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Department Banquet — April 23 — Sign up now!

April 9, 2010 by Susan Fernsebner

Ninth Annual Department of History and American Studies Majors Banquet

(Sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta)

Brock’s Riverside Grill

Friday, April 23, 2010

5:30 pm

Join your friends and professors to celebrate the end of the year at a festive gathering, featuring:

Cash bar and delicious dinner in a great location overlooking the Rappahannock River
Recognition of majors’ achievements
Announcement of scholarship recipients
Presentation of Department’s annual awards

Cost: $18 majors & prospective majors; $20 guests

Payment: See Ms. Patton in Mercer 308 by April 20

Dress: Business attire recommended

Professor’s work mentioned in Huffington Post

March 18, 2010 by Susan Fernsebner

The work of the department’s own Dr. Susan Fernsebner was highlighted in this recent Huffington Post column discussing an upcoming conference:

She’s the author of a very fine dissertation (soon to be a book) on the history of China’s participation in World’s Fairs and smaller scale World’s Fair-like events, has blogged about the Shanghai Expo, and will be revisiting that topic in an “Asia Beyond the Headlines” essay that will be the lead article in a forum on 2010 mega-events slated to appear in the August issue of the Journal of Asian Studies, the flagship publication of the AAS.

Congratulations Dr. Fernsebner on this recognition of your work!

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History Majors Earn Top Honors for Research in Women’s Studies

March 16, 2010 by Susan Fernsebner

History major Jessica Kilday presented her work “Feuding the Fairytale” at the Forum for Research in Women’s Studies last week, earning the event’s top prize for her presentation, research, and analytical findings. Also receiving an award was Caitlin Donnelly, who tied for second place for her presentation and research on “Women and Memories of the Argentine Military Junta.”

Winners were announced at the reception for the new Women’s and Gender Studies major this afternoon.

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2009 Writing Intensive Program Writing Contest Winners!

March 15, 2010 by Susan Fernsebner

Two of our majors, Debbi Shephard in American Studies, and Patricia Greene, in History, won the Writing Contest this year. Ms. Shepherd won the Natural & Social Sciences–Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior Award for her paper “In Their Image: The Eugenics Movement and America’s Identity Crisis,” which she wrote in AMST 202. Ms. Greene won the Natural & Social Sciences–Senior Award for her HIST 485 paper entitled, “The Adbulhamid II Photo Collection: Orientalism and Public Image at the End of an Empire.”

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