This course will examine the arts of England and the British Isles, from the fall of Rome to the late Gothic period. We will begin with the artistic traditions of the Roman era and proceed through time, looking at the art found in ship-burials like Sutton Hoo and in hoards of buried treasure, and at ...
This section of HIST 390: The Digital Past, is themed "Tech and the Tudors." If you only know one thing about Tudor England's King Henry VIII, it's probably that he went through six wives (and made England Protestant) in his quest for a son. Or, as the rhyme goes, "Divorced. Beheaded. Died. Divorced....
Dr. Jacquelyn Williamson is an Egyptologist, with a special focus on gender and religious power. Her book, Nefertiti’s Sun Temple: A New Cult Complex at Tell el-Amarna, part of Brill’s Harvard Egyptology Series, was published in September 2016. She is involved in the ongoing investigation of Kom el-N...
Dr. Jessica Otis is an Assistant Professor of History and the Director of Public Projects at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. She received her MS in Mathematics and PhD in History from the University of Virginia, and spent four years in the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries as ...
The Middle Ages has had a powerful, long-lasting effect on cultures worldwide. A medieval studies curriculum enables students to discover just how much of our modern world can be traced back to the Middle Ages. The Minor Program in Medieval Studies has been designed as an interdisciplinary minor, to ...
Dan Howlett is a PhD candidate studying early American religion and disability between the 1660s and 1820s. His dissertation focuses on morality and bodies as religious movements and the Enlightenment caused shifts in intellectual and moral thought. He also works on a variety of digital projects in...
Janine is a PhD student who focuses on U.S. history in the 20th century with an emphasis on the military and race relations. Her dissertation focuses on Fort Dix in New Jersey during the first two decades following World War II to see how the Army struggled with integration efforts as it also adjust...
Lincoln Mullen is a historian of American religion and the nineteenth-century United States, often using computational methods for texts and maps. He is the executive director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, a research center which creates websites, podcasts, educational resou...
Jane Hooper received her Ph.D. from Emory University in 2010. She teaches courses in global and Indian Ocean history, as well as the history of Africa and the slave trade. Her first book, Feeding Globalization: Madagascar and the Provisioning Trade, 1600-1800, was published in 2017 by Ohio University...
I teach and write about the the place of religion in American history. I came to George Mason University in 2012, having earned a Ph.D. in American History from the University of Notre Dame and a Masters of Divinity from Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Previously, I taught at the Univer...
