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This fall, our newest professor, Dr. Nianshen Song, will teach two courses, HIST 103 and HIST 480/680 Contemporary China. Come meet him at our open house!
Prof. Christy Chapin's new book, Ensuring America's Health: The Public Creation of the Corporate Health Care System (Cambridge University Press, 2015) won the 2016 Ralph Gomory Prize from the...
The Department of History is pleased to announce that Dr. Nianshen Song will join the department as an Assistant Professor in August 2016. Dr. Song holds a BA in Chinese...
Assistant Professors Christy Chapin and Meredith Oyen both recently published books. Prof. Chapin published Ensuring America's Health: The Public Creation of the Corporate Health Care System...
Kate Brown recently won the John H. Dunning Prize for the Best Book in American history. The prize is awarded every two years. Close to 1500 books were submitted for consideration. For more on...
Prof. Denise Meringolo has won a Dresher Residential Research Fellowship for 2015-16 for her project, "Radical Roots: Civic Engagement, Public History, and a Tradition of Social Justice Activism."...
Prof. Susan McDonough was accepted into the prestigious 2015 NEH Summer Institute on “Negotiating Identities: Expression and Representation in the Christian-Jewish-Muslim Mediterranean," to be...
Prof. Froide won a MIPAR/CAHSS summer faculty fellowship for the summer of 2015 for her new project, "Eighteenth Century England's Charitable Corporation: A Cautionary Tale of Microfinance, Fraud,...
Prof. Joseph Tatarewicz was the most quoted expert in a major science story on the Hubble telescope in the Christian Science Monitor on April 19. Read his pithy quotes (how do you like...
Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman's March and American Memory On this installment of ST, an interesting conversation with Anne Sarah Rubin, an associate professor of history at the...