From Laura Pass Barry, Associate Curator at Colonial Williamsburg: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a grant to the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in support of curatorial internships. The money will be used to fund a total of 12 internships over the course of the next few years. Three 3-month internships and one 12-month internship [...]
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Internships at the Carlye House Historic Park
The Carlyle House Historic Park, an 18th century historic house museum, located in Old Town Alexandria, VA, is offering a Collections Management and Research internship as well as an Education Programming internship for the Spring semester.
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New History/AMST 485 Schedule posted
For those of you working on your History or AMST senior thesis this semester, the syllabi for this semester are now posted [HIST 485 and AMST 485]. There will be a mandatory meeting for all students doing their History 485 or American Studies 485 this semester at 5 PM on the first day of classes, Tuesday, January [...]
Senior Thesis Symposium this Friday (12/9): Updated Schedule
Our History and American Studies Symposium will be held this Friday, 12/9, with sessions from 9 am to 2 pm. For an updated schedule of presentations see this previous post (minor adjustments have been made since its first appearance.) As always, refres…
Talk Tonight: Vickie Shufer – Naturalist, Forager, and Environmental Writer
Vickie Shufer, naturalist, forager, and environmental writer from Virginia Beach will be speaking in Lee Hall 412 at 7PM. An advocate of native plants, Vickie serves on the Board of Directors for the Virginia Native Plant Society in Virginia Beach. She also has a certified, 16-acre native nursery in northeastern North Carolina where she propagates [...]
New Courses for Spring ’12
The Department of History and American Studies will be offering several new or significantly revised courses for the coming Spring 2012 semester. See below for full descriptions. AMST 202 –Sophomore American Studies Seminar: Identity & Citizenship in the Digital Age (M. Burtis) Not just for sophomores and not just for AMST majors, this class is [...]
New Website for History and American Studies at UMW
Our History and American Studies Department Site has been updated amid UMW’s switch to a new web design and system for the full university. Find us now here at this site that you’re currently viewing (or save it among your bookmarks – http://cas.umw.edu/historyamericanstudies/). The site will be evolving as the fall semester progresses and umwhistory.org will [...]
Graduate School Workshop Tonight
Considering the possibility of applying to graduate school? Weighing options for the future? The History and American Studies Department offers a workshop this evening (Thurs., 10/6). We will cover the basics of applying to graduate school from questions concerning the GRE to deciding why and where to go to graduate school. All students from the [...]
European Capitals – Summer Course 2012
Interested in a twenty-six day, six-credit, study abroad offering in Europe? Information on the annual “European Capitals” summer European study program is now available. See below for further details and contacts (deadline for registration and deposit is October 21, 2010.) “European Capitals: Yesterday And Today” May-June 2012 The Departments of History and American Studies [...]
New Faculty Introduction – Matthew Johnson
Our department is pleased to welcome Dr. Matthew Johnson, who joins us this year as the James Farmer Postdoctoral Fellow in Civil Rights and Social Justice. He earned his doctorate in the field of American History at Temple University, where he recently completed a dissertation entitled “The Origins of Diversity: Managing Race at the University of [...]
