Well done to our many history majors who presented talks at the Phi Alpha Theta Western New York Regional Meeting 2017 at SUNY Brockport on March 4! All of their presentations were based on independent research which they have undertaken in courses here at Geneseo, and covered topics ranging from …
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 …
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 …
In October, the History Department hosted the annual Bill Gohlman Memorial Lecture in Global History. We had Tim Nicholson (class of 2004 and currently Assistant Professor at SUNY-Delhi) on campus to speak on “East African Students in a Post-Imperial World”. We had terrific student turnout for an impressive presentation on Tim’s research …
In April, Geneseo hosted the annual West/Central New York Phi Alpha Theta (History Honors Society) conference. Geneseo students represented the College extremely well. Twelve students made presentations and once again our students did wonderful work, winning three of the six best paper prizes (awarded to Lila Chambers, Peter Olsen-Harbich, and …
