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The Official Newsletter of Kutztown University’s
Department of History, Spring 2011
http://www.kutztown.edu/acad/history/
Dr. Tricia Kelleher Wins Chambliss
Research Award
Dr. Patricia Kelleher received the
Carlson R. Chambliss Faculty Research
Award in December 2010, one of
Kutztown University’s most prestigious
honors. One of the country’s leading
authorities on Irish-American history,
Kelleher has published a number of
highly influential articles. Her
“Maternal Strategies: Irish Women’s
Headship of Families in Gilded Age
Chicago” appeared in the Journal of
Women’s History (2001) and has been
widely cited by many other scholars.
That same year, another leading journal,
Eire-Ireland, published Kelleher’s
“Young Irish Workers: Class
Implications of Men’s and Women’s
Experiences in Gilded Age Chicago.” In
2003, the University of Wisconsin Press
included this article in its collection of
important essays, New Directions in
Irish-American History. In Summer
2009, The Journal of American Ethnic
History, featured Kelleher’s article,
“Young Men on the Make: Class and
Catholic-Irish Masculinity in
Antebellum America,” in a special issue,
The Irish in America and the World.
In addition to these publications,
Kelleher reviews books and referees
manuscripts for a wide range of journals.
In 2005, she received the Hibernian
Research Award from the University of
Notre Dame’s prestigious Cushwa
Center for the Study of American
Catholicism. Additionally, Chicago’s
Newberry Library has also granted her
“Scholar-in-Residence” status, an honor
that demonstrates her reputation in the
field. Kelleher is currently writing a
book, tentatively entitled “Our Irish”:
Gender and Ethnicity in NineteenthCentury Chicago.
Earning her Ph.D. at the
University of Wisconsin, Kelleher
arrived at Kutztown in 1998, where she
teaches courses on immigration, urban
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history, women’s history, and seminar in
historical methods. She is the second
member of the Department of History to
be awarded the Chambliss prize. Dr.
Michael D. Gambone received it in
Spring 2007.
New Department Secretary
Anne Manmiller joined our
Department in Summer 2010 as our new
secretary. She had previously worked in
the Audio-Visual Center of Kutztown
University’s Rohrbach Library. Anne is
originally from Rochester, New York,
but has lived in the Berks County area
for most of her life. Her son Zach
currently attends Kutztown University as
a Marketing/ Public Relations Major.
When she is not busy keeping the
History Department running smoothly,
she enjoys scrapbooking, photography,
kayaking, movies, reading, and cooking
– and oh yeah, she’s a closet history buff
too!
Welcome aboard Anne!!
Ukraine: First Time Impressions
the Second Time Around
By Robert Toth, a senior B.A. History
major.
Where do most Kutztown
students go for their summer vacation?
Some go to the beach or possibly travel
to visit relatives who live far away.
Some backpack their way across Europe
or another continent, and perhaps a
select few will volunteer to work in a
developing country. During Summer
2010, I did something of a combination
of the last two; I traveled to Ukraine and
taught English to Greek Catholic
seminarians and students at Ukraine
Catholic University. Most of the students
were between 18 and 21 years old, but a
few were older.
Lasting for three weeks, the
English Summer School (ESS) had a
very strict schedule. We woke up at 7:00
a.m. and celebrated Divine Liturgy.
Following breakfast, we had three
classes: one on the scriptures and two
on grammar. After the sixth hour and
lunch, we had a reading class, for which
I chose the book The Chronicles of
Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the
Wardrobe. After this, we had about an
hour and a half of free time, which I was
able to spend with the students. We
played games such as volleyball, soccer
(or football as Europeans call it) or
Frisbee. This was followed by vespers,
dinner and an evening activity. Some of
these activities included games that I had
not played in years, such as UNO. After
the evening activity, we had one hour of
individualized tutoring. During this
period, the students could sign up for a
twenty-minute session to speak English
with any of the twenty volunteer
teachers who participated in the ESS
program. This took us to 10:00 pm. The
days went by slow, but the three weeks
passed by very fast.
I was fortunate to be able to
spend a fourth week exploring Kiev,
Ukraine’s capital city with three new
friends. There, I visited places that I only
talked about in my numerous history
classes. After a week of traveling and
having my wallet stolen on a marshrutka
(Ukrainian bus), I headed home to get
ready for my final academic year at
Kutztown.
By early September 2010, I knew
my Ukrainian experience would not be
complete until I experienced the Eastern
Catholic Christmas traditions.
Therefore, I booked my plane ticket and
headed back to Ukraine on New Year’s
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Day 2011 for my second Christmas in
two weeks.
This time I was able to see how
the average Ukrainian lives outside of
the major cities. Most of the people do
not go to a supermarket for eggs; they
keep chickens in their back yard. When
they make dinner, everything is prepared
fresh. Nothing is just put in the
microwave. They do not have big
supermarkets outside of the city; instead
they have places that Americans would
call a “farmer’s market” or something
similar to a corner grocery that most
American cities had seventy years ago.
Their Christmas celebrations
started with fasting on Christmas Eve
until the twelve course dinner. You
might then go to church at midnight or
early in the morning. This was followed
by another large meal for lunch or dinner
along with some Christmas carols. The
day after Christmas was the feast of the
Holy Family, which brought another
tasty meal. Notice that I did not mention
Christmas presents; they were already
distributed on the feast of Saint Nicholas
on December 19th.
I spent another week after
Christmas in the city of L’viv, during
which time I was able to see many of my
former students from the previous
summer. They were studying for the
final exams, most of which were oral or
written essays (no scantrons). Overall, I
was able to build stronger friendships
with the people I met at ESS.
I left Ukraine to come back to the
United States on January 16th to start
what will be one of the most important
years of my life. I promised my friends,
however, that someday I will visit
Ukraine again. I will never forget the
wonderful, talented, spiritual and
generous people that I met, nor the
family that took me in like I was one of
their own. It was one of the greatest
Christmas seasons of my life.
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Robert Toth (center kneeling) with students at Ukraine Catholic
University in Summer 2010.
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GRADUATE COURSES
SUMMER I 2011
MAY 23 - JUNE 9
SSU 524: TEACHING MODELS FOR SOCIAL
STUDIES INSTRUCTORS
MONDAY–THURSDAY 5:00-8:20 PM
DR. MARIA SANELLI
SUMMER II 2011
JULY 6 – AUGUST 4
HIS 520: SEMINAR IN THE UNITED STATES
& WORLD WAR II
MONDAY–THURSDAY 8:00-10:05 AM
DR. MICHAEL D. GAMBONE
FALL 2011
HIS 520: SEMINAR IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
MONDAY 6:00-8:50 PM
DR. ERIC JOHNSON