Monday, October 27th, 2008
This fall the Department of History is pleased to welcome senior faculty member Cynthia A. Kierner. Dr. Kierner received her B.A. from McGill University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. She comes to the department from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Professor Kierner is the author or editor [...]
Monday, October 20th, 2008
The Center for History & New Media (CHNM) is pleased to announce the launch of its newest website: Making the History of 1989. This project provides students and teachers access to a substantial collection of high-quality primary sources; a set of multimedia interviews that make visible the processes by which historians transform events and sources [...]
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
One of our Western Civilization Postdoctoral Fellows, Dr. Nicole Hudgins, was recently awarded a CTAC grant from the Center for Teaching Excellence for her proposal, “Critical Thinking on the Web: Assessing the Value of the Internet to the Practice of History.” The project will expand upon Dr. Hudgins’ Western Civilization course assignment, which asks [...]
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
The department welcomes Ryan Swanson as our Finley postdoctoral fellow for 2008-09. Professor Swanson completed his Ph.D. at Georgetown University in June 2008. His dissertation, “Jim Crow on Deck: Baseball During America’s Reconstruction,” explores how racial segregation was implemented following the Civil War. He is teaching U.S. sports history this fall.