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.
Later that week, Dr. Fones-Wolf c
hallenged the image that Senate President Mitch Carmichael created by using the
term "union bosses" to describe the strike organizers i
n an
article published by WCHS 8, a station out of Charleston, WV.
"These are not un-democratic organizations," he
said. "The NEA, AFT are both democratic organizations. They put things
to a vote. They listen to their members. So, this notion that some union bosses
are coming in telling them how to act just doesn't reflect the reality of the
situation."
Krystal Frazier is an assistant professor in the Department of History. Since high school, she has strived to advocate for less vocal, but no less able students and champion the deconstruction of academic boundaries. She carried this momentum into college, where she learned to inspire critical thinking in her classmates.
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.
