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Regents' Appointment:Susan C. Karant-Nunn 3

Inaugural banquet 4

Town & Gown Lecture:Londa Schiebinger 5

New graduate studentDaniel Jones 6

First impressions:ute Lotz-Heumann 7

IA.THE UNIVERSIlY

OF ARIZONA.Arizona's First. University.

THE UNIVERSITY o F ARIZONA

THE DIVISION FOR LATE MEDIEVAL AND REFORMATION STUDIES

"... the premier place for Reformation studies" -Lyndal Roper, Professor of Early Modem History, Balliol College, University of Oxford

lit takes a community of scholarsthanks go to Irena Backus(Geneva), Peter Blickle(Berne), Thomas A Brady,Jr. (UC Berkeley); BarbaraDiefendorf (BostonUniversity), Irena Dingel(Mainz), James Estes(Toronto), Amanda Eurich(Western Washington),Kaspar von Greyerz (Basel),Berndt Hamm (Erlangen-Nuremberg), Karin Maag(Meeter Center, CalvinCollege), Guido Marnef(Antwerp), Richard A Muller(Calvin TheologicalSeminary, Grand Rapids),Graeme Murdock (Trinity,Dublin), CatherineRichardson (Kent), BernardRoussel (the Sorbonne,Paris), Erika Rummel(Toronto), Anne JacobsonSchutte (Virginia), James D.Tracy (Minnesota), the lateGunther Wartenberg(Leipzig), and MerryWiesner-Hanks (Wisconsin-Milwaukee). A great manymore individuals have lenttheir aid and expressed theirwillingness to do so,including Division alumni likeRobert Bast (Tennessee)and Andrew Gow (Alberta).Alumni continue to form acohort of mutual advice thatseamlessly incorporateseach newly baked doctor(neugebackener Doktor, asthey say in German!). I amconfident that whenestablished, each recipient ofsuch magnanimity will pass iton to the next generation ofemerging scholars.

A SEMI-ANNUALNEWSLETTER OFTHE DIVISION FORLATE MEDIEVAL ANDREFORMATIONSTUDIES

Founded in 1989 byHeiko A. Oberman (1930-2001),Regents' Professor of History

Director andProfessor of History:Susan C. Karant-Nunn

'll'tHeiko A. Oberman Professor:Ute Lotz-Heumann

Program Coordinator, Sr.:Luise Betterton

>stManaging Editor:. Sandra Kimball

Associated Faculty:Alan E. Bernstein, EmeritusPia F. Cuneo

j):David b!' GraizbordKari McBrideHelen Nader, EmeritaCynthia White

. Board of Advisors:wiRichard Duffield, Chair}'

Luise BettertonStanley FeldmanSandy HatfieldJennifer Carrell HelenboltHester Oberman

!%\:iToetieOberman. GeorgeRosenb~rgHelen SchaeferJohn SchaeferBazy TankersleyDanielieThu

The University of ArizonaDouglass Building 315PO Box 210028Tucson AZ.85721(520) 621-1284Fax/(520) 626-5444http://dlmrs.web,arizona.edu

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n the mid-1990s, Hillary. • 0 Rodham Clinton

\:.. popularized an African. ... proverb, "It takes a

• • (.. village to raise a child." Iwould like to adapt this formy own purposes: It takes acommunity of scholars toproduce outstanding Ph.D.s.I have been so busy raisingmoney toward the Heiko AOberman Chair (we're at$1.66 million; pleasecontribute!) that I havedelayed overlong in salutingthe many colleagues acrossNorth America and Europewho have lent their expertiseand their patronage toDivision graduate studentsas these progressed towarddissertation topics, appliedfor grants, and requiredreferences for the jobmarket. Whereas bytradition, each doctoralcandidate is associated withone supervisor-in Germanyreferred to as theDoktorvater, and in the pastnearly always, as indicated,mal~n assuming the roleof overseer I have come tothe view that the interests ofeach senior student ought tobe encouraged whether ornot they fall within my ownspecialty.

From the 1999 beginningof my supervision of doctoralstudents at Arizona, I havesolicited the aid ofcolleagues across thegeographic and topicalspectrums. They have freelygiven. My pointed, insistent

Sean Clark

Amy Newhouse

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Division NewsCongratulations

To the Division for receiving an'exceptional' rating in the 2009 UAGraduate Program Assessment, basedon National Research Council guidelines.

Sean Clark, Division doctoral student,won $1387 from the American Friends ofthe Herzog August Bibliothek in order totravel to the HAB in Wolfenbuttel,Germany, to do preliminary research onhis dissertation topic of Jerusalem inpost-Reformation German travel andpilgrimage literature.

Tom Donlan and Adam Duker, Divisiongraduate students, have won admissionto the Institut d'histoire de la ReformationSummer Course in Geneva.

Amy Newhouse, Division doctoralstudent, won a Newberry RenaissanceConsortium Grant of $500, through theUA Group for Early Modem Studies(GEMS) Travel Grant Committee, toconduct research in the Edward E. Ayerand Johan Gabriel Sack Collections inChicago.

Conferences/Publications

Paul Buehler, Sean Clark, and AdamDuker, Division graduate students,presented papers together in a panel on"Exploring the Frontier of Late Medievaland Reformation Europe" at the RockyMountain European Scholars Consortiumat Arizona State University in October.Professor Paul Milliman, HistoryDepartment, chaired the S~SSiO{L"

Professor Pia Cuneo, Professor6f'AHistory and associated fac ..'Division, gave a talk m.FebUA Museum of Art, "Declaratioan'Delectatio': Functions of Altarpieces in',Renaissance Europe: In June she isinvited to speak at the lnternanoriat .Conference on the Early Modem Horse atthe University of Roehampton, London:

Adam Duker, Division master's student,will present his paper, "The ProtestantIsraelites of Sancerre: Jean de Lery andthe Confessionalization of Cannibalism,"at the "Instituting Calvin: Society, Cultureand Diaspora" conference in June at theUniversity of Toronto, Victoria University.

highest honor awarded by the UA, to nomore than three percent of tenured ortenure-track faculty, in recognition of theiracademic achievements and national andintemational reputation.

She had two chapters published in late2008: "Babies, Baptism, Bodies, Burials,and Bliss: Ghost Stories and TheirRejection in the Late Sixteenth Century:in "Tod und Jenseits in der Schriftkulturder Fruhen Neuzeif (Otto HarrasowtizVerlag); and "Die Reformation des Ritualsund ihre visuellen Effekte im Sakralraurn,"in "Topographien des Sakralen: Religionund Raumordnung in der Vormodeme"(Dolling und Galitz Verlag). At themeetings of the American HistoricalAssociation in New York in January, shegave a paper entitled "The Emotions ofWitches:

Professor Ute Lotz-Heumann, Heiko A.Oberman Professor, had a co-authoredbook released in Germany in December:"Sakularisierungen in der FruhenNeuzeit: with Matthias Pohlig et al(Duncker & Humblot). Her article,"Oberlegungen zum Raurnhchen desFestes - oder: das Fest als Heterotopie:appeared in "Erwagen Wissen Ethik-Deliberation Knowledge Ethics" in 2008.

She has agreed to be the organizer,with Professor Irena Dingel, of anintemational conference in 2014,sponsored by the Verein fOrReformationsgeschichte, on theconsequences of the Reformation inEurope. In March she traveled to theUniversity of Califomia, Berkeley, to givea lecture on "Ireland Between Britain andEurope in the Age of Reformation: TwoInterpretations"; and to Germany, topresent papers at both the "DiskursiverWandel" (Discursive Change) conferencein Dusseldorf, and at the "Conversion asCoritessional lnteractionlriEarfy ModemEurope" conference in Leipzig.

Alumni

Professor Robert J. Bast, University ofTennessee, Knoxville, has completed afive-year term as founding director of theinterdisciplinary Marco Institute forMedieval and Renaissance Studies.Created with the help of a challenge grantfrom the National Endowment for theHumanities, the Marco Institute'sendowment has grown to nearly $5million under his leadership, andcomprises some 24 faculty members inseven departments. He is currently atwork on a long-delayed project tentativelyentitled 'Prophet and King of the World'sLast Age: Augustine Bader'sReformation, 1525-1530."

Professor James Blakeley, St Joseph'sCollege, won a 2009 Faculty ResearchGrant, with which he will completerevision of his dissertation as well as anarticle on politics and religion in sixteenth-century Bem, Switzerland.

Professor Michael W.B,..uening,University of Missouri, ~olla,has won

three grants to support his projectpreparing the unedited correspondenceof Pierre Viret for publication: a Universityof Missouri Research Board grant, an H.Henry Meeter Center Faculty Fellowship,and a National Endowment for theHumanities summer stipend. He plans tocomplete this project by Viret's 500th

birthday in 2011.

Professor David L Graizbord,Associate Professor of Judaic Studiesand associated faculty of the Division,has submitted articles for publication inthe forthcoming 'Cambridge History ofJudaism," vol. 7, including a survey onSephardi Jews and conversos in earlymodem Iberia and beyond.

He will participate in a conference oncrypto-Judaism organized by the Ben-ZviInstitute for the Study of Sephardi andOriental Jewries in Jerusalem in June.

Professor Susan C. Karani:;'/""'Division Director, has been athe rank of Regents' Professor,"·the

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Professor Aurelio Espinosa, ArizonaState University, has published his firstbook, "The Empire of the Cities: EmperorCharles V, the Comunero Revolt, and theTransformation of the Spanish System"(Brill).

Professor Andrew C. Gow, University ofAlberta, Edmonton, co-edited, with JulieRak, "Mountain Masculinity: The Life andWritings of Nello Tex' Vemon-Wood inthe Canadian Rockies, 1906-1938"(Athabasca University Press). Gow held aMercator Professorship of the DeutscheForschungsgemeinschaft in the Chair forMedieval History at the University ofAugsburg during his sabbatical, April-July2008.

Professor Sigrun Haude, University ofCincinnati, published an article in anexhibition catalogue of the Herzog AugustBibliothek on 'Wrath and Terror,Repentance and Grace. Discourses inAstrological Writings of the SeventeenthCentury," in "Stars Don't Lie. Astrologyand Astronomie During the Middle Agesand the Early Modem Period"(Memminger MedienCentrum Druckereiund Verlags-AG).

Dr. Nicole Kuropka, Max-Weber-Berufskolleg, Dusseldorf, winner of the2009 Philipp Melanchthon Prize,presented her papef,,1\i11ahrerGottesdienst statt.leeremGeschwatz.Melanchthon als Wissenschaftler,Theologe und Kirchenpolitiker," at theprize conferral ceremony in Bretten,Germany, in February.

Han Song, Emst & Young, Boston, andher husband, Wenjie Jin, had a baby girl,Kiara, their first child, in November 2008.

Professor Jonathan Reid, East CarolinaUniversity, will present a paper at the"Calvin and His Influence, 1509-2009"conference in Geneva in May, 2009, on"Calvin's Influence in France to 1555: A'Reformation of the Refugees."

This summer he will conduct archivalresearch in Rouen, Paris, Amiens, andPoitiers on his second book project, onthe development of evangelical andreformed communities in France prior tothe Wars of Religion. He will be fundedby an East Carolina University FacultySenate Research Award.

Professor Joel Van Amberg, TusculumCollege, Tennessee, won an AppalachianCollege Association Faculty Fellowshipwith which to complete revision of hisdissertation on Eucharistic conflicts inearly modem Augsburg:" .

TUCSON, ARIZONA

Susan C. Karant-Nunn appointedRegents Professor of Historyby Ute Lotz-Heumann, Heiko A. Oberman Professor

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..' '<';' the Divisionfor She currentlysupervises11.• :,~ • r I Late Medievaland M.A. and Ph.D.students,

Reformation who were attractedby herStudies,has beenappointed reputationas a Reformationas a UA Regents'Professor scholar.of History.The formal Susan Karant-Nunn'sworkinaugurationwill take place has been most influential inthis comingfall. All members ReformationHistory. Herof the Divisionjoin me in first two books,"Luther'scongratulatingher on this Pastors:The Reformationinprestigioushonor! the ErnestineCountryside"

The title "Regents' (1979) and "Zwickau inProfessor"representsthe Transition, 1500-1547:Thehighestof faculty ranks and Reformationas an Agent ofis conferredon only three Change" (1987)werepercentof the tenured focused on Saxony, thefaculty,whose exceptional heartlandof the Reformation.scholarshipand outstanding These two booksareachievementshave earned exemplaryworks of socialthem nationaland history. Karant-Nunnhasinternationalrecognition. gone on to write two works ofEach nomineefaces a cultural historythat examinerigorousnominationprocess the GermanReformationand is expectedto exemplify from innovativeviewpoints:the highestacademicmerit "The Reformationof Ritual:in scholarship,research,and An Interpretationof Earlyteachinq. ModernGermany,"which

Susan Karant-Nunn was publishedin 1997andbecamedirectorof the won the RolandH. BaintonDivision in 2001 upon the Book Prize in Historyanddeath of Regents'Professor Theology;and her soon-to-HeikoA. Oberman,the appear latestwork, entitledfounderof the Division.Until "The Reformationof Feeling:1999she had been a Shapingthe Religiousprofessorof historyat Emotionsin Early ModernPortlandState University.At Germany,"which will bethe UA not only has she publishedby Oxfordwritten booksand articles, UniversityPress.We alreadytaught and supervised look forwardto the fruits ofundergraduateand graduate her new projecton Martinstudents,but also, with the Luther'sbody.help of Luise Bettertonand Susan Karant-NunnhasSandraKimball, raised edited and co-editedfivenearly$1.7 milliontoward volumes.She has publishedthe endowmentof the Heiko innumerablearticles andA. ObermanChair in Late book Chapters,rangingfromMedievaland Reformation the emergenceof theHistory. Since2001, seven pastoralfamily inPh.D. studentshave ReformationGermanyto

ghost stories and theirrejectionin the latersixteenthcentury,coveringafascinatingbreadthof topics.Her invitedguestlectureshipsandprofessorshipshave takenher to many universitiesintwelvecountries.Since 1998she has been, togetherwithAnne JacobsonSchutte,theNorthAmerican managingeditor of the" Archive forReformationHistory,"theleadingjournal inReformationhistory.Thiseditorshipreflects herstandingin the field ofReformationhistory.Amongher numeroushonors,sheheld a John SimonGuggenheimMemorialFellowshipin 2003-2004;and most recently, inOctober2008, she wasnamedone of the three firstEarl H. Carroll Fellowsof theUA Collegeof SocialandBehavioralSciences,itshighestaward for scholarlydistinction.

In SusanKarant-Nunn,theUA has gained a Regents'Professorwith anoutstandinginternationalreputation.Her books havedeeply influencedthe field ofReformationhistory-somuchso that a leadingFrenchearly modernist,ProfessorBernardRousselof the Sorbonne,in 1997entitleda plenary lecture:"Ala manierede Susan Karant-Nunn:reflexionssur lareforrnedu rituel dansI'espacefrancophone"(In theMannerof Susan Karant-Nunn: Reflectionson theReformationof Ritual in theFrancophoneLands)..

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Inaugural lecture of Ute Lotz-Heumann,First Heiko A. Oberman Professor of Late Medieval and Reformation History

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. ..' ,<;'. November for the.. '. '.~. Banquet and

-'--'--'---='----=---/ Inaugural Lecture ofthe first Heiko A. ObermanProfessor of Late Medievaland Reformation History, UteLotz-Heumann.

After opening remarksmade by UA Executive VicePresident and ProvostMeredith Hay, Lotz-Heumann, clad in an Irishshawl, delivered herinaugural lecture, '''Theyobey her Majesty's capitalenemy, the Antichrist ofRome': Why the ReformationFailed in Ireland" to warmapplause • Ute Lotz-Heumann and Kevin Gosner. History Department Head

THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA DIVISION FOR LATE MEDIEVAL AND REFORMATION STUDIESWITH ST. PHILIP'S IN THE HILLS EPISCOPAL CHURCH

SUMMER LECTURE SERIES 2009

"PILGRIMAGE"

4ST. PHILIP'S IN THE HILLS EPISCOPAL CHURCH· 4440 N CAMPBELL AVE· 10:15AM

TUCSON. ARIZONA

Annual Town and Gown Lecture

Landa Schiebinger andthe gender politics of plants

n February 18,the Division hadthe great honor ofwelcomingProfessor Londa

Schiebinger to Tucson as the23rd annual Town and Gownlecturer. The Group for EarlyModern Studies (GEMS) co-sponsored the event thisyear, attracting an evenmore diverse audience toglean from ProfessorSchiebinger's uniqueresearch. Another precedentwas set this year in thatProfessor Schiebinger'slecture focused not onreligion, but on plants andabortifacients. Her lecturedrew attention to the fact thatthe Division is not focusedonly on the religious historyof the Reformation era, buton all aspects of the earlymodern period in Europe andits colonies.

Schiebinger is the John L.Hinds Professor of theHistory of Science andDirector of the Michelle R.Clayman Institute for GenderResearch at StanfordUniversity. Her books include"Plants and Empire: ColonialBioprospecting in the AtlanticWorld" (Harvard, 2004); "HasFeminism ChangedScience?" (Harvard, 1999);"The Mind Has No Sex?Women in the Origins ofModern Science" (Harvard,1999); and "Nature's Body:Gender in the Making ofModern Science" (BeaconPress, 1993). Together withRobert N. Proctor, she iscredited with inventing theterm "agnotology," whichrefers to the reality that ourculture, like every culture,

deliberately suppressescertain areas of knowledge.

Schiebinger's talk wastitled "The Gender Politics ofPlants in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World." Sheaddressed the participationof women in science, issuesrelating to sex in scientificinstitutions, and howscientific knowledge wasinfluenced by gender at thedawn of modernity. Breakingfrom the trend established byprevious Town and Gownlecturers, her talk focusednot on theologians, churchcouncils, or popular reformmovements, but rather onthe exotic plants that someeighteenth-century femaleslaves used to terminatetheir pregnancies.

Schiebinger explained thatthese women aborted inorder to sabotage theirmasters' plans to grow theirempires of slavery. Not allslave resistance took theform of armed insurrectionsby males. Rather, manyfemale slaves intentionallymiscarried instead ofsubjecting a new generationto their owners' dominion. Inthis respect, the refusal toprocreate was a profoundlypolitical act.

Professor Schiebingerrevealed that the "peacockflower" (known today as thePoinciana pulcherrima orMexican Bird of Paradise)was often the abortifacient ofchoice for Amerindian slavewomen. The plant wastransported to the Old Worldand could be found in thefinest European gardens. Butthe knowledge of thepeacock flower's ability to

induce abortions did notaccompany the plant toEurope. European womenand their ,.......,.........",.......••.midwives had theirown botanicalabortifacients. Asmale obstetriciansbegan to replacefemale midwives,abortions were lesslikely to be inducedthrough herbalstimulants, but ratherthrough instruments.

But abortion wasnot only a means of politicalresistance in the earlymodern period. Authoritieswould severely punishwomen who were known tohave aborted their unborn.Of course, magistrates couldnot prosecute women untilafter the "quickening" (aboutfour and a half months intopregnancy). However, thiswas not due to any inherentbelief in the freedom of thewoman to choose before thistime, but rather becausechurch and secularauthorities could not becertain that the woman wasindeed pregnant. Suchissues have clearly survivedinto our own day.

We would like to thank allof our guests for participatingin the lecture, as well asProfessor Schiebinqer formaking the evening somemorable.

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TUCSON, ARIZONA

Introducing master's candidate

Daniel Jones, B.A., Weber State Universityby Paul Buehler, doctoral student

rJID·-, his semester the

. :. . Division welcomed a. .. new master's student,

. ." ;' Daniel Jones. Daniel,who is a native of

Canada, attended WeberState University in Ogden,Utah, where he earned hisBA in history with a minor inphilosophy in May 2008.While at Weber StateUniversity, Daniel wasrecognized as student of theyear for both the College ofSocial and BehavioralSciences and the HistoryDepartment, and he wasselected as publicist for thecampus chapter of Phi AlphaTheta. Although he iscommitted to keeping hisoptions open, Daniel'scurrent research interest is inthe emergence anddevelopment of the cult ofsaints in the Middle Agesand Renaissance. His seniorthesis, titled "St. Sebastian

Daniel Jones

Escapes the Pagans,"contested the notion thataspects of St. Sebastian'scharacter prominent in culticworship represented a fusionof pagan elements withtraditionally Christianthemes. He argued on thebasis of evidence derivedfrom liturgical sources thatelements of st. Sebastian'scharacter were expressionsof Christian themes whichremained largely unchangedin the first millennium ofChristianity.

Daniel plans to pursue hisdoctorate after completingthe master's degree programin the Division and theHistory Department. His goalis to teach someday at theuniversity level. Priorteaching experience hasconfirmed that this is, in fact,his passion. He was asupplemental instructor for adiscussion-based course in

U.S. history at Weber StateUniversity. Daniel was also asubstitute teacher for a localschool district in Utah, wherehe taught special educationclasses to students rangingfrom those in pre-school tohigh school seniors. Danieladmits, "I've found thatregardless of the age level,teaching can be an excitingand thought-provokingexperience."

So far, Daniel has enjoyedhis time at the UA. Althoughthe transition fromundergraduate to graduatestudy has required him toadapt quickly to a greatervolume of weekly readingand to different expectationsfor preparedness that comewith participating in graduateseminars, he finds theexperience rewarding.Welcome to the Division,Daniel! .

In memoriam

Margot Panofsky, Friend of the Division

1Il1I.ith sadness the. • Division marks the

. ' . death on August 28,. " 2008, of Mrs. Margot

Panofsky, a greatfriend and stalwart supporter.

Born in Essen, Germany,in 1920, she fled the countrywith a younger brother in1939, forced to leave theirfather behind. He later diedin a concentration camp. Shemoved to New York in 1948with her husband, Alfred MaxPanofsky, a fellow Germanrefugee with two grownchildren. In 1957, they retired6

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to Tucson to enjoy life. Alfredbecame the first director ofthe Tucson Art Museum, andMargot found a new passionin photography, winningawards for some of her blackand white prints. She wasalso known to use her talentson the sets for variousTucson theater companies.Her husband passed away in1973.

Mrs. Panofsky attendedmany classes at the UA. Heracademic interests soonbrought her into the Divisioncircle where she attended

lectures and foundingdirector Heiko A. Oberman'sspecial winter seminars athis house.

Mrs. Panofsky was agenerous individual involvedin many Tucsonorganizations, especiallythose of an educationalnature. We feel fortunate tohave had her among us. .

TUCSON, ARIZONA

First impressionsby Ute Lotz-Heumann, Heiko A. Oberman Professor

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,<, . this contribution tothe "Desert

. . r.; , Harvest" "Firstimpressions": I have alreadybeen in Tucson for sixmonths, I am well into mysecond semester of teachingat the UA. I have given aninaugural lecture at awonderful inaugural banquet.My husband and I havebought a house and movedin. Every morning we enjoyour view of the Catalinamountains. I have a newdaily and a new weeklyroutine after moving my workand life from Germany toTucson. When I think backon the last six months andeven the weeks before Icame to Tucson, after I hadsigned my letter of offer andapplied for my visa, threethemes dominate my firstimpressions:

First of all, the friendlinessand helpfulness of facultyand staff in the Division andin the Department of History.I was given a warmwelcome, felt integrated fromDay One, and received everyhelp I could possibly ask for.Even before I came, aspacious office was preparedfor me with an interimcomputer and manybookcases in it. SusanKarant-Nunn, LuiseBetterton, Sandra Kimball,and the graduate studentsmade me feel right at homein the Division. It is thanks tothem that after only a fewdays in Tucson, it seemed asthough I had climbed thosenarrow stairs to the Divisionoffices for a long time. Thewarm welcome they and all

my new colleagues in theHistory Departmentextended to me will be themost enduring memory of myfirst weeks and months inTucson.

Second, the high qualityand dedication of thegraduate students, who areevery bit as fine as thestudents I have encounteredacross Europe. When theirnew Oberman Professorannounced the subject of"Early Modern Ireland inComparative Perspective" forher first "Division seminar"(History 696f), they rose tothe challenge of workingtheir way into the history ofIreland as well as findingcomparative cases in Britishor continental Europeanhistory. The seminar had awonderfully productiveatmosphere and was a greatpleasure to teach. It mademe think back to what acolleague once said to meabout a graduate seminar hehad enjoyed teaching: "Italmost felt as if you shouldpay to teach them and not bepaid." (But don't take that tooseriously, please!) Therefore,the second enduring memoryof my first semester at theUA will be the passion andachievements of thegraduate students.

The third theme of my firstsix months in Tucson is of adifferent nature: It is thefundamental realization thatuniversities, those time-honored institutions, arestill-even though a nationalculture of universities is oftenstressed-very similar allover the western world. Inthe early modern period,universities functioned in

much the same way all overEurope-and Latin was, ofcourse, the lingua franca ofall scholars. It was thereforenot difficult to move from oneuniversity to another. Mypersonal experience ofuniversities as a student,both undergraduate anddoctoral, had already takenme to Great Britain, Ireland,and the United States. Butas a faculty member I had sofar experienced only Germanuniversities. I wondered howdifferent it would be. Butuniversities are age-oldinstitutions, and I found thatthey still work in very similarways-and are beset by thesame problems. Of course,the international economiccrisis also affects the UA,and massive budget cuts areimminent. Unfortunately, it isnot enough to turn off thefountains on campus. Theuniversity has resorted tomore drastic measures tosave money, among themcuts to the university library.It is therefore all the moreimportant that the ObermanCollection become a part ofthe holdings of the UALibraries. The third enduringmemory of my first sixmonths in Tucson, then, isthe realization that I havetaken a wonderful post at anexcellent institution. I haveno doubt that the "Divisionspirit" that has made me feelso welcome will prevail inthese difficult times .•

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Alumni PlacementRobert J. Bast (PhD 1993)University of Tennessee, Knoxville

James Blakeley (PhD 2006)SI. Joseph's College, New York

Curtis V. Bostick (PhD 1993)Southem Utah University

Michael W. Bruening (PhD 2002)University of Missouri, Rolla

Robert J. Christman (PhD 2004)Luther College, Iowa

Victoria Christman (PhD 2005)Luther College, Iowa

Peter A. Dykema (PhD 1998)Arkansas Tech University

John Frymire (PhD 2001)University of Missouri

Andrew C. Gow (PhD 1993)University of Alberta, Edmonton

Brad S. Gregory (MA 1989)University of Notre Dame

Brandon Hartley (PhD 2007)Wasatch Academy, MI. Pleasant, Utah

Derek Halvorson (MA 1998)

Sigrun Haude (PhD 1993)University of Cincinnati

Benjamin Kulas (MA 2005)Rye Country Day School, Rye, New York

Nicole Kuropka (MA 1997)Max-Weber-Berufskolleg, Dusseldorf

Marjory E. Lange (PhD minor, 1993)Western Oregon University

Scott M. Manetsch (PhD 1997)Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

Michael Milway (PhD 1997)

Jonathan Reid (PhD 2001)East Carolina University

Joshua Rosenthal (PhD 2005)

Eric Leland Saak (PhD 1993)Indiana University,

Purdue University, Indianapolis

Han Song (MA 2002)Emst & Young, Boston

J. Jeffery Tyler (PhD 1995)Hope College, Michigan

Joel Van Amberg (PhD 2004)Tusculum College, Tennessee

Atilla Vekony (MA 1998)Wheatmark, Inc.

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