution,\u201d for \u201cUnderstanding Major Themes and Topics in a Modern Latin American History Survey for K-16 Educators,\u00a0<\/span>Conference on Latin American History an\u00a0affiliated society of the American Historical Association, Annual Meeting, January 2025, New York.<\/div>\n
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Leslie Lindenauer<\/strong> will be delivering her talk “Though Shalt Not Suffer a Witch to Live: Witch Trials in Early New England” at the Norwalk Historical Society on October 30, 2024.<\/div>\n

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Leslie Lindenauer\u00a0<\/strong>participated in the on-campus “Dialogues with Democracy” event hosted by Macricostas Experiences and co-sponsored by WCSU Libraries and CELT with her her talk, “Aggrieved, Oppressed and Fraudulently Deprived: Women and the Fight for Suffrage” in Haas Library on October 21.<\/p>\n

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Kevin Gutzman<\/strong> has been asked to host a book signing for\u00a0The Jeffersonians: The Visionary Presidencies of Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe<\/i> (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2022) in the Danbury Mall Barnes & Noble at noon on Saturday, September 14.<\/p>\n

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Katherine Allocco <\/strong>presented her conference paper \u201cThe Strange Narrative of Isabella of France in Huntington MS HM 131, an Abbreviated version of the Middle English Prose\u201d at the Brut in Bristol conference at the University of Bristol, June 27-29, 2024.<\/p>\n

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Joshua Rosenthal<\/strong> presented his conference paper “Husbands, Fathers and Sons in the Civil War of New Granada” for the\u00a0 “Imagining Men: The Creation and Negation of Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century Mexico and Colombia,\u201d panel at the Latin American Studies Association, (LASA), Congress, Bogot\u00e1, Colombia, June 13-15, 2024.<\/p>\n

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Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox<\/strong> has published a new article! “Vietnamese Buddhist encounters with South Asia in the 1950s<\/span>” is a featured article in Modern Asian Studies<\/em> and was published online on March 25, 2004. The article can be found here: https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/modern-asian-studies\/article\/vietnamese-buddhist-encounters-with-south-asia-in-the-1950s\/EAEA38719ABEA7F76038076910CBFA1B<\/a><\/p>\n

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Kevin Gutzman<\/strong> will be speaking at the Redding Community Center on April 13, 2024 as part of the Founding Fathers Lecture Series.<\/p>\n

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Anna Malavisi<\/strong> presented her talk \u201cWar on the Environment,\u201d at the Climate and Human Civilization Lecture Series, April 2, 2024, Western Connecticut State University<\/p>\n

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Leslie Lindenauer<\/strong>, who is the Director of CELT, is hosting a new weekly podcast about teaching that just so happens to feature<\/div>\n
many History faculty. You can listen to these short “TIPpl” discussions here: https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/wcsumedia\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n

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Stuart Dalton<\/strong> published his new book: Three Answers to the Question \u201cWhat is Philosophy?\u201d A Comedy in Three Acts.<\/em> Cascade Books, 2024.<\/p>\n

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Michael Nolan<\/strong> has been elected to the Faculty Advisory Council, Board of Regents.<\/p>\n

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Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox<\/strong> has published a new article!\u00a0\u201c<\/b>Th\u00edch Nh\u1ea5t H\u1ea1nh\u2019s Critiques of Enlightenment Rationality and Academic Buddhism,\u201d Journal of Vietnamese Studies\u00a0<\/i>19:1 (March 2024): 49-76.<\/p>\n

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Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox<\/strong> .presented his conference paper \u201cTh\u00edch Minh Ch\u00e2u and Vietnamese Buddhism,\u201d Presented at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, March 2024.<\/p>\n

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Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox<\/strong> \u201cpresented his conference paper “Women and Representation in Buddhist Asia,\u201d\u00a0 at the Asian Studies Development Program Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, March 2024.<\/p>\n

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Marcy May\u00a0<\/strong> retired in December 2023. Congratulations, Marcy!<\/p>\n

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Anna Malavisi<\/strong> published\u00a0 \u201cIn Search of Moral Clarity,\u201d CT Mirror, November 16, 2023, https:\/\/ctmirror.org\/2023\/11\/16\/in-search-of-moral-clarity-for-the-middle-east\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Stuart<\/strong> Dalton<\/strong> presented his conference paper \u201cHow all the Bad Writing in the History of Philosophy is Useful to Understand the Nature of Philosophy.\u201d at the Northwest Philosophy Conference at Lewis and Clark College, November 3\u20134, 2023.<\/p>\n

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Anna Malavisi<\/strong> presented her paper \u201cThe Trials of Non-violence,\u201d at Concerned Philosophers for Peace,\u00a0 in Knoxville, Tennessee, October 27-28, 2023.<\/p>\n

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Kevin Gutzman<\/strong> will be speaking at the Ridgefield Library on September 5, 2023. https:\/\/news.hamlethub.com\/ridgefield\/events\/76334-ridgefield-library-author-talk-with-kevin-gutzman-on-sept-5th<\/a><\/p>\n

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Kevin Gutzman<\/strong> was invited to present the 2023 Hazel and Fulton Chauncey Lecture at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture, given on July 19, 2023. This is a prestigious annual lecture series. Congratulations!\u00a0 The recording can be found here: https:\/\/virginiahistory.org\/learn\/2023-hazel-and-fulton-chauncey-lecture-jeffersonians<\/a><\/p>\n

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Anna Malavisi<\/strong> presented her paper \u201cPhilosophy and The Climate Crisis,\u201d at Shandong University, China, July 27, 2023<\/p>\n

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Anna Malavisi<\/strong> presented her paper \u201cWas Philosophy Once a Woman\u2019s World?\u201d at Shandong University, China, July 20, 2023<\/p>\n

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Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox <\/strong>has been invited to speak at the Library of Congress in Washington DC about the American Impact on the Culture of the Republic of Viet Nam on May 2, 2023. You can watch his talk here: https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/webcast-10814\/?\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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Anna Malavisi<\/strong> published\u00a0\u201cIf you think education is expensive, try ignorance,\u201d CT Mirror, May 18, 2023, https:\/\/ctmirror.org\/2023\/05\/18\/ct-higher-education-funding-budget\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Katherine Allocco<\/strong> will be participating on the Community Conversations panel for WCSU’s Marat\/Sade matinee performance on April 29. These panels, which are included in one performance of each of the VPA’s plays, provide audience goers with an opportunity to discuss the play with the director, students actors and crew, and with faculty in a related field thus enriching their experience and understanding of the performance.<\/p>\n

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Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox<\/strong> and Olga Dror (Texas A&M) edited the March 2023 issue of the\u00a0Kyoto\u00a0<\/em>Review of Southeast Asia\u00a0<\/em>which focuses on the Intellectual History of Buddhism in the Republic of Vietnam (1954-75). \u00a0This journal is very popular in Asia and is simultaneously released in English, Japanese, Filipino, Bahasa, Vietnamese, Burmese, and Thai. You can read Dr. Gadkar-Wilcox\u2019s article on the aftermath of the 1963 Buddhist crisis in the volume here: https:\/\/kyotoreview.org\/issue-35\/aftermath-of-the-1963-buddhist-crisis-in-the-pages-of-lotus-monthly\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox<\/strong> published “Universities and Intellectual Culture in the Republic of Vietnam” in Linda Ho Peche, Alex-Thai Dinh Vo, and Tuong Vu,\u00a0Toward a Framework for Vietnamese American Studies\u00a0<\/i>(Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2023).<\/div>\n
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Leslie Lindenauer<\/strong> was invited to give a talk on Witchcraft and Witch Persecution in Early New England on January 19, 2023 at the Woodstock History Center in VT via Zoom. https:\/\/www.woodstockhistorycenter.org\/calendar\/2023\/1\/19\/witchcraft-and-witch-persecution-in-early-new-england<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Katherine Allocco<\/strong> will be spending part of her Spring 2023 sabbatical conducting archival research at the Huntington Library in San Marino, CA which possesses an extensive collection of medieval manuscripts.<\/p>\n

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Leslie Lindenauer<\/strong> has published a new book Open Sources, Open Pedagogies, and Open Minds<\/em> that was grant-funded and published at GoOpenCT, the repository for open source projects that are grounded in the use of open source materials in the classroom. Dr Lindenauer and co-author Aura Lippincott created a workbook of assignments and in-class explorations designed for the American History survey, using a popular open source textbook, The American Yawp. https:\/\/goopenct.org\/courseware\/lesson\/1380\/overview<\/a><\/div>\n
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Kevin Gutzman<\/strong>‘s exciting new book The Jeffersonians<\/em> has been featured in a New Yorker article about Samuel Adams in the October 31, 2022 issue! https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2022\/10\/31\/how-samuel-adams-helped-ferment-a-revolution?fbclid=IwAR0dEwrkgXDXbpeDHvyT4XxofqTaNFRQnnGT8miYRRB-JraG6hyId6ybcjE<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Kevin Gutzman<\/strong>‘s new book The Jeffersonians<\/em> has already captured the attention of the National Archives in Washington, DC. He was interviewed by Dr Robert McDonald of the US Military Academy, its resident Jefferson expert. You can watch his interview at the National Archives channel.\u00a0 https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NrUBnbZaZGY<\/a><\/p>\n

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Stuart Dalton<\/strong> published his new book: How to Misunderstand Kierkegaard: An Instruction Manual for Assistant Professors and Other Immoral and Disreputable Persons.<\/em> Cascade Books, 2022.<\/p>\n

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Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox<\/strong> has published an article in the CT Mirror refuting the BOR’s plan to dismantle public education for CT’s college students at the CSUs. https:\/\/ctmirror.org\/2022\/10\/14\/ct-cscu-liberal-arts-major\/?fbclid=IwAR2_XhJrqIZBX76OO296tHIR9HPsGAawd0TYiZjI0_fxj526czWZ4vMocnI<\/a><\/p>\n

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K<\/strong>evin Gutzman<\/strong>‘s latest monograph The Jeffersonians: The Visionary Presidencies of Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe<\/em> has been given a starred review<\/span> from Kirkus!!! Kirkus\u00a0<\/em>Reviews<\/i>\u00a0(est. 1933) is the most esteemed book review organization in the United States. They review over 10,000 books each year. Less than 10% of the books that they select to review receives a Star. The Kirkus Star is considered “one of the most prestigious designations in the book industry”. They describe\u00a0 Dr Gutzman’s book as \u201c<\/span>A long, insightful look at three Founder presidents. \u2026 Political histories are rarely page-turners, but Gutzman, clearly a scholar who has read everything on his subjects, writes lively prose and displays a refreshingly opinionated eye for a huge cast of characters and their often unfortunate actions. Outstanding historical writing<\/span>.\u201d Congratulations! This is a very big deal! https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/book-reviews\/kevin-rc-gutzman\/the-jeffersonians-visionary\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Kevin Gutzman<\/strong>‘s forthcoming monograph The Jeffersonians: The Visionary Presidencies of Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe <\/em>will be published by St. Martin\u2019s Press in December 2022. Also, after a bidding war among three publishers, The Jeffersonians<\/em> will also be released as an audiobook. https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/books\/9781250135452\/thejeffersonians<\/a>. The Jeffersonians<\/em> \u00a0has been selected as one\u00a0of\u00a0Amazon’s\u00a0Best Books\u00a0of\u00a0the Month in the\u00a0Memoir & Biography<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0History<\/a>\u00a0categories!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Stuart Dalton<\/strong> published his article “Three forms of philosophical theatre in Kierkegaard\u2019s Journals and Notebooks” Philosophy and Social Criticism<\/i>\u00a048\u00a0(1):\u00a086-127. 2022.<\/p>\n

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Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox<\/strong> presented his conference paper “Th\u00edch Nh\u1ea5t H\u1ea1nh\u2019s Critiques of Enlightenment Rationality and Academic Buddhism” at the\u00a0Workshop\u00a0on\u00a0Vietnamese Literature, Politics, and Propaganda hosted by Palack\u00fd University Olomouc in Prague, June 2022.<\/p>\n

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Michael Nolan<\/strong> offered his expert insight into Russian History as an invited speaker on the interdisciplinary, campus-wide panel “Discussion on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine” via WebEx on April 5, 2022.<\/p>\n

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Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox\u00a0<\/strong> presented his conference paper \u201cVietnamese Buddhist Encounters with South Asia in the 1950s\u201d at the Association for Asian Studies\u00a02022<\/em>\u00a0Annual\u00a0Conference <\/em>\u00a0in Hawaii on March 25, 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Stuart Dalton<\/strong> published his article “How to avoid getting killed by a statue: Some lessons on teaching and lying from Nietzsche’s thus spoke zarathustra”\u00a0Think<\/i>\u00a021\u00a0(60):\u00a079-90. 2022.<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Duffy\u00a0<\/strong>presented a paper at the “Where Do We Go From Here: Revisiting Black Irish Relations” (Virtual Conference) <\/span><\/span>Glucksman Ireland House, New York University, November 2021<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Leslie Lindenauer<\/strong> was invited to give a Zoom presentation for Viktor Wynd\u2019s London-based Last Tuesday Society titled \u201cBetween the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Witchcraft and Witch-Hunting in Early New England\u201d on \u00a0October 3, 2021 https:\/\/www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org\/event\/between-the-devil-and-the-deep-blue-sea-witchcraft-and-witch-hunting-in-early-america-professor-leslie-lindenauer-2\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Leslie Lindenauer<\/strong> was a guest on CT Public radio’s Where We Live<\/em>, the daily news-talk show with host Lucy Nalpathanchil, for a show about local witchcraft on October 7, 2021. Her talk was titled “Connecticut Witches of the Past, Present and Future”. https:\/\/www.ctpublic.org\/show\/where-we-live\/2021-10-07\/connecticut-witches-of-the-past-present-and-future<\/a><\/p>\n

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Leslie Lindenauer<\/strong> was a guest on Paul Steinmetz\u2019s podcast, @WCSU on October 21, 2021. https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/podcasts\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Joshua Rosenthal <\/span><\/b>delivered his conference paper \u201cPagando por el perd\u00f3n. Indultos y fianzas en la Rep\u00fablica de Nueva Granada.\u201d at the VI Simposio Internacional. Red de Historiadores e Historiades del Delito en las Am\u00e9ricas, in Bogot\u00e1 in July 2021.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Katherine Allocco<\/strong> presented her conference paper: \u201cDisinterring Giants: Kings, Men, Monsters and the Brut<\/i>\u00a0in Kazuo Ishiguro\u2019s\u00a0The Buried <\/i>Giant<\/i> (2015)\u201d at the Brut in New Troy Conference, which will be hosted virtually by the University of Notre Dame, July 2021.<\/p>\n

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Leslie Lindenauer<\/strong> presented her conference paper “Open Pedagogy: Whose Side Are You On? First Year College Students Confront the American Revolution” at the Connected Learning Summit at MIT in July 2021.<\/p>\n

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Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox<\/strong> presented his conference paper \u201cContinental Philosophy and Buddhism in the Journal\u00a0T<\/em>\u01b0 T\u01b0\u1edfng\u00a0<\/em>(Thought), 1967-1975,\u201d at the Literature and Journalism in the Republic of Vietnam Conference, University of Hamburg, June 11, 2021.<\/p>\n

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Joshua Rosenthal<\/span> <\/span><\/b>delivered a zoom lecture \u201cFuentes digital y actualidad: Perspectiva hist\u00f3rica e investigaci\u00f3n virtual.\u201d for the Doctorado en Ciencias de la Educaci\u00f3n Universidad Pedag\u00f3gicca y Tecnol\u00f3gica de Colombia, in Tunja, Colombia on May 13, 2021.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox<\/strong> presented his conference paper \u201cFalse Flag Operation? Symbolism and Nostalgia for the Republic of Vietnam,\u201d at the 16th<\/sup>\u00a0Annual IASESP Conference, Southern CT State University, New Haven, April 23, 2021.<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Duffy<\/strong> received WCSU Faculty Development Funds to participate in an online course, “Picturing the City: New York on Canvas, Paper and Film,” through the Gotham Center at CUNY this upcoming summer 2021.<\/p>\n

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Leslie Lindenauer<\/strong> presented\u00a0 her talk “Giving Entertainment to Satan: Witchcraft and Witch Persecution in Early New England” at the Norwalk Historical Society on March 25, 2021.<\/p>\n

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Leslie Lindenauer<\/strong> participated as a panelist in A Conversation on Open Pedagogy at the Connecticut OER Summit in March 2021.<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Duffy\u00a0<\/strong>presented a paper at the Teaching History Writing Conference (Virtual Conference) which was hosted by <\/span><\/span>The Graduate Center, City University of New York, March 2021<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox<\/strong> presented his conference paper \u201cReflections on John Whitmore\u2019s Contributions to the Study of Confucianism in Vietnam,\u201d at the John K. Whitmore Conference, MacMillan Center, Yale University, October 2020.<\/p>\n

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Kenneth Young<\/strong>, Professor Emeritus, published his memoir Back in the Day: The Education of an Oklahoman Boy<\/em>. Ray Hill Publishing, 2020.<\/p>\n

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Kevin Gutzman\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>was a commentator in the 2020 Amazon film\u00a0Safeguard: An Electoral College Story<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox<\/strong> presented his talk \u201cThe Legend of the\u00a0V\u1ecdng Phu Stone Outcropping in Vietnamese History,\u201d as an invited speaker by the Danbury Library, Danbury, CT, August\u00a02020<\/p>\n

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Kevin Gutzman<\/strong> served as a contributor to the new AP US History text\u00a0Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness<\/em> published in 2020.<\/p>\n

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Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox<\/strong> presented his talk \u201cWhat Can the Tr\u01b0ng Sisters Rebellion Mean to Us Now?\u201d as an invited speaker by the Danbury Library, Danbury, CT, July 2020.<\/p>\n

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Joshua Rosenthal<\/strong>\u2019s 2012 monograph Salt and the Colombian State. Local Society and Regional Monopoly in Boyac\u00e1, 1821-1900<\/em> was translated into Spanish by Mariana Serrano Zalamea\u00a0 under the title La sal y el Estado colombiano. Sociedad local y monopolio regional en Boyac\u00e1 (1821-1900)<\/em> and published by the \u00a0Editorial Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (2020). This project was funded by a grant from the Ministerio de Cultura de Colombia.<\/p>\n

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Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox<\/strong> published \u201cFive Themes toward Teaching the History of Vietnamese Buddhism,\u201d in Micheline Soong and Nicholas Brasovan, Eds.,\u00a0Buddhisms in Asia: Traditions, Transmissions, and Transformations<\/em>. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2019: 139-164.<\/p>\n

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Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox<\/strong> presented his conference paper \u201cPolitical Philology and Academic Freedom: A Defense of\u00a0Th\u00edch Minh Ch\u00e2u,\u201d\u00a0at the \u201cStudying Republican Vietnam\u201d workshop, University of Oregon, October 2019.<\/p>\n

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Joshua Rosenthal <\/strong>published his article \u00a0\u201cLa Historia fiscal de Boyac\u00e1 (1863-1886), in Las cuentas del federalismo colombiano\u201d in the 2019 collection edited and translated by Salomon Kalmanovitz and Edwin L\u00f3pez Rivera for the Universidad de Bogot\u00e1, Jorge Tadeo Lozano, 141-172.<\/p>\n

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Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox<\/strong> presented his conference paper \u201cModernity, French Encroachments, and Confucian Examinations, 1862-1877,\u201d at\u00a0The Vietnamese Confucian Examination System (1075-1919) and Its Legacy\u00a0International Conference, Institute of Sino-Nom Studies and Institute of History, Hanoi, Vietnam, August 14, 2019.<\/p>\n

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Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox<\/strong> presented his conference paper \u201cEuropean History and Confucian Value in Vietnam, 1877-1932,\u201d at the International Conference on Asian Studies 11, Leiden, the Netherlands, July 18, 2019.<\/p>\n

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Joshua Rosenthal<\/strong> was the invited moderator for the panel: \u201cThe Ties that Bind and Those that Break: The Intersection of Law, Power and State Building in Nineteenth-Century Latin America.\u201d At the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies in Santa Fe, NM in 2019.<\/p>\n

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Kevin Gutzman\u00a0<\/strong>published the chapter \u201cThomas Jefferson\u2019s Virginian Revolution,\u201d in Jeffersonians in Power: The Rhetoric of Opposition Meets the Realities of Governing<\/em>, eds. Joanne Freeman and Johann Neem (Charlottesville: The University of Virginia Press, 2019), 105-27.<\/p>\n

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Leslie Lindenauer<\/strong> published her article \u201cEvery Atom No. 55, Reflections on Walt Whitman at 200, \u201cWhitman, Witches, and the Martyrs\u201d North American Review<\/em>, July 2019.<\/p>\n

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Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox<\/strong> presented his conference paper \u201cLaos, North Vietnam, and the Credibility of Indian Leadership in Asia,\u201d at the Sixth International Conference on Lao Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, June 13-15, 2019.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Kevin Gutzman<\/strong> was invited to participate in the New York City American Revolution Roundtable, Thomas Jefferson\u2014Revolutionary on June 4, 2019.<\/p>\n

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Leslie Lindenauer <\/strong>presented her conference paper \u201cOpen Discovery \u2013 Strategies for Finding Open Educational Resources (OER),\u201d AND her poster \u201cWait, What?!: Syllabus co-creation with students as an open pedagogy,\u201d during the Poster Session at the\u00a0 FAC Conference on Student Success and Shared Governance, April 2019.<\/p>\n

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Joshua Rosenthal<\/span><\/b> organized and moderated a panel, \u201cHistorias Afrodescendientes in Colombia. Region, identity, politics, and culture.\u201d Afro-Latin American Research Instituted, First Continental Congress on Afro-Latin American Studies at Harvard University, 2019. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox<\/strong> published the textbook East Asia and the West<\/em> in collaboration with With Xiaobing Li and Yi Sun.\u00a0<\/em>San Diego, CA: Cognella Academic Publishing. 2019.<\/p>\n

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Leslie Lindenauer<\/strong> published \u201cWomen\u2019s Colleges,\u201d Encyclopedia of American Women\u2019s History<\/em>, Hasia Diner, Ed.<\/p>\n

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Leslie Lindenauer<\/strong> published \u201cFounding Mothers: Colonization, Revolution, and the New Nation,\u201d one of five Introductory Essays, Encyclopedia of Women in Popular Culture<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Kevin Gutzman<\/strong> delivered his talk \u201cThomas Jefferson\u2019s Revolutionary First Inaugural Address,\u201d which was the Kartch\/Jefferson Lecture for 2018 at William Paterson University on\u00a0 October 31, 2018.<\/p>\n

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Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox<\/strong> published his article \u201cUniversality, Modernity, and Cultural Borrowing Among Vietnamese Intellectuals, 1877\u20131919,\u201d\u00a0Transcultural Studies<\/em>\u00a03 (2018): 33-52.<\/p>\n

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Stuart Dalton<\/strong> published his article “How to be a Terrible Teacher: Kierkegaard\u2019s Philosophical Fragments on what Education is not”\u00a0Philosophy and Social Criticism<\/i>\u00a045\u00a0(3):\u00a0241-264. 2018.<\/p>\n

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Kevin Gutzman<\/strong> published his article \u201cJeffersonian Republicans vs. Federalist Judges,\u201d in the The University of St. Thomas Law Journal <\/em>14:1 (2018)<\/p>\n

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Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox<\/strong> presented his conference paper\u00a0\u201cThe Antecedents to the T\u1ebft Offensive: Patterns in Vietnamese History,\u201d as an invited speaker at the Reunion of International Volunteer Services, Newport, RI, October 29, 2018..<\/p>\n

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Leslie Lindenauer <\/strong>presented her conference paper \u201c\u2019We Can’t Do That Here\u2019 Crossing the Faculty \/ IT Divide to Achieve Grassroots Innovations for Student Success,\u201d at the NERCOMP workshop, April 2018.<\/p>\n

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Michael Nolan<\/strong> will be delivering a series of four weekly lectures at Founders Hall in Ridgefield on the topic of \u00a0\u201cInterwar Europe,\u201d throughout the Fall 2017.<\/p>\n

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Kevin Gutzman<\/strong> was this year’s on-campus Constitution Day speaker! He delivered his address \u201cThe Philadelphia Convention: Moderates Triumphant,\u201d on September 13, 2017.<\/p>\n

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Leslie Lindenauer<\/strong> has been selected to be\u00a0 the Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning<\/a> (CELT).<\/p>\n

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Katherine Allocco<\/strong> presented her conference paper\u00a0\u201cIsabella of France and the Secular Contemporary Chronicles\u201d 8th<\/sup> International Conference of the Medieval Chronicle Society in Lisbon, Portugal, July 10-14, 2017<\/p>\n

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Stuart Dalton<\/strong> published his article “From Eyesight to Insight”\u00a0Philosophy Today<\/i>\u00a061\u00a0(3):\u00a0633-653. 2017<\/p>\n

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Leslie Lindenauer <\/strong>will be attending the 2017 NEH Summer Institute on race and memory.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Michael Nolan<\/strong> presented his conference paper \u201cCharles de Gaulle and Verdun\u201d at the 15th<\/sup> Annual International Conference on History & Archaeology: From Ancient to Modern, Athens, Greece on June 26, 2017.<\/p>\n

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Katherine Allocco<\/strong> presented her conference paper \u201cDepictions of Queen Isabella\u2019s Life and Letters in The Prose Brut<\/em>\u201d The Conference of Brut Narratives, Lawman\u2019s Brut, and the Conception of Britain, hosted by Brigham Young University, June 27-29, 2017<\/p>\n

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Joshua Rosenthal <\/span><\/b>published his article \u201cConditional Clemency after the Golpe de Melo of 1854. Constitutionalism and tradition in early republican Colombia,\u201d Historia Cr\u00edtica<\/i>, 63, (2017) 75-96.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Kevin Gutzman<\/strong> presented his conference paper \u201cThe Monroe Administration in Contemporary Perspective,\u201d at the Lebanon Valley College Center for Political History conference on The Era of Good Feelings, May 2017<\/p>\n

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Surekha Davie<\/strong>s\u2019 new book Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters<\/em> (Cambridge University Press, 2016) has won two book awards! Her excellent research was recognized with both the 2017\u00a0Roland H. Bainton Prize<\/a>\u00a0in History\/Theolog, awarded by the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference and the 2016\u00a0Morris D. Forkosch Prize<\/a>\u00a0for the best first book by an author in the field of intellectual history awarded by the Journal of the History of Ideas at the University of Pennsylvania Press. Congratulations, Surekha!<\/p>\n

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Kevin Gutzman<\/strong> delivered a public lecture \u201cThomas Jefferson\u2014Revolutionary: A Radical\u2019s Struggle to Remake America\u201d at Monticello, Jefferson’s Historic Home in Charlottesville, VA on March 28, 2017. His talk was also broadcast on\u00a0 C-SPAN.<\/p>\n

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Katherine Allocco<\/strong> published\u00a0\u201cThe Symbiosis of Norse and Medieval Christian Eschatology in DC Vertigo\u2019s Lucifer<\/em> series\u201d in Apocalyptic Chic: Visions of the Apocalypse and Post-Apocalypse in Literature and Visual Arts.<\/em> Barbara Bordman and Jim Doan, eds. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017, 29-45.<\/p>\n

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Joshua Rosenthal<\/strong>\u00a0posted his article \u201cMemory and Peace in Colombia\u201d on the American Historical Association\u2019s blog, on March 20, 2017. It can be found here: \u00a0http:\/\/blog.historians.org\/2017\/03\/memory-and-peace-in-colombia\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Kevin Gutzman <\/strong>delivered his talk \u201cWhose Constitution: The Framers\u2019 or the Judges\u2019?\u201d at the University of Georgia Law School, on March 16, 2017<\/p>\n

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Katherine Allocco\u00a0<\/strong>published\u00a0\u201cCould Guinevere ever be a Superhero? Depictions of a Warrior Queen in Camelot 3000<\/em> (1982- 1985)\u201d Journal of Graphic Novels and Comic Books <\/em>(March 9, 2017) DOI: 10.1080\/21504857.2017.1299022<\/p>\n

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Kevin Gutzman<\/strong> was invited to be a panelist on John Donahue’s \u201cThe Roundtable\u201d on NPR (WAMC & five others in NYS) on February 10, 2017 http:\/\/wamc.org\/post\/thomas-jefferson-radical<\/a><\/p>\n

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Katherine Allocco, Jennifer Duffy and Leslie Lindenauer<\/strong> served as volunteer judges for National History Day at the Westside Middle School Academy that was held on February 3, 2017.<\/p>\n

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Katherine Allocco<\/strong> became chair of the Peter C. Rollins Book Prize Committee for the New England Popular Culture Association in 2016. https:\/\/nepca.blog\/get-involved\/nepca-prizes\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Kevin Gutzman\u00a0<\/strong>was featured in the Danbury News-Times<\/em>! https:\/\/www.newstimes.com\/local\/article\/WCSU-professor-publishes-book-on-Jefferson-10941387.php\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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Michael Nolan<\/strong> will be delivering a series of four weekly lectures at Founders Hall in Ridgefield on the topic of \u00a0\u201cThe First World War,\u201d throughout the Fall 2016.<\/p>\n

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Kevin Gutzman\u00a0<\/strong>was featured in\u00a0Connecticut<\/em>\u00a0Magazine<\/em>!\u00a0 http:\/\/www.connecticutmag.com\/history\/reading-room-connecticut-author-pens-major-work-on-thomas-jefferson\/article_3808d3ca-d847-11e6-8445-0fcc7924181c.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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Kevin Gutzman<\/strong> delivered his talk \u201cThe Jeffersonian Republicans vs. The Federalist Courts,\u201d at University of St. Thomas Law Journal Symposium in Minneapolis, Minnesota\u00a0 on November 14, 2016.<\/p>\n

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Katherine Allocco<\/strong> published\u00a0“A Poisoned Past<\/em> Book Review Assignment: Reading and Writing Academic Book Reviews as an Effective Pedagogical Tool” co-authored with WCSU students Jessie Britton, Amanda O\u2019Boy and Andrew Vince New England Journal of History<\/em> 73:1 (Fall 2016), 116-131.<\/p>\n

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Katherine Allocco<\/strong> published\u00a0“Monstrous Morgana: Arthurian Women as Unnatural Amazons in Madame Xanadu<\/em> (2008-\u00a0 2010)” Arthuriana<\/em> 26:3 (Fall 2016), 119-142.<\/p>\n

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Surekha Davies<\/strong> was invited to give the Keynote Address at the \u2018Monstrous Geography and Environmental History\u2019, Promises of Monsters conference from April 28-29, 2016\u00a0 at the\u00a0 University of Stavanger, Norway<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jennifer Duffy\u00a0<\/strong>was honored with the Teaching Excellence Award by National Honor Society for Leadership, Spring 2016<\/p>\n

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Surekha Davies<\/strong> was invited to give her talk \u2018Visible Bodies to Invisible Minds: Renaissance Maps and the Invention of Race\u2019, for the Depicting the Invisible: Science and Image in the Early Modern World\u2019 conference held on Feb. 12-13, 2016 at Princeton University.<\/p>\n

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Kevin Gutzman<\/strong> published\u00a0Thomas Jefferson- Revolutionary: A Radical’s Struggle to Remake America<\/em> (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2015) in which he analyzes Jefferson’s political philosophy and vision of the size and powers of the emerging American federal government.<\/p>\n

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Surekha Davies<\/strong> was the invited speaker and discussant, for the \u2018Where was Europe?\u2019, Baroque Galleries salon series on\u00a0 Dec. 15, 2015 at he Victoria and Albert Museum in London, UK.<\/p>\n

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Katherine Allocco<\/strong> published “Reginal Intercession and the Case of Cristina, convicted murderer\u201d Medieval Feminist Forum<\/em>\u00a0 51:1 (November 2015),\u00a0 41-72.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Kevin Gutzman\u00a0<\/strong>was invited to be the Constitution Day Keynote Speaker at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina on September 24, 2015.<\/p>\n

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Leslie Lindenauer <\/strong>presented her conference paper \u201cPoor Yorick: Digital Story-Telling Through the \u201cJournal of Re-Discovered Objects,\u201d presented on a panel at the Connecticut League of Historical Organizations Annual Meeting, June 2015<\/p>\n

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Surekha Davies <\/strong>\u00a0delivered the talk \u201cWest is East: The Wondrous East and the Problem of the Pacific in Sixteenth-Century Geography\u201d, Play and Display in the Early Modern Hispanic World conference, May 15-16, 2015 at Princeton University.<\/p>\n

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Surekha Davies <\/strong>\u00a0delivered the talk \u201cMapping Ethnography and Science in the Early Americas\u201d, John Carter Brown Library Fellows\u201d Reunion and Jamboree, seminar convenor, May 1-3, 2015 at Brown University.<\/p>\n

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Surekha Davies <\/strong>\u00a0delivered the talk \u201cResponse to K\u00e4ren Wigen\u201ds \u201cWhere in the World? Mapmaking at the Asia-Pacific Margin, 1600-1900\u201d, Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures, April 7-9, 2015 at Harvard University.<\/p>\n

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Kevin Gutzman\u00a0<\/strong>was invited to deliver the Honors Program Annual Lecture, \u201cThomas Jefferson\u2014Revolutionary,\u201d at Framingham State University in Framingham, Massachusetts on March 26, 2015.<\/p>\n

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Surekha Davies <\/strong>\u00a0delivered the talk \u201cAmazons, Headless Men and Sir Walter Ralegh: Historicizing Wondrous Epistemologies in Renaissance Texts, Maps and Images\u201d, Work-in-Progress talks, at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Feb 12, 2015 in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n

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Surekha Davies <\/strong>\u00a0delivered the talk \u201cSpit-Roasts or Barbecues? Mapping Brazilian Cannibals\u201d, Early Modern Global History Workshop, Jan. 30, 2015 at Georgetown University.<\/p>\n

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Michael Nolan<\/strong> delivered a public lecture \u201cThe War to End All Wars: The Beginning\u201d at the Weston Historical Society in Weston, CT on September 11, 2014<\/p>\n

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Surekha Davies<\/strong> is a Founding Editor of the Maps, Spaces, Cultures<\/em> book series\u00a0 published by Brill.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Michael Nolan<\/strong> delivered a public lecture \u201cThe Beginning of the End: The Origins of World War I\u201d\u00a0 at the Gunn Memorial Library and Museum in Washington, CT, June 2014.<\/p>\n

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Leslie Lindenauer <\/strong>presented her conference paper \u201cFrom PTA to MRS: the Teacher on Film, 1935-1965,\u201d at the PCA\/ACA Annual Conference in Chicago, April 2014<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Duffy <\/strong>was invited to write an op-ed titled \u201cA More Irish Parade Tradition?\u201d for\u00a0 The Irish World<\/em>, which was published on April 2, 2014<\/p>\n

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Surekha Davies <\/strong>was invited to be the guest editor of Science, New Worlds and the Classical Tradition, 1450-1850, a special double issue of the Journal of Early Modern History<\/em>, 18:1-2 (Feb 2014).<\/p>\n

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Katherine Allocco<\/strong> published\u00a0\u201cCostumes, Bodies and Gender in The Queen\u2019s Company 2004 Production of Edward II<\/em>\u201d Marlowe Studies: An Annual<\/em> 3 (July 2013), 1-23.<\/p>\n

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Surekha Davies<\/strong> has won two research grants this year: 2013 American Philosophical Society, Franklin Research Grant and the 2013 American Historical Association, Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant for European, Asian or African History! Congratulations, Surekha!<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Duffy<\/strong>\u00a0published\u00a0Who’s Your Paddy? Racial Expectations and the Struggle for Irish-American Identity<\/a>\u00a0(NYU Press, 2013), which she has presented at a university-wide talk at WCSU.<\/p>\n

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Katherine Allocco<\/strong> published\u00a0“Vampiric Viragoes: Villainizing and Sexualizing Arthurian Women in King Arthur v. Dracula<\/em> (2005)” in The Universal Vampire.<\/em> Barbara Bordman and Jim Doan, eds.. Rowman, Littlefield, Brown, 2013, 149-163.<\/p>\n

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Leslie Lindenauer <\/strong>published\u00a0I Could Not Call Her Mother<\/em> (Lexington Books, 2013), which examines the cultural history of stepmotherhood in the United States. She has presented her arguments from the book in several fora, including at Brown University and at WCSU.<\/p>\n

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Surekha Davies<\/strong> published her article \u2018Depictions of Brazilians on French Maps, 1542-1555\u2019, The Historical Journal<\/em>, 55:2 (November 2012), 217-48.<\/p>\n

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Kevin Gutzman<\/strong> served as one of two panelists on \u201cShould the President Rule or Govern?\u201d at Bard College\u2019s \u201cDoes the President Matter?\u201d Fifth Annual Hannah Arendt conference, September 21, 2012<\/p>\n

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Surekha Davies<\/strong> was invited to be the guest editor of Encounters, Ethnography and Ethnology: Continuities and Ruptures, a special issue of History and Anthropology<\/em>, 23:2 (2012), whch she\u00a0 co-edited with Neil L. Whitehead<\/p>\n

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Kevin Gutzman\u00a0<\/strong>published the chapter \u201cJames Madison and the Ratification of the Constitution: A Triumph over Adversity,\u201d in A Companion to James Madison and James Monroe, ed. Stuart Leibiger (Malden, Massachusetts: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012<\/p>\n

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Surekha Davies<\/strong> published \u2018The Unlucky, the Bad and the Ugly: Categories of Monstrosity from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment\u2019, Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous\u00a0<\/em> (2012), 49-75<\/p>\n

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Joshua Rosenthal<\/strong>\u00a0published\u00a0Salt and the Colombian State<\/em> (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012). James Sanders of Utah State University called the work \u201cthe best sort of local history, as the story of the La Salina salt works wonderfully illuminates the larger history of nineteenth-century nation and state formation. Rosenthal adroitly demonstrates how the weak state still profoundly affected demography, land holding, labor opportunities, social structure and even the daily lives of many Colombians. Rosenthal convincingly argues that the relations between state and society are crucial to understanding nineteenth-century Spanish America, providing a lasting contribution to Latin American historiography.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Kevin Gutzman<\/strong>\u00a0published\u00a0James Madison and the Making of America<\/em> (St. Martin’s Press, 2012).\u00a0 The book was selected as the History Book Club’s main selection in February 2012 and has been favorably reviewed by the\u00a0Wall Street Journal<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Kirkus Reviews<\/em>, among many others. He has made recent appearances on many syndicated talk shows and on major television networks. His book presentation was covered on C-SPAN and his book can be seen in the background of many episodes of the hit television series House of Cards.<\/em><\/p>\n

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