WJU & the Fulbright Commission's German Studies Seminar

Participants in the 2013 Fulbright German Studies Seminar in Cologne

This past June, Assistant Professor of History Jeff Rutherford was chosen by the German Fulbright Commission to participate in its annual German Studies Seminar. Members of the seminar examined the numerous challenges facing Berlin, the capital of the unified German state. While Berlin possesses a cultural heritage and importance second to none in Germany, its desire to remain, in the words of its mayor, "poor but sexy" has become increasingly difficult due to economic realities that have left the city with a very small manufacturing base and growing population that is straining the city's welfare system.

WJU Historian at Work

WJU's Daniel Weimer, Associate Professor of History, recently published a monograph on American drug policy during the 1970s. In his Seeing Drugs: Modernization, Counterinsurgency, and U.S. Narcotics Control in the Third World, 1969-1976, Dr. Weimer highlights the interaction between American foreign policy and the opening rounds of the drug wars that have characterized American policy during the last three decades of the twentieth century. 

Published by Kent State University Press, Seeing Drugs explores how Thailand, Burma and Mexico were deemed the key opium and heroin producing and trafficking nations during the early and mid-1970s. The book also looks at how those respective governments tried to halt drug trafficking and production in those countries.

"I explain why the United States relied upon modernization and counterinsurgency theory to solve the drug problem," he said.

Wheeling Jesuit University & Classrooms Without Borders

At 7pm on November 10, Wheeling Jesuit University will host an event in Troy Theater publicizing its partnership with Classrooms Without Borders (CWB). CWB is a Pittsburgh-based organization dedicated to improving Holocaust education in the greater Ohio Valley. Led by Dr. Zipora Gur, CWB provides educators and students the opportunity to increase their general knowledge of the Holocaust as well as give teachers the necessary tools to transmit this knowledge to their students in the classroom.