History Department Seminars by Visiting Scholars, 2008
"Russia, Pipelines and the Great Game"
Susan B. Horton Cone Family Distinguished Lecture
Steve LeVine, Foreign Affairs and Energy Correspondent, author of The Oil and the Glory: The Pursuit of Empire and Fortune on the Caspian Sea (2007) and Putin's Labyrinth: Spies, Murder and the Dark Heart of the New Russia (2008)
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Author and foreign correspondent Steve LeVine (center) was this year's Susan B. Horton Cone Family Distinguished Lecturer. The lecture program, in its 12th year, is sponsored by the UW Department of History. Dr. Michael Brose (left) is chair of the UW Department of History. Dr. Marianne Kamp (right) introduced Mr. LeVine at the lecture held before a large crowd in the UW Education Auditorium on Oct. 3. Dr. Kamp has known Mr. LeVine since the early 1990s when both were working in Uzbekistan, Dr. Kamp on history projects and Mr. LeVine as a foreign correspondent for American newspapers.
"Germans in Russia, Germans from Russia"
Roundtable, Prof. Dr. Nina Vashkau, Volgograd State University
Dr. Nina Vashkau (center), professor from Volgograd State University,
Russia, presented a round-table August 6 at UW to a group, including
several Department of History faculty. She discussed her research
concerning Germans who relocated to Russia in the 18th century and
how they fared in later centuries. Phil Roberts photo
History Department Annual Awards Dinner, April 2008
The Department of History held its annual awards dinner April 29. The department
recognized outstanding graduates and presented awards to numerous undergraduates
and graduate students. The event was held in the historic UP Depot in Laramie.
Pictured, above left: Emily Arendt, graduate student award winner, and Dr. Mark
Potter, head of the History Department.
Six of the 2008 history graduate students who will be receiving their M.A.
degrees at graduation ceremonies May 10 were honored along with a
number of undergraduates and first-year graduate students at the Department
of History awards dinner April 29. Pictured, left to right: Joe McCarty,
Jacob Amend, Brandi Hilton-Hagemann, Matt McIntosh, Julie Stidolph,
and Xiaoyan Zhou.
Six Department of History graduate students were awarded Larson-McGee fellowships,
allowing each of them to conduct research on their thesis topics. Receiving the awards
this year were (left to right): Adam Blackler, Paul (Chris) Eells, Emily Arendt, Miles
Mathews, Karl Snyder, and Ramazan Oztan.
History Department Seminars by Visiting Scholars, 2006-2007
"Chinese Liberal Intellectuals and European Fascism in the 1930s: A Seminar"
Presented by Dr. Xu Youwei, visiting scholar in the Department of History, Autumn Term, 2007, from China
Dr. Xu Youwei (right) is deputy head of the
History Department at Shanghai University,
China. He presented results of his research
at a lunch hour seminar on November 20, 2007,
in the UW History Department lounge. During
the course of his visit to the University of Wyoming
Department of History in the fall of 2007, he visited
other scholars, conducted specialized research on
his main areas of teaching and, also, researched
and wrote an article about the first Chinese
exchange student to attend the University of
Wyoming from 1929-32. He is pictured with Phil
Roberts (left) who teaches the History of Wyoming
and writes on UW history. Dr. Xu was hosted in the
UW History Department by Dr. Michael Brose who
specializes in Chinese history.
"Teaching American History to University Students in Uzbekistan: A Seminar"
Presented by Yulia Tegay, a visiting scholar in the Department of
History in the spring semester, 2006, from Uzbekistan
Yulia Tegay holds a Bachelor’s degree
from Namangan State University and a
Master’s degree from Uzbek State World
Languages University (USWLU). Her
teaching career started at a lyceum in
Tashkent teaching the 5th, 6th, and 7th
grades. In 2003, she began to teach second
year Philology students at USWLU. In
September, 2003, she began teaching in
the IELTE (Institute of English Language
Teacher Education) program. Her teaching
interests include: Vocabulary, Integrated
Skills, American history and Methodology.
The seminar was presented April 11, 2006, and
an informal lunch was held afterward at a local
restaurant. Pictured at the lunch are (left to right):
Dr. Marianne Kamp, Yulia Tegay, Leila Kiknadze
(visiting scholar from the Republic of Georgia),
Phil Roberts, Dr. Peggy Bieber-Roberts. For more
information about this seminar and future ones in
this series, contact Dr. Phil Roberts or the Depart-
ment of History, philr@uwyo.edu