New Courses and Program Changes

With the addition of Dr. Patricia Goldsworthy-Bishop to the faculty last Fall, the History Department made major changes to its course offerings and program requirements during the 2011-12 academic year, integrating Dr. Goldsworthy-Bishop's specialty courses on North Africa and European Colonialism in North Africa into the new course catalogue for 2012-13.

These changes included an adjustment to the introductory survey offerings which may affect some program plans. HST 101, 102, and 103 Western Civilization will no longer be offered as an LACC sequence. All history majors should plan to complete the HST 104, 105, 106 sequence. For those who have already begun the Western Civ sequence, either at WOU or elsewhere, the following substitutions will apply:  HST 104 may be substituted for HST 101, HST 105 may be substituted for HST 102, and HST 106 may be substituted for HST 103 to satisfy the introductory sequence requirement.

2012 Senior Thesis projects and presentations

Senior Thesis projects are underway in Dr. Bao Hua Hsieh's HST 499 Senior Seminar for Spring 2012. Graduating seniors participating in this process will showcase their work with initial public presentations at the campus-wide Academic Excellence event in late May, and more comprehensively at the department's end-of-year gathering in early June.

Congratulations History Students: Academic Showcase

Undergraduate History Majors and MA Students did the department proud on Thursday, May 26, 2011 with their Academic Showcase Presentations.

Senior Thesis Presenters:

Back Row L to R: Jaxon Saunders, Robert Richards, Stephen Caulkin, Jeffrey Larson, Clara Scillian Kennedy, Jonathan Moch. Front Row L to R: Sarah Berry, Mallory Antis, Andrew White, Emma Thomas, Melanie Pinard, Jennifer Newby, Helen Chaffee.

Graduate Student Seminar Paper Presenters:

Back Row L to R: Austin Schulz, Jeffrey Larson, Jeffrey Benson. Front Row L to R: Hannah Marshall, Samantha Reining, Toni Rush, Diane Huddleston.

History Department at Academic Showcase May 26, 2011

The History Department has two sessions for Western's academic showcase on May 26. Both will be located in NS 103.

8-12: Undergraduate senior thesis presentations
1-4: Graduate seminar paper presentations

For more information contact Professor Kimberly Jensen jenseki@wou.edu

Workshop for Undergraduate History Students Wed. May 11

Wednesday, May 11, 2011
12:00-12:50 HSS 111

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Questions? Contact Professor Kimberly Jensen at jenseki@wou.edu

Professor David Doellinger Awarded NEH Summer Stipend

Faculty members in the history department are honored to announce that David Doellinger has just been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend Grant for his research project "Constructing Peace in East Germany: Conscientious Objectors, 1964-1989."
David will use the grant to conduct archival research in Germany in conjunction with his sabbatical leave from Western this fall 2011.
We congratulate David for his success in being awarded this very competitive grant and for the important recognition of his research that it represents. We are enriched by his scholarship and are so proud of his accomplishments.

History Department Research Grant Recipients

The history department faculty are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2011 History Department Research Grant. They are:

Sarah Berry, for her senior thesis project “Pancho Villa and the Lord of the Skies: Narcocorridos in the Corrido Tradition” with primary advisor Professor John Rector and secondary advisor Professor Narasingha Sil.

Jennifer Newby, for her senior thesis project “Jane Addams and Children: Educating the Future One Child at a Time” with primary advisor Professor Kimberly Jensen and secondary advisor Professor Max Geier.

We congratulate them and acknowledge the important work of all of the applicants for the grant this year.

Jennifer Newby and Sarah Berry, 2011 History Department Research Grant Recipients