On January 7, 2018, Dr. Christopher Fisher and Dr. Robert McGreevey presented on their book, Global America, at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. Congratulations to both professors on their hard work and achievements!
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Congratulations to Dr. Roman Kovalev and Christopher Loos for their Conference Presentation!
On September 30, Dr. Roman Kovalev and junior history major Christopher Loos traveled to Rome to present their paper, Viking-Rus’ Mercenaries in the Byzantine-Arab Syrian Wars of the 950s-960s: the Numismatic Evidence, at the 5th Simone Assemani Symposium on Islamic Coinage in Rome, Italy. Congratulations to both! Continue Reading
Congratulations to Dr. Christopher Fisher and Dr. Robert McGreevey on the Publication of Global America!
The history department is excited to announce that Global America, The United States in the Twentieth Century (Oxford, 2018) has just been published. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/global-america-9780190279905?cc=us&lang=en&# Global America tells the story of how Americans were swept up in the swift-moving currents of twentieth-century world history. The book grew out of the life work and scholarship of the late historian Alan… Continue Reading
Dr. Matthew Bender Receives Contract for Upcoming Book for 2019
Congratulations to Dr. Matthew Bender on receiving a contract for his monograph, entitled Water Brings No Harm: Management Knowledge and the Struggle for the Waters of Kilimanjaro. The book will be published in 2019 in the prestigious series, New African Histories at Ohio University Press. Dr. Bender’s project was supported by the Gitenstein-Hart Sabbatical Prize… Continue Reading
Dr. Mekala Audain participates in English Department Event on the Underground Railroad
Professor Mekala Audain participated in a panel discussion of the TCNJ English Department’s summer reading book, Colson Whitehead’s book Underground Railroad on September 19, 2017. Continue Reading
Jo-Ann Gross Receives NEH Grant
The History Department is proud to announce that Professor Jo-Ann Gross has just received a grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities for her project Ismailism in Badakhshan: A Genealogical and Documentary History. This 3-year collaborative project, with Umed Mamadsherzodshoev of the Institute of Humanities, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan, Khorogh,… Continue Reading
Professor Emeritus Daniel W. Crofts Wins Nau Book Prize
The John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia has named Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery as the winner of the 2017 Bobbie and John Nau Book Prize in American Civil War Era History. The History Department congratulates Professor Emeritus Dr. Daniel W. Crofts on this incredible achievement.… Continue Reading
Steven Rodriguez ’16 and Zachary Elliott ’16 receive graduate scholarships
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) at Brandeis University launched the Diversity, Excellence and Inclusion Scholarship (DEIS), an award that enables five students from non-traditional backgrounds to pursue a master’s degree. Continue Reading
Amy Kuperinsky, TCNJ alumna and history minor, writes for NJ.com about La La Land, the blockbuster film by Dr. Celia Chazelle’s son, Damien
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Former history professor, Daniel Crofts, discusses book at TCNJ
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