Faculty Accomplishments
The History program is an FGCU "Center of Excellence"
Selected Recent Faculty Accomplishments
Books
Eric Strahorn, An Environmental History of Postcolonial North India: The Himalayan Tarai in Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal (Peter Lang Publishing, 2009)
John Cox, Circles of Resistance: Jewish, Leftist, and Youth Dissidence in Nazi Germany (Peter Lang Publishing, 2009)
In press: 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, 2009)
In press: Irvin D.S. Winsboro, ed., Old South, New South, or Down South? Florida and the Modern Civil Rights Movement (West Virginia University Press, 2009)
Robert Michael, A History of Catholic Anti-Semitism: The Dark Side of the Church (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
Irvin D.S. Winsboro, ed., Florida's Civil War: Exploration into Conflict, Interpretations and Memory (Florida Historical Society Press, 2008)
Robert Michael and Philip Rosen, eds., Dictionary of Antisemitism (Scarecrow Press, 2007)
Robert Michael, Holy Hatred (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)
Robert Michael, A Concise History of American Antisemitism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005)
Book Chapters
John Cox, "Herbert Baum: Jewish Resistance to the Nazi Dictatorship," in The Human Tradition in Modern Europe, Cora Granata and Cheryl Koos, eds. (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007)
John Cox, under contract: "Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust," The Routledge History of the Holocaust, Jonathan C. Friedman, ed., (New York: Routledge, 2010)
Nadya Popov-Reynolds, "The Place of Soldier Speech in a Democracy at War: Aeschylus and Michael Moore," in Experiencing War: Trauma and Society in Ancient Greece and Today, M. Cosmopoulos, ed. (Chicago: Ares Publishers, 2007)
Irvin D.S. Winsboro, "Latin American Women in Literature and Reality," in 100 Years of Solitude: Modern Critical Interpretations, Harold Bloom, ed. (Chelsea House, 2003)
Articles
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.
John Cox, "Lost Worlds: Genocide and Diego Rivera's "Tenochtitlán'," Evoking Genocide: Researchers and Activists Describe the Works of Art and Media That Shaped Their Lives, Adam Jones, ed. (Key Publishing, 2009)
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.
Nicola Foote, "New Perspectives on Indigenous Peasantries in Ecuador," Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 35, no. 1 (January 2008), pp. 133-147.
John Cox, "Raul Hilberg: In Memoriam," Journal of Jewish Identities, Vol. 1, no. 2 (July 2008), pp. 1-6.
Irvin D.S. Winsboro and Donald K. Routh, "Dr. Cyrus R. Teed of Chicago and the National Mind-Cure Movement," Journal of Illinois History, Vol. 11, no. 2 (Summer 2008), pp. 74-94.
Irvin D.S. Winsboro, "Paradigms from the Past: Radical Feminism and the Contemporary Movement in North America," McNeese Review, vol. 44 (Winter 2007), pp. 1-21.
Irvin D.S. Winsboro, "Give Them Their Due: A Reassessment of African Americans and Union Military Service in Florida During the Civil War," Journal of African-American History, Vol. 92, no. 3 (Summer 2007), pp. 327-346.
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.
Irvin D.S. Winsboro, "The Koreshan Communitarian Experiment in South Florida, 1894-1961," South Florida History, Vol. 34. no. 2 (Summer 2006), pp. 12-18.
Irvin D.S. Winsboro, "The Koreshan Communitarians," Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 83, no. 2 (Fall 2004), pp. 173-190.
Irvin D.S. Winsboro, "The New Life is Here: The Koreshan Unity and Its Commercial Enterprises in South Florida, 1894-1961," Communal Societies: Journal of the Communal Studies Association, Vol. 22 (2002), pp. 45-66.
Irvin D.S. Winsboro and Moses Musoke, "Lead Us Not into Temptation: Race, Rhetoric, and Reality in Southern Populism," The Historian, Vol. 65, no. 6 (December 2003), pp. 1354-1374.
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.
Nadya Popov-Reynolds,"Escribiendo en Agua: Catulo 70 y 72," Nova Tellus, Vol. 21, no. 2 (2003).
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
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.
Nadya Popov-Reynolds, "A History of Violence: Discussions of Violence within the Army in Athenian Lawsuits." To be presented at a conference at the University of Western Ontario: "Justice in the Greco-Roman World," March 2010.
Nadya Popov-Reynolds, "The Heroic Soldier as Exemplum in Cato and Livy." Presented at a conference at the University of Texas at Austin: "Livy and Intertextuality," October 2009.
John Cox,"Remembering Anti-Nazi Jewish Resistance in the GDR: Communist Martyrs or Jewish Resisters?" To be presented at the American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting, San Diego, January 2010.
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.
John Cox, "Individual vs. Official Memory: Jewish Anti-Nazi Resisters in Post-War East Germany." Presented at the European Social Science History Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, February 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.
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.
John Cox, "Politics and Culture in the Jewish Youth Movements of Weimar Germany." Presented at the Legacy of the Holocaust: The World Before, The World After, Krakow, Poland, May 2007.
Irvin D.S. Winsboro, "Blacks, Populism, and Outreach Versus Necessity: A Comparative Study," The U.S. Senator Rush Holt History Conference, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, April 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.
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.
John Cox, "The Passing of an Illusion: 'The Sorrow and the Pity' and Post-War French Mythology." Presented at the War in Film, Television, and History Conference, Dallas, November 2004.
John Cox, "Jewish Anti-Nazi Resistance and Its Relation to Jewish Identity During the Third Reich." Presented at the German Studies Association (GSA) Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., October 2004.
John Cox, "The Herbert Baum Groups." Presented at the Western Jewish Studies Association Conference, San Diego, March 2004.
Irvin D.S. Winsboro, "With a Little Help from Our Friends: State Mandates and Local Application in the Desegregation of Fort Myers, Florida Public Schools, 1954-1969." Presented at the Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute's "Patterson Research Conference," Washington, D.C., September 2004.
Irvin D.S. Winsboro, "History and Technology: Lessons in Reality from Florida's Newest University." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (combined with the American Association for History and Computing), Washington, D.C., January 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.
Nadya Popov-Reynolds, "The Game of Troy and Augustus." Presented at the American Philological Association (APA) Annual Meeting, San Francisco, January 2004.
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
Erik Carlson, Member, Board, Southwest Florida Museum of History Foundation
Erik Carlson, Faculty Co-Advisor, Dominican Republic Service Learning Trip, 2009
John Cox, Director, FGCU Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Human Rights Studies
John Cox, Member, editorial board, Journal of Jewish Identities
John Cox, Advisory board member, Institute for Genocide Awareness and Applied Research (Nova Southeastern University)
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)
Irvin D.S. Winsboro, Member, Advisory Board, Uncommon Friends Foundation
Irvin D.S. Winsboro, Member, Advisory Board, Annual Editions/American History (McGraw-Hill)
Irvin D.S. Winsboro, Member, State of Florida Historical Marker Council
Irvin D.S. Winsboro, Member, Board of Editors, Florida Historical Quarterly
Written for the College of Arts and Sciences Quarterly Newsletter November 2010
This is a very exciting time for the history program, as the faculty members forge ahead in their research agendas, the new M.A. in history graduates its first students, and we welcome our newest hire, Dr. Nadya Popov-Reynolds, from Princeton University.
Several history professors have published books recently. Eric Strahorn's book An Environmental History of Postcolonial North India: The Himayalan Tarai in Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal was published by Peter Lang in the summer, as was John Cox's book on anti-Nazi resistance, Circles of Resistance: Jewish, Leftist and Youth Dissidence in Nazi Germany. Irvin Winsboro edited Florida's Civil War: Exploration into Conflict, Interpretations and Memory (Florida Historical Society Press, Gold Seal Series, 2008). Adjunct professor Robert Michael published A History of Catholic Anti-Semitism: The Dark Side of the Church (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). Irvin D.S. Winsboro and Michael Epple co-wrote an article on Cold War anti-communism which recently appeared in The Historian.
Other major works will be forthcoming over the next year. Nicola Foote is co-editing a collection of essays by leading Latin Americanists entitled Military Struggle and Identity Formation in Latin America: Race, Nation and Community 1850-1950 to be published by University Press of Florida, and is editing The Caribbean History Reader for Routledge. Irvin Winsboro has an edited volume entitled Old South, New South, or Down South?: Florida and the Modern Civil Rights Movement, appearing this fall with West Virginia University Press, and John Cox has recently signed contracts with Pearson Prentice Hall for two books. Michael Cole is working on a monograph on witchcraft in colonial Honduras, and Erik Carlson has a contract with Texas A&M Press for a book on the history of the aviation industry.
Erik Carlson secured a prestigious fellowship last summer to participate in the United States Military Academy's Summer Seminar in Military History (USMA). 30 fellows were selected from more than 90 applications from around the world. The Seminar consisted of a full slate of daily readings, lectures and writing projects, while fellows also went on "Staff Rides" to several battlefields in the region, including Saratoga, Antietam, and Gettysburg.
During this academic year, History faculty will present papers at several prestigious conferences, including our profession's most important conference, the annual meeting of the American Historical Association. Eric Strahorn is presenting his work at international conference in Paris in November, as well as at the University of Wisconsin, while Nadya Popov-Reynolds recently presented at the University of Texas-Austin.
The history program hosted an annual Florida historians' conference last February (the Florida Conference of Historians, or FCH), and more than a dozen of our undergrad and graduate history majors presented papers. Michael Epple is serving this year as the president of the FCH.
We started a history M.A. program two years ago, and have made solid progress. We now have more than 20 students, working on topics as diverse as the history of the Cuban fishing industry, the development of the Galapagos Islands, and historical monuments in Florida. We graduated our first student, Marty Roland, this summer, and he is now teaching history classes at Edison State College.
We have an active honors society, Phi Alpha Theta, which this semester has organized field trips to the local Holocaust museum, and organized a book drive. Faculty members are also active in campus organizations. John Cox is Director of the Holocaust Center and adviser to two student groups, Erik Carlson has helped lead service-learning trips to the Dominican Republic, while Eric Strahorn is the faculty advisor to the student Anime club.
