Shana Bernstein, associate professor of history, chaired and commented on a panel titled “Race, Labor, and Politics in Post-World War II California” at the American Historical Association Pacific Coast Branch conference in Seattle Aug. 13.

An article by Shana Bernstein, associate professor of history, appeared in the recent journal Pacific Historical Review. It is titled “Interracial Activism in the Los Angeles Community Service Organization: Linking the World War II and Civil Rights Eras.”

A sweater designed by Elizabeth Green Musselman, professor of history, is on the cover of the inaugural issue of UK-based Knit magazine. See a photo of it here.

An essay by Shana Bernstein, associate professor of history, was published in Sunbelt Rising: The Politics of Space, Place, and Region (University of Pennsylvania Press). The essay is titled “From the Southwest to the Nation: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in Postwar Los Angeles.”

Melissa Byrnes, assistant professor of history, presented a paper at the Society for French Historical Studies Annual Conference in Charleston, S.C., Feb. 11. The paper was titled “From Comrades-in-Arms to Community Burden: How Decolonization Reshaped Municipal Migration Policies in Saint-Denis” and was presented as part of a panel on “Coping with Decolonization: From Pondicherry to Paris.”

Shana Bernstein, associate professor of history, published a book titled Bridges of Reform: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles (Oxford University Press, 2010).

Thomas McClendon, professor of history, had a chapter published in an collection edited by Karl Ittman, Dennis Cordell and Gregory Maddox titled The Demographics of Empire: The Colonial Order and the Creation of Knowledge (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2010). His chapter is titled “Makwerekwere: Separating Immigrants and Natives in Early Colonial Natal.”

Daniel Castro, professor of history, has been invited to serve on the National Screening Committee that will select graduate students to train abroad during the 2011-2012 academic year under the Fulbright-Hays Program sponsored by the United States Department of State. Castro will serve on the committee that nominates candidates for study in South America. The committee is meeting in Houston next week.

A new book by Thomas McClendon, professor of history, has been published by the University of Rochester Press in its series Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora. The book is titled White Chief, Black Lords: Shepstone and the Colonial State in Natal, South Africa, 1845-1878.

Melissa Byrnes, assistant professor of history, had an article titled “Teaching the French Revolution from the Inside Out: Views from Egypt and the Caribbean” published in the spring 2010 issue of the World History Bulletin. The article is based on a course she taught at Southwestern in spring 2009. Read the article here.

Daniel Castro, professor of history, has received a Sam Taylor Fellowship awards for 2009-2010. Sam Taylor Fellowships are awarded to full-time faculty at United Methodist-related colleges in Texas by the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry of the United Methodist Church. Southwestern faculty members received a total of $9,125 this year. Dr. Castro received $2,000 for his project on the MLN-Tupamaros and the struggle for the “second liberation” of Uruguay.