The SIUE Department of Historical Studies welcomes two new full-time professors this academic year. They bring scholarly depth in German and American Colonial History to our department and as well distinguished teaching careers and significant contributions to their respective academic communities. Please join us in welcoming Drs. Jennifer Miller and Robert "Buddy" Paulett to SIUE.
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Dr. Jennifer Miller earned her PhD at Rutgers University in 2008 in Modern European and Global and Comparative History. Her dissertation is titled "Postwar Negotiations: The First Generation of Turkish 'Guest Workers' in Germany, 1961-1973". Her dissertation required research in Germany and Turkey and in German and Turkish. She has taught such courses as “History of Europe since 1789”, “History of Modern Germany”, “European Women's and Gender History”, and “Europe and Its ‘Others’ “. This semester she will be teaching two courses, “Introduction to the History of the Western Civilization, 1815- Present” and “Modern German History”. In the spring she will teach “Introduction to the History of the Western Civilization, 1815- Present”, “Modern European Women and Gender History”, and “Historical Research”.
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Dr. Robert "Buddy" Paulett earned his PhD at the College of William and Mary in 2007 in American History. His dissertation focuses on colonial Anglo-Indian relations around Augusta, Georgia and the deerskin trade. His research interests include Early American and Colonial US History, especially in the South, Anglo-Indian Relations, Ethnohistory/Native American History, Historical Archaeology and Historical Geography. This semester he will be teaching “United States History and Constitution to 1877”, “The Colonial Southeast” and “American Colonial History”. In the spring he will teach “World History since 1500”, “United States History and Constitution to 1877” and “Colonial Chesapeake, 1400-1800”.
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On Saturday May 10, 2008 eleven graduate students earned MAs in History and 34 undergraduates earned Bachelor’s degrees during commencement ceremonies at SIUE. The History Department honored our new graduates and celebrated the career of Emeritus Professor Patrick Riddleberge (pictured here with History Professor and Dean of the Graduate School Steve Hansen). Professor Riddleberger and two other former members of the department were recently honored by an anonymous gift to the University in their names.
Dr. Riddleberger earned his MA (1949) and PhD (1953) in History from the University of California, Berkeley. He has had a distinguished career as a teacher and scholar at SIUE since he joined the faculty in 1960. In 1972, he was awarded the Teaching Excellence Award and in 1981 the Alumni Association’s Great Teacher Award. In 2000, he was given an Honorary Doctorate by the University. Dr. Riddleberger has published two important books in American Civil War history: George Washington Julian, Radical Republican: A Study in 19th Century Politics and Reform (1966) and 1866: The Critical Year Revisited (1979). He also published several scholarly articles. Though Dr. Riddleberger retired from teaching in 1984, he continues his research and writing on campus.
The two other honorees are Stanley Kimball who passed away in 2003 and Wilbur McAfee who passed away last summer. Prof. Kimball was a Western American historian and taught at SIUE for 41 years from 1959 to 2000. Wilbur C. McAfee was a member of the Dept. from 1969 to 1980.