Department of History (M/C198)
University of Illinois at Chicago
601 South Morgan Street
Chicago, IL 60607-7109 Phone: (312) 996-3141 E-mail:
lschelbe@uic.edu
Education:
Matura: Gymnasium Immensee, Switzerland, 1948
MA in History: Fordham University, New York City, 1960
Ph.D. Columbia University, New York City, 1966
Grants and Awards
1996 Subsidy for Gary K. Pranger, Philip Schaff, Swiss Center Foundation, $ 3000
1995 Subsidy for Gary K. Pranger, Philip Schaff, UIC Institute of the Humanities, $500
1994 Subsidy for Thaden Festschrift, UIC Institute for the Humanities, $1000
1992 UIC Award for Excellence in Teaching
1991 Subsidy for SAHS Publication Series, Fund for the Swiss Abroad, $10,000
1986 Ellis Island Medal of Honor
1985, 1990, 1994 Shirley Bill Award for Excellence in Teaching
1976 Subsidy for Book, Fund for the Swiss Abroad, $ 10,000
1970 Holderbank Foundation Research Fellowship, $ 4,000
1969 Swiss National Foundation for Research, $ 12,000
Publications:
Books:
Edited: New Glarus. The Making of a Swiss American Town. Glarus: Kommissionsverlag Tschudi, 1970. 239 pp.
Einführung in die schweizerische Auswanderungsgeschichte der Neuzeit. Beiheft 16 der Schweizerischen Zeitschrift für Geschichte. Zürich: Leemann, 1976. 443 pp.
Edited: Der Kolumbusbrief. Fanal einer neuen Zeit. Zürich: Stocker Verlag, 1976. 60 pp. [Bibliophile facsimile edition with interpretative essay and a new translation into German.]
Edited, with Hedwig Rappolt: Alles ist ganz anders hier. Auswandererschicksale in Briefen aus zwei Jahrhunderten. Olten: Walter Verlag, 1977. 483 pp.
Swiss Migration to America. The Swiss Mennonites. New York: Arno Press, 1980. 320 pp. [Edition of 1966 dissertation, with new introduction.]
Edited: Switzerland and the United States: Aspects of an Enmeshment. Yearbook of German American Studies 1990, Vol.25. Lawrence, KS: Printed for the Society of German American Studies by the University of Kansas Press, 1991. 213 pp.
Edited (with Nick Ceh): Essays in Russian and East European History, Festschrift in Honor of Edward C. Thaden. Boulder, CO: East European Monographs, 1995. 254 pp.
Edited: America Experienced: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Accounts of Swiss Immigrants. Camden, Maine: Picton Press, 1996. Pp. 453.
Articles:
"Die Wanderungen der Schweizer: Eine historische Uebersicht," Saeculum. Jahrbuch für Universalgeschichte 18 (1968): 403-430.
"Jacob Grebel's Trial Revised," Archive for Reformation History 60 (1969): 32-64.
"Die Fünfte Schweiz in der Berichterstattung des 'Aufrichtigen und Wohlerfahrenen Schweizer-Boten'," Schweizerisches Archiv für Volkskunde 57 (1971): 84-114.
"On Becoming an Emigrant: A Structural View of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Swiss Data," Perspectives in American History 7 (1973): 441-495.
"Die Stimme eines Einsamen in Zion: Ein unbekannter Brief von Bruder Jaebez aus Ephrata, Pennsylvanien, aus dem Jahre 1743," Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte 85 (1974): 77-92.
English version with new introduction: "'A Modest Sketch of God's Work': John Peter Miller's Letter of 1743 on Ephrata's Evolution," Historic Schaefferstown Record 19 (1985): 1-15.
"Von der Macht des Pietismus: Dokumentarbericht zur Auswanderung einer Basler Familie im Jahr 1736," Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde 75 (1975): 89-119.
English version: "The Thommens of Schaefferstown: A Documentary," Historic Schaefferstown Record 17 (1984): 43-74.
"'America': Von der Macht und dem Wandel eines Archetyps," Saeculum. Jahrbuch für Universalgeschichte 28 (1977): 75-86.
"Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Swiss Mennonite Family Names: An Annotated Checklist," with Sandra Luebking, Pennsylvania Folklife 26 (1977): 2-24. Reprinted in: Journal of Genealogy 4 (1979): 24-46.- With Index in: SAHS Newsletter 14 (June 1978): 1-32.
"On Interpreting Immigrant Letters: The Case of Johann Caspar and Wilhelmina Honegger-Hanhart," Yearbook of German-American Studies 17 (Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 1981): 141-152.
"Portrait of an Immigrant Society: The North American Grütli-Bund, 1865-1915," with Urspeter Schelbert, Yearbook of German-American Studies 18 (1983): 233-254.
"People of Choice: Decision-Making in an Eighteenth Century Peasant Family," The Report. A Journal of German-American Studies 40 (1987): 77-95.
"Die Ausformung von Konrad Beissels Ephrata Gemeinschaft im Widerstreit geistlicher Traditionen, 1735-1745," Eberbacher Geschichtsblatt 1991 90 (1991): 41-54.
"Christian Funk's Spiegel für alle Menschen: Interpretative Introduction and Text," Yearbook of German American Studies 31 (1996): MS 37 pp. (forthcoming)
Chapters in books and encyclopedic works:
"Wilhelm Tell in der Tradition der Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika," in: Tell: Werden und Wandern eines Mythos (Bern: Hallwag, 1973), pp. 313-330.
"Swiss," in: Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups, S. Thernstrom, ed. (Harvard 1980): 981-987 .
3 "Emigration from Imperial Germany, 1870-1914: Contours, Contexts, Experiences," in: Imperial Germany (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985: 109-133.
"Pietism Rejected: A Reinterpretation of Amish Origins," in: America and the Germans, Frank Trommler and Joseph McVeigh, eds., Vol. I: Immigration, Language, and Ethnicity (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985), pp. 118-127.
"Swiss," Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America (1995): 1298-1308.
"Swiss [in Indiana]", in: The Peopling of Indiana: The Ethnic Experience (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1996): 592-613.
"Before New Glarus: A Note on the Woodland Peoples' Pre-Conquest World," in: ``America's Little Switzerland erinnert sich. 150 Jahre New Glarus, WI (Glarus: Baeschlin, 1996): 27-34.
In Press: "Contours of a mentalité: An Interpretation of Some Migration-Related Swiss German Songs," in The Musical Culture of German-Americans. Edited by Philip Bohlman (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, forthcoming): 24 pp. MS.