Lacey Bonar is a PhD Student studying medieval Europe.She was awarded a WVU Humanities Grant to intern with the Layers of London Project during the summer of 2017.
McKenna Williamson (pictured left) and Elizabeth Satterfield (pictured right) presented at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research in Oklahoma City. McKenna's presentation was titled "An Analysis of Mental Illness in Early 20th Century Mexico" and Elizabeth's was titled, "A Changing Cultural Landscape in the Sunnyside Neighborhood of Morgantown, WV."
Jessica Hogbin is a Freshman WVU student studying history. She has become involved with the Royce J. and Caroline B. Watts Museum as well as the History Club/ Phi Alpha Theta in her time on campus.
Lauren Griffin, history major, is studying abroad in Japan during the 2017-2018 academic year. She is the recipient of a prestigious Boren Scholarship to learn Japanese in Japan.
Kenny Kolander (Ph.D. 2016) is an alumni from our program and now a Visiting Professor. He studies twentieth century United States history with a focus on foreign relations with the Middle East generally, and Israel specifically. He teaches courses in United States and Middle Eastern History and serves as co-faculty adviser to History Club/Phi Alpha Theta.
Autumn Mayle is a fifth-year PhD candidate interested in nineteenth century British history and women’s and gender history. Her dissertation is titled, "Public Homes versus Public Houses: Gendered Conceptions of Power, Respectability, and Domesticity in Sheffield, 1820-1880.” She spent the summer in Sheffield, England interning and performing dissertation research at the Sheffield City Archives. Autumn received a Graduate Humanities Internship to fund this experience.
“How was your summer?” This ambiguous question tends to haunt college
students during the first few weeks of the semester. They begin to wonder
if they had a good summer, a great summer, a poor summer, or a summer at all.
Where did summer go? What
did
I do? Soon, summer becomes a hazy memory and the worries of the semester overtake
our thoughts.
