All seminars for Spring 2012 will be held in Carswell 118

SPRING 2012

February 16 Thursday @ 4:30

"Dancing in the Street? Reframing Arts and Culture for the 'New' Downtown." Elizabeth Strom, Department of Geography, University of South Florida.

March 2 Friday @ 4:00

"The Impact of Culture and Gender on the Career Motivations of Entrepreneurs: The Case of Nicaragua." Betsi Hoppi and Ajay Patel, Schools of Business, Wake Forest University.

April 12 Thursday @ 4:30

"Rustic Recreation: Seeking health in the North Woods, 1880-1945." Lucinda McCray, Department of History, Appalachian State University.

Fall 2011

September 9 Friday @ 3:30

"Chinese Consumer Culture under Communism." Karl Gerth, University Lecturer in Modern Chinese History, Fellow and Tutor, Oxford University.

September 23 Friday @ 3:30

"American Marriage? Tracking the Broomstick Wedding from 1800-2010." Tyler D. Parry, History Department, University of South Carolina.

October 13 Thursday @ 4:30 [Powerpoint Presentation]

"Saving the Environment in Cameroon: Problems and Prospects of Domestic and International NGOS." William Markham, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina @ Greensboro

December 1 Thursday @4:30

"Super Dads." Gayle Kaufman, Department of Sociology, Davidson College.

Spring 2011

March 21

"Art and Philosophy: A Natural Affinity." Andrew Nixon, Department of Art, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth.

April 8

"Globalization, Higher Education, the Labor Market and Inequality." Antonia Kupfer, Joseph A. Schumpeter Fellow, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

April 25

"Moments of Truth: Lutherans, Translation, and the Problem of Verity on the San Carlos Apache Reservation." David Samuels, Department of Music, New York University.

Fall 2010

September 20

"Richard Wagner on the Way We are Now." Julian Young, Keenan Professor of Humanities, Wake Forest University

October 25

"Serengeti Shall Not Die: Bernhard Grzimek and the Making of a Tourist Landscape in East Africa." Thomas Lekan, Department of History, University of South Carolina. This work has since been published by German History. Please see the journal for the article.

November 15

"Mistress of Her Own Soul?: Child Custody, Red-baiting, and the Strange Case of Mrs. Eaton." Kristin Celello, Assistant Professor of History, Queens College, City University of New York.

 

Spring 2010

February 15

"'I Wish My Head and Insides Would Begin to get Straight. I Don't Recognize Myself at All:' Female Subjectivity, Marriage and American Modernity." Magaret Lowe, Department of History, Bridgewater State College

March 1

"Dead As Dirt: An Environmental History of the Dead Body." Ellen Stroud, Department of English, Bryn Mawr College

March 22

"It's Been a Long Time Coming: U.S. Data on Workers Matched to their Employing Firms." Charles Tolbert II, Department of Sociology, Baylor University

April 5

"Reason, Emotion, Pressure, Violence: Modes of Demonstration as Conceptions of Political Citizenship in 1960s West Germany." Michael Hughes, Department of History, Wake Forest University

April 19

"Recessions: Causes and Lessons." Robert Hetzel, Senior Economist and Research Advisor, The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

 

 

Fall 2009

August 31

"In the Shadow of the Great War: Monsters, Mutilation, and Modern Art." David Lubin, Department of Art, Wake Forest University

October 1

"Health Reform: The Fiscal Challenge Beyond 2009." Barry Clendinin, Health Economist, George Mason University

November 2

"Living Bereavements." Eileen Gillooly, Department of English, Columbia University

November 16

Richard Pitt, Jr., Department of Sociology, Vanderbilt University

Spring 2009

January 26

"Health Issues and Medical Care in the Ohio Penitentiary, 1833-1907." Nancy E. Tatarek, Department of Sociology & Anthropology  Ohio University  

March 2

"Enduring Contradictions of the Neoliberal Sate in Chile: Political Ecology and Cultural History 'Written in the Margins'." William Alexander, Anthropology Department, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

April 6

"Proust's Affair: Fantasies and Fictions of the Dreyfus Case." Michael G. Wood, Department of Enlgish and Comparative Literature, Princeton University.

April 20

"Nostalgia for the Future: Tradition and Modernism in German Art, 1933-1945." Gregory Maertz, English Department, Saint John's University

Fall 2008

September 22

"Border Chasm: International Boundary Parks and Mexican Conservation 1935 - 1945." Emily Walkild, History Department, Wake Forest University

October 15

John Duca, Senior Economist and Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

October 27 (paper) For summary of book, click here

"Paying to Play? Campaign Money and Advancement in the U.S. House of Representatives." Eric Heberlig, Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina @ Charlotte

November 17 (4:15 instead of 4:00)

"Rethinking Democracy, Authoritarianism and Economic Performance." William Keech, Research Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Political Science at Duke University


Spring 2008

March 3

"Medicine, Masculinity, and the Disappearance of Male Menopause in the 1950s." Elizabeth Watkins, Associate Professor, Vice Chair and Director of Graduate Studies, History of Health Sciences Program, University of California @ San Francisco

April 14

"The Agenda of Ambiguity in Expressive Culture." David Samuels, Anthropology Department, University of Massachuesetts @ Amherst

April 21

"The Trial of Socrates." Bryan McCammon, Assistant Professor of Economics, Wake Forest University

 

Fall Speakers 2007

September 17

Chapter 2

"The Politics of Exile" Luis Roniger, Reynolds Professor of Latin American Studies, Department of Political Science, Wake Forest University

October 1

"The Economics of Colorism: Does Skin Shade Matter" William A. Darrity, Jr., Terry Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University

October 29

"Little Eva's Last Breath: Romanticizing Southern Childhood Death" Craig T. Friend, Department of History and Director of Public History, North Carolina State University

November 26

"Landscapes of Captivity: Power nad the Definition of Work, Race, and Space" Thomas Rogers, Africana Studies Department/Program of Latin American Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

 

Spring Speakers 2007

February 8
Tables
"Combatants on a Strategic Battlefield:  An Analysis of Capital-Labor Conflicts and the OSHA Standard-Setting Process"
Anna Wahl, Department of Sociology, WFU

February 26 MONDAY
"Consumer Inequalities and Regime Legitimacy in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia" 
Jane Zavisca, Department of Sociology, University of Arizona

March 22
"To Serve and Protect:  Doll-Boys and Blackmail in Imperial Berlin"
Robert Beachy, Department of History, Goucher College

April 16
"Is the Jewish Diaspora Unique?  Reflections on the Diaspora's Current Situation"
Gabriel (Gabi) Sheffer, Department of Political Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

April 30
Daniel Lefkowitz, Department of Linguistics, University of Virginia

Fall Speakers 2006


September 14


"The Political Mass Strike in Imperial Germany:  Asserting Legitimate Political Agency in an Illegitimate System"
Michael Hughes, Professsor of History, Wake Forest University


September 28


"Ancient and Recent Positive Selection Transformed Opioid cis-Regulation in Humans"
Gregory A. Wray, Duke Institute for Genome Science and Policy


November 21
"Transition:  Local Japan and Global Contexts, 1764-1868"
Robert Hellyer, Department of History, Wake Forest University


November 30
"'I Dreamed I Went to Work':  Moving Workers and Capital in the Mid-Twentieth Century Brassier Industry"
Melanie Schell-Weiss, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University


Spring Speaker 2006


April 20
"Micro Politics and Conflicts in Multinational Corporations:  Current Debates, Re-framing, and Contributions of this Special Issue"
Mike Geppert, School of Business Management, Queen Mary, University of London


Fall 2005 Speakers


September 8
"'We Have Whipped Out Sherman and the Helperites':  Hinton Rowan Helper, the Speakership Contest, and the Origins of the American Civil War"
David Brown, Department of History, Sheffield University, England


September 29   Bibliography
"Gender Ideology and Economic Policy in the Making of the Welfare State:  Multiple Social Democratic Paths to Policy Development"
Kerstin Sorenson, Department of Political Science, Elon University


October 13
"Class History:  Officials of the Venetian State, 1380-1420"
Monique O'Connell, Department of History, Wake Forest University


November 3
"Rethinking Occupational Forms:  The Case of Website Prodcution Work"
Amanda Damarin, Sociology, School of History, Technology and Society, Georgia Institute of Technology


November 17
"The Loss of Property Rights and the Collapse of Zimbabwe"
Craig Richardson, Department of Economics, Salem College






Spring 2005 Speakers

January 20
"China's Labor Market"
Dennis Tao Yang, Department of Economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University


February 17
"Constitutional Medicine:  Building Democracy After Conflict"
Andrew Reynolds, Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


March 3
"Economic Segregation and Homicide"
David Eitle, Department of Sociology, Florida International University


April 7
"Historians and Higher Education"
John R. Thelin, Department of History, Indiana University


April 21
"Oil Wars:  The Role of Oil in the U.S.-Mideast Conflicts"
Stephen Pelletiere, Former Chief Iraq Desk Analyst at the CIA and Professor Emeritus at the Army War College


Fall 2004 Speakers


September 9
"Entreprenuership, Industrial Policy and Clusters:  The Growth of the North Carolina Wine Industry"
Ian Taplin, Professor of Sociology, and Saylor Breckenridge, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Wake Forest University

October 21 
"Fighting Fire  with Fire:  African American Intellectuals and Hereditarian Thinking, 1890-1942"
Gregg Dorr, Assistant Professor of History, University of Alabama

  November 11
"Diversity in the Power Elite,"
Richard Zweigenhaft, Dana Professor of Psychology and Director of Social Science
Division, Guilford College

November 18 
"Documenting Desegregation:  EEO-1 Estimates of US Establishment Sex and Ethnic Segregation, 1966-2000"
Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, Sociology Department, North Carolina State University

Spring 2005 Speakers

January 20
"Economic Reforms and China's Evolving Labor Markets."
Dennis Yang



Spring 2004 Speakers

February 12
Tables
"A Return to Isolationism and Unilaterilism:  Pre- and Post-September 11"
Ole R. Holsti, George V. Allen Professor of Political Science, Duke University


March 25
"Untouchable Healing:  An Ayurvedic Doctor from Nepal Suffers His Country's Ills."
Mary Cameron, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of Women's Studies Center, Florida Atlantic University


April 1
"Autobiography and the History of Economics"
Roy Weintraub, Department of Economics, Duke University


April 22
"A Militant Liberalism:  Anti-Communism and the African American Intelligentsia, 1939-1955"
Daniel Aldridge, Department of History, Davidson College


Fall 2003 Speakers


September 18
Table One


"Murdering Mothers and Physicians' Responses:  Neonaticide in Rhode Island, 1838 to 1938"
Simone M. Caron, Department of History, Wake Forest University


October 23
"From Commendation to Condemnation:  The Blurring of a Hegemonic White Identity"
Jenny Irons, Department of Sociology, Hamilton College


November 7
"The Concept of Ethnic Nationality and its Role in Pan-Asianism in Imperial Japan"
Kevin Doak, Department of History, Georgetown University


November 13
"Beyond Mastery:  The Future of Conrad's Beginnings"
Geoffrey Harpham, President and Director, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park



 December 8
"The Pros and Cons of Conversions of Not-for-Profit Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans to For-Profit Status"
Bradley Strunk, Center for Health Policy Change, Washington, D.C.
For copies of a finished version of the paper, please go to http://www.hschange.org/CONTENT/644/






Spring 2003 Speakers

 January 23
"Corporate Governance Problems in Transition Economies"
Verica Babic, Faculty of Economics, University of Kragujevac, Serbia

 February 6
"From Drugs to Guerrillas?  US Policy Toward Columbia"
Russell Crandall, Department of Political Science, Davidson College

 February 27
"Towards a Political Sociology of Afro-American Intellectuals:  A Case of Dual Marginalities"
Jerry Watts, Department of Sociology, Trinity College

 April 3
"Marketing Medicine and Constructing Consumer Culture in China, 1880-1956"
Sherman Gilbert Cochran, Department of History, Cornell University

 May 3   Change of date:  May 7
"Lucia:  Testimonies of a Drug Dealer's Woman"
Robert Gay, Department of Sociology, Connecticut College
 
 
 
 

Fall 2002 Speakers

 September 5
"Before NASCAR:  The Corporate and Civic Promotion of Automobile Racing in the American South, 1903-1927"
Randal Hall, Department of History, Wake Forest University
For copies of this paper, please see the final version published in the Journal of Social History LXVII (August 2002):  629-668

 September 19
"Environmental Stressors:  The Mental Health Impacts of Living Near Industrial Activity"
Liam Downey, Department of Sociology, East Carolina University

 October 3
Gone for Good:  Tales of University Life after the Golden Age
Stuart Rojstaczer, Department of Geology, Environment and Engineering, and Director, Center for Hydrologic Science, Duke University

 October 24
"Using Networks toward Global Labor Standards?  Organizing Social Responsibility in Global Production Chains"
Michael Fichter, Department of Political Science, Free University of Berlin

 November 21
"Why Do Costs Keep Rising at Selective Private Colleges and Universities?"
Ronald Ehrenberg, Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics, and Director Cornell Higher Education Research Institute, Cornell University
 

Spring 2002 Speakers

April 4
"On the Need to be Different:  Military Uniqueness & Civil-Military Relations in Modern Society--The Case of the British Armed Services"
Christopher Dandeker, Department of War Studies, King's College London

March 21
"Between Doctors and Patients:  The Changing Balance of Power"
Lilian R. Furst, Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

February 18
"When the Personal Becomes Political:  The Case of Obesity"
Rogan Kersh, Department of Political Science, Syracuse University

 February 7
"Whose Detroit?  Politics, Labor, & Race in a Modern American City"
Heather Thompson, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Fall 2001 Speakers

September 14 
Martin Lewis and Karen Wiger, Departments of History and Geography, Duke University 

 October 11
"Expo Fascism?  Architecture, Atavism, Economics"
Angus Lockyer, Department of History, Wake Forest University 

October 25
"Compensation in the Nonprofit Sector"
Chris Ruhm, Department of Economics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro 

  November 8
Robert Weinburger, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro 

 November 29
Jurg Steiner, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 
 

Spring 2002 Speakers

February 7 
"From Struggles in the Streets to Clashes in the Courtroom:  Deciding the Fate of Postwar Urban America"
Heather Thompson, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte 

Late February (date to be announced) 
Rogan Kersh, Department of Politics, Syracuse University 

March 21 
"Eyeing the Instituion:  The Twentieth-Century Hospital"
Lillian Furst, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

April 4 
"Does the Military Have a 'Right to be Different'?  A Comparative Prespective on Tensions in Contemporary Civil-Military Relations"
Christopher Dandeker, Professor of Military Sociology, Department of War Studies, King's College, London, UK 

April 25 
Kate Chavigny, Department of History, Sweet Briar College
 
 
 
 

Spring 2001 Speakers

 April 26
"Trajanic Responses to Augustan Diplomacy:  The Denigration of Diplomatic Hostages in the Early Second Century, CE"
Joel Allen, Department of History and Classics, Ohio University 

April 12 
"Social Resourcefulness:  its relationship to social support and wellbeing among caregivers of dementia victims"
Stephen R. Rapp, Department of Psychaitry and Behavioral Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine 

 February 8
 "What Political Space is Left in Tony Blair's Britain?"
Joel Krieger, Department of Political Science, Wellesley College 
 

 January 25 
"Urban Demographic Stagnation in Early Modern South Germany"
Terence McIntosh, Department of History, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 
Professor McIntosh has since published the paper he gave and asks that anyone interested in it consult the Journal of Interdisciplinary History 31 (2001):  581-612. 

Fall 2000 Speakers

 November 30table.1
"Is Mexico Sewing Up Development?"  Inter-firm networks and regional integration in the North American apparel industry"
Jenn Blair, Department of Sociology, Duke University 
 
 

  November 8
"Immigrant Lives at the Intersection of Family, Capital, and the State"
David Griffith, Department of Anthropology, Institute for Coastal and Marine Resources, East Carolina University 

 Oc tober 27
"Understanding the New Economy Debate:  The Endgame"
Patrick Norton, Sarkisian Professor of Business Economics, Director, The New Economy Institute, Bryant College 

 September 28
"Choice is a Moving Target," from Beggars and Choosers:  How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion and Welfare (forthcoming) 
Rickie Solinger, feminist scholar and independent historian. 

Spring 2000 Speakers

April 25
“From the Bird’s Eye View: The Aerial Making of Sprawl”
Christopher Sellers, History Department, State University of New York, National Humanities Center 
 

 February 17
"Who Should Pay?  Redistributing War's Burdens in (West) Germany"
Michael Hughes, History Department, Wake Forest University 

 March 2
"Ethnic Diversity and Economic Growth:  the Search for Stability in Benin"
Sylvain Boko, Economics Department, Wake Forest University 

  March 23endnotes
"'Unlimited Mothering':  Rooming-In and Postwar Culture"
Elizabeth Temkin, Nurse-midwife and historian, Planned Parenthood of Connecticut 

 March 30
"New Class Forces, Old Class Realities"
David Coates, Politics Department, Wake Forest University 

May 2 
David Altman, Wake Forest University Medical School 

Fall 1999 Speakers

  September 8
"A Reexamination of the American State Constitutional Tradition"
John Dinan, Politics Department, Wake Forest University 

 October 1
"Behavioral Choice Treatment Promotes Continuing Weight Loss:  Preliminary Results of a Cognitive Behavioral Decision Based Treatment for Obesity"
Tracy Sbrocco, Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology, Uniformed Services Universtiy  of the Health Sciences 

  October 25
"Why Corruption is a Crucial Precondition for the Creation of Markets and Constitutional Government: The Case of Russia" 
[Also available in Adobe PDF format, hough.pdf, (smaller page count, better formatted)] 
Professor Jerry Hough, Department of Political Science, Duke University. 

  October 29
"A 'Switch in Time' Beyond the Nine:  Civil Liberties and the 'Constitutional Revolution' of the 1930s"
John Wertheimer, Department of History, Davidson College 

 December 1
"Between God and the Market:  The Religious Roots of the American Economic Association"
Bradley W. Bateman, Department of Economics, Grinnell College 

 Spring 1999 Speakers

January 28
"Party System Continuity and Transformation in Chile's 'Model' Transition" 
Peter Siavelis, Department of Politics, Wake Forest University 

February 11
"With all the Means that Prudence Would Suggest: 'Procedural Culture' and the Writings of Cultural Histories of Power in Nineteenth-Century MesoAmerica"
John M. Watanabe, Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth College 

March 18 and Tables
"Hospital Ownership and Cost and Quality of Care: Is There a Dime's Worth of Difference?" 
Frank Sloan, Economics Department, Duke University 

 April 15
"A Tudor Deborah? The Coronation of Elizabeth I and the Problem of Female Rule" 
Dale Hoak, History Department, The College of William and Mary 

 April 29
"Monetary Policy in a Democratice Society" 
John Wood, Economics Department, Wake Forest University 

Fall 1998 Speakers

September 4 
"Learning to do Low-Cost Actice Learning"
Greg Lilly, Douglas Redington and Thomas Tiemann
Department of Economics, Elon College 

September 28
"Enterprise and Culture: Jewish Immigrant Entrepreneurship in New York and London, 1880-1914," Andrew Godley, Department of Economics, University of Reading (UK) 

September 30 
Roundtable Discussion of the Elections in Germany, Helga Welsh, Politics Department, Wake Forest University. Professor Welsh has been invited by the German government to spend a week in Germany to analyze the elections. She will share her insights with the seminar. 

October 16 
"Science, Technology and Democracy,"
Daniel Kleinman, Georgia Tech 

November 6
"The Cashless Society (Russia): An Unintended Result," Marshall Goldman, Harvard University--This seminar alone will be held at 2:00 p.m. in Worrell 1308 (Law School) 

November 13
"The Role of Dialogue in European Approaches to Vocational Training," Jonathan Winterton, Department of Employment Research, Napier University Business School, Edinburgh, Scotland

For more information, contact Simone Caron caron@wfu.edu (5556), Michael Lawlor lawlor@wfu.edu (5564) or Ian Taplin taplin@wfu.edu(4880). 

** Click the date links above to view a full text in Word format of the paper given on that day.