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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 [...]

Our department is pleased to welcome Dr. Jason Sellers (Ph.D., UC Irvine 2010), who joins us this year as a Visiting Assistant Professor of History. A specialist in U.S. Colonial History, Dr. Sellers recently completed a dissertation entitled ” Embodied Landscapes: Native Americans, English Colonists, and the Creation of Early American Communities.” In this study, [...]

Our department is pleased to welcome Dr. Jason Sellers (Ph.D., UC Irvine 2010), who joins us this year as a Visiting Assistant Professor of History. A specialist in U.S. Colonial History, Dr. Sellers recently completed a dissertation entitled ” Embodied Landscapes: Native Americans, English Colonists, and the Creation of Early American Communities.” In this study, [...]

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 [...]

When the Civil War ended, Confederate veterans and their families were faced with rebuilding their lives while also coming to terms with defeat.  Jeffrey McClurken will share his research on how Confederate veteran families adjusted to life in the postwar South during an interview on the “With Good Reason” public radio program beginning Saturday, August 20. [...]

Dr. Krystyn Moon received the top honor of the UMW Alumni Association Outstanding Young Faculty Member Award at Commencement on Saturday, May 7th. A member of the History and American Studies Department, Dr. Moon is an expert in the history of U.S. immigration and ethnicity. During her five years at UMW, she has taught 14 [...]

History major Rachel Luehrs has been accepted to the prestigious SHEAR/Mellon Summer Seminar. This program awards ten highly competitive fellowships annually to rising college seniors who are preparing for research on their senior theses at liberal arts colleges. Students who are accepted join a summer program “dedicated to providing talented, motivated undergraduate scholars the opportunity to pursue [...]

The Human Rights Campaign Foundation awarded a Generation Equality Scholarship to University of Mary Washington junior Charles Girard ’12. The $500 scholarship recently was awarded as part of the HRC Foundation’s Youth and Campus Outreach Program, which aims to provide tools, facilitate connections, and empower young people to fight for LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and [...]

Margaret Greene, UMW History alum (’06), has won a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship. Currently a third-year doctoral student in Modern Chinese History at the University of California, San Diego, she is pursuing a dissertation entitled “The Sound of Ghosts: Chuanqi, Kun Opera, and the Staging of a New China.” Her project focuses on [...]

Marissa S. Allison, a History and Middle Eastern Studies graduate (2010) of the University of Mary Washington, has won a Critical Language Scholarship from the United States Department of State. With this prestigious award, she will travel to Muscat, Oman for a 9 weeks of intensive study of the Arabic language. As noted in UMW’s [...]