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Two Undergraduates Receive First Ever Dr. Howard Jones Endowed Scholarship

May 10, 2016

The Department of History has announced the first winners of the Dr. Howard Jones Endowed Scholarship – History majors Jian Gao and Cameron Ridgeway. Jian Gao is a rising Senior, and is fluent in English, Chinese, and Spanish. He is currently working on an Honors Thesis which examines the lives of Chinese Mexicans in Mexicali, Chihuahua, and Sonora. Cameron Ridgeway is a rising Sophomore and a National Merit Scholar. She has played a leading role in the department’s History Club, […]

Graduate Student Jackson Prather Featured on al.com Opinion Page

May 5, 2016

Confederate monuments are about more than just the Confederacy By Jackson Prather, a master’s student in the Department of History at the University of Alabama, graduate of the University of North Alabama and longtime resident of the state of Alabama It’s been called the “Hatred” Preservation Act, and it has been widely condemned for its alleged defense of the Confederacy. Officially titled the Alabama Heritage Preservation Act of 2016, the bill would prohibit the relocation, removal, alteration, or renaming of […]

Faculty Defeat Graduate Students Once Again in Annual Softball Game

May 3, 2016

The third annual Faculty-Graduate Student Softball Game was played on Saturday, April 30. The professors, endowed with both wisdom and experience, took an early lead until the graduate students, hungry to prove both their analytical and batting skills, made a roaring come back deep in the game. Entering the ninth inning with the score tied 16-16, the professors dug deep, and with the tenacity that comes from a lifestyle of publish or perish, managed to scrap their third successive win.

Associate Professor James Mixson Receives Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Award.

May 2, 2016

The Department of History’s Dr. James D. Mixson, a scholar of Medieval Europe, is one of four UA faculty to win this award for the 2015-6 school year. In 1976, The University of Alabama National Alumni Association began an innovative program designed to annually recognize four faculty members at the Capstone who demonstrate “Outstanding Commitment to Teaching.” The awards are based on the faculty members’ commitment to teaching and the impact they have had on students through the teaching and […]

Assoc Prof Daniel Riches, Recipient of the CARSCA Grant, to Present Findings at 2016 CARSCA Conference

April 21, 2016

Associate Professor Daniel Riches was a recipient of the College Academy of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity (CARSCA) Grant. The CARSCA grant helped fund his research in European collections, including the National Archives of Great Britain, British Library, France’s Archives Nationales and Bibliothèque Nationale, and Germany’s Geheimes Staatsarchiv and Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, for his current book project, Pan-Protestantism After Westphalia, during his Spring 2015 sabbatical. Dr. Riches will present a portion of the results of his funded research at the […]

Annual Faculty vs. Graduate Students Softball Game to be Played April 30.

April 19, 2016

The 3rd Annual History Department Faculty vs. Graduate Students Softball Game will be played at noon on April 30, 2016, at the UA Recreation Field. The Graduate Students have yet to win this event.

GHA Named Outstanding Professional Organization of the Year

April 15, 2016

On April 18, 2016, the Office of Student Involvement’s annual Service and Leadership Awards Ceremony named the Graduate History Association the Outstanding Professional Organization for 2015-2016 at the University of Alabama. Though the GHA does several things throughout the year, the awards committee was particularly impressed by their annual conference, which has truly been an impressive endeavor every year. GHA president, Lindsay Smith thanked this year’s conference committee for their help with the conference and winning this award: Blake McKinney, […]

2016 Honors Day Awards Review

April 14, 2016

Congratulations to our student award winners! View a text-only version of this page, as well as an explanation of each award.

Undergraduates Win Awards at Research and Creative Activity Conference

April 8, 2016

Four students mentored by History faculty won awards recently at the Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Conference. Jessica Hauger, mentored by Drs. Erik Peterson and Lisa Lindquist-Dorr, won second place in the Oral Presentations for Fine Arts and Humanities. Hauger’s talk was titled “‘The Common Lot’: The Philosophical Problem of Labor Pain in the Late Nineteenth Century,” and explored conceptions of childbirth pain in the period following the invention of anesthesia. Hauger examined the gulf between physicians’ and women’s perceptions, […]

Assistant Professor Bart Elmore Has Article Featured in HuffPost Business

March 31, 2016

Coke’s Recent Divestment Can Tell Us A Lot About American Capitalism Bartow J. Elmore Author, Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism Last week, the Coca-Cola Company announced that it was slimming down. Reeling from a dramatic 25-percent decline in US consumption of sugary soft drinks over the past two decades, a trend in part stimulated by consumer concerns about the link between soft drinks and obesity, Coke decided it was time to trim the fat. No, Coke was […]

Dr. Gordon Black, founder & former CEO of the Harris Interactive Poll, Discusses Careers for A&S Majors

March 29, 2016

Dr. Gordon Black, founder and former CEO of the Harris Interactive Poll, will hold an informal conversation with students about the many challenging and successful career options for Arts & Sciences majors. All are invited. Contact Dr. Stephen Schwab for further details.

Slavic Studies Conference a Success

March 29, 2016

On March 17-19, the History Department at the University of Alabama sponsored the Annual Meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies. As the oldest and largest of all the regional Slavic conferences, the meeting drew more than two hundred scholars of Slavic and Eastern European history, literature, and language to Tuscaloosa. Over the course of three days, scholars met to discuss topics ranging from the war in Ukraine to the legacy of Stalin in Russia to the relationship between […]

List of Top 200 Civil War Books & Articles Includes Three Authors and Five Titles from Department

March 8, 2016

The Civil War Era Studies Program at Gettysburg College has updated their list of the Top Two Hundred Civil War Books and Articles in nine categories. Five works from our department made the list. 70. George C. Rable, The Confederate Republic: A Revolt Against Politics (1994). 71. George C. Rable, Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism (1989). 165. Glenn Brasher, The Peninsula Campaign and the Necessity of Emancipation: African Americans and the Fight for Freedom (2012). 179. […]

Professor Gert Melville Visits Department

March 4, 2016

Professor Gert Melville, Senior Professor of History at the Dresden University of Technology, delivered a lecture entitled “The Pursuit of Salvation: A Fundamental Challenge in the Middle Ages” on Thursday, March 3, 2015, in the Summersell Room. Melville has taught at the Dresden University of Technology since 1994, and is the author of four decades’ worth of scholarship on religious life, religious orders, and the broader religious and cultural history of the Middle Ages. He is founder and director of […]

“Interracial Intimacy in Antebellum America” Panel Discussion Podcast Now Available

March 4, 2016

A printed transcript of the audio for this event is available here. “Interracial Intimacy in Antebellum America” | Panel Discussion from UA College of Arts & Sciences on Vimeo. Approximately 100 people gathered at Tuscaloosa’s Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center on Tuesday, January 26 to hear a panel presentation on the topic of Interracial Intimacy in Antebellum America from Dolen Perkins-Valdez, author of the New York Times bestseller Wench; Trudier Harris, Professor of English, The University of Alabama; Sharony Green, […]