University of South Alabama Department of History News
Department Newsletter Spring 2024
History Department Internships Program Renewed
June 2024 A team at the University of South Alabama led by the Department of History and Chair Dr. David Messenger, the Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the Honors College, received a renewal for its Delta Fellows program from the Jean O’Connor-Snyder Internship Program at the David Mathews Center for Civic Life in Montevallo, AL. This program involves a class on local African American history in the spring, and then an eight week internship for four students working in their community on the history of the city of Mobile.
Urban Wins Another Grant
June 2024 Dr. Kelly Urban has been awarded a Faculty Development Council Grant of $5000 from the University of South Alabama's Office of Research and Economic Development. She will use this grant to work on researching her second books on tropical medicine in Cuba from 1930 to the present. This is her seventh grant from the University for her research, and her second from the Faculty Council.
Congratulations, Dr. Urban!
Messenger Wins External Grant
May 2024 Professor and Chair Dr. David Messenger won a Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society that funds research in Alicante, Spain on his book project involving civil defense and the construction of bomb shelters in Spain during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939.
Urban Publishes First Book
March 2023 Congratulations to University of South Alabama Department of History assistant professor Dr. Kelly Urban, whose first book, Radical Prescription: Citizenship and the Politics of Tuberculosis in Twentieth-Century Cuba, has been published by the University of North Carolina Press. Click here for more information: https://uncpress.org/book/9781469673080/radical-prescription/
Meola Publishes First Book
MArch 2023 Congratulations to University of South Alabama Department of History associate professor Dr. David Meola, whose first book, We Will Never Yield: Jews, the German Press and the Fight for Inclusion in the 1840s, has been published by Indiana University Press. Click here for more information: https://iupress.org/9780253065223/we-will-never-yield/
Cage Publishes New Book
September 2022 Congratulations to University of South Alabama Department of History
professor Dr. Claire Cage, whose second book, The Science of Proof: Forensic Medicine
in Modern France, has been published by Cambridge University Press.
Click here for more information: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/science-of-proof/769EFA62E2C8A00D2342299AB9BCA66A
Recent History Department Faculty Publications
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Claire Cage, The Science of Proof: Forensic Medicine in Modern France
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Mara Kozelsky, Crimea in War and Transformation
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Timothy Lombardo, Blue Collar Conservatism: Frank Rizzo's Philadelphia and Populist Politics
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David Meola, We Will Never Yield: Jews, the German Press and the Fight for Inclusion in the 1840s
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David A. Messenger, War and Public Memory: Case Studies in Twentieth-Century Europe
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Harry Miller, Southern Rain: A Novel of Seventeenth Century China
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Michele Strong, Education, Travel and the 'Civilisation' of the Victorian Working Classes
- Kelly Urban, Radical Prescription: Citizenship and the Politics of Tuberculosis in Twentieth-Century Cuba
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Rebecca Williams, Muhammad and the Supernatural