"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. LEARN MORE

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 MORE

History Undergraduate and Graduate Students Present Research, Win Awards : Loyola University Chicago

Loyola University Chicago Department of History

History Undergraduate and Graduate Students Present Research, Win Awards

As part of Loyola's Weekend of Excellence, History undergraduate and graduate students presented their work at two symposiums on April 12, 2014.

History majors dotted the program for the 2014 Loyola Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium. Thirteen scholars shared their work. The program is available here.

Liam Grogan, "The Chicago History Museum through Social Media." Poster Session I, 11:00-12:30
Matthew Jenkins, "Lessons in Urban Politics: The Cataloging and Archiving of the Helen Shiller Papers." Poster Session I, 11:00-12:30
Sebastian Villa, "Italian Eritrea, 1935-1941: The Intersection of Gender and Racial Hierarchies in Italian Racist Colonial Society." Poster Session I, 11:00-12:30
Nicholas Jowar, "The Importance of Oral History and Its Preservation." Presentation Session, 12:50-2:00, Mundelein 403
Miguel Lopez-Campos, "Voices in Solidarity with Central American Activism in the 1980s." Presentation Session, 12:50-2:00, Mundelein 403
Megan Meagher, "Hadith and Its Making of the Prophet: Unraveling the Logic of Legitimacy through Hermeneutics." Presentation Session, 12:50-2:00, Mundelein 407
Michael Polowski, "Mapping the Humanities: Intersection of History and Digital Media." Presentation Session, 12:50-2:00, Mundelein 403
Pedro Regalado, "End of Days: The 'Puerto Rican Riots' of 1971." Presentation Session, 12:50-2:00, Mundelein 403
Juan Basadre, "Cut Short the Night: Use Some of It for the Day's Business: An Examination of Cultural Processes on Sleep Patterns in Imperial Rome." Presentation Session, 12:50-2:00, Mundelein 404
Sarah Muenzer, "The Currency Acts: An American Omission in the Age of Revolution." Presentation Session, 12:50-2:00, Mundelein 404
Eda Obermans, "The Seventeenth Century Enigma of Captain Henry Morgan and the Atlantic World." Presentation Session, 12:50-2:00, Mundelein 404
Dylan LeBlanc, "'To Account Our Selves Knitt Together': John Winthrop, Self-Fashioning, and the Media Ecology of the Massachusetts Bay Company, 1629-1630." Presentation Session, 12:50-2:00, Mundelein 404
Andrew Prior, "Mental Trauma in Medical Discourse in the Post-World War I Era." Poster Session II, 2:00-3:30

An awards reception followed the symposium in the Sullivan Center Galivan Auditorium.

Five graduate students from the History department participated in the 7th Annual Graduate School Research Symposium.

Josh Arens, "Jesuit Libraries Provenance Project." Archival and Historical Methods Session I, Life Sciences Building, 9:00-11:00.
Nathan Jérémie-Brink, "Spreading the Word, Mapping a Movement: Early African American Antislavery Newspapers on Digital Maps." Archival and Historical Methods Session I, Life Sciences Building, 9:00-11:00.
Devin Leigh, "Revenant of the Keys: Discover the Legends of Black Caesar." Archival and Historical Methods Session I, Life Sciences Building, 9:00-11:00.
Jessica Hagen, "The Jesuit Libraries Project: Digitizing Loyola's First Library Catalogue Using MARC21 as Platform for Evaluating Data Analysis and Visualization." Qualitative Poster Session, Life Sciences Building, 11:00-12:00.
Devin Hunter, "Albert Votaw: From Radical Leftist Intellectual to Liberal Urban Renewal Advocate." Content and Textual Analysis Session II, Life Sciences Building, 1:45-3:45.

An awards session followed the Graduate symposium in the Mundelein Palm Court. Nathan Jérémie-Brink received the award for best presentation in the Archival and Historical Methods session, and Jessica Hagen received the award for best poster presentation in the Qualitative Poster Session.

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