Justin Power, a fourth year Ph.D. candidate, spent this past
summer researching at the Pequot Museum, through a program known as the
Graduate Humanities Internship. This program not only provided him hands on
experience in archives, it also allowed him the perfect opportunity to conduct research
for his dissertation.
Recently,
Dr. Tamba M’Bayo celebrated the publication of his first book titled, Muslim Interpreters in Colonial Senegal,
1850-1920. In this book, M’bayo drew on French colonial archival sources
and oral accounts to cast light on the activities of indigenous Muslim
intermediaries who bridged the linguistic and cultural gaps between French
colonizers and colonized Africans in Senegal.
Eliana Ginsburg graduated from WVU in with her Bachelor of
Arts in history in 2006 and thought she wanted to work in the history field.
Pursuing this, she went on to obtain her Master’s Degree in Public History from
the University in Maryland and then completed two internships in New Orleans,
at the Louisiana State Museum and the National World War II Museum.
Recently, Dr. Joseph Hodge was invited to present the opening lecture for the Master’s Degree Course on Local and Global Development at the University of Bologna in Bologna, Italy. The lecture, titled “Development and Its Experts: From Colonial to Postcolonial Times”, took place on September 20, 2016. Dr. Hodge was welcomed by Professor Mario Zamponi, Coordinator of the Local and Global Development Program, and by Dr. Massimiliano Trentin, Professor of History and International Relations of the Middle East, who gave the introductory remarks. The lecture was sponsored by the Department of Political and Social Sciences and the Center of Historical....
Ph.D student Francis M. Curran III was invited by the Monongalia
Historical Society to present his research
on Southern sectionalism prior to the Civil War at their quarterly dinner meeting
Friday, September 16, 2016.
“The shot John Wilkes Booth shot at Ford’s Theatre was the
first shot in the war to come after, the war on Black freedom and equality…a
war we are still fighting today,” Martha Hodes said as a striking final thought
in her lecture “Mourning Lincoln: The Assassination and the Aftermath of the
Civil War” given at WVU on September 29.
Katherine Aaslestad, Professor of History, recently contributed to the international workshop “The Persistence of Civic Identities in the Netherlands, 1747-1848” at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. An internationally renowned scholar on civic identity, Aaslestad was invited by Professors Henk te Velde and Judith Pollmann in Leiden to serve on the Expert Committee for the workshop to contribute her expertise on German Central Europe and provide transnational perspectives on the research projects presented at the meeting. The experience offered an exciting opportunity to be part of international collaboration and a research team that focuses on an area crucial to....
We are pleased to welcome back Jason C. Parker, a former teacher in our department, to give a lecture next week on his new book, "Hearts, Minds, Voices". Dr. Parker, a dynamic speaker and and pioneering scholar, is the first to study US Cold War public diplomacy in relation to the global South. Cold War Superpowers strived to "win hearts and minds," particularly in the global South where states subject to the effects of decolonization experienced the Cold War through public diplomacy. His book argues that the American war for hearts and minds during the Cold War inadvertently nurtured the "Third World project."....
The Royce J. and Caroline B. Watts
Museum will open its new exhibit on September 20, 2016. The exhibit, “Molded in
the Mountains: The Glass Industry in West Virginia,” has been created through collaborative
efforts involving many students from the Department of History, including two
public history classes, two interns, student workers, and especially the
museum’s two full-time employees, Danielle Petrak, a current Ph.D. student in
the History Department, and Eliza Newland, who received her MA in History from
WVU in 2014.
