Jennifer Binczewski successfully defended her dissertation, “Solitary Sparrows: Widowhood and the Catholic Community in Post-Reformation England, 1580-1630,” on November 13th. Her research entailed work in twenty-one archives, hunting down evidence about scores of widowed women who supported underground Catholicism in Protestant England. Congratulations Jennifer!
Professor Sean Wempe has signed a book contract with Oxford University Press for his monograph, “Revenants of the German Empire: Colonial Germans, the League of Nations, and the Redefinition of Imperialism, 1919-1933.” Congratulations Dr. Wempe and we look forward to its release!
The department would like to share a bit of late news for Professor Ashley Wright! “Not just a place for the smoking of opium: the Indian opium den and imperial anxieties in the 1890s” was published in the Summer 2017 edition of the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History. Check out her article!
We are proud to highlight the work of graduate students Laura Briere and Jared Chastain, along with their faculty adviser, Professor Orlan Svingen. They were in College Park, Maryland last spring looking for information about the storied 161st Infantry Regiment when they mistakenly got off the elevator on the wrong floor. Take a look at […]
The Department of History is honored to receive praise from the Office of Assessment of Teaching and Learning for not only the success of the general history courses being offered, but also for the success of the Roots of Contemporary Issues UCORE program. History as a whole department was recognized for its high quality learning and […]