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....
PhD candidate Luke Gramith was awarded one of 65 competitive ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship. This year-long fellowship given to doctoral students in the humanities during the final year of dissertation-writing, will provide Luke with $38,000 to complete his dissertation. This funding will allow Luke follow-up research in Italy and Slovenia, as well as enable him to focus on full-time dissertation writing.
Nerissa Aksamit recently received a Central European History Society Travel Grant to support her doctoral research for “Training Friends and Overseas Relief: The Friends Ambulance Unit and the Friends Relief Service in British Occupied Germany, 1939-1948” in Germany this summer.
L
indsey McNellis, Ph.D. candidate, has received the 2018 Schallek
Fellowship from the Medieval Academy of America and The Richard III Society – American
Branch (
http://www.medievalacademy.org/page/Schallek
). Supported by a gift from William B. and Maryloo Spooner Schallek, this fellowship
will support research for her dissertation, “Vi et Armis: Violence and Injury
before the Common Pleas,” for the academic year 2018-2019.
A new exhibit at
WVU’s Downtown Campus Library looks at the long and vibrant history of
Morgantown’s Sunnyside neighborhood. This exhibit is the result of several semesters of research and collaboration with Professor Jenny Boulware's courses, utilizing research from many students within the history department. Additionally, history major Elizabeth Satterfield worked on Sunnyside research over Summer 2017 as the recipient of a SURE grant.
The WVU Department of History celebrates a very productive 2017. Our faculty and
graduate students published a plethora of field-leading research this year, including
5 book publications and over 27 articles. Check out the list of publications to
see the research produced from our department.
A group of faculty and students from the History Department at WVU attended the annual North American Labor History Conference (NALHC) in Detroit, MI. An international conference, NALHC has been an avenue for discussion in the field of Labor History for 39 years.
