Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
Benedict Carton was selected in December 2008 as a national finalist by the National Society of Collegiate Scholars (NSCS) for the Inspire Integrity Award. The NSCS Inspire Integrity Awards are the only national student-nominated faculty awards program. These awards are presented to full-time faculty who have, through their teaching and actions, made an impact on [...]
Monday, February 2nd, 2009
On March 24-25, 2009, George Mason University will host the conference “1989: Looking Back, Looking Forward” featuring Mikhail Gorbachev as the keynote speaker. Gorbachev will also participate in a round table discussion with Lee Hamilton, President of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and former FBI Director William Webster. The conference was the brainchild [...]
Monday, February 2nd, 2009
Dr. Roger Mellen, assistant professor of journalism at New Mexico State University who received his PhD in History from GMU in August 2007, was awarded an honorable mention by the American Journalism Historians Association for his dissertation “A Culture of Dissidence: The Emergence of Liberty of the Press in Pre-Revolutionary Virginia” in the Margaret A. [...]
Monday, February 2nd, 2009
Dr. Mike O’Malley’s book, The Cultural Turn in U.S. History (co-edited with James Cook and Lawrence Glickman), has just been published by the University of Chicago Press. A definitive account of one of the most dominant trends in recent historical writing, the volume takes stock of the field at the same time as it showcases [...]