News
Dr. Curtis Keim has completed his article, “Violence, Culture, and History in Africa”, and it will be published by Prajna Vihara: Journal of Philosophy and Religion. The article discusses the tendency of the popular media as well as government officials and scholars to attribute violence in Africa to African culture rather than to specific historical and political experiences of contemporary Africans.
10-23-09
Dr. Jamie Paxton presented a paper “A Murder at Grand River: A Crisis of Community in One Haudenosaunee Settlement” at the American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Meeting in New Orleans.
10-23-09
On October 24, 2009 the History Department will be holding a continental breakfast for all History, as well as Historical Studies, Alumni. All students are welcome to attend as well. It will be held from 10:00-11:30am on the Third floor of the PPHAC Academic building.
10-07-09
This past August, Professor Paul Peucker presented a paper entitled "Moravian archives as repositories of Pietist experiences" at the Third International Conference for Piestist Research in Halle, Germany. He also released the article "The Ideal of Primitive Christianity as a Source of Moravian Liturgical Practice".
10-07-09
Rachel Kleiner and six other Moravian students, as well as three professors, traveled to Jerusalem, Israel this past summer to take part in an archaeological dig at Ramat Rahel. She explains how it was the best experience of her life. She saw so many beautiful things and reccommends a trip like this to all others who are interested. 10-07-09
Christina Townsend ‘09 has won the undergraduate essay contest of the North American Conference on British Studies. She will attend the graduate school in Medieval History at Cambridge University.
8-25-09
Professor Sandy Bardsley will be a member of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton during the academic year 2009-2010. She is working on a book on the ways in which the Black Death of the mid-fourteenth century affected gender systems in late medieval England.
6-01-09
Professor Jamie Paxton’s book Joseph Brant and His World. Eighteenth-century Mohawk Warrior and Statesman came out October 2008 with J. Lorimer.
2-01-09
The new revised edition of Professor Curt Keim’s Mistaking Africa. Curiosities and Inventions of the American Mind came out September 2008 with the Westview Press.
1-01-09