Eleanor L. Hannah, PhD

42nd Annual Northern Great Plains History Conference, 2007

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RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

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Articles

  • Book Review: Patrolling Baghdad: A Military Police Company and the War in Iraq by Mark R. DePue, Journal of Illinois History, forthcoming.
  • "Soldiers under the Skin: Diversity of Race, Ethnicity, and Class in the Illinois National Guard, 1870-1916," American Nineteenth Century History, 8:3 (September 2007), 293 - 323. http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=14664658&volume=8&issue=3&spage=293

  • "From the Dance Floor to the Rifle Range: The Evolution of Manliness in the Illinois National Guard," the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era , 6:2 (April 2007), 149-178.   http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jga/6.2/hannah.html

  • "The Gilded Age of Camp Lincoln. The Illinois National Guard, 1870-1917," Chicago History, Spring 2006.

  • " 'Fighting Dollars' War Bonds: The Northland and the Nation."   Catalog to accompany the exhibit, "Fighting Dollars", October 2005-September 2006, Richard I. Bong World War II Heritage Center, Superior, Wisconsin.

  • Entries on Fort Sheridan, Chicago Armories and the Illinois National Guard in Chicago, in The Encyclopedia of Chicago. Univeristy of Chicago Press, 2004.

  • "A Place in the Parade: Citizenship, Manhood and African American Men in the Illinois National Guard, 1870-1917." Journal of Illinois History, Summer 2002, P. 82-108.

  • Entry on New York National Guard, 69th Regiment, in The Encyclopedia of New York City. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Conference Organizer, Program Chair and Local Arrangements, 2007 Northern Great Plains History Conference, Duluth, MN.

"Inclusivity, Feminism and Women Writers of the West." October 2007 Northern Great Plains History Conference, Duluth, MN.

"Narratives of Identity: African Americans and Native Americans in the Writings of Mary H. Eastman." January 5, 2007. American Historical Association meeting in Atlanta, GA. (Refereed)

"Protecting African Americans: The National Guards and Policing Racial Conflict, 1870-1917." Northern Great Plains History Conference, Sioux Fall, SD, October 2006.   (Refereed)

Chair and Comment: "Immigration History." September 30, 2005, Northern Great Plains History Conference, Eau Claire, WI.

"Nineteenth Century American Women's History."   Cross River History Consortium, Spring Retreat, February 2005, University of Wisconsin La Crosse, La Crosse, WI.

Chair and Comment: "Coeds in College: The Early Years." October 29, 2004.   Northern Great Plains History Conference, Bismarck, ND.

"Women in the West."   Cross River History Consortium, Summer Retreat, June 2004, Minnesota Historical Society, Minneapolis, MN.

"Research Report: Illinois National Guard Database Project." Twin Ports Historians, January, 2003.

"Fact or Fantasy: How National Guardsmen adapted to Changing Times, 1890 - 1910." October 12. 2002, Northern Great Plains History Conference, Minneapolis, MN.

Chair and Comment: "On the Parameters of Prosperity: The Post-War Period for African-American Veterans and Women of the WASP." March 2002, Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, NE.

"Changing times, Changing Men, Manhood and the National Guards, 1870-1917" First Readings XXII. UMD 2002

Comment, Northern Great Plains History Conference, October, 2001.

"State-Building and the Illinois National Guard." March 10, 2001, Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, NE.

"Disorder and Civic Leadership in Illinois, 1870-1940." March 14, 1998,
Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, NE.

" ‘In Our Country’s Service’: Nationalism and the Development of the National Guards in the Gilded Age." October 12, 1996, Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

"Defending Order in a Disordered Time: Strike Policing and the Illinois National Guard, 1877-1917." January 29, 1996, State and Society Workshop, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

"Sharpshooters and Drag Queens: the Illinois National Guard and the Constitution of a Traditional, Patriotic American Masculinity." March 26. 1995, The American Men’s Studies Association Conference, Dekalb, IL.

"Sharpshooters and Drag Queens: the Illinois National Guard after the Spanish-American War." November 17, 1994, Social History Workshop, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

"The Ambiguous Mission: Strike Policing and the Illinois National Guard in the 1890s." Sept. 24, 1994, The Pullman Strike Centennial Conference, Labor, Politics and the State in the 1890s, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN.

"The Changing Tactics of Strike Interventions by the Illinois National Guard: 1877-1904." April 16, 1994, Graduate Student Conference in Military History, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

" ‘Protect the Lives and Property of the People:’ Strike Interventions and the Illinois National Guard, 1877-1904." April 9, 1994, Society of Military History Meeting, Washington DC.

"The 8th Illinois United States Volunteer Infantry." April 7, 1994, U.S. Army Center for Military History Seminar, Washington DC.

"Centennial Explosions, 1870-1877." October 1992, Social History Workshop, University of Chicago.

"Michigan's Millionaires: the Origins, Development and War Experiences of the Michigan State Naval Brigade." March 26, 1987, one of a twelve lecture series concerning Michigan Military History commemorating the Michigan Sesquicentennial.

GRANTS, AWARDS AND HONORS

University of Minnesota:

  • University of Minnesota Grant-in-Aid of Research, Artistry and Scholarship, January 1, 2002 through June 30, 2003, extended through June 30, 2004.

University of Minnesota Duluth:

  • CLA Travel Grant, Fall 2006: Travel to the AHA Conference, Atlanta, GA.

  • Upper Midwest History Funds, Spring, Fall 2006.   The funds sponsored research trips to St. Louis, MO; Springfield, IL; and St. Paul, MN, for work on three projects: Mary Eastman and Antebellum Women's WritinG, Minnesota and the Civil War, Manhood, Citizenship, and the National Guard: Illinois, 1870-1917.

  • Upper Midwest History Funds, Fall 2005: Mary Eastman and Antebellum Women's Writing.   The funds sponsored two research trips, one to the Minnesota Historical Society in St. Paul, MN, and one to the National Archives in Washington, DC

  • Chancellor's Small Grant, Fall 2004: Native American Veterans Project.   I received a grant to hire a UMD undergraduate to attend Pow Wows across the region to locate and initiate contact with Native American Veterans as a first step to persuading some to share their histories with local audiences and scholars and researchers interested in the particular experience of Native American Veterans from northern Minnesota, northern Wisconsin and the Dakotas.

  • Student Association Outstanding Academic Advisor Award, Spring 2004.

  • UMD Center for Community and Regional Research Grant, November 2003 through May 2004.   Principle investigator for a research project on the history of Italian Americans on the Iron Range, in collaboration with the Iron Range Research Center.    

  • Single Semester Leave, Fall 2003

  • UMD Travel Grant.  Spring 2001

  • UMD Advanced TechCamp.   Spring 2001                                 

  • UMD TechCamp 4: Funding to develop WWI Website. Spring 2000                               

  • UMD Teaching Grant (with Alexis Pogorelskin) to design a World War I website for classroom use. 1999

Prior to 1999:

  • Harry Barnard Dissertation Year Fellowship, 1993-94
    University of Chicago

  • U.S. Army Dissertation Year Fellowship, 1992-93

  • Von Holst Lectureship, 1993-94
    University of Chicago

  • University Fellowship 1988-1991
    University of Chicago

  • James Bird Balch Prize for American History 1987
    Kalamazoo College