Nicole Young graduated May 2016 with a Bachelors of Science in Sport and Exercise Psychology with minors in History and Africana Studies. She received a Fulbright ETA to learn, grow, and teach in Malaysia.
Beth Parnizca (BA, 2011) started at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park as an intern after her freshman year at WVU and was hired as a permanent employee after she graduated. She said, "My experience at WVU led me directly to my position and gave me the tools to succeed." Beth credits her ability to take graduate-level courses, work closely with faculty, and to serve as an officer of Phi Alpha Theta as formative for her role in the Park Service. She said, "The department really pushed me to think and write critically as a historian, supported and encouraged me at every....
While our department has very high employment rates, we rejoice with every alumni from our program who receives a job. Recently, three alumni from our program have found success in the academic job market.
Ms. Katy Ferrari recently received a Fulbright Research Fellowship for academic year 2018-2019 to conduct doctoral research in Turin, Italy. Dr. Matthew Vester is Ms. Ferrari’s doctoral advisor at WVU, and her Fulbright host in Italy is Dr. Angelo Torre at the University of Eastern Piedmont. Ms. Ferrari’s dissertation project, “When is Law Enough? Women, Patronage, and Politics in the Early Modern Italian Law Courts,” focuses on the nexus between the early modern state, its legal institutions, and patronage ties by studying lawsuits in which elite women in seventeenth-century Turin asserted their inheritance claims against other family members. In these....
In April History undergraduate students took advantage of several opportunities to share their research projects. The Department of History offers undergraduate students research opportunities and many undergraduate researchers shared their work in poster and presentation formats at national and local venues. Senior McKenna Williamson and junior Elizabeth Satterfield attended the National Conference on Undergraduate Research at University of Central Oklahoma from April 4th to 7th . McKenna, mentored by Michele Stephens, presented her research on mental illness in early 20th century Mexico and Haleigh Posey Explains her research Elizabeth, mentored by ....
Kenny Kolander, PhD alumni and Visiting Assistant Professor, received a Fulbright postdoctoral award to research and write in Israel for up to 20 months. Kenny will be a part of the School of Political Science at the University of Haifa, where he will work closely with Dr. Zach Levey in writing his current manuscript, The Military-Industrial Peace Process: Congress, the Executive, and the U.S.-Israel Special Relationship, 1967-1979.
