Robert M. Owens, Killing over Land: Murder and Diplomacy on the Early American Frontier, University of Oklahoma Press
Jay M. Price with Enrique Navarro and Anita Mendoza, Mexican Americans of Wichita’s North End, Arcadia
Robert Weems, The Merchant Prince of Black Chicago: Anthony Overton and the Building of a Financial
Empire, University of Illinois Press
Rannfrid Lasine Thelle- Translation of Discovering Babylon into German, Kohlhammer
Student Scholarship
A Walk With WU: The Story of Wichita State University- Genna Pennington , Jessica Cerri, Darren Defrain , and Jay Price (2020)
-Exhibits -such as at Kansas Aviation Museum
-Walking Tours Including Riverside Walking Tour (Summer 2021)
-Conference Presentation such as:
Justin Gordon, "Comparatively Easy Work: Commitment from Republican Officials and
Unity Amongst Civil Rights Activists in 1867 Kansas" -Presented at History Graduate
Student Association Conference at LSU
The History Department is proud to offer support to student research and scholarship
including the Miner-Unrau Research Travel Award
Community Outreach Highlights
Craig Torbenson, family history and genealogy resource
John Dreifort, local coordinator for Committee On Foreign Affairs
Robin Henry, "Hindsight; Looking Back at 100 Years of Women's Suffrage" Podcast Series
Laila Ballout, panelist for "KMUW's Democracy on Tap" session on Immigration
Adult Education Classes such as Story of Latinx Immigration and People of the Plains
Somos de Wichita/ We Are Wichitans Portable Exhibit with MCLL
Fairmount Liberal Arts and Sciences Perspectives Lecture Series featuring George Dehner,
Jeff Hayton, Rannfrid Thelle, Laila Ballout, and Robert Weems.
Department Speakers' Series including:
*Martin Nekola " Post-War Czechoslovakia, Communist Coup, and the Cold War Exile"
*Scott Ellsworth " Hidden History: The Tulsa Race massacre and the Struggle for America's
Past"
Student organization for Local and Community History Program: guest speaker David
Taggart "The Ongoing American Constitutional Experiment"
Ongoing Research
Criminalizing Sex, Defining Sexuality, Robin Henry
Oral History Project on Ethnic Entrepreneurs in Partnership with Barton School of
Business , Robert Weems , Jay Price , Sue Abdinnour
"Non-white Business Owners Tell Their Stories" Funded by Melton Foundation for Digital
Research in the Humanities at University of Kansas, Robert Weems , Jay Price , Sue
Abdinnour
Saving Lebanon: Diaspora, Religion, and Advocacy for Information in the Lebanese Civil
War, 1975-1990- Laila Ballout
Legionnaire's Disease, George Dehner
“Leadership Shared: The Life and legacy of John Carlin,” Jay Price
Study of how early Americans, native and newcomer, treated bodies of deceased friends
and foes, Robert M. Owens
