Macabe Keliher was recently awarded an American Council of
Learned Soceities (ACLS) fellowship. This prestigious fellowship supports Dr.
Keliher for a year to work on his next book project, Centralizing the Manchu Military and the Transformation of Empire in
Early Modern China, which explores the centralization of military power in
early modern China.
The Department of History is very pleased and proud to see Martha May’s years of hard work and value recognized with a 150 Celebration Coin. The 150 Celebration Coin is a special recognition created for the 150th anniversary of WVU's founding. The coin is an official token of appreciation to those hardworking employees at all levels who go above and beyond to help make our University community a better place every day. This honor is especially designed to celebrate the hard work of employees that embody the WVU values of service, professionalism, aptitude, accountability and appreciation. This year’s recipients were selected because....
Leading into the 1900s, operators in the West Virginia coal, timber and glass industries sent recruiters to Ellis Island, offering to pay for incoming immigrants to come to the state. The biggest immigrant groups in the state quickly became the Italians and the Irish. While in the southern part of the state, immigrants were confined to coal camps, in Northern West Virginia, they were able to spread out and form communities with like immigrants. By 1908, Marion, Harrison and Ohio County began to see a rise in activity from the Black Hand mafia. From 1908-1923 the Mafia activity led to....
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.
