Posts under ‘Celebrating the Department’

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 [...]

Ninth Annual Department of History and American Studies Majors Banquet (Sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta) Brock’s Riverside Grill Friday, April 23, 2010 5:30 pm Join your friends and professors to celebrate the end of the year at a festive gathering, featuring: Cash bar and delicious dinner in a great location overlooking the Rappahannock River Recognition of [...]

The work of the department’s own Dr. Susan Fernsebner was highlighted in this recent Huffington Post column discussing an upcoming conference: She’s the author of a very fine dissertation (soon to be a book) on the history of China’s participation in World’s Fairs and smaller scale World’s Fair-like events, has blogged about the Shanghai Expo, [...]

History major Jessica Kilday presented her work “Feuding the Fairytale” at the Forum for Research in Women’s Studies last week, earning the event’s top prize for her presentation, research, and analytical findings.  Also receiving an award was Caitlin Donnelly, who tied for second place for her presentation and research on “Women and Memories of the [...]

Two of our majors, Debbi Shephard in American Studies, and Patricia Greene, in History, won the Writing Contest this year.  Ms. Shepherd won the Natural & Social Sciences–Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior Award for her paper “In Their Image: The Eugenics Movement and America’s Identity Crisis,” which she wrote in AMST 202.  Ms. Greene won the [...]

See the following article about Class of 2007 graduate (and Almont Lindsey Award winner) Kati Singel: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/regional/s_665232.html