Julia Chen, Andrew Patrick Davis, Catherine A. Fowler, Krystla Michelle Kline, Laura Abigail May, Emily A. Welch, Nicholas Smith, Jennifer Lynne Wood, Emily Joanne Wyatt will receive the Master’s degree in History at the spring 2012 Graduate School Commencement ceremony on May 11th. Congratulations on your accomplishment and best wishes!
When you leave here, don’t forget why you came. ~Adlai Stevenson, to college graduates
Forty three History majors will join the class of 2012 at the May 12th commencement ceremonies and will become official College of Charleston Alumni.
Six History majors undertook double majors in History and Political Science or Communications. Half the majors successfully minored in Classics, European Studies, Education or Languages. More than a third earned academic honors and awards. Congratulations on your hard work and goals acommplished!
New Books in History features discussions with historians about their work, and particularly their new books. The program is hosted by Marshall Poe.
If you’re interested, you might also want to checkout Mechanical Icon. It’s a site that features short video essays on iconic historical photographs.
The Office of New Student Programs and the First-Year Experience asked the class of 2015 to submit names and comments about College of Charleston faculty who helped them succeed during their first year. Adjunct Professor Bill McSweeney and nine other College of Charleston faculty were recognized by students as someone who made a difference in their lives through their encouragement and guidance.
Please join the History department’s graduate students on Monday, April 16, at 6:00pm in Maybank Hall 206 for the last Graduate Colloquium of the year. One of our students, Kate Fowler, will be presenting a chapter from her soon-to-be-defended thesis, entitled “Black Women’s Bodies Were Never Theirs Alone: Mental Hygiene and Sterilization at the South Carolina State Hospital.”
The Society of First Families Scholarship is presented to rising seniors and History majors with special concern for early South Carolina history to 1790. This year the award goes to History students Parker Bednar and James Boast. The students and faculty will be honored guests at the First Families luncheon held at the Carolina Yacht Club in April.
On April 16th in Randolph Alumni Memorial Hall, four History students presented their research papers and took questions from the audience. These students, their advisors and the titles of their papers are:
Cassandra Falk
“The Governmental Treatment of Jews under the Old Regime and Napoleon”
Advisor: Bill Olejniczak
Hunter Newton
“Communicating Illness: Newspapers as Mediums of Public Discourse
in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Charleston”
Advisor: Honor Sachs
John Epperson
“Enemy and Ally: Slave Participation in the Anglo-Spanish Contest for the Southeast.”
Advisor: Honor Sachs
Tara Schiraldi
“American Involvement in Nicaragua and the Rise of Anastasio Somoza”
Advisor: Dr. Malcolm Clark
Students, Parents and Friends are invited to attend the 2012 History Awards ceremony which will be held in Randolph Alumni Memorial Hall on Monday, April 16th to begin at 3:30 p.m.
Students receiving awards:
Outstanding History Student: Jenna Barker
This certificate is awarded to a graduating senior with the highest grade point average
Outstanding History Student Award with Service:
Mary Hoyle
Tara Schiraldi
John Epperson
This certificate is awarded to a graduating senior with a GPA of 3.5, service and excellence in seminars
Departmental Honors are awarded to graduating seniors who have shown academic excellence with a GPA of 3.5 and exceptional work in a research seminar, bachelor’s essay or independent study:
Jenna Barker
Genavieve Brumsted
Sarah Burks
John Epperson
Mary Hoyle
Chelsea Legette
James McManus
Gillian Rogers
Tara Schiraldi
Brooke Sensenig
Emily Sieger
Katherine Thigpen
Michael Weisshaar
Zachary Wilkocz
2012 Annual Awards:
The George & Agnes Heltai Award in History: Mary Hoyle
The Heltai award is presented annually to the graduating senior whose academic achievement in their discipline merits the highest distinction. This award honors Dr. George G. Heltai of History from 1967-1986, and Mrs. Heltai, for their devotion to the students, the faculty, and the intellectual and cultural life of the College. It is a gift from Dr. Malcolm Clark, Emeritus History Professor.
The Society of First Families of South Carolina Scholarship: Parker Bednar and James Boast
This award is presented to a rising senior History major with special concern for early South Carolina history to the 1790s. The student will receive an engraved cup and certificate.
The Albert R. Simonds Special Merit Award: Parker Bednar
The Simonds Award is presented to a rising senior in History selected on the basis of academic excellence.
The Douglas & Elizabeth Clark Memorial Scholarship in History: Danielle Winter
The Clark scholarship is awarded to a rising junior or senior based on academic excellence.
The William Moultrie Cup: James Boast
The Rebecca Motte Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution presents this cup and certificate in recognition of excellence in advanced study in American history.
Charleston Chapter American Federation of Women’s Clubs History Prize: Katherine Thigpen
This award is a gift presented to a history major with highest honors in U.S. history.
The National Society of Colonial Dames of America in South Carolina: Grant Vatter
The scholarship is presented to an outstanding master’s program student for high achievement in the area of American history.
The Alexander C. Dick Scholarship in Pre-Law: Bailey Evans (political science)
This endowed scholarship is presented to an outstanding student in history or political science with intent to attend law school.
Transfer Student Award: Matthew D. Gray
This certificate is awarded for outstanding academic achievement as a transfer student.
School of Humanities and Social Sciences Scholars Award:
Cassandra Falk, Mary Hoyle
Bill Olejniczak will give his sabbatical lecture entitled “The Warned and the Punished: A Comparative Approach towards Criminal Justice, Policing, and the Crime of Vagrancy in Eighteenth-century England and France” on Monday, April 9 @ 3:15 p.m. in Addlestone Library Room 227.
”English and French authorities saw vagrancy as a menacing crime in the eighteenth century. A comparative approach reveals that, contrary to the usual picture of contrasting kingdoms, French and English governments sought to vigorously suppress vagrancy in surprisingly similar ways. My study examines an underside of the world of migration and explores the social and cultural experiences of significant numbers of the laboring poor as they interacted with police, judicial, and correctional authorities. A study of vagrancy as crime sheds light on the changing nature of governance in both states as well as emerging new cultural assumptions of French and English elites about social disorder, the mobile poor, punishment, and poverty at the end of the eighteenth century. ”
Assistant Professor Yigit Akin has been awarded a year-long post-doctoral fellowship offered by the research program “Europe in the Middle East-The Middle East in Europe” (EUME). EUME is a project at the Forum Transregionale Studien a research platform designed to promote research that connects systematic and region-specific questions in a perspective that addresses entanglements and interactions beyond national, cultural, and regional frames. The Forum is funded by the Senate of Berlin and is administered by the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin/Institute for Advanced Study.
Yigit Akin will be attending a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Seminar, “World War I in the Middle East” to be held on the campus of American University in Washington, D.C., from June 9 through July, 6, 2012.