Our faculty are dedicated to engaging in the historiographical debates in their respective fields and contributing to the scholarly community.  Please see the individual profiles for a complete list of faculty publications and conference proceedings.

2012

Nicola Foote and Nadya Popov (University of West Georgia) organized an international conference entitled Civilians and Warfare in World History on the FGCU campus February 23-25.  This conference examined the experiences of civilians in warfare in broad comparative chronological, disciplinary and regional focus. Studies of war have conventionally focused on soldiers and armies – on battle, and on those most visibly seen to be doing the “fighting.” However, this emphasis has begun to shift in recent years. In the discipline of history, the “new military history” has prompted deeper engagement with the broader social meaning of war.  Panels explored the shifting and ambiguous distinctions between civilians and soldiers in various combat situations; the role of non-combatants within the armed forces; civilian life during wartime; attacks on civilians and their consequences; and the shifts in social and political structures and in identity formation that emerge from civilian experiences of war.

Patrick Bottiger, "Fearing Prophetstown: French and Miami Self-Interest and Frontier Violence in Indiana Territory, 1808-1811," paper presented at the Civilians and Warfare in World History Conference, FGCU, 23-25 February. 

Erik Carlson, "Two Kinds of Civilians: American Encounters with Civilians on Kerama Retto and Ie Shima," paper presented at the Civilians and Warfare in World History Conference, FGCU, 23-25 February.

Melodie H. Eichbauer, “The Teaching of Substantive Law in Causae 22–26 of Gratian’s Decretum,” paper presented at the XIV International Congress of Medieval Canon Law, Saint Michael's College in the University of Toronto, 5-11 August.

Melodie H. Eichbauer, “Reform Ideology and the Teaching of Substantive Law in Causae 22–26 of Gratian’s Decretum,” paper presented in the special session “Re-thinking Reform: Law and Change in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries” at the 47^th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 10-13 May.

Melodie H. Eichbauer, "The Bishop with Two Hats: Substantive Law and the Balancing of Episcopal versus Military Obligations in Gratian's  Decretum," paper presented at the Civilians and Warfare in World History Conference, FGCU, 23-25 February.

Nicola Foote, "War, Civilians, and the Formation of Ethnic and National Identities in Modern Latin America," paper presented at the Civilians and Warfare in World History Conference, FGCU, 23-25 February.

Melodie H. Eichbauer was awarded a Heckman Stipend to conduct research on the monograph in progress “Gratian’s Oath Twelfth-Century Ecclesiology amid Changing Social Norms” at the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, Saint John’s University (Collegeville, Minnesota).

2011

Melodie H. Eichbauer and Kenneth Pennington, eds., Law as Profession and Practice in Medieval Europe: Essays Dedicated to James Brundage (Ashgate/Variorum, 2011).

Nicola Foote, ed., The Caribbean History Reader and Sourcebook (Routledge, 2011).

Irvin D.S. Winsboro, ed., Florida's Freedom Struggle: The Black Experience From Colonial Times to the New Millennium (Florida Historical Society Press, 2011).

Patrick Bottiger, "Stabbed in the Back: Vincennes, Slavery, and the Indian Threat," Indiana Journal of History, Vol. 107 (June 2011), pp. 89-122.

Patrick Bottiger, "Miami Indians," "Potawatomi Indians," "Kickapoo Indians," "Delaware Indians," "The Ohio Valley," "Shawnee Indians,"  in Peter C. Mancall, ed., Encyclopedia of Native American History (New York: Facts on File, 2011).

Erik Carlson, "Learning to Fly Above Central Texas: Pilot Training at Rich Field, 1917-1918,” The Journal of America’s Military Past, Vol. XXXV, no. 3 (Fall 2011): pp. 32-43.

Melodie H. Eichbauer, “Introduction,” in Kenneth Pennington and Melodie H. Eichbauer, eds., Law as Profession and Practice in Medieval Europe: Essays Dedicated to James Brundage (Ashgate/Variorum, 2011), pp. 1-7.

Melodie H. Eichbauer, “Bibliography of James A. Brundage’s Published Works,” in Kenneth Pennington and Melodie H. Eichbauer, eds., Law as Profession and Practice in Medieval Europe: Essays Dedicated to James Brundage (Ashgate/Variorum, 2011), pp. 387-415.

Irvin D.S. Winsboro, “Florida’s Troubling and Violent Racial Past,” in Irvin D.S. Winsboro, ed., Florida’s Freedom Struggle: The Black Experience from Colonial Time to the New Millennium (Florida Historical Society Press, 2011), pp. 265–279.

Irvin D.S. Winsboro with William Mack, “Blue Water, Brown Water, and Confederate Disloyalty: The Peculiar and Personal Naval Conflict in South Florida during the Civil War,” Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 90, no. 2 (2011): pp. 34-60

Melodie H. Eichbauer, “Law and Marriage: Twelfth-Century Canon Law and Social Realities,” paper presented at the special session “Reading Legal Sources” at the 46^th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 12-15 May.

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.

Eric Strahorn, “The Tentative First Steps in the Creation of a Himalayan Hydroelectricity Market Between Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, and Nepal” paper presented at the Regulation, Private Sector Authority and Market Building in Asia, Singapore, October 27-28 2011.

Patrick Bottiger was awarded grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for its "Summer Seminars and Institutes for College and University Teachers Summer 2011: The Early American Republic and the Problem of Governance," Philadelphia, June 19 – July 14.

Melodie Eichbauer was awarded a postdoctoral stipendium from the Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte in Frankfurt am Main, Germany for her project on Causae 22-26 of Gratian's Decretum as a tract on feudal fidelity and obedience as it applies to papal hegemony.

Nicola Foote was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities summer stipend for her project entitled Citizenship and Redemption: A History of Race, Gender and Nation in Liberal Ecuador.

Eric Strahorn was awarded a travel grant to Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, to present at the workshop on “Regulation, Private Sector Authority and Market Building in Asia," 2011.

Irvin D.S. Winsboro was named the Senior Faculty Scholar of Excellence at Florida Gulf Coast University, 2011/2012.

Irvin D.S. Winsboro was awarded the Florida Historical Society’s Stetson Kennedy Book Award 2011 for Florida’s Freedom Struggle: The Black Experience in Florida From Colonial Time to the New Millennium.

2010

Megan C. McShane (FGCU Department of Visual and Performing Arts) and Michael S. Cole, eds., Xiao Lu (Image Theory Group, 2010).

Nicola Foote and Rene Harder Horst, eds., Military Struggle and Identity Formation in Latin America: Race, Nation and Community, 1850-1950 (University of Florida Press, 2010).

Erik Carlson, “Air Pollution Control Act of 1955,” p. 65; "Three Mile Island," pp. 727-728; and "James Watt," pp. 807-808, in Encyclopedia of the U.S. Government and the Environment: History, Policy, and Politics. (ABC-CLIO, 2011).

Erik Carlson, “Clarence B. Craft,” pp. 58-60; "Harold Gonsalves," pp. 121-123; and "Ernest Edwin Evans," pp. 97-99, in America’s Heroes: Medal of Honor Recipients from the Civil War to Afghanistan (ABC-CLIO, 2011).

Michael Cole, "Congregaciones" and "Witchcraft, " in Thomas M. Leonard, J. Michael Francis, Monica Rankin, and Mark Burkholder, eds., Encyclopedia of Latin America, 4 vols. (Facts on File, 2010).

Nicola Foote, "'We Must Civilize Our Cayapa Indians': Father Antonio Metalli's Assessment of Race and Gender in Coastal Ecuador," in Erin O'Connor and Leo Garofalo, eds., Documenting Latin America: Gender, Race and Nation (Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2010), pp. 131-138.

Melodie Eichbauer, “Select Bibliography 2007-2009,” Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law, Vol. 28 (2010), pp. 153-168.

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, “West Indian Migration and National Identity Formation in Ecuador and Costa Rica,” paper presented at the Society for Latin American Studies Annual Conference, Bristol, UK, April 2010.

Nicola Foote, "Claiming Atahualpa: The Nationalization of the Inca Past in Postcolonial Ecuador," paper presented at the American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting, San Diego, January 2010.

Eric Strahorn, "The Indus River Basin in the 21st Century," paper presented at the 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,” paper presented at Cambodia and World History/World History and Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, January 2010.

Habtamu Tegegne, “Feasting in Memory of the Dead: Property and Gifts to Ancestors and Saints”, paper presented at the 53rd African Studies Association Conference, San Francisco, CA, November 2010.

Irvin D.S. Winsboro was awarded the Florida Historical Society’s Harry V. and Harriettee T. Moore Book Award 2010 for Old South, New South, or Down South?: Florida in the Modern Civil Rights Movement.

Eric Strahorn was named a Research Fellow at the National Asia Research Program of the National Bureau of Asian Research and Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2010-2012.

2009

Eric Strahorn, An Environmental History of Postcolonial North India: The Himalayan Tarai in Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal (Peter Lang Publishing, 2009).

Irvin D.S. Winsboro, ed., Old South, New South, or Down South?: Florida in the Modern Civil Rights Movement (West Virginia University Press, 2009).

Erik Carlson, “Shoot to Kill: Flexible Gunnery Training at Buckingham AAF, 1924-1945,” FHC: Annual Proceedings of the Florida Conference of Historians, Vol. 16 (March 2009), pp. 32-36.

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.

Habtamu Tegegne, “Rethinking Property and Society in Gondärine Ethiopia,” African Studies Review, Vol. 52, no.3 (December 2009): pp. 89-106.

Irvin D.S. Winsboro and Michael Epple, “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 (Summer 2009), pp. 209-233.

Irvin D.S. Winsboro, “Brotherhood of Defiance: The State-Local Relationship in the Desegregation of Lee County Public Schools, 1954-1969,” in Irvin D.S. Winsboro, ed., Old South, New South, or Down South?: Florida and the Modern Civil Rights Movement (West Virginia University Press, 2009), pp. 68-86.

Irvin D.S. Winsboro, “Image, Illusion, and Reality: Florida and the Modern Civil Rights Movement in Historical Perspective,” in Irvin D.S. Winsboro, ed., Old South, New South, or Down South?: Florida and the Modern Civil Rights Movement (West Virginia University Press, 2009), pp. 1-21.

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.

Erik Carlson, "The Origins of Standard Airlines, 1926-1930," paper presented at the Conference of Historical Aviation Writers XIV, St. Louis, October 2009.

Michael S. Cole, "Petty Entrepreneurs in the Native Communities of Seventeenth-Century Veracruz," paper presented at the 56th annual meeting of the Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2009.

Nicola Foote, "Creating the 'Model Indian': Representations of Amazonian and Highland Indians in Ecuadorian Nationalist Discourse, 1900-1950," paper presented at the American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting, New York, January 2009.

Eric Strahorn, "Development of the Indus River Basin in Historical Perspective," paper presented at the 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," paper presented at the Fourth Annual Himalayan Policy Research Conference, University of Wisconsin- Madison, October 2009.

Melodie H. Eichbauer was awarded a doctoral stipendium from the Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), 1 April – 30 June.

Eric Strahorn was awarded a travel grant from the Conservatoire Nationale des Arts et Métiers, Paris, to present at the conference on "Rivers and Landscapes in the 20th Century: Laboratories for a Sustainable Development 'avant la lettre'?", 2009.

2008 

Nicola Foote, "New Perspectives on Indigenous Peasantries in Ecuador," Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 35, no. 1 (January 2008), pp. 133-147.

Irvin D.S. Winsboro and Donald K. Routh, “Utopia’s Healing Messiah: Dr. Cyrus R. Teed of Chicago and the National Mind-Cure Movement,” Journal of Illinois History, Vol. 11, no. 2 (Summer 2008): 74-94.

Patrick Bottiger, “Peculiar connections:  Vincennes factionalizes over Prophetstown,” paper presented at the Prophetstown Revisited: A Summit on Early Native American Studies Conference, 2008.

Erik Carlson, “Shoot to Kill: Flexible Gunnery Training at Buckingham AAF, 1942-1945,” paper presented at the Florida Conference of Historians, Jacksonville, Florida, February 2008.

Erik Carlson, “Over Here:” World War I Pilot Training At Love Field,” paper presented at the 9th Annual Legacies Dallas History Conference, Dallas, January 2008.

Michael S. Cole, "Indians and the Inquisition in New Spain in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries," paper presented at the 48th annual meeting of the Florida Conference of Historians, Fort Myers, Florida, Feb. 2008. 

Michael S. Cole, "'Help Me Devil, as I Am Doing the Work of Killing': A Witchcraft Trial in the Indian Pueblo of Orica, Honduras, 1688," paper presented at the 55th annual conference of the South  Eastern Council on Latin American Studies, Ybor City, Florida, April 2008.

Nicola Foote, "Race, Intellectuals, and Indigenous Heritage in Ecuador 1830-1960," paper presented at the Southern Historical Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, October 2008.

Nicola Foote, "Macheteros and Monteneros: Black and Indigenous Experiences of Military Struggle in Liberal Ecuador," paper presented at the American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting, Washington, January 2008.

Eric Strahorn, "Rethinking Urban Violence During the Partition of India: Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh)," paper presented at the Annual Conference of the World History Association, London, June 2008.