2015 Stories
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Student Recognition
Rachel Boyle wins President's Medallion
Congratulations to PhD candidate Rachel Boyle on winning the President's Medallion. The President's Medallion is one of the highest honors bestowed by the University, recognizing outstanding students for their leadership, scholarship, and service.
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Student Recognition
Loyola Public History Graduate Students Making an Impact in Chicago Neighborhoods
Class projects are taking students into Rogers Park and Chrysler Village. Master’s student Kristin Jacobsen talks about her experience leading a walking tour of the Glenwood Avenue Arts District for the Rogers Park/West Ridge Historical Society.
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Seminar
"Civil War Chicago: Eyewitness to History" on October 20th
Professor of History Theodore J. Karamanski, PhD and Loyola alumna Eileen M. McMahon, PhD, will discuss their new book on the Civil War’s transformative role in Chicago's development. -
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Richard Pryor Biographer to Speak at Loyola
Scott Saul, the author of Becoming Richard Pryor, will give a public lecture on the comedian entitled "Living with Richard Pryor: A Biographer's Tale" on Friday, April 24 at 3 PM. -
Timothy Gilfoyle on "The Changing Forms of History"
Should history be a book discipline? What constitutes "acceptable scholarship" in history? Professor Timothy Gilfoyle considers the rich and diverse forms that historical scholarship take from books, digital media, and public history projects in his article "The Changing Forms of History" in April's edition of Perspectives on History, the AHA newsmagazine. -
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History Faculty Honored for Teaching and Research
Professor Steven Schloesser, S.J. will receive the Sujack Award for Excellence in Faculty Research and Professor Suzanne Kaufman will be named a Master Teacher in the College of Arts and Sciences at an awards ceremony on April 21 at Loyola. In Springfield on April 25, Professors Ted Karamanski and Eileen McMahon (Ph.D. Loyola, 1989) will be award the Russell P. Strange Book of the Year Award.
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Professor Hajdarpasic's New 500-Level Seminar on Nationalism Available for Fall 2015
History Graduate Students: Interested in the history of Nationalism and National Identity? Sign up for Dr. Edin Hajdarpasic's new course: History 533-Nationalism and National Identity. Fall 2015 Registration begins April 9th!
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Amber Bailey named a 2015 Preservation Action Foundation Scholar
Public History Master's student Amber Bailey was named a 2015 Preservation Action Foundation Scholar and traveled to Washington, D.C. to lobby members of Congress on historic preservation policy issues as a part of this month's National Historic Preservation Advocacy Week.
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Public History Alumna Promoted to Director of Education at the Illinois Holocaust Museum
Kelley Szany has been named Director of Education at the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center. Kelley joined the Museum’s staff in 2001 and will now oversee all of the Museum’s education and public programming initiatives.
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Seminar
"The Rise of the Nation-Saint" on November 5th
Prof. Kathleen Sprows Cummings, University of Notre Dame, discusses a pre-circulated paper on the efforts of U.S. Catholics to secure their first canonized saint for the third meeting of the 2015-2016 Ramonat Seminar Series. -
Graduate Students Nominate Chrysler Village to the National Register
Students in Dr. Karamanski's Management of Historical Resources class experienced the process of historic preservation firsthand when they set out to nominate the Chrysler Village Historic District to the National Register of Historic Places.
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2015 Robert McCluggage Award Competition
History Graduate Students: Don't forget to submit your best essays for the 2015 Robert McCluggage Award Competition! The deadline is March 11, 2015. The winner's name will be engraved on a plaque in the department. The winner will also receive a $400 cash prize!
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Meet the Summer Session B Interns
A monument, a controversial legal maneuver, an oral history: all three have provided the jumping off points for exploring the past for bright History students enrolled in HIST 398, the History Undergraduate Internship, this Summer Session B. As they earn three credit hours and satisfy Loyola’s Engaged Learning requirement, these students are working closely with faculty and public historians to apply the skills they learned in the classroom to real world projects. Read on to learn more about their projects – and then visit their blogs to learn about their experiences in their own words!
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A Spate of New Books by Recent PhDs
Recent PhDs have been busy publishing impressive monographs of late! On topics ranging from Vegetarianism to the memory of the Great War in Irish culture to the idea of Great Books, these books evidence the rich diversity of scholarship that began as dissertations in our department.
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Ellie Shermer Granted Prestigious Russell Sage Foundation Fellowship
Assistant Professor Elizabeth Tandy Shermer will be spending the 2014-15 academic year as a Visiting Fellow of the Russell Sage Foundation. She will be working on her new book, The Business of Education: The Corporate Transformation of America's Public Universities.
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Meet the Summer Session A Interns
This summer Loyola History undergraduates have undertaken HIST 398 internships in order to learn how to design and build things: online exhibitions, digital archives, classroom curricula, and complex statistical analyses. Working closely with archivists, educators, and faculty, they are putting the skills they have learned in the classroom to work in various “real world” applications.
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Introducing the Spring 2014 Undergraduate Interns
Polar vortexes and near record snow falls might have grounded many of us this winter, but not the 17 intrepid Loyola students participating in HIST 398, the History Undergraduate Internship, this semester. Each week these interns are traveling to venerable institutions in the Loop; basements in Edgewater; and (from the comfort of the library or their dorm rooms) seventeenth-century Jamaica, nineteenth-century Chicago, Nazi Germany, and post-Katrina New Orleans. In their internships, students are putting the skills they have learned in the classroom to work in various “real world” applications.
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Fellowships Available for Mentored Undergraduate Research
Are you an undergrad looking to work on a historical research project as part of a class, an internship, or simply on your own free time? Are you a faculty member who can envision an undergrad assisting you with your own research while you teach them skills of historical inquiry? If yes, you should look into LUROP Fellowships. Applications are due March 1st.
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Students Curate Exhibit on Campus Activism in the 1980s
As students in Dr. Dina Berger’s Cold War in the Americas course (HIST 300) have learned this fall semester, the Cold War was just as hot in the Western Hemisphere as it was in Europe and Asia. Dr. Berger’s course offered students the unique opportunity to learn about the Cold War in Latin America by developing an exhibit based on materials held at the University Archives.
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Voices of Chicago Women Activists
Celebrate Women's History Month with the Women & Leadership Archives and the Chicago Area Women's History Council. Come hear multimedia excerpts of oral histories by Columbia College honors students featuring Chicago women activists and leaders. The event will be held on Sunday, March 16th from 2:00pm-5:00pm on the 1st floor of Piper Hall. -
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What was Chrysler Village and how did it get its name?
Public History graduate students know and shared their work on a historic nomination for the neighborhood with Ask Geoffrey on WTTW the other night.LEARN MORE -
Student Exhibition Explores Campus Activism in the 1980s
Created by students in Professor Dina Berger's Cold War in the Americas seminar, “Voices in Solidarity with Central America: Campus Activism in the 1980s” examines the varied ways Loyola students, faculty, and staff responded to U.S. government aid to Central America’s militaries during the civil wars in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala.
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Closing the Gap
Sarah Doherty (PhD '12) reflects on the importance of the Preparing Future Faculty Program in equipping her, and other minority doctoral students, with the skills necessary for a career in academia.LEARN MORE -
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Digital Scholars Spoke on New Civil War Letter Transcription Website
On October 30, Anne Flannery and Adam Strohm of the Newberry Library, and Greg Ruth of Loyola will speak on "The Civil War in Letters: Crowd Sourcing the Transcription of the Newberry Library's Collection of Civil War Letters." The seminar will take place at 12:30 pm in Life Sciences Building 312.
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Kim A. Wagner Spoke on Colonial Violence in British India on October 16th
Kim Wagner will examine the forms and functions of colonial violence in British India between 1857 and 1919 on Wednesday, October 16th, at 4 pm in McCormick Lounge. Come learn more about how at a time when most modern states had long replaced the spectacle of the scaffold with prisons, the British in India still had recourse to exemplary punishment on a significant scale.
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Acclaimed Author and Documentary Filmmaker Maurice Fitzpatrick Screened and Discussed "The Boys of St. Columb"
Loyola’s Department of History cordially invites you to a film showing and talk by acclaimed author and documentary filmmaker: Maurice Fitzpatrick The Boys of St. Columb Friday, October 11, 2013 3:00 pm Crown Center 530 Fitzpatrick’s The Boys of St. Columb tells the story of eight former St. Columb’s students who took advantage of Northern Ireland’s revolutionary 1947 Education Act, which allowed students from working-class families to attend grammar schools in Northern Ireland for the first time. The eight alumni profiled in the documentary are: Nobel Prize winners Seamus Heaney (Literature), John Hume (Peace) singer and songwriter Phil Coulter, civil rights campaigner and writer Eammon McCann, Irish ambassador James Sharkey, and retired Bishop of Derry, Dr. Edward Daly.
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Congratulations to the Undergraduate Essay and Blogging Contest Winners
The Department honored the winners of the 2013 Undergraduate Awards at the year-end Ice Cream Social in the Medieval Garden on Wednesday, May 8th. Awards were given for best essay, best blog, and outstanding graduating senior.
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Andrew Jackson O’Shaugnhessy Spoke on Sept 6th
Dr Andrew Jackson O’Shaugnhessy will speak on his new book, The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of Empire, on Friday, September 6th, at 4 pm on the Fourth Floor of the Information Commons. The event is free and open to the public.
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Professor Elizabeth Fraterrigo Awarded Research Support Grant from the Schlesinger Library
Associate Professor of History Elizabeth Fraterrigo has been awarded a Research Support Grant from the Schlesinger Library to work in the National Organization of Women (NOW) Papers at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
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Professionalization Workshops for Graduate Students on April 29th and May 3rd
Two professionalization workshops for graduate students - on preparing for the academic job and for grant writing - were offered this spring by faculty members. Please email Amelia Serafine (aserafine@luc.edu) if you would like to attend.
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