This past summer, I spent five weeks in Ireland. The first week, I was travelling around the country with my mother and grandmother. The last four weeks I worked in the Irish National Heritage Park, just outside of Wexford Town doing an archaeological dig. It was… the best experience of …
During Fall 2017, I participated in a directed study project entitled “Voices from the War on Terror” with Professor Abbas and six other students. Together, we engaged with oral history as a form of analytical research and understanding in order to try and capture the feelings and opinions of the …
Over the course of the fall 2017 semester, I had the privilege of participating in Professor Megan Brankley Abbas’s directed study titled “Voices from the War on Terror.” In this course, my classmates and I engaged in multiple conversations regarding the origins as well as the consequences of the so-called …
When applying to Geneseo as a seventeen year old, the list of majors intimidated me. While deciding which box to check, I crossed out math and science because I despised chemistry and algebra. However, this still left me with a big decision to make. I knew history was a subject …
There are two different – but equally misinformed – reactions that I get when I tell someone that I am a history major. Either, “wow, that must be so boring,” or, “what could you possibly do with that?” These reactions are indicative of a profound misunderstanding of what the study …
The students in our Spring 2017 research seminar “Hacking the Middle Ages” (HIST 302) collaborated on recreating medieval Paris using digital mapping techniques and drawing on the Description de la ville de Paris (1434). Here they team up again to tell us what they learned about digital history, trial and …
We continue our student Q&A series Isabel Owen (’19), who’s majoring in history and creative writing. We talk about the importance of approaching history from the bottom up, and the links between history and social change. Is there a particular kind of history (field, approach, time period, theme) that you’re …
This post was co-written by Tom Garrity ’17 and Jen Galvão ’19, two of four Geneseo students who currently work as interns for the SNCC Digital Gateway Project and enjoy every minute of it! The SNCC Digital Gateway – coordinated by the SNCC Legacy Project, Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies …
In the first of our series of Q&As with current SUNY Geneseo history majors, we’re chatting with Jenna Lawson (’18), about what she finds fascinating about history, her career goals, and why Richard Pryor would be a great person to have a cup of joe with. Why were you …
