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Thomas L. Charlton continues to divide time between the department and the Baylor administration. For the department, in addition to teaching sections of Texas history, he is collaborating with other historians in developing a public history graduate emphasis. For the university, he serves as vice Provost for Administration, with special duties related to development of the Baylor proposal to become the host site of the future George Walker Bush Presidential Library Center. He is also acting director of the American Studies Program during the 2002-2003 academic year.

Jeffrey S. Hamilton taught two sections of World History to 1400 and one section of Europe in the Middle Ages during the fall 2001 semester. He presented a paper entitled "Royal Medicine in the Reign of Edward II," at the annual meeting of the Texas Medieval Association, and another, entitled "Treason in the Reign of Edward II," at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association. A revised version of the first paper will appear as "Some Notes on 'Royal' Medicine in the Reign of Edward II," in Fourteenth-Century England, scheduled for publication in October 2002. During spring semester 2002, Dr. Hamilton served as resident director for Baylor's semester program in Maastricht, the Netherlands, where he taught a section of History 4327: Europe in the High Middle Ages and directed several students in readings courses. He continues to work on his current book project, The Plantagenets: Kingship and Kinship, which is due at the publishers, London Books, in April 2003.

Barry G. Hankins' newest book, Uneasy in Babylon: Southern Baptist Conservatives and American Culture, was published by the University of Alabama Press in 2002. In addition, he has published "Editorial: Is the Supreme Court Hostile to Religion?" in the Journal of Church and State, and "A Limited Public Forum? The Strange Odyssey of Religious Liberty, Free Speech, and Student Fees at Three Universities" in Liberty. In March, Dr. Hankins presented a paper entitled "Avoiding a Scandal: Southern Baptists and Religious Liberty in a Pluralistic Culture" at a conference on "Civil Society and Christian Social Thought," jointly sponsored by Baylor and the Civitas Program of the Center for Public Justice. Dr. Hankins continues to teach world history each fall semester and World Cultures IV in the BIC during the spring. He also teaches upper-level and graduate seminars in church-state relations and religion and culture in the J. M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies.

David W. Hendon is in his fifth year as director of the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core (BIC). The BIC became part of the Honors College as of June 1, along with the Honors Program, the University Scholars Program, and a new Great Texts program. After the renovation of Morrison Hall, BIC administrative offices moved into greatly expanded and improved facilities in that building which previously housed the law school. Dr. Hendon is chairing a search committee to select a dean of the Honors College. He also chaired the Charles Edmondson Historical Lectures Committee and hosted the speaker for 2002, Dr. Yvonne Haddad, Professor of History and Christian-Muslim Relations at Georgetown University. She gave two lectures on the theme of "American Muslims in Transition." Dr. Hendon continues to serve on the editorial board of the Journal of Church and State and to write the international portion of the "Notes on Church-State Affairs." He is a member of the Executive Committee of the European Section of the Southern Historical Association and edits its "European History Newsletter."

Gary W. Hull continues to teach sections of world history, historiography, and the history of American thought. He also serves as book review editor for the Journal of Church and State and writes reviews for that journal. Last fall, he chaired a session at the Mid-American History Conference at Oklahoma State University.

Kimberly R. Kellison taught United States history surveys and advanced course in southern history. In the fall, she and Dr. Nancy Chinn (Department of English) again taught their capstone course, "Tell About the South," for the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core. Dr. Kellison also taught "Thomas Jefferson: Man of Complexities and Contradictions" for Baylor's Continuing Education program in fall 2001. She was a panel discussant at the annual meetings of the Mid-America Conference on History and the Southwestern Social Science Association, and served on the membership committee of the Southern Historical Association. Her article "Toward Humanitarian Ends? Protestants and Slave Reform in Antebellum South Carolina, 1830-1865" will be published in the November 2002 issue of the South Carolina Historical Magazine.

Thomas S. Kidd joins the faculty after earning his Ph.D. at the University of Notre Dame in 2001 and teaching there for one year. He is revising his dissertation into a book manuscript entitled "From Puritanism to the Protestant Interest: Changing Identities in Provincial New England." Professor Kidd published "'The Devil and Father Rallee': The Narration of Father Rale's War in Provincial Massachusetts" in the summer issue of the Historical Journal of Massachusetts, and he has an article entitled "'Let Hell and Rome Do Their Worst': World News, the Catholic Threat, and International Protestantism in Provincial Boston" forthcoming in the New England Quarterly.

David Longfellow was elected and served as Chair of the Baylor Faculty Senate for 2001-2002. He began a third year as Chair of the AP European History Test Preparation Committee of the Educational Testing Service of the College Board. (The Committee writes the Advanced Placement test that more than 70,000 secondary school students take each spring.) Dr. Longfellow presented a paper at the National Council for Social Studies annual conference in Washington, D.C. in November, and he served as a chair and discussant at the Southwestern Social Science Association conference in Fort Worth in March and at the Phi Alpha Theta regional meeting in Arlington in April. He continues to sponsor the Baylor chapter of Phi alpha Theta. Publications included eleven articles in Europe since 1945; An Encyclopedia (Garland/Routledge, 2001) and book reviews in the American Historical Review and the Journal of Church and State. This past spring he directed to completion Rebecca Huizinga's Master of Arts thesis on Dutch/American relations during World War II. In addition to his customary courses in French and European intellectual history, Professor Longfellow taught courses in world history and Britain in the Second World War as a member of the Baylor in Great Britain faculty this summer.

D. E. Mungello devoted all of his extra time during the past year to a new and (for him) quite different research project. This is a narrative history (1903-1997) that is as much a social history of the times as a history of familial and personal relationships. It begins with the arrival of his grandfather with $11 in his pocket from southern Italy in 1903 and continues through the turbulence of the late 60s and 70s when he was a graduate student at Berkeley. The project has involved interviewing a number of people by telephone and e-mail. Dr. Mungello reports that the demands of oral history have proven challenging to an historian used to working with people who have been dead for 300 years. His Great Encounter of China and the West, 1500-1800 (Rowman & Littlefield, 1999) has generated enough sales as a textbook to justify a second printing of the paperback edition. During the summer, he edited and published the 24th annual issue of the Sino-Western Cultural Relations Journal.

T. Michael Parrish joins the department as The Linden G. Bowers Professor of American History. After 27 years in the rare book trade, scholarly publishing, and special collections (most recently as Archivist at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library in Austin), he expresses delight at the opportunity to teach at Baylor. Over the past few years his scholarly efforts have centered on a biography of P. G. T. Beauregard, which will be published next year. He also has been kept extremely busy editing a Civil War series for LSU Press. Five titles have appeared so far. Slated for publication this fall, They Fought Like Demons by Dee Ann Blanton and Lauren Cook Burgess will provide an illuminating and controversial look at women who disguised themselves as male soldiers to fight in the Civil War. He also is co-editing (with Gary Gallagher of the University of Virginia) a 16-volume series, "The Littlefield History of the Civil War Era," for the University of North Carolina Press.

Eric C. Rust taught numerous sections of world history, an upper-division course on the Renaissance and Reformation, the graduate-level historiography seminar, and World Cultures II in the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core. He also offered graduate independent reading courses, colloquia in the Honors Program, and directed two graduate M.A. theses and one honors thesis. In addition, he served on the thesis committees of several other graduate students. His book on Oskar Kusch, the only U-boat commander in World War II executed by the Germans for remarks and activities critical of the Nazi regime, is scheduled for publication in 2003. Dr. Rust is contributing a book chapter to a work on U-505, the only U-boat captured intact by the U.S. Navy in World War II (still on display in Chicago, Illinois). He published an article in the inaugural issue of the International Journal of Naval History, wrote several book reviews for professional periodicals, read papers or otherwise participated at conferences in Omaha, Nebraska, New Orleans, Louisiana, and Oxford, England, and is preparing presentations for forthcoming conferences in Baltimore, Maryland, and San Antonio, Texas. In other activities, Dr. Rust served as historical consultant and on-the-air commentator for the television program "Wolfpack: U-Boats of World War II," which premiered on the History Channel on March 12, 2002. He heads a departmental committee charged with drafting tenure and promotion guidelines and continues to serve on the Baylor Faculty Senate in his second year as its secretary and member of its Executive Committee. James M. SoRelle continues to serve as chair of the department. In addition to his administrative assignments, Dr. SoRelle taught sections of the United States survey, the advanced undergraduate offering in African American history, and a graduate seminar on the civil rights movement in the United States. He directed three Master of Arts theses to completion and served as second or third reader for several other thesis and dissertation committees. His role in the classroom was recognized by his inclusion in the 2002 edition of Who's Who Among American Teachers. Dr. SoRelle continued revisions for his manuscript on the African American community in Houston, and he has initiated a new book-length project examining the intersection between humor and protest in the black community. Dr. SoRelle served as a member of the Steering Committee and the School of Public Policy Committee for the proposed George W. Bush Presidential Library and continued his involvement with Mortar Board as a faculty sponsor.

Joan E. Supplee continues to serve as Director of Latin American Studies and is happy to report that the program now has over twenty majors and minors. Last fall she taught her last class as coordinator of World Cultures V in the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core. Once again she directed Baylor's highly successful Model Organization of American States team, which brought home top honors from the World Affairs Council MOAS competition. In preparation for teaching the MOAS class in the spring, Dr. Supplee attended the national meeting of the World Affairs Council in Washington, where President Bush delivered his first policy speech on Latin America since September 11. For Dr. Supplee, the highlight of the meeting was having lunch with award-winning author Isabel Allende. She presented a talk entitled "Good Women and Bad in Latin America" at Texas Tech University, and spent spring break in Copper Canyon learning a great deal about the Mexican Revolution's northern campaign. This proved useful in her spring class on Revolution in Latin America. Along with Dr. Janet Adamski of the Political Science Department, she presented a session on using the MOAS model as a teaching tool at the Southwest Conference of Latin American Studies in Morelia, Mexico, and served as discussant at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association in New Orleans. Dr. Supplee also sponsored a smaller group of MOAS students at the International Model in Washington, D.C., directed the Baylor in Argentina Program, and administered the Latin American Studies Program's film series. Her other activities included writing book reviews for several Latin American journals, reviewing articles for the Journal of Church and State, serving as faculty advisor for Gamma Alpha Omega, and continuing to expand her research on Argentina.

Julie Anne Sweet joins the faculty this fall after receiving her Ph.D. in May 2002 from the University of Kentucky where she wrote her dissertation entitled "Negotiating A Southeastern Middle Ground: Creek-English Relations in Trustee Georgia, 1733-1752." This past year she read papers at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the Georgia Association of Historians. Her article "The Thirteenth Colony in Perspective: Historians' Views on Early Georgia" was published in thefall 2001 issue of the Georgia Historical Quarterly. Dr. Sweet currently is revising her dissertation for publication with the University of Georgia Press.

Patricia Wallace continues as director of graduate studies in the department, teaching seminars on the woman's suffrage movement and the Vietnam conflict and directing numerous theses developed from those courses. Dr. Wallace is on research leave for the fall semester as she pursues materials for a biography of Walt Rostow.

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