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"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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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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 MOREHistory Department Faculty Awards
This year, four History Department faculty were recognized by the College of Arts and Sciences for their teaching and research excellence.
Dr. Elizabeth Shermer won the Sujack Family Award for Research Excellence. The Sujack Family established the award in 2012 in order to recognize faculty for their individual research and scholarship outside of the classroom. Dr. Shermer teaches courses in twentieth-century United States history, and is working on her new book, The Business of Education: The Corporate Transformation of America's Public Universities, which reconsiders the origins of the contemporary crisis in public higher education and the ability of the research-intensive university to guarantee social welfare and individual economic opportunity.
Dr. John Donoghue won the Langerbeck Award for Undergraduate Research Mentoring. The Langerbeck Award recognizes and rewards the exceptional work of Loyola’s faculty mentors who are contributing significant time and effort to the intellectual, ethical, and academic development of Loyola’s undergraduate researchers by mentoring their research endeavors. Dr. Donoghue teaches courses in colonial America and the Atlantic world. His book, "Fire Under the Ashes:" An Atlantic History of the English Revolution was recently published by the University of Chicago Press.
Dr. Dina Berger and Dr. Kyle Roberts were both named Master Teachers in the College of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Berger teaches courses on Mexican and Latin American history. Her current research focuses on Pan Americanism and civic activists of the Pan American movement throughout the twentieth century. Dr. Kyle Roberts teaches courses on public history, digital humanities, religion, and North America and the Atlantic World in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. His first book, Evangelical Gotham: Religion and the Making of New York City, 1783-1860 will be published by the University of Chicago Press.
Congratulations to Dr. Shermer, Dr. Donoghue, Dr. Berger, and Dr. Roberts for their achievements! The Department is proud of its outstanding faculty and their commitment to scholarship, teaching, and service.