For a glimpse inside the everyday world of the Division, please sample from this archive of the Division's past, which reflects all the rich memories of a growing educational program: visiting scholars, students abroad, international seminars, late-night discussions, community events, but most of all, shared learning.
What an Exciting Year! 2023 in Review by Ute Lotz-Heumann; Announcement: Town & Gown Lecture 6 February 2024; Navigating Seventeenth-Century Brandenburg-Prussia with Professor Mary Lindemann by Annie Morphew; Announcement: Town & Gown Lecture 2023 on YouTube; Exploring Space and Its Meanings: The Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär Conference by Abby Gibbons; Summer Trip to Germany by Timothy Anthony; Introducing Courtney Hall by Benjamin Miller; Introducing Alexandra Labenz by Rachel Small; Division News; Make a Gift
Desert Harvest, vol. 30, no. 2 Fall/Winter 2022-23
Can You Feel the Excitement in the Air? by Ute Lotz-Heumann; Surprise! by Beth Plummer; Introducing Timothy Anthony by Benjamin Miller; Announcements: Town and Gown Lecture, Summer Lecture Series on YouTube; Life Writings by Timothy Anthony; Introducing Ana-Isabella Beatriz Madril by Liliana Mondragon-Morales; In Memoriam Helen Schaefer and Dick Duffield; Division News; Make a Gift
Desert Harvest, vol. 30, no. 1 Spring/Summer 2022
The New Normal by Beth Plummer; The Work of the Historian by Ute Lotz-Heumann; Reporting on the 35th Annual Town and Gown Lecture by Ben Miller; A View from the Archive by Liliana Mondragon-Morales, Rachel Davis Small, Abby Gibbons, and Annie Morphew; Announcement; In Memoriam: Father Robert Burns, O.P.; Division News.
Desert Harvest, vol 29, no. 2 Fall/Winter 2021
Paging Through the Past While Looking to the Future by Beth Plummer; My Sabbatical Project by Ute Lotz-Heumann; Introducing Katy Gross and Erin Tyo by Abby Gibbons; Experience of Research in Pandemic by Benjamin Miller; Announcement; Division News
Desert Harvest, vol 29, no. 1 spring/summer 2021
Life in the Division – Before, During, and After Covid-19; Research in the Time of Covid-19; Professor Emerita Pia Francisca Cuneo; Natural Disasters, Military Chaplains, and English Merchant Adventurers: Three Division Doctoral Students Present Their Research Projects
Desert Harvest, vol 28, no. 2, fall/winter 2020-21
We Need Historians More Than Ever!; 400 Square Feet; 34th Annual Town and Gown Lecture
Desert Harvest, vol 28, no. 1, spring/summer 2020
Celebrating — and then Going into Lockdown; DLMRS Celebrates 30 Years of Excellence; Three Cheers for Luise!
Desert Harvest, vol 27, no. 2, fall 2019
Perceptions of Space and Other Ways to Look at the World; Mapping Shared Churches; Blending Histories: Connecting Lives in the University City of Marburg; New Spain and its Clergy: Archival Encounters; From Family to Research; 2020 Town and Gown Lecture; Introducing Christine Liou and Kaitlyn Centini
Desert Harvest, vol 27, no. 1, spring 2019
Playing Cards Spread the News; A German Spring and Crossing Borders; 33rd Annual Town and Gown Lecture; On the Trail of the Merchant Adventurers; Professor Michael North Presents Lecture on Media and the Dutch Republic; A Summer Abroad: Searching for Disasters in the Archive
Desert Harvest, vol 26, no. 2, fall 2018
War and Propaganda; Overcoming Challenges and Beginning New Projects; 32nd Annual Town and Gown Lecture; Walking Geneva's Streets; Honoring Helen Nader; Introducing Dean Messinger
Desert Harvest, vol 26, no. 1, spring 2018
Marking the Beginning of the Thirty Years' War Four Hundred Years Ago; First Impressions and Remembering Histories; Professor Plummer's Inaugural Address; Congratulations Graduates; On Sausage Salad and Subservient Subjects: My Fulbright Experience; Exploring the Archives of Germany
Desert Harvest, vol 25, no. 2, fall 2017
What a Year!; I'll Be Seeing You, I Hope!; Welcoming Professor Beth Plummer; Reflections on Religion, War, and the Reformation; Footnotes: A Journal of History; Introducing Hannah McClain; Obituaries
Desert Harvest, vol 25, no. 1, spring 2017
A Generous Heart is More Valuable than Great Wealth; A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words; In Memoriam, Dr. Peter W. Foley; 31st Annual Town and Gown Lecture: Comparative Reformations; The Complexities of Luther's Emotions
Desert Harvest, vol. 24, no. 2, fall 2016
The excitement of 2017!; What is a historian’s idea of fun? A conference!; 2017 events; workshop at the Newberry Library; new student Rachel Small; Founder's Day
Desert Harvest, vol. 24, no. 1, spring 2016
Reflections on history and contemporary challenges; an informal sabbatical report; in memoriam, Donald Weinstein; annual lecturer Thomas Kaufmann; looking for traces of Anabaptists in Zurich
Desert Harvest, vol. 23, no. 2, fall 2015
Francis Bacon and the division seminar; the Duke August Library, a "resort" for scholars; visiting scholar Peter Lake; reflections from Augsburg, Germany; new Ph.D. graduates; new student Benjamin Miller
Desert Harvest, vol. 23, no. 1, spring 2015
Tribute to Luise Betterton at 25 years in the Division; naming as a historical problem; fairies matter. No, really!; annual lecturer Thomas Burman; the history of everything ever?; in memoriam, Wilhelm H. Lotz and Remo DiCenso
Desert Harvest, vol. 22, no. 2, fall 2014
You too shape the university with your gifts!; comparisons across time and space; visiting scholar Arnold Snyder; "the most liveable city in the world"; my summer in Freiburg; deciphering the past; new student Annie Morphew
Desert Harvest, vol. 22, no.1, spring 2014
The enduring primacy of human studies; how to do interdisciplinary work; annual lecturer Alexandra Walsham; continuities in culture; Paris redux
Desert Harvest, vol. 21, no. 1. fall 2013
Connections; Books and E-books: how do they stack up?; stepping into the shoes of a nineteenth-century print-man; visiting scholars Michael Van Dussen and Craig Harline; new students
Desert Harvest, vol. 21, no. 1, spring 2013
What are you doing in 2017?; historians and fear; annual lecturer Edward Muir; visiting scholar Kaspar von Greyerz; ways of knowing in the Renaissance: graduate student research on prints in the UAMA's collection
Desert Harvest, vol. 20, no. 2, fall 2012
This is not a boondoggle . . .; from fiction to better history; experiences at a conference in Eisenach and at a summer course in Erlangen
Desert Harvest, vol. 20, no. 1, spring 2012
I will lift my eyes . . .to the faces of students!; 300 years from now; annual lecturer Thomas A. Brady Jr.; visiting scholars Nicholas Terpstra and Retha Warnicke
Desert Harvest, vol. 19, no. 2, fall 2011
The past is a foreign country . . .; visiting scholar Cary Nederman; Fulbright Fellows experiences in Münster and Vienna.
Desert Harvest, vol. 19, no. 1, spring 2011
Friendship and the color blue; Joys, tribulations of grad school; annual lecturer Barbara Diefendorf; medieval pilgrims to the Holy Land
Desert Harvest, vol. 18, no. 2, fall 2010
Special Heiko A. Oberman Chair Endowment Completion issue: Oberman Chair & Library Gala; visiting scholar Miriam Bodian; archival research in Wolfenbüttel (Germany), Vienna, and Nord-Pas-de-Calais (France)
Desert Harvest, vol. 18, no. 1, spring 2010
What exactly does a professor do?; annual lecturer Heinz Schilling; visiting scholar Bruce Gordon; surge in the field of religious history
Desert Harvest, vol. 17, no. 2, fall 2009
The idea of Humboldt: research and learning; visiting scholar James M. Estes; five unforgettable doctoral summers in Germany, England, and Switzerland
Desert Harvest, vol. 17, no. 1, spring 2009
Regents' Professor appointment, Susan C. Karant-Nunn; inaugural lecture and banquet of Oberman Professor, Ute Lotz-Heumann; annual lecturer Londa Schiebinger; first impressions by Ute Lotz-Heumann
Desert Harvest, vol. 16, no. 2, fall 2008
First Oberman Professor, Ute Lotz-Heumann; three fellowships won; paleography study in St. Louis; student research among the Sisters of the Visitation in France
Desert Harvest, vol. 16, no. 1, spring 2008
Annual lecturer David Cressy; visiting scholar Hartmut Lehmann; the German Sermon Database Project
Desert Harvest, vol. 15, no. 2, fall 2007
Oberman Visiting Professor, Thomas A. Brady Jr.; the High Country Seminar; new associated faculty, Cynthia White; in memoriam, Morris H. Martin; student research in the English Midland counties
Desert Harvest, vol. 15, no. 1 , spring 2007
Annual lecturer Natalie Zemon Davis; visiting scholars Erika Rummel and James M. Estes; in memoriam, Ann Orlov-Rubinow; acquiring interdisciplinary tools in seminar
Desert Harvest, vol. 14, no. 2, fall 2006
Bazy Tankersley's Affair for the Chair; Helen Nader receives award; visiting scholars Scott Hendrix and David Nirenberg; new adjunct faculty, Diane Korngiebel; language study in Munich
Desert Harvest, vol. 14, no. 1, spring 2006
$1 million halfway-mark achieved; 20th annual lecture and banquet with Rev. Dr. Andrew Greeley; visiting scholars Erika Rummel and Andrew C. Gow; alumna reflects on first tenure-track year at Luther College, Iowa
Desert Harvest, vol. 13, no. 2 , fall 2005
New associated faculty, Kari Boyd McBride; visiting scholars Charles Zika and Carlos Eire; research in Nice; language study in Heidelberg
Desert Harvest, vol. 13, no. 1, spring 2005
Annual lecturer Caroline Walker Bynum; visiting scholars Erika Rummel, James M. Estes and Corine Schleif; Fulbright to Valencia
Desert Harvest, vol. 12, no. 2, fall 2004
New associated faculty, David L. Graizbord; visiting scholars Harvey J. Graff and Paul Freedman; Paradise Valley benefit for Oberman Research Collection; students' sojourns in Rome and Paris
Desert Harvest, vol. 12, no. 1, spring 2004
Annual lecturer James D. Tracy; visiting scholars Theodore Evergates and Maureen Miller; Director's Berlin sabbatical
Desert Harvest, vol. 11, no. 2 , fall 2003
Fulbright to Switzerland; summer of Latin in Rome
Desert Harvest, vol. 11, no. 1 , spring 2003
Annual lecturer William Chester Jordan; visiting scholar James M. Stayer; students research abroad in Antwerp and Lyon
Desert Harvest, vol. 10, no. 2 , fall 2002
Campaign Launch to endow the Heiko A. Oberman Chair; new associated faculty, Pia F. Cuneo; visiting scholar Merry Wiesner-Hanks; sabbatical article from associated faculty Alan E. Bernstein
Desert Harvest, vol. 10, no. 1 , spring 2002
Annual lecturer Elaine Pagels; visiting scholars Thomas A. Brady, Jr., Miriam Usher Chrisman, and Anne Jacobson Schutte; graduate students on the job hunt
Desert Harvest, vol. 9, no. 2 , fall 2001
In Memoriam: Heiko Augustinus Oberman, 1930-2001; History Department Professors Alan E. Bernstein and Helen Nader become associated faculty of the Division; visiting scholar Tom Scott
Desert Harvest, vol. 9, no. 1 , spring 2001
Annual lecturer Patrick Collinson; visiting scholars Irena Backus and H. C. Erik Midelfort
Desert Harvest, vol. 8, no. 2 , fall 2000
International Symposium issue: Heiko A. Oberman's 70th birthday; visiting scholar Brad Gregory; students' summer seminar at Ekeby, the Netherlands
Desert Harvest, vol. 8, no. 1 , spring 2000
Annual lecturer John P. Frank; visiting scholars Andrew Pettegree and Bernard Roussel
Desert Harvest, vol. 7, no. 2 , fall 1999
Student's impressions of Germany; Summer Lecture Series; student's view of presenting a conference paper for the first time
Desert Harvest, vol. 7, no. 1 , spring 1999
Annual lecturer Robert Wistrich; Sigrun Haude, University of Cincinnati, alumna looks back
Desert Harvest, vol. 6, no. 1 , spring 1998
Division's first Combibium; launching of the Journal of Early Modern History ; annual lecturer Thomas F. O'Meara; student's research of the Inquisition in Rome; visiting scholars James M. Estes and Thomas A. Brady, Jr.
Desert Harvest, vol. 5, no. 1 , spring 1997
Annual lecturer John Dillenberger; visiting scholar Francis Higman; students' experiences in Tübingen and Paris
Desert Harvest, vol. 4, no. 1 , spring 1996
Heiko A. Oberman awarded the Heineken Prize; students' impressions of Geneva, Salzburg, and Paris; alumni look back from positions at Hope College (Michigan), Stanford University, and Southern Utah University
Desert Harvest, vol. 3, no. 1 , spring 1995
Annual lecturer Jaroslav Pelikan; students abroad in Mainz, Toronto, and Geneva; alumni look back from positions at the University of Cincinnati, University of Groningen, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and the University of Alberta
Desert Harvest, vol. 2, no. 1 , spring 1992
Annual lecturer Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi; students abroad in Cambridge and Tübingen
Desert Harvest, vol. 1, no. 2 , spring 1991
Three Division Fulbrights awarded; student anticipates long-awaited year in Tübingen
Desert Harvest, vol. 1, no. 1 , fall 1990
Anti-clericalism Conference