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Ms. Sylvia Bradley
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Dr. Norman Johnson
Dr. Clara Small
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Mr. Donald Whaley
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Faculty Bookshelf
Chronology of 20th-Century Eastern European History
Gale Research, Inc., 1994
Gregory C. Ference (editor)Books, Bibliographies and Pugs: A Festschrift to Honor Murlin Croucher
Slavica Publications, 2006
Gregory C. Ference (editor)The Portrayal of Czechoslovakia in the American Print Media, 1938-1989
East European Monographs, 2006
Gregory C. FerencePaths toward the Nation: Islam, Community, and Early Nationalist Mobilization in Eritrea, 1941–1961
Ohio University Press, 2014
Joseph L. VenosaCatholic Queen, Protestant Patriarchy Mary Queen of Scots and the Politics of Gender and Religion
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
Kristen P. WaltonThe European Union From Jean Monnet to the Euro
Ohio University Press, 2000
Dean J. Kotlowski (editor)Paul V. McNutt and the Age of FDR
Indiana University Press, 2015
Dean J. KotlowskiNixon’s Civil Rights Politics, Principle, and Policy
Harvard University Press, 2002
Dean J. KotlowskiStorm in My Heart Memories from the Widow of Johann Most by Helene Minkin
AK Press, 2015
Tom Goyens (editor)Radical Gotham Anarchism in New York City from Schwab's Saloon to Occupy Wall Street
University of Illinois Press, 2017
Tom Goyens (editor)Beer and Revolution The German Anarchist Movement in New York City, 1880-1914
University of Illinois Press, 2007; 2014
Tom GoyensAgainst Sex Identities of Sexual Restraint in Early America
University of North Carolina Press, 2021
Kara M. FrenchInterfaith Relationships and Perceptions of the Other in the Medieval Mediterranean Essays in Memory of Olivia Remie Constable
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021
Belen Vicens (co-editor)Visualizing Equality
African American Rights and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Aston Gonzalez
University of North Carolina Press, 2020Awards and Distinctions
- Finalist, 2021 Association for the Study of African American Life and History Book Prize
- Finalist, 2020 First Book Award, The Library Company of Philadelphia
Eloquence Embodied: Nonverbal Communication among French and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
Céline Carayon
University of North Carolina Press, 2019Awards and Distinctions
- 2020 Gilbert Chinard Book Prize, Society for French Historical Studies
- 2021 FEEGI Biennial Book Prize, Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction
- Honorable Mention, 2020 Mary Alice and Philip Boucher Book Prize, French Colonial Historical Society
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Faculty Spotlight
Drs. Céline Carayon and Kristen WaltonUSM Honors Two History Department Faculty with Regents' Faculty Award for Excellence
March 9, 2021The University System of Maryland (USM) Board of Regents recently recognized three Salisbury University faculty members with one of its highest honors: the Regents’ Faculty Award for Excellence. Two of these faculty are History department faculty.
Dr. Céline Carayon, associate professor of history and director of SU’s graduate program in history, earned the award for Scholarship, Research or Creative Activity, and Dr. Kristen Walton, professor of history and director of SU’s Nationally Competitive Fellowships Office, was honored for Excellence in Mentoring.
Dr. Céline Carayon publishes Eloquence Embodied
My first book was published in 2019 and is titled: Eloquence Embodied: Nonverbal Communication among French and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas (Chapel Hill and Williamsburg: University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture, 2019). This study, based on expanded research from my Ph.D. dissertation, starts from a simple but important question: how and how well did early European travelers and Indigenous peoples communicate when they met in the early Americas? The answer, I argue, lays in paying attention not only to words but to gestures and other nonverbal means of communication they employed. By tracing the nature and evolution of intercultural communication between various groups of French colonizers and diverse Native American nations across the entire continent (from Canada to Southern Brazil) between 1500-1700, Eloquence Embodied reveals that Natives and newcomers used nonverbal means to build friendly and hostile relationships before the rise of linguistic fluency—and, crucially, well afterward. This book challenges the notion of the early Americas as being a site of misunderstandings and insurmountable cultural clashes, pointing out instead to the intersections between rich traditions of nonverbal expression on both sides of the Atlantic. From Indigenous sign languages, to European scheme of universal languages, to the learning of foreign tongues through mimicry for the purpose of conversion, to elaborate practices of oratorical art and diplomacy, the book takes the reader through a transhemispheric journey that highlights the intimate and fraught essence of relations between the groups in colonial America.
Eloquence Embodied has been recognized by the following awards:
- 2021 Biennial Book Prize from the Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions
- 2020 Gilbert Chinard Prize from the Society for French Historical Studies
- Honorable Mention, Marie Alice and Philip Boucher Prize from the French Colonial Historical Society
I was also honored with a Board of Regents Award for Excellence in Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity from the University System of Maryland in 2021.