College of Social & Behavioral Sciences

History Update

Publications

The Public and Oral History Program (Cherstin Lyon) hosted a live performance by Japanese Americans depicting the experiences of approximately 300 Japanese during World War II.  The performance, “A Divided Community,” was filmed by a Japanese film crew, as part of a larger documentary on the Japanese American experience.

Robert Blackey

History professor Robert Blackey is the first CSUSB faculty member to reach 40 years of service to the University.

Professor Blackey’s article "Fanon and Cabral: A Contrast in Theories of Revolution in Africa," originally published in the Journal of Modern African Studies (1974), was reprinted in a book published in 2007: European Decolonization, edited by Martin Thomas and published by Ashgate Publishing.

He is one of only 2 non-arts people serving as a member of the College Board's Steering Committee that is in the process of creating a National Task Force on the Arts in Education.

On April 23d Professor Blackey gave the first of 2 presentations to history teachers from Riverside Unified School District on helping them to help their students do better on statewide CST multiple-choice exams.

Joyce Hanson 

Rosa Parks: A Book manuscript commissioned by Greenwood Press as part of the Greenwood Biographies Series.

CommunityHospital of San Bernardino: Book manuscript under contract (Images of America series).

Innovative Course Development Grant for History 324- Introduction to Oral History Community Service Projects Coordinator: Professor Hanson worked with numerous community service/internship students, including them in both the community Hospital of San Bernardino and the Murrieta oral History Project.

Teaching American History Federal Grant: September 2006-June 2009. Professor Hanson continued to serve as lead on this three-year $999,999 federal grant, “Religion in America: What to Teach and How to Teach it.”

Four Book Reviews

Tiffany F. Jones

Publication, “Averting white Male (Ab)normality: Psychiatric representations and treatment of homosexuality in 1960s South Africa,” Journal of Southern African Studies 34:2 (June 2008): 397-410.

Ward McAfee

Former Dean and emeritus History professor became the founding President of the CSBS Emeritus Faculty Advisory Board.

Tim Pytell

Professor Pytell has two forthcoming essays. The first, entitled “Weighing Genocide” will appear in a series on Hate Crime edited by Brian Levin.. The second, tentatively titled “After Auschwitz What is a Good Death?

Cheryl Riggs

Professor Riggs has been named coordinator of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

Richard Samuelson

Professor Samuelson has completed an essay on Henry Adams that will be included in a collection of essays on Henry Adams.  He also reviewed a new edition of Jerome R. Reich’s “Colonial America” for  Prentice Hall and reviewed, “Revolutionary America, 1763-1815:  A Documentary Reader.”

 

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