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2016 - Barbara Steinson 2015 - Yung-chen Chiang 2012 - John Schlotterbeck 2008 - Mac Dixon-Fyle 2003 - Roderick Clifford 2003 - John Dittmer 1993 - John Wilson
Exemplary Teaching Award
2019 - Bob Dewey 2012 - Julia Bruggemann 2009 - Barbara Steinson 2006 - John Schlotterbeck 2000 - John Dittmer
Minar Scholarship Award
2020 - Nahyan Fancy 2007 - David Gellman 2005 - Yung-chen Chiang 1995 - John Dittmer
By exploring the complexities of peoples and societies in the past, history majors make the present more comprehensible.
Highlights
Aldrin Magaya
Professor Aldrin Magaya has been awarded a research grant from the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA). "Change within Continuity: Sacred and Holy Spaces and ways of Socialization in Bocha, Zimbabwe."
Professor Sarah Rowley recently was featured on the podcast "She's History," on which she discussed her research on gender and political culture, focusing on congresswomen's husbands in the 1970s.
David Cameron visits as guest of DePauw's Timothy and Sharon Ubben Lecture Series
DePauw History Professor Robert Dewey, an Oxford University trained expert on British politics, conducts a student forum with former British Prime Minister David Cameron in advance of Mr. Cameron's Ubben Lecture.
Tina Irvine, visiting scholar at Indiana University's Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society (CRRES), was awarded a national ACLS fellowship for her book project, Americanizing Appalachia.
Cecilia Slane will be presenting her honor scholar thesis at DePauw's STMS Conference and the Macksey Undergraduate Research Symposium in Baltimore this spring. Her presentation is "For the Sake of the Environment?: Policing and Control in Glacier Bay National Park"
Sarah Rowley, assistant professor of history, co-wrote an opinion piece, “The Duggars might lose their show, but the toxic culture they promote persists,” which was published in The Washington Post Dec. 23.
The recently restored maquette of the famed seated Lincoln sculpture in Washington, DC sits on a specially built plinth in the department's common area for all to enjoy and admire.
Aldrin Magaya
Professor Magaya has won the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa: 2020 Best Paper Prize, Africa Category
David N. Gellman, professor of history, is the author of “Liberty’s Chain: Slavery, Abolition, and the Jay Family of New York,” which explains how the Jay family, abolitionists and slaveholders alike, embodied the contradictions of the revolutionary age.
Glen Kuecker, Professor of History at DePauw University, has been awarded a GLCA Expanding Collaboration Initiative grant with Alejandro Puga, Associate Professor of Modern Languages, for their project, “Mapping the Megalopolis: Making an Atlas of Mexico City.”
Wes Wilson, coordinator of archives and special collections, Midori Kawaue, history major, and John Schlotterbeck, Professor of History collaborated to transcribe the diary of James Riley Weaver kept during the Civil War.
James Riley Weaver Civil War Diary
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History coursework encourages students to think critically, argue logically and examine the values of their society and those of other societies. History students develop research, analytical, writing, oral communication and problem-solving skills that prepare them for a range of occupations, for graduate and professional schools and for the responsibilities of informed citizen- ship. History majors pursue careers in law, education, governmental affairs, journalism, social service, business, finance and museums.
Sample Courses:
United States in the Sixties, Modern Middle East, France from Charlemagne to Napoleon, Ethnicity and Conflict in South Africa, History of Mexico, Women and Family in Modern China, History of Science, History Beyond the Classroom
