Faculty Accomplishments
Selected Faculty Accomplishments
Books
Nicola Foote and Rene Harder Horst, eds., Military Struggle and Identity Formation in Latin America: Race, Nation and Community, 1850-1950 (University Press of Florida, November 2010)
Forthcoming: Nicola Foote, ed., The Caribbean History Reader and Sourcebook (Routledge, 2011)
Under contract: Melodie Eichbauer and Kenneth Pennington, eds., Law as Profession and Practice in Medieval Europe: Essays Dedicated to James Brundage (Aldershot: Ashgate/Variorum)
Eric Strahorn, An Environmental History of Postcolonial North India: The Himalayan Tarai in Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal (Peter Lang Publishing, 2009)
Articles and Book Chapters
Melodie Eichbauer, “Select Bibliography 2007-2009,” Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law, Vol. 28 (2010), pp. 153-168.
Nicola Foote, "'We Must Civilize Our Cayapa Indians': Father Antonio Metalli's Assessment of Race and Gender in Coastal Ecuador," in Documenting Latin America: Gender, Race and Nation, Erin O'Connor and Leo Garofalo, eds. (New York: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2010), pp. 131-138.
Nicola Foote, “Reinventing the Inca Past: The Kingdom of Quito, Atahualpa and the Creation of Ecuadorian National Identity,” Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, Vol. 5, no. 2 (July 2010), pp. 109-130.
Nicola Foote, "Manuela Saenz and the Independence of South America,” World History Connected, Vol. 7, no. 1 (2010)
Nicola Foote, "Luchando por la inclusión: la participación de la gente afro-esmeraldeña en la revolución de Concha," Europa & America Latina, Vol. 5 (2010), pp. 101-120.
Nicola Foote, "Mapping the Foundations of a Modern Social Movement," A Contracorriente: A Journal of Social History and Literature in Latin America, Vol. 6, no. 3 (Spring 2009), pp. 337-347.
Michael Epple and Irvin D.S. Winsboro, "Religion, Culture, and the Cold War: Bishop Fulton J. Sheen and America's Anti-Communist Crusade of the 1950s," The Historian, Vol. 71, no. 2 (2009), pp. 209-233.
Erik Carlson, “Shoot to Kill: Flexible Gunnery Training at Buckingham AAF, 1924-1945,” Selected Annual Proceedings of the Florida Conference of Historians, Vol. 16 (March 2009), pp. 32-36.
Faith Childress, “Creating the ‘New Woman’ in Early Republican Turkey: The Contributions of the American Collegiate Institute and the American College for Girls,” Middle East Studies, Vol. 44, No. 4 (July 2008), 553-569.
Nicola Foote, "New Perspectives on Indigenous Peasantries in Ecuador," Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 35, no. 1 (January 2008), pp. 133-147.
Melodie Eichbauer, “St. Gall Stiftsbibliothek 673 and the Early Redactions of Gratian’s Decretum,” Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law 27 (2007): 105-139.
Jeffrey Hass, "Medieval Selby: A New Study of the Abbey and Town, 1069-1408." Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Occasional Papers 4 (2006).
Nicola Foote, "State, Race, and Nation in Early Twentieth Century Ecuador," Nations and Nationalism, Special Edition on Latin America, Vol. 12, no. 2 (April 2006), pp. 261-278.
Nicola Foote, "Rethinking Race, Gender and Citizenship: Black West Indian Women on the Atlantic Coast of Costa Rica, c.1920-1940," Bulletin of Latin American Research, Vol. 23, no. 2 (April 2004), pp. 198-212.
Michael Cole, "Tlacotalpa and Puctla: Native Strategies of Community Defense in Two Colonial Mexican Villages," SECOLAS Annals: Journal of the Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies, 2003.
Erik Carlson, “Carl Cromwell, Cromwell Airlines, and the Dawn of Commercial Aviation in West Texas, 1928-1930,” West Texas Historical Association Yearbook (2003), pp. 89-105.
Paul Rivera, "'The Bolshevist Penetration of China': The American Catholic Mission Enterprise in China and the Development of American Catholic Anti-Communism, 1919-1937," Southeast Review of Asian Studies XXV (2003).
Melodie Eichbauer, "Alphonsus Bonihominis' Conversionary Letter from Rabbi Samuel to Rabbi Isaac," Publications of the Medieval Association of the Midwest 9 (2002), pp. 15-39.
Ronald Young, "Pride of the Capital: Electric Streetcars and the Transformation of Caracas, Venezuela, 1905-1947," Journal of the Georgia Association of Historians 22 (2002), pp. 109-155.
National & international conference presentations
Melodie Eichbauer “Law and Marriage: Twelfth-Century Canon Law and Social Realities.” Paper delivered in special session “Reading Legal Sources” at the 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 12-15 May 2011.
Nicola Foote, “International Discourses of Domesticity in Ecuador: Race, Gender and the Home in Missionary Work and Modernization Projects, 1900-1960.” Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Historical Association, Boston, January 2011.
Michael Cole, "Petty Entrepreneurs in the Native Communities of Seventeenth-Century Veracruz." Presented at the 56th annual meeting of the Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies, New Orleans, April 2010.
Nicola Foote, “West Indian Migration and National Identity Formation in Ecuador and Costa Rica,” Society for Latin American Studies Annual Conference, Bristol, UK, April 2010.
Nicola Foote, "Claiming Atahualpa: The Nationalization of the Inca Past in Postcolonial Ecuador." Presented at the American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting, San Diego, January 2010.
Eric Strahorn, "The Indus River Basin in the 21st Century." Asia Policy Assembly (National Bureau of Asian Research and Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars), Washington, DC, June 2010.
Eric Strahorn, “Wildlife Conservation in Cambodia - A Global Perspective,” Presented at the international conference “Cambodia and World History/World History and Cambodia,” Phnom Penh, Cambodia, January 2010.
Eric Strahorn, "Development of the Indus River Basin in Historical Perspective." Presented at the international conference "Border Rivers and landscapes in the 20th century: Laboratories for a sustainable development 'avant la lettre'?," Paris, November 2009.
Eric Strahorn, "Sustainable Water Use in the Indus River Basin." Presented at the Fourth Annual Himalayan Policy Research Conference, University of Wisconsin- Madison, October 2009.
Erik Carlson, "The Origins of Standard Airlines, 1926-1930." Paper presented at the Conference of Historical Aviation Writers XIV, St. Louis, October 2009.
Faith Childress, “’The Only Anthropologist in the World’: Zekiye Eglar's Contributions to American Scholarship on Muslims in the 1950s.” Paper Presented at the Mid-America Conference on History, Norman, OK, October 2009.
Patrick Bottiger, "Prophetic Tools: Miami Factionalism, their French brethren, and the construction of Prophetstown.” Paper presented at the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, July 2009.
Nicola Foote, "Creating the 'Model Indian': Representations of Amazonian and Highland Indians in Ecuadorian Nationalist Discourse, 1900-1950." Presented at the American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting, New York, January 2009.
Nicola Foote, "Race, Intellectuals, and Indigenous Heritage in Ecuador 1830-1960." Presented at the Southern Historical Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, October 2008.
Eric Strahorn, "Rethinking Urban Violence During the Partition of India: Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh)." Presented at the annual conference of the World History Association, London, June 2008.
Nicola Foote, "Macheteros and Monteneros: Black and Indigenous Experiences of Military Struggle in Liberal Ecuador." Presented at the American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting, Washington, January 2008.
Patrick Bottiger, “Peculiar connections: Vincennes factionalizes over Prophetstown .” Paper presented at “Prophetstown Revisited: A Summit on Early Native American Studies” conference, 2008.
Patrick Bottiger, “Prophetstown and Vincennes: Religious dialogues and identity formation in Indiana Territory, 1805 – 1812." Paper presented at the Western History Association conference, 2007.
Faith Childress, “Academics and the Cold War: The Soviet-Moslem Project.” Paper presented at the Middle East Studies Association Conference, Montreal, Canada, November 2007.
Melodie Eichbauer, “Oaths and Bonds of Obedience in the Canonical Jurisprudence of Gratian’s Decretum.” Paper delivered at the 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2007.
Nicola Foote, "Indigenistas, Afro-Centrics and Scientists: Intellectuals, the State and the Racialisation of the Ecuadorian Nation 1925-1950." Presented at the annual conference of the Latin American Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, September 2007.
Erik Carlson, "Learning to Fly in the Central Texas Skies: Rich Field, Waco and World War I Pilot Training." Presented at the Conference of Historic Aviation Writers XIII, Memphis, October 2007.
Nicola Foote, "A Moralizing Endeavour?: Education and Nation-Building in Liberal Ecuador." Presented at the American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting, Atlanta, January 2007.
Faith Childress, “Creating the ‘New Woman’ in Early Republican Turkey: The Contributions of the American Collegiate Institute and the American College for Girls.” Paper presented at the Middle East Studies Association Conference, Boston, MA, November 2006.
Michael Epple, “Support the President and Buy Some Fruitcake: How South Florida Newspapers Reported on the Cuban Missile Crisis.” Presented at the Florida Society of Historians, Naples, Florida, May 2006.
Eric Strahorn, "The Role of Malaria in the Scientification of Race in British India" with Monica Piotter. Presented at the Association for Asian Studies conference, Chicago, April 2005.
Faith Childress, “A Foreigner at Home and Abroad: Education, Nationalism, and Zekiye Eglar.” Paper presented at the Middle East Studies Association Conference, San Francisco, CA, November 2004.
Michael Cole, "'To Teach the Boys and Girls the Christian Doctrine in the Mexican Tongue:' A Native Response to Spanish Policies of Hispanization in Colonial Xalapa." Presented at the 51st annual meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 2004.
Melodie Eichbauer, “Gratian, Just War, and the Church: Causa 23, Questiones II & III of the Decretum.” Paper delivered at the 39th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 9, 2004.
Faith Childress, “Full Court Press: European Travelers and the Negotiation of Protocol in the Courts of ‘Abbas I and Jahangir.” Paper presented at the Middle East Studies Association Conference, Anchorage, AK, November 2003.
Melodie Eichbauer, “Agobard of Lyons and the Jews: A Reconsideration.” Paper delivered at the 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 11, 2003.
Eric Strahorn, "The Green Revolution in India." Presented at the annual conference of the American Historical Association (AHA), Washington, D.C., January 2003.
Michael Cole, "Tlacotalpa and Puctla: Native Strategies of Community Defense in Two Colonial Mexican Villages." Presented at the 50th annual meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2003.
Service to the Profession and the Community
Patrick Bottiger, Book review editor, H-American Indian
Erik Carlson, Member, Board, Southwest Florida Museum of History Foundation
Erik Carlson, Faculty Co-Advisor, Dominican Republic Service Learning Trip, 2009 and 2010
Michael Epple, President, Florida Conference of Historians (2009-2010)
Nicola Foote, Member, editorial board, Journal of International Women's Studies
Nicola Foote, Grant Evaluator, Florida Humanities Council
Nicola Foote, Chair, Gran Colombia Studies Committee, American Historical Association (2008-09)
Nicola Foote, Secretary, Gran Colombia Studies Committee, American Historical Association (2007-08)
Eric Strahorn, Contributing Editor, Asian Studies Newsletter
Eric Strahorn, Member, Advisory Board, Annual Editions: World History (McGraw-Hill)
Eric Strahorn, Member, Advisory Board, Annual Editions: Western Civilization (McGraw-Hill)
