Adrian College History Faculty
 

Dr. Deborah Field
Assistant Professor, History
Ph.D., University of Michigan
dfield@adrian.edu 517-264-3948
Specialist in Modern Russian and European History Special recognition:
Student Government Association Advising Award Publications, exhibits,
presentations: Book: Private Life and Communist Morality in Khrushchev’s Russia, Peter Lang, forthcoming. Articles: "Mothers and Fathers and the Problem of Selfishness in the Khrushchev Period" in Melanie Ilic, Lynne Attwood, Susan Reid, eds., Women in the Khrushchev Era, Palgrave Press, 2004. "Irreconcilable Differences: Divorce and Conceptions of Private Life in the Khrushchev Era," The Russian Review 57 October 1998, reprinted in Ronald G. Suny, trans. and ed., Russia, the Soviet Union and the Successor States in the Twentieth Century:
Interpretive Essays and Documents ,Oxford University Press, 2002.
Presentations: Panel discussant, "Sex and Family in the Post-War Soviet
Union," American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 2006. "Applying for Jobs at Small Colleges," University of Michigan History Department Jobs Colloquium, 2005. "Individual Rights, Social Intervention and the Re-legalization of Abortion during the Khrushchev Era," American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 2003.
 

Dr. Terrence Jackson
Assistant Professor, History
Ph.D., Indiana University
tjackson@adrian.edu 517-264-3947
Specialist in Japanese History, History of Science, Cultural and Social History Special recognition: FLAS Scholarship, Fulbright Scholarship. Publications, exhibits, presentations: “Dutch Book Circulation and the Tokugawa Information Revolution,” Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, 2006. Review of Practical Pusuits, Journal of Asian Studies 2006. Review of Burning and Building, Journal of Japanese Studies 2005. “Mermaids and Narwhals: Japan’s Discovery of the West,” DePauw University, 2002. “Oranda zashiki: Salons and the Formation of Intellectual Communities in Late Edo.” Midwest Conference on Asian History and Culture, 2002. “Socializing Intellect: The Rangaku Scholar Otsuki Gentaku’s Learning Journey.” Association of Asian Studies, 2001. “Casting the Net: Travel, Patronage, and Other Connections in Late Tokugawa Japan.” Indiana University, 2001. “Schooling an Engendered Nationalism: Science Education in Meiji Japan.” Indiana Historical Association, 1999. “A Woman’s ‘Pocket Dagger?’ Science Education and the Gendering of Women in Meiji Japan.” Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, 1998.

Dr. Stephanie Jass
Assistant Professor, History
Ph.D., Western Michigan University
sjass@adrian.edu 517-264-3946
Specialist in American History, Women's History, American Culture Studies, Foodways Special recognition: History Department Outstanding Graduate Research Award, Western Michigan University, 2004. Publications, exhibits, presentations: "'The Great American-Makers': Foodways and Americanization at Chicago Settlements." Annual Convention of the American Historical Association, Washington, D.C., January 8-11, 2004.    •    "'Still Eating Spaghetti Not Yet Assimilated': Home Economics, Settlement Houses, and Americanization in Chicago, 1890-1920."     •    Annual Conference of the Great Lakes American Studies Association, Muncie, Indiana, March 16-18, 2001."     •    Revisiting the 'Feminine Mystique': College Women of the 1950s React to the Resurgence of Domesticity." Oral History Association Annual Meeting, Buffalo, New York, October 15-18, 1998.