Graduate Student News and Events

Recent PhDs

Mark Myers, September 2008, Ronald L. Lewis “Deindustrialization and the Decline of Community in the Coalfields: McDowell County, West Virginia, 1950-2000.”

Jennifer Egolf, August 2008, Elizabeth Fones-Wolf and Ronald L. Lewis
“Keeping America American: the Great Depression, Government Intervention, and the Conservative Response in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, 1922-1940.”

Kennedy M. Moindi, August 2008, Robert Maxon “State Economic Policy and Development in Kenya: A Study of African Entrepreneurship in Kisii Township and Its Evirons, 1930-1978.”

Elizabeth Oliver Lee, April 2008, Ronald L. Lewis “Potomac’s Valley Shall Become a Domain we Create,’ Commercialism and the South Branch Valley, 1750-1800.”

Lou Martin, April 2008, Kenneth Fones-Wolf
“Working for Independence: The Failure of the New Deal in Politics in a Rural Industrial Place.”

All History PhDs awarded at WVU

Placement

Louis Martin, PhD 2008: Assistant Professor, Chatham College
Jennifer Egolf, PhD 2008: Visiting Assistant Professor, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Kevin Barksdale,PhD 2005: Assistant Professor, Marshall University
Martin Shanguhyia, PhD 2007: Visiting Assistant Professor, Ohio State University
George L. Simpson, PhD 1994: Chair of History at High Point University.
Brucella Jordan, PhD 2003: Chair of History at Lane College in Jackson, TN.
John Mwaruvie, PhD 2005: Chair of History, Political Science, and Public Administration at Moi University in Kenya.

All History Department Graduate Placements

Recognition

Charlotte Rodabaugh has been awarded the 2008 National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of West Virginia District IX Scholarship.
Charles Dusch has been named the 2008 Wesley M. Bagby Award winner.
Louis Martin has been named the 2008 William D. Barns Award in West Virginia or Regional History winner.
Memhet Tepeyurt has been named the 2008 Rebecca Donnally and Henry E. Thornburg Doctoral Award winner.
Allison Fredette, Elizabeth Lee and Michael Buseman have been named the 2008 Robert and Wynona Wilkins Award winners.

Publications

Jay Smith, “The Redbaiting of Senator Harley Kilgore,” West Virginia History , 2007

Recent Books by WVU PhDs

L.Diane Barnes, Paul Finkelman. The World of Frederick Douglass, 1817-1895. (Oxford University Press)

L. Diane Barnes. Artisan Workers in the Upper South: Petersburg, Virginia, 1820-1865. (Louisiana State University Press)

Shirley Stewart Burns. Bringing Down the Mountains. (West Virginia University Press)

Kevin T. Barksdale. The Lost State of Franklin: Americas First Secession (New Directions in Southern History). (The University Press of Kentucky)