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PHS Executive Board Nominees for 2012–2013
Scott H. Bennett
Scott Bennett is professor of history at Georgian Court University. He is past president, vice-president, and board member of PHS. He is a member of the editorial board of Peace and Change. He has written Radical Pacifism CO: The World War II Letters of Frank and Albert Dietrich (2005). He is completing two book manuscripts: one on U.S. antiwar dissent and peace activism during World War I; and a second on radical pacifist siblings Igal and Vivien Roodenko. He is also writing a biography of socialist pacifist David McReynolds. According to Scott Bennett, “I would be honored to serve on the PHS board.”
Kevin Callahan
Kevin Callahan is Associate Professor of History at Saint Joseph College, Connecticut. He earned his Ph.D in Modern European History in 2001 at Indiana University and served on the PHS board from 2004-2007. He says:
“Kevin and Kathleen Kennedy served as program co-chairs for the PHS conference held at Georgian Court in 2007 and served as guest co-editors of an edition of Peace & Change (2009) on the theme of gender, war and peace activism. He will share his research on the peace movement of the Second International for the centennial anniversary conference of the 1912 Basel Peace Conference in Basel, Switzerland. His publications include articles in International Review of Social History (2000), Peace and Change (2004) and The International Encyclopedia of Protest and Revolution (2009). He is co-editor (with Sarah Curtis) of Views from the Margins: Creating Identities in Modern France (University of Nebraska Press, 2008) and author of Demonstration Culture: European Socialism and the Second International, 1889-1914 (Troubador, 2010). Kevin teaches courses on European history, world history and gender history and believes his expertise in European history would strengthen the PHS board in its geographic and international focus.”
Dario Fazzi
Dario Fazzi completed his Ph.D. in history in 2010 at the University of Bologna, Italy. His work focuses on the impact that anti-nuclear movements had on the definition of the nuclear equilibrium of the early Cold War. In 2011 he embarked on a post-doctoral fellowship funded by the University of Bologna to expand his dissertation. The title of this work is The Hot Peace: The Protests against the Nuclear Weapons in the U.S., Great Britain and Italy in the 1960s and 1970s. In addition to his teaching and research, Fazzi has worked at an Italian NGO that assists refugees in their applications for political asylum. Fazzi won a post-doctoral and research fellowship for the academic year 2011-2012, funded by the University of Bologna, Italy and the Brown University at Providence (RI).
Kristen E. Gwinn
Kristen Gwinn is a visiting scholar with the history department at Northwestern University. She holds a Ph.D. in history from George Washington University and a Master’s Degree in International Peace Studies from Trinity College Dublin. She specializes in women’s and peace history and is the author of Emily Greene Balch: The Long Road to Internationalism. She believes that utilizing technology to educate one another about history is of vital importance. She builds technological components, such as web sites and databases, to further this mission through her consulting agency HistoryIT.
Toshihiro Higuchi
Toshihiro Higuchi (PHD in history, Georgetown, 2011) is a postdoctoral fellow at CISAC for 2011-2012. Higuchi studies the Cold War politics of risk knowledge regarding radioactive fallout from nuclear explosions. Through this research, he aims to add the environmental and scientific dimensions to our understanding of nuclear affairs. His scholarly essays have appeared in the co-authored book Environmental Histories of the Cold War as well as such journals as Peace and Change, The Journal of Strategic Studies, and Kokusai Seiji (International Politics).
Nicholas A. Krehbiel
Nicholas Krehbiel is a Research Associate in the Graduate School and an Instructor of History at Kansas State University. He is the author of General Leis B. Hershey and Conscientious Objection During World War II, which is due to be published by the University of Missouri Press this fall. He has also authored articles and book reviews concerning conscientious objection, anti-war movements, and the religious history of the United States. He earned his Ph.D. from Kansas State University in 2009 and has taught courses covering the military, religious, social, and cultural history of the United States.
Robbie Lieberman
Robbie Lieberman is Professor of History at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Her publications include The Strangest Dream: Communism, Anticommunism, and the U.S. Peace Movement, 1945-1963 and a co-edited volume (with Chuck Howlett) called For the People: A Documentary History of the Struggle for Peace and Justice in the United States. She served as editor of Peace and Change from 2006 to 2011, started a Peace Studies minor at SIUC, and she teaches Peace Studies courses on a regular basis. She is especially interested in attracting new members to the Peace History Society.
Prudence Moylan
Prudence Moylan is Professor of History at Loyola University, Chicago. She says:
“My introduction to peace history came through the development of a History course for the Peace Studies minor at Mundelein College Chicago in 1988-89. In 1991 Mundelein affiliated with Loyola University Chicago and I worked with an interdisciplinary committee to introduce a Peace Studies Minor at Loyola in 1994. I teach a course on Peacemaking in Twentieth Century History. Since I have been a director or associated faculty member of a women’s and gender studies program for much of my academic career I introduced gender issues into the Peace Studies curriculum. My research interests are in women’s education, women’s religious communities, and gender as a perspective on peace activism. My first PHS Conference was in Bellingham, Washington in 2000 and I have been a regular participant since then. If selected I will do my best to further the interests of peace through serving the Board of the Peace History Society.”
Amy Schneidhorst
Amy Schneidhorst has taught as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Eastern Illinois University and Alma College. She is the author of Building a Just and Secure World: Popular Front Women’s Struggle for Peace and Justice in Chicago During the 1960s (Continuum Books, October 27, 2011). She holds an M.A. in Peace Studies from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her teaching and research interests include post-1945 United States history, social and political reform movements, the history of non-violence; women’s studies and gender; race and ethnicity, oral history, and public history.
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