Cliopatria Welcomes Paula Petrik and Alan Allport ...

Paula Petrik teaches at George Mason University, where she holds appointments in both History and Art History. A native of Montana, Professor Petrik earned a B.A. at Cornell and an M.F.A. at the University of Montana before finishing her graduate work in American history at SUNY, Binghampton. Thereafter, she taught at Montana State University and the University of Maine. Before going to George Mason in 2001, Professor Petrik earned a certificate in web design and chaired Maine's department of mathematics and statistics for a year. Her prize-winning work includes two books in western, family and children's history and two books in multi-media applications of technology to history. While she continues to do research and publish in American family history, Professor Petrik has recently made her national reputation in the applications of technology to the study and teaching of history.

Alan Allport was born and grew up in England, where he earned a B. Sc. with honors in applied physics at Liverpool's John Moore University. He moved to Philadelphia in 1994 and, later, began graduate study at the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned an M.A. in modern British and modern European history in 2002. Since then, Allport has published a series of articles and essays in British and continental military and political history, and six middle/high school texts for Chelsea House. In addition to lecturing at Penn, Alan blogs at Horizon, one of Cliopatria's favorite relatives, and is writing his dissertation on"Demob: The Experience of Demobilization for British Ex-Servicemen After the Second World War."

While welcoming Paula Petrik and Alan Allport to Cliopatria, welcome also to Irfan Khawaja, whose Theory & Practice is the most recent addition to the blogs at History News Network. And add Khawaja's grievances in his most recent post, Students for Academic Obfuscation, to those of Chris Bray at Histori-blogography, John Gorenfeld's"Roger Ebert and Mohammed Atta, Partners in Crime" Salon, 12 April; and Michael Berube's grievances about howhis interview with David Horowitzwas handled at Front Page Rag. Next up over there, our colleague, Tim Burke.