Brendan Prusik, a UNH Cooperative Extension natural resources field specialist in Coos County, is one of the participants in the inaugural class of the Community Practitioners Network (CPN).

The network is funded by the Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation. CPN is a two-year leadership program offered at no charge to participants designed to build and strengthen leadership skills among community and economic development professionals from Coos County and surrounding communities in the United States and Canada.

Participants will engage in a mix of face-to-face and virtual meetings with the first year devoted to building participants' leadership skills and capacity, and the second year to strengthening social, professional and community networks across the region and implementation of participant-led community project(s). Participants were selected through a competitive application process.

The Neil and Louise Tillotson...

David Bachrach, associate professor of history, recently had two books published: “Warfare in Tenth-Century Germany” (Boydell & Brewer, 2012), and “Warfare and Politics in Medieval Germany, ca. 1000 On the Variety of Our Times” by Alpert of Metz, which he translated.

From the cover of “Warfare in Tenth-Century Germany”: This book shows how Henry I and Otto I, the first two kings of the Saxon dynasty, recreated the empire of Charlemagne, and established themselves as the hegemonic rulers in Western Europe. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the organization, training, morale, tactics, and strategy of Ottonian armies over a long half century."

From “Warfare and Politics in Medieval Germany”: Written in the early eleventh century, the De diversitate temporum by Alpert of Metz is an...

Meghan C. L. Howey, assistant professor of anthropology/archaeology recently published “Mound Builders and Monument Makers of the Northern Great Lakes, 1200–1600” (University of Oklahoma Press, 2012).

From publisher's website: 

Rising above the northern Michigan landscape, prehistoric burial mounds and impressive circular earthen enclosures bear witness to the deep history of the region’s ancient indigenous peoples. These mounds and earthworks have long been treated as isolated finds and have never been connected to the social dynamics of the time in which they were constructed, a period called Late Prehistory.

In “Mound Builders and Monument Makers of the Northern Great Lakes, 1200–1600” Howey uses archaeology to make this connection. She shows how indigenous communities of the northern Great Lakes used earthen structures as gathering places for ritual and social interaction, which maintained connected egalitarian societies in the process...

John Aber, University Professor and Provost, will receive the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal from Yale University Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012. The Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal is Yale’s highest graduate alumni honor.

Professor Ben Harris's article on Arnold Gesell, published in the refereed journal, History of Psychology, has been selected "Best Article" in the 2011 volume by the journal's publisher, The Society for the History of Psychology, a division of the American Psychological Association.

The winning article is entitled "Arnold Gesell's progressive vision: Child hygiene, socialism, and eugenics." The president of the Society, Andrew Winston, points out in his award letter that this award is the most important one given by the society. "It is a direct reflection of the value placed on your [Harris's] scholarship," Winston adds. 

Read more about the research that led to this article.

Brigitte Bailey, associate professor of English, has co-edited “Transatlantic Women: Nineteenth Century American Women Writers & Great Britain,” published by the University Press of New England.

In this volume, 15 scholars from diverse backgrounds analyze American women writers' transatlantic exchanges in the nineteenth century. They show how women writers (and often their publications) traveled to create or reinforce professional networks and identities, to escape strictures on women and African Americans, to promote reform, to improve their health, to understand the workings of other nations, and to pursue cultural and aesthetic education.