Dr. Norbert Kuntz  

 
   

Norbert A. Kuntz Memorial Lecture Series

This annual lecture series was established in honor of Dr. Norbert Kuntz, a long-time professor and chair of Saint Michael's history department . The series brings an historian of international stature to Saint Michael's College to address the community.

Below is a list of past speakers:

2010

  • DR. GAYLE K. BRUNELLE, Professor of History, California State University, Fullerton
    & DR. ANNETTE FINLEY-CROSWHITE, Professor of History at Old Dominion University, Virginia
    Title:  "Murder in the Metro: Laetitia Toureaux and the Cagoule in 1930s France"

  • ROBINSON HERRERA, Professor of History, Florida State University
    Title: 'She's All I Have:' The Cult of Santa Muerte in Modern Latin America

2008

  • DR. R. KEITH SCHOPPA, Doehler Chair in Asian History, Loyola College in Maryland
    Title: "Three Kinds of Time: The Chinese Cope with Japanese Germ Warfare, 1940-1945"

  • JAMES OVERFIELD, Emeritus Professor, University of Vermont
    Title:  "An Evil to Be Endured", Big Time Sports at American Universities: A Historical Perspective 

2006

  • EDWARD OSOWSKI, Independent Scholar
    Title: "Post-Contact Indigenous Peoples' Historical Expressions and Communications in Latin America"  

2005

  • DR. PAUL E. JOHNSON, University of South Carolina, author: Sam Patch, the Famous Jumper
    Title: "Sam Patch:  America's First Professional Daredevil" 

  • DR. ALFRED ANDREA, Emeritus Professor, Department of History, University of Vermont
    Title: The Crusades:  Medieval and Modern Propectives"

2003

  • JAN ALBERS, author: Hands on the Lands: A History of the Vermont Landscape
    "Myths of Vermont:  The History of a Landscape Ideal."

  • EVAN BUKEY, Department of History, University of Arkansas
    Title: "Austria and the Holocaust" 

2002

  • JAMES L. HUFFMAN, H. Orth Hirt Professor of History at Wittenberg University
    Title:  "Press Nationalism and the Russo-Japanese War:  Lessons for America."

2000

  • CHARLES T. WOOD, Professor Emeritus, Dartmouth College
    Title:  "Joseph of Arimathea:  From Biblical Obscurity to New Age Fame"

  • ALTINA WALLER, Department of History, University of Connecticut, Storrs
    Title:  "Peggy Eaton and Andrew Jackson:  A Presidential Scandal" 

1999

  • BERNARD McGINN, University of Chicago Divinity School
    Title:  "Imagining the Last Judgment."

1998

  • JEAN H. BAKER, Department of History, Goucher College
    Title:  "Family History as Social History:  The Stevensons of Illinois." 

1996

  • RICHARD RODRIGUEZ, writer; Pulitzer Prize finalist for his book Days of Obligation: An Argument with my Mexican Father
    Title:  "The Indigenous Response to European Settlement."

1995

  • AKIRA IRIYE, Charles Warren Professor of American History, Harvard University
    Title:  "Japanese-American Relations and the Legacy of World War Two." 

1994

  • FRAU FREYA von MOLTKE, widow of Helmut James von Moltke, one of the leaders in the Hitler assassination attempt
    & PETER HOFFMANN, Kingsford Professor of History, McGill University
    Title: "German Resistance Against the Nazi Regime"

  • JAMES MULDOON, former Saint Michael's history professor; Department of History, Rutgers University
    Title:  "Human Rights and Humane Education." 

1992

  • RAYNA GREEN, Director of the American Indian Program, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
    Title:  "Freedom is an Indian Woman:  American Indian Women After Contact."

1991

  • LOUIS HARLAN, former President of the American Historical Association
    Title:  "Brooker T. Washington:  The Wizard of Tuskegee."