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History professor wins tenure
March 1, 2013Please join us in congratulating Professor Cathcart, awarded tenure by the Wheaton College Board of Trustees on Saturday, February 23. More » -
Historian Jill Lepore to visit Wheaton
October 25, 2012Harvard historian Jill Lepore will deliver this year's Ruby lecture, "The Meaning of Life: a History" and visit students in Art History and Women's Studies courses. More » -
Miriam Lee Tropp Memorial Lecture
October 24, 2012Award-winning historian Neil Foley will present “Black and Brown in the Racial Borderlands of the American Southwest" tonight, October 24, 2012, at 7:30 p.m. in Mary Lyon Hall 221. More » -
Prof. Bezís-Selfa authors American Horizons
September 27, 2012John Bezís-Selfa co-authored American Horizons: U.S. History in a Global Context, a textbook published by Oxford University Press on March 1, 2012. Description from Oxford University Press: "American Horizons is the only U.S. History survey text that presents the traditional narrative in a global context. The seven-author team uses the frequent movement of people, goods, [...] More » -
New and Returning Faculty Members
September 4, 2012The History Department is pleased to welcome a number of new and returning faculty members this fall. We welcome Associate Professor Yuen-Gen Liang back from his research leave last spring. We also congratulate him on achieving tenure and promotion. We have a number of new faculty members this fall. Martin Fromm, Mellon Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow, [...] More » -
Prof. Liang edits A Forgotten Empire
June 15, 2012Yuen-Gen Liang co-edited A Forgotten Empire: The Spanish-North African Borderlands, a special issue of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 12, no. 3 (September 2011). A Forgotten Empire grew out of the papers presented on a panel titled “Measuring Cultural Distance on the Spanish-North African Borderland” that Prof. Liang organized at the 2010 Renaissance Society [...] More » -
New England Renaissance Conference Hosts Helmreich Symposium Speaker
October 30, 2011Yuen-Gen Liang and Touba Ghadessi in the Department of Art and Art History are hosting the New England Renaissance Conference at Wheaton College on November 12, 2011. Visiting scholars will be on campus to explore the topic "Expanding Relations: Family in the Renaissance," and keynote speaker Anthony Grafton will offer this semester's Helmreich Symposium lecture. [...] More » -
History Department Facebook Page
September 26, 2011Alums Suzanne Kelley McCormack and Apryl Berney have been the first to "like" the Wheaton College History Department page on Facebook. Current students can use our wall to connect to alums. Our Facebook page encourages intellectual community, here at Wheaton and beyond. More » -
Prof. Tomasek wins NEH Start-Up Grant
April 15, 2011On April 1, Prof. Kathryn Tomasek learned that the Office of Digital Humanities at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded her a Level I Start-Up Grant for her project using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) to mark up 19th century financial records. With digitized markup, historians can use these documents to study economic [...] More » -
History Club Established
April 15, 2011Alexander Herbert '13 has taken the lead in establishing a club for History majors and other students interested in history. Members of The League of Historical Studies plan to host a variety of events to highlight the study of history and foster a sense of community in the History Department. Events include field trips, movie [...] More »
