Professor Michael Oberg has been featured in a number of recent events in connection with two major forthcoming research projects on the 1794 Treaty of Canandaigua and the 19th century missionary Eleazer Williams. This past week, Oberg was one of the featured panelists on “WXXI Connections with Evan Dawson”, a …
The department congratulates Professor Tze-ki Hon on the publication of his new book Teaching the I Ching (Book of Changes). The book is co-authored by Geoffrey Raymond and is available from Oxford University Press, with more detail available here. Professor Hon is one of the department’s most active scholars, and …
Geneseo hosted the New York State Association of European Historians’ Annual Meeting for the first time since 1998 over the weekend of October 3-4. Scholars from across the state and country participated in this academic conference, with several panels devoted to the hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of World War …
May 2014 graduate Alec Tare was named recipient of Phi Alpha Theta’s Lynn W. Turner Prize. This is the highest national award granted by Phi Alpha Theta (the history national honor society) for a piece of undergraduate research. Alec’s paper was based on the senior thesis he wrote under the …
The History Department is pleased to welcome Professor Ryan Jones as our newest tenure-track faculty member. Ryan comes to us from Washington University in St. Louis where he spent a year as a visiting professor. With a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Jones brings expertise in Latin …
History faculty member Joe Cope and Rob Doggett from the English Department escorted a group of Geneseo alumni on a ten day learning trip to Ireland in July and August. The trip featured visits to a number of sites of historical and cultural interest, including historical walking tours on the …
For the second consecutive year, a Geneseo History major has won the Consortium of Public Liberal Arts Colleges’ David J. Prior Award. Sherry Leung joins last year’s winner, Cory Young, in having been honored for her essay on civic engagement and liberal arts education. Profiles of Sherry, Cory and other …
We are pleased to announce that Associate Professor of History Jordan Kleiman was named as one of three Geneseo faculty to receive the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. This brings a total of seven Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence in Teaching to the History Department. Congratulations! The press release …
Ten Geneseo History majors presented research at the annual Phi Alpha Theta West/Central Regional Conference held at SUNY Buffalo State on 5 April. In attendance were Neal Hunter, Peter Olsen-Harbich, Clare Flynn, Alec Tare, Nikita Rumsey, Brittany Lauda, Todd Christensen, Liz Dierenfield, Liam Collins, and Cindy Trieu. Four students received …
Over Spring Break, Geneseo alumnus Keven Adams (2012) and current student Todd Christensen (pictured here) attended a Syracuse University Conference, sponsored by the Law School’s Cold Case Initiative, “Looking Back, Moving Forward: 50th Anniversary Commemoration of the Civil Rights Movement 1964-2014”. At the conference, they heard presentations by and met …
