University of Michigan-Flint

Degrees: Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1974; M.A., Michigan State University, 1968; B.A. Michigan State University 1967.

Field: Modern America

Research Interests: Michigan history; Sports history; American Indians and the American West; Political History.

Representative Publications:

• Michigan: A History of the Great Lakes State. Co-author Lawrence E. Ziewacz. Harlan Davidson, 2007 (Fourth Edition) 
• "Chicago in the World Series: The Cubs and White Sox in Championship Play, 1903-2005". McFarland & Co., 2006
• "George Armstrong Custer," Great Lives From History (Salem Press, 1987).
• "To Destroy a Culture: Indian Education in Michigan," Michigan History, Summer 1976. 
   

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rubenste@umflint.edu

Degrees: Ph.D., University of Hawaii, 1988; M.A., University of Hawaii, 1978; B.A., University of Hawaii, 1976.

Field: East Asia; Japan

Research Interests: Modern Japan; Asian economic history.

Representative Publications:

• Thomas William Kinder and The Japanese Imperial Mint, 1868-1875. Leiden: Brill Academic Press, 1999.
• “In the Midst of Western Imperialism: Japanese-Hawaiian Relations during the Mid-nineteenth Century,” Study of Economic History, 3 (1999): 143-167.
• “The Japanese Imperial Mint and the Issue of Jurisdiction Over Foreign Employees, 1869-1875,” Journal of Asian History, 30 (1996): 1-26.
• “Nagasaki beki-keibi ni kansuru ichi shiry [A Source Concerning the Nagasaki Trade and Defense]," Seinan chiikishi kenKysh [Southwestern Area Historical Review], vol. 5. Edited by Hidemura Senz. Kyoto: Shibunkaku shuppan, 1988: 353-401.

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okuma@umflint.edu

Degrees: Ph.D., Boston College, 1997; M.A., University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1995; B.S. Eastern Michigan University, 1990.

Field: Western Europe; British Isles and Empire

Research Interests: Nationalism and national identity in the British Isles; Modern Wales and Ireland

Representative Publications:

• Investiture: Royal Ceremony and National Identity in Wales, 1911-1969. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007.
• “Celt versus Teuton; Race, Character and British National Identity, 1850-1914,” in Pol O’Dochartaigh, ed., Yearbook for the Centre of Irish-German Studies 2002. Limerick: University of Limerick, 2003.
• “The Degenerate and the Martyr: Nationalist Propaganda and the Contestation of Irishness, 1914-1918,” Eire-Ireland (Fall/Winter 2001): 7-33.
• “The ‘Methods of Barbarism’ and the ‘Rights of Small Nations’; War Propaganda and British Pluralism,” Albion 30, 1 (Spring 1998): 49-75.

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ellisjs@umflint.edu

STUDENT RESOURCES:
Map 9.1 Early Expansion of Muslim Rule
Map 10.4 The Crusades
Map 17.1 The Atlantic World
Map 28.2 Cold War
Map 30.2 GNP

Degrees: Ph.D., University at Buffalo, 2005; M.A., University of Maine- Orono, 1998; B.A., University at Buffalo, 1996.

Field: The Early Republic and Antebellum America; the Atlantic World

Research Interests: The Antebellum South; race, gender, and culture in American History

Representative Publications:

• "Brothers of a Vow: Secret Fraternal Orders and the Transformation of White Male Culture in Antebellum Virginia". University of Georgia Press, 2010.

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pfljack@umflint.edu

Degrees: Ph.D., Michigan State University, 2009; B.A., Saginaw Valley State University, 2004.

Field: Modern U.S.; Urban History; Public History

Research Interests: Progressive Era, Urban History, Charities and Philanthropy

Representative Publications:

• Forthcoming: “The Training of Useful Mothers – Gender, Charity and the New Urban South,” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 2010
• “A Catholic Dilemma: White Flight in Northwest Flint, Michigan,” Michigan Historical Review, 31, no. 2 (Fall 2005)

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henthorn@umflint.edu

Degrees: Post-Graduate- University of Virginia, International Center for Jefferson Studies. M.A., Oakland University; B.A. University of Michigan Flint.

Field: Colonial America and the Young Republic, Jeffersonian and Jacksonian Eras, the Progressive Era and American Military History

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greghav@umflint.edu

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daassa@umflint.edu

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mkassel@umflint.edu