Our department aims to foster research opportunities for
everyone, including Undergraduate History Majors. To this end, we developed the Undergraduate Research
Skills Program in order to encourage and foster innovative research among our
Undergraduate students.
On March 27,
the Department of History hosted Nathan Wood to present “Backwardness and
Rushing Forward: The Age of Speed in a Suburb of Europe” for the 53rd
annual Callahan Lecture. Dr. Wood, professor of history at the University of
Kansas, explored the trenchant irony of the history of transportation in Poland
from 1885-1939: that the quintessential experience of the age of
speed—and of modernity generally—just might be the sensation of feeling left behind.
In an
effort to engage students with the past, Dr. Arthurs has been actively
developing courses that take a thematic approach to history. He believes that
courses should allow students to think about history in a broader sense.
Dr. Katherine Aaslestad was recently named a 2016 Benedum Distinguished scholar, an honor which recognizes her high caliber of research and scholarly activity.
