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Alumnus Paul Grant Publishes Book

Posted on December 14, 2020

Alumnus Paul Grant (Ph.D. 2017) has published his first book, Healing and Power in Ghana: Early Indigenous Expressions of Christianity (Baylor University Press, 2020). According to the publisher’s website: “Focusing on the southeastern Gold Coast …

Posted in 2020, All News, Alumni, European History, History News

Alumna Vaneesa Cook Writes About Work with MIA Project

Posted on July 22, 2020

Alumna Vaneesa Cook (Ph.D. 2015) has written a blog post about her work with the Missing in Action Recovery & Identification Project at UW-Madison. The piece is titled “The Legacy of the 5307th Merrill’s Marauders: …

Posted in 2020, All News, Alumni, History News, U.S./North American History

Alumna Tyina Steptoe Publishes Piece on Hip-Hop and Black Lives Matter

Posted on July 9, 2020

Alumna Tyina Steptoe (Ph.D. 2008) has written a piece on hip-hop and the Black Lives Matter movement for The Conversation, an independent, nonprofit online publisher of commentary and analysis. The piece is titled “Hip-hop is …

Posted in 2020, All News, Alumni, History News, U.S./North American History

Alumna Grace Allen Writes About Experience During COVID-19 in China

Posted on May 12, 2020

Recent graduate Grace Allen (PhD 2017) had been teaching for the School of Humanities and Social Science at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen when the COVID-19 outbreak began. Since that time, Allen has …

Posted in 2020, All News, Alumni, European History, History News

History Alumna Katie Jarvis Receives Major Book Prize

Posted on April 13, 2020

Alumna Katie Jarvis (Ph.D. 2014) has received the Louis Gottschalk Prize from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS). The Louis Gottschalk Prize recognizes an outstanding historical or critical study on the eighteenth century. For …

Posted in 2020, All News, Alumni, Awards, European History, History News

Alumna Anna Zeide Receives 2019 James Beard Award

Posted on January 22, 2020

Anna Zeide (Ph.D. 2014) an alumna and current Assistant Professor of History at Oklahoma State University has received the 2019 award for best Reference, History and Scholarship book from the James Beard Foundation! Zeide won …

Posted in 2020, Alumni, Awards, History News, History of Science Medicine and Technology

Alumnus Gregory Jones-Katz Published in the Journal Rethinking History

Posted on January 14, 2020

Alumnus Gregory Jones-Katz (Ph.D. 2016), has published an article in the journal Rethinking History. The article rereads French philosopher Jacques Derrida’s 1988 Critical Inquiry essay on literary critic and literary theorist Paul de Man’s collaborationist articles and …

Posted in 2020, All News, Alumni, History News, U.S./North American History

History Alumn Writes About the Humanities in the Chronicle of Higher Education

Posted on January 7, 2020

Alumna Karen Spierling (Ph.D. 2001), an Associate Professor of History at Denison University, has written a piece for the Chronicle of Higher Education titled “The Humanities Must Go on the Offensive.” In the article, Spierling …

Posted in 2020, All News, Alumni, History News

Alumnus Sam Gee Publishes Review Essay in the Los Angeles Review of Books

Posted on December 10, 2019

Recent graduate Sam Gee (B.A. in History and Religious Studies, 2017) has published a review essay in the Los Angeles Review of Books. The essay covers a recent biography of the prominent twentieth-century Austrian philosopher …

Posted in 2019, All News, Alumni, History News

Recent Graduate Ryan Smazal Working on Underwater Archaeology

Posted on November 13, 2019

The 2018 issue of “The Past in the Present” featured Ryan Smazal (History/Political Science, 2019) and his summer internship with WHS’s Maritime Preservation/Maritime Archeology Program. As part of his work that summer, he was certified …

Posted in 2019, All News, Alumni, History News
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