Nicole Young graduated May 2016 with a Bachelors of Science in Sport and Exercise Psychology with minors in History and Africana Studies. She received a Fulbright ETA to learn, grow, and teach in Malaysia.
Beth Parnizca (BA, 2011) started at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park as an intern after her freshman year at WVU and was hired as a permanent employee after she graduated. She said, "My experience at WVU led me directly to my position and gave me the tools to succeed." Beth credits her ability to take graduate-level courses, work closely with faculty, and to serve as an officer of Phi Alpha Theta as formative for her role in the Park Service. She said, "The department really pushed me to think and write critically as a historian, supported and encouraged me at every....
While our department has very high employment rates, we rejoice with every alumni from our program who receives a job. Recently, three alumni from our program have found success in the academic job market.
Kenny Kolander, PhD alumni and Visiting Assistant Professor, received a Fulbright postdoctoral award to research and write in Israel for up to 20 months. Kenny will be a part of the School of Political Science at the University of Haifa, where he will work closely with Dr. Zach Levey in writing his current manuscript, The Military-Industrial Peace Process: Congress, the Executive, and the U.S.-Israel Special Relationship, 1967-1979.
J. Blake Perkins searches for the roots of rural defiance in the Ozarks--and discovers how it changed over time. Eschewing generalities, Perkins focuses on the experiences and attitudes of rural people themselves as they interacted with government in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He uncovers the reasons local disputes and uneven access to government power fostered markedly different reactions by hill people as time went by. Resistance in the earlier period sprang from upland small farmers' conflicts with capitalist elites who held the local levers of federal power. But as industry and agribusiness displaced family farms after World War....
The History Department is pleased to honor Dr. Anne Kisaka Nangulu with the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences’ 2017 Outstanding Alumni Award for History. Dr. Nangulu is a Professor of History in the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya. The History Department has had a long and successful relationship with Kenya, and especially with Moi University. The Department’s strong ties with Kenya have largely been through the efforts of Dr. Nangulu’s PhD supervisor, Professor Robert Maxon, who over the past thirty years has worked with many Kenyan students who have come to WVU....
For students interested in law school, studying history
provides a solid set of skills to research, present, and contextualize. Many
students who have come through our program are interested in law school or
working with law. Two examples of these are Carrie Cecil, attorney at Spilman
Thomas & Battle, and Jessie Reckart, associate at Bowles Rice LLP.
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.