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 ....
