Interested in Graduate School? MAT programs? Public History? Jobs on the base? Library Science? Not sure yet? They will discuss their experiences and the strategies that worked (and those that did not). View the event on the SMCM calendar
New Faculty Publication
The History Department celebrated the recent publication of Female Beauty Systems: Beauty as Social Capital in Western Europe and the United States, Middle Ages to the Present (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015), co-edited by Dr. Christine Adams (History) and Dr. Tracy Adams (University of Auckland, Comparative Literature). Besides essays by the co-editors, the book also included articles by St. Find out more »
The Center for the Study of Democracy and the History Department Present: Rahsaan Roland Kirk: The Case of the Three Sided Dream (a film by Adam Kahan, 2015)
Thursday Feb. 25, 8:00 pm, Cole Cinema Rahsaan Roland Kirk (1935-1977) was more than a blind musician who could play three horns at once, more than one of the most amazing sax players who ever lived. Beyond the ability to play multiple melodies at the same time, he was a warrior against racial injustice, fought Find out more »
Student’s paper accepted at Undergraduate Judaic Studies Conference at Princeton
Michael Abrams has been invited to present a paper, entitled “Fiddler on the Streets: How Activists Used Jewish-American Popular Culture to Mobilize a Movement,” that he wrote for the 400-level History course “Mass Culture and the Making of the Modern.” The Undergraduate Judaic Studies Conference where Michael will present his work will take place at Find out more »
History Club Elects New Officers
There was a great turnout last Tuesday for the first meeting of the new History Club. The members there elected officers of the club and the results are as follows: President- Andrew Messick Vice President- Jackson Teets Secretary- Lenora Yoder Treasurer- Ian Chrisler Historian- Lee Morgan The club is involved with providing the campus community Find out more »
Alumni Updates
Tiffany (Deutscher) Soderholm ’07 Completed MA in History (’10) and MAT (’12) at Monmouth University and is teaching history at Perth Amboy High School in Perth Amboy, NJ. Ashley Drexel (Barreto) ‘13 Working as a paralegal for the U.S. Department of Transportation and the U.S. Army Reserves, while pursuing her J.D. at the University of Find out more »
Prof. Brodsky’s classes visit the National Museum of the American Indian
Prof. Brodsky’s HIST378 and HIST253 classes visited the National Museum of the American Indian in DC on September 22nd. We toured the “The Great Inca Road” exhibit, and had the pleasure to hear the curator (Dr. Ramiro Matos) tell us the story of this engineering marvel.
Congratulations to SMCM alum Dr. Jeremy Young
Congratulations to Dr. Jeremy Young (SMCM ’06) who just had his article “Transformation in the Tabernacle: Billy Sunday’s Converts and Emotional Experience in the Progressive Era” published in The Journal of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era (July 2015). Learn More >>
Students Published
Two St. Mary’s history majors have recently had articles published. Benjamin Israel published, “If You Can’t Byt ‘ em, Join ’em: Early Soviet Film Comedy in the Context of Byt” and Michael Abrams published “Getting into the New Woman’s Purse: The Portrayal of New Womanhood in 1920s Magazine Advertising” in Proto; An Undergraduate Journal, vol. Find out more »
Dr. Ken Cohen Awarded Fulbright
Dr. Ken Cohen has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for 2015-2016. Dr. Cohen will be spending the year in Ivory Coast.
From the Newsroom
Holden published During 2017-18 Academic Year
Brodsky to be Published in Upcoming book “Global Jewish Foodways: A History”