Margaret Peacock – Department of History

Dr. Margaret Peacock Wins Outstanding Commitment to Advising Award

December 8, 2022

Associate Professor Dr. Margaret Peacock was recognized by The University of Alabama Academic Advisors Association (UA-AAA) as the recipient of the 2021-2022 Outstanding Commitment to Advising Award at the Fall Campus Assembly on October 26. Though often overlooked or dismissed in the wider crush of university teaching and research, advising students is a vital part of what faculty do from week to week. “Advising is one of the rare times each semester when History students have a chance to sit […]

Dr. Margaret Peacock Wins Outstanding Commitment to Advising Award

November 3, 2022

Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies Margaret Peacock was recognized by The University of Alabama Academic Advisors Association (UA-AAA) as the recipient of the 2021-2022 Outstanding Commitment to Advising Award at last week’s Fall Campus Assembly. The Outstanding Commitment to Advising Award recognizes the importance of academic advising at The University of Alabama by celebrating outstanding academic advisors. The association’s executive board and nomination committee announced her as winner of the award on October 26. In addition to her […]

Drs. Erik Peterson and Margaret Peacock to Share Findings from “A Deeper Sickness,” Feb. 24

February 21, 2022

The Office of Politics, Communication and Media at The University of Alabama (OPCaM) will host a for “Politics Broadly: Disease and Disinformation,” with Drs. Margaret Peacock and Erik Peterson on Thursday, February 24, 2022, from 4 – 5:30 PM CST in 118 Lucy Hall. The event is free, but registration is required. There will be a livestream available for those unable to attend in person (register to receive the link). The global COVID-19 pandemic arrived in the midst of a […]

Department Moves all Instruction Online in Response to COVID-19 Emergency

April 15, 2020

The department has joined the rest of The University of Alabama (and most of the nation) in moving all instruction online in response to ongoing Covid-19 Pandemic. In early March, university administration informed faculty and staff to prepare for alternative instruction methods if necessary and ordered a review of our academic continuity plans. The department responded rapidly. Undergraduate Director Dr. Margaret Peacock organized a Zoom and online pedagogy roundtable training session with Dr. John Ratliff, the department’s instructor in UA […]

A Triumph of American Technology: Remembering the 1969 Apollo Moon Landing on its Fiftieth Anniversary

April 20, 2019

Faculty and students met on April 10 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing. “A Triumph of American Technology: Remembering the 1969  Apollo  Moon  Landing on its 50th Anniversary” was hosted in Gorgas Library and had a very successful turn out. The discussed topics ranging from the dynamics of rocketry, the race to space between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, putting the first object into orbit, missile design, and the evolution of the process to achieve […]

Undergraduates Launch Crimson Historical Review

March 26, 2019

History majors have launched the Crimson Historical Review (CHR), an undergraduate research journal. The idea for the journal started in Dr. Margaret Peacock’s undergraduate research seminar. Her students were reviewing one of the few undergraduate historical research journals in the United States and concluded that they could do it better. Peacock and students Jodi Vadinsky and Warren Martin formed an editorial review board, creating the CHR, the second undergraduate research journal in the SEC. The CHR offers undergraduate authors the […]

A Triumph of American Technology: Remembering the 1969 Apollo Moon Landing on its 50th Anniversary

March 25, 2019

The Department of History is hosting a colloquium on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing on Wednesday, April 10, at 5:15 p.m. in 205 Gorgas. It will include talks by Dr. Richard Branam, Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, titled “How We Got There: the Technology of Rocketry and Space Flight,” Dr. Margaret Peacock, Associate Professor of History, titled “The Space Race: Beating the Ruskies to the Moon,” and Dr. Harold Selesky, Associate Professor of History, titled “Climbing […]

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 […]

Peacock Appointed to the College of Arts & Sciences Leadership Board

November 11, 2015

Dr. Margaret Peacock, Associate Professor of Soviet History, was recently awarded a three year fellowship from the College of Arts and Sciences Leadership Board. Each year, the Leadership Board chooses three members of faculty who have demonstrated excellence as scholars and teachers to become fellows for a three-year term. During her fellowship, Dr. Peacock will conduct research on her second book, tentatively titled The Faults of Power: Cairo, Moscow, London, Washington, and the Struggle for the Modern Middle East, in […]

Dr. Margaret Peacock’s Teaching Methods Featured in the Collegian.

November 4, 2015

“Dr. Margaret Peacock is always asking ‘why.’ “Why, for instance, should she deliver a traditional-style lecture when technology and online classes have diminished its value? The answer, in Peacock’s eyes, is simple: She shouldn’t. “‘I’m not convinced that group work is best, either,’ said Peacock, an assistant professor in the Department of History. ‘Students hate group work. Inevitably, a few read, but others don’t and end up sitting there and receiving credit without contributing. It tells them that they don’t […]

Margaret Peacock to discuss her recent book, Innocent Weapons: The Soviet and American Politics of Childhood in the Cold War

September 30, 2014

Dr. Margaret Peacock will be giving a talk on her recently-published, groundbreaking work, Innocent Weapons: The Soviet and American Politics of Childhood. In this book, Peacock recounts the Soviet and American history of childhood in the Cold War. She shows how propagandists on both sides of the iron curtain mobilized similar images of children in order to manipulate their populations into compliance and consensus. Based on extensive research spanning fourteen archives and three countries, Peacock tells a new story of […]