The Human Rights Campaign Foundation awarded a Generation Equality Scholarship to University of Mary Washington junior Charles Girard ’12. The $500 scholarship recently was awarded as part of the HRC Foundation’s Youth and Campus Outreach Program, which aims to provide tools, facilitate connections, and empower young people to fight for LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and […]
Margaret Greene, UMW History alum (’06), has won a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship. Currently a third-year doctoral student in Modern Chinese History at the University of California, San Diego, she is pursuing a dissertation entitled “The Sound of Ghosts: Chuanqi, Kun Opera, and the Staging of a New China.” Her project focuses on […]
Marissa S. Allison, a History and Middle Eastern Studies graduate (2010) of the University of Mary Washington, has won a Critical Language Scholarship from the United States Department of State. With this prestigious award, she will travel to Muscat, Oman for a 9 weeks of intensive study of the Arabic language. As noted in UMW’s […]
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 […]
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, […]
