August 2023

Dr. Malfavon’s Article Published

Alan Malfavon’s article “Loyalty, Subjecthood, and Violence: Veracruz’s Afro-descendants in the Early Mexican War of Independence, 1812-1813” will be published on the December 2023 Issue of The Latin Americanist, the oldest continuously published Latin American Studies journal in the United States, published by SECOLAS, The Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies.

Dr. Weller New Monograph

Charles Weller’s new monograph is out and now on display in the main office: ‘Pre-Islamic Survivals’ in Muslim Central Asia: Tsarist, Soviet and Post-Soviet Ethnography in World Historical Perspective (Islam and Global Studies Series, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023). The volume traces the conceptual lens of historical-cultural ‘survivals’ in various Christian, Islamic and offshoot secular traditions of historiography, especially […]

Alicia Callahan Recognized by National Collegiate Honors Council

May 2023 History graduate Alicia Callahan has been recognized as one of four Portz Scholars by the National Collegiate Honors Council for her Honors thesis,  “Soldiers of the Super Sixth,” on the long-term effects of combat and liberating the Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald on the soldiers of the Sixth Armored Division in World War […]