NYSAEH

NEWSLETTER

FEBRUARY 2009

  The New York State Association

of

European Historians

The fifty-ninth annual meeting
of the
New York State Association of European Historians

will be held on
October 2-3
at SUNY Brockport
Brockport, NY.
   Proposals for papers and/or panels
should be submitted by

April 30, 2008 to:

James Valone

Canisius College

2001 Main Street

Buffalo NY 14208

valone@canisius.edu

 FROM THE PRESIDENT

12 February 2009

Dear NYSAEH Colleagues,

We all enjoyed a tremendous meeting at Le Moyne this fall.  Thanks are due to Barbara Blaszak and the Le Moyne community for hosting and to Jim Valone and Andrew Nichols for organizing the engaging panels and arranging for Georg Iggers to give his wonderful Keynote Address.  We renewed important collegial ties, made new ones, and departed with a deeper appreciation for the academic and scholarly work of our members.

With the arrival of the spring semester, preparations for the 2009 conference at SUNY Brockport are well underway.  I would like to thank Jenny Lloyd from SUNY Brockport for the logistical work in welcoming the Association.  Over the next several weeks the Executive Committee will decide on a speaker for the conference and discuss the best way to implement several initiatives raised in the fall regarding better communication and creating a stronger web presence.  I would request, as we briefly discussed at Le Moyne, that members continue to reach out on behalf of NYSAEH to students, colleagues, and former members to attend and participate at the conference.  Likewise, if you are working on a paper please think about submitting it for presentation.  Or, if you have recently published an article please consider submitting it for the next round of the Bailey Prize in 2011.  Also, we would appreciate volunteers to chair panel sessions or to host future conferences.

I look forward to another great conference this year and to seeing everyone at Brockport.  If I can be of assistance in the interim please do not hesitate to contact me.

Frederick Dotolo

The Bailey Prize

This past fall the New York State Association of European Historians 
awarded the triennial Bailey prize to Richard Fogarty of the University at Albany. 
 His winning essay was entitled: Race and Sex, Fear and Loathing in France 
during the Great War that was published in Historical Reflections.  
Vol. 31, no. 1 (Spring 2008): 50-72. This an abstract of the article from the journal:


During the First World War, more than 500,000 colonial subjects served in the French Army. 
As these men, known as troupes indigenes, helped defend France from invasion, many of them 
had sexual and romantic relationships with French women. Such intimate contacts across the 
color line transgressed strict boundaries that separated the non-white colonized from white colonizers,
 boundaries that helped construct and sustain colonial rule. 
Thus these interracial relationships produced acute anxieties in the minds of French officials, 
who worried that their failure to control the passions and desires of colonial men and metropolitan 
women would ultimately undermine the French empire.

The selection committee was impressed with quality of the 
submissions and expressed their difficulty in settling on this paper 
as the best of a very good set of articles.  We encourage members 
to consider submitting work for the next prize year, 2011