Dr. Allyson Poska, Professor of History at UMW, has been awarded the Waple Professorship. The Waple Professorship is a new program supported by a generous gift from the Waple family. Three professorships have been awarded in this inaugural year, one to a leading faculty member from each of the three colleges (Arts and Sciences, Business, […]
The History and American Studies Department is happy to announce that Dr. Steven Harris’ book, Communism on Tomorrow Street: Mass Housing and Everyday Life after Stalin, was recently published by the Woodrow Wilson Center Press and the Johns Hopkins University Press. Book description: This book examines how, beginning under Khrushchev in 1953, a generation of […]
History alum (’94) David Preston’s book was recently featured in a review essay in the William and Mary Quarterly, a leading journal of the colonial and early national period, on the cutting-edge works that have appeared on Iroquois history in the past few years. See the essay at http://oieahc.wm.edu/wmq/Apr12/reviews/WMQ_Apr12_06_review_Countryman.pdf
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Vampires “Jefferson was a pretty cerebral guy,” says Will Mackintosh, assistant professor in the Department of History and American Studies at the University of Mary Washington. Read the full article at http://www.expressnightout.com/2012/06/life-liberty-and-the-pursuit-of-vampires/
http://www2.staffordcountysun.com/news/2012/may/16/locals-graduate-umw-ar-1919411/ Joe Calpin of Dumfries found a love for the Chinese language through martial arts films and studying Kung Fu while in high school. Since then he has continued to pursue it within his undergraduate studies. While at UMW last year, he studied abroad in Harbin, China and this year is in Taiwan with […]
