The Earhart Foundation has awarded Paul Otto a fellowship research grant for a summer project, “Beads of Power: Wampum and the Shaping of the Early American Frontier.” The fellowship will support summer reading and research as Paul prepares for his sabbatical next year.
In addition, Paul was awarded a fellowship for research at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, for next year. He will be an Andrew W. Mellow Foundation Fellow for two months. Paul also accepted appointment to the Exhibition Scholarly Advisor Committee for the exhibition, "Discovery and Invention: The Worlds of Henry Hudson" at the Museum of the City of New York.
Three professors will be leading Juniors Abroad trips this May and June. Caitlin Corning will be taking her students to Scandinavia and England. Paul Otto will be travelling to South Africa and Mark Weinert is heading to Italy, Sicily and Tunisia.
Conference
The 2008 Phi Alpha Theta NW Regional Conference was hosted by Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, April 10-12. Paul Otto and Caitlin Corning attended with students Rachel Webb, Megan Buff, Heidi Eidem and Kaisa Kincaid. Rachel and Meagan both presented papers.
George Fox University's 16th symposium on the life of Herbert Hoover, the humanitarian, was held on October 6, 2007. Plenary speakers included George Nash, author of the first three volumes of The Life of Herbert Hoover, who spoke on Hoover and the Belgian relief effort, and Bert Patenaude, Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of The Big Show in Bololand: The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Famine of 1921, who spoke on the relief effort to Europe and Russia. As well, representatives from humanitarian groups based in the northwest such as Mercy Corps, World Concern and World Vision addressed the question of whether history can offer practical lessons for modern humanitarians.
2006-2007
Conference
The Alpha Eta Omega chapter of Phi Alpha Theta and the George Fox University Department of History were pleased to host the 2007 Pacific Northwest regional student history conference. Co-hosts were Linfield College, Portland State University and University of Portland. The conference was held in Lincoln City at the Inn At Spanish Head April 12-14, 2007. 21 schools sent 122 students.
Alumni News
2005 Graduate, Stephanie Steinhorst, has been accepted into the Public History Master's Program at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. She will be doing an extended version and will complete both a public history internship and a thesis. Currently she is employed by the Bureau of Land Management as an interpretive park ranger at Yaquina Head Lighthouse in Newport, Oregon.
Professor News
In September, Paul Otto and Caitlin Corning attended the biennial meeting of the Conference on Faith and History at Oklahoma Baptist University. Both served as panelists in plenary sessions in the student portion of the conference. In the faculty portion, Caitlin presented the paper, "Bede's Presentation of the British and Iona in the History". Caitlin is currently a member of the CFH board. Paul served on this year's program committee.
Publications
Caitlin Corning has written a new book, The Celtic and Roman Traditions: Conflict and Consensus in the Early Medieval Church published by Palgrave-Macmillian.
2005-2006
Academic Awards
Brittany Quinn was recognized as Outstanding History major for 2006.
Promotions
Paul Otto and Caitlin Corning were promoted to full Professors at the March Board of Trustees meeting.
Publications
Paul Otto has written his first book, The Dutch-Munsee Encounter in America: The Struggle for Sovereignty in the Hudson Valley, published by Berghahn Press.
Kerry Irish published an article titled, "Apt Pupil:Dwight Eisenhower and the 1930 Industrial Mobilization Plan." It can be found in the January 2006 Journal of Military History.
2004-2005
Academic Awards
Michelle Forbes and Bradley Christensen were named as the Outstanding History majors for 2005.
Promotions and Tenure Granted
Kerry Irish was promoted to full Professor at the March 2005 Board of Trustees meeting. At the same meeting Paul Otto, Associate Professor of History, was granted tenure.
2003-2004
Corning and Otto Honored
Caitlin Corning and Paul Otto were nominated to "Who's Who Among America's Teachers." Recipients are nominated by former students.
Otto Chosen For Seminar Participation
Paul Otto, Associate Professor of history, was one of 25 historians in the nation chosen to participate in the seminar Political History of the Early Republic: New Challenges, Old Strengths. The seminar was held at Columbia University June 22-27, 2003, and offered each faculty participant the opportunity to "strengthen their teaching, recharge their intellectual batteries, and to become more familiar with several major archival centers." The seminar was sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the Council of Independent Colleges.
Sabbatical Granted
During a 2003-04 sabbatical, Caitlin Corning worked toward completion of her book on the Easter Controversy in the Western Church between A.D. 590-768. Corning has been a professor at George Fox since 1996, the department chair since 2000, and is the 2002 recipient of the Teacher of the Year award.
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