Join the History Graduate Student Association on May 15 & 16 for a two-night, end-of-semester event bringing together poets from Spain and New York City for the transnational Poetas por Km² festival. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: April 2014
Lincoln Centre Campus to Host Two-Night Festival of Books and Poetry
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Fordham Student Thanked in New Book on Anne Boleyn
It isn’t every day that an undergraduate student is acknowledged in a widely-read work of historical scholarship. That’s why the History Department was excited to learn that a Fordham undergraduate, Marlessa Stivala, was thanked for her input in Susan Bordo’s new book, The Creation of Anne Boleyn (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013). Continue reading
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PhD Student Pedro Cameselle Wins Fulbright
Congratulations to Fordham History PhD student Pedro Cameselle, who has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright grant to fund his doctoral research in Uruguay. Continue reading
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PhD Student Brandon Gauthier Wins OAH Award
Brandon K. Gauthier received a John Higham Travel Grant from the Organization of American Historians and the Immigration and Ethnic History Society to present a paper at the OAH’s annual conference in April 2014. His paper, entitled “‘Bring All the Troops Home Now!’ The American-Korean Friendship and Information Center and North Korean Public Diplomacy, 1971-1976,” detailed the history of a North Korean funded “anti-imperialist peace organization” in New York City that sought to generate public support for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and force the withdrawal of American forces from the Korean peninsula. He is currently at work on a dissertation examining the intellectual and cultural history of U.S. foreign relations with the DPRK from 1948-1996.
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HSTEM Seminar: Julie Chun Kim on “Natural Histories of Indigenous Resistance”
The History Department is delighted to hold our third HSTEM seminar this Wednesday, April 9, 4:30PM Lowenstein 802, LC with Fordham’s own Dr. Julie Chun Kim (English). Her paper is entitled “Natural Histories of Indigenous Resistance: Alexander Anderson and the Caribs of St. Vincent”. An abstract and a link to the full paper is attached below. Our commentator for this session will be Dr. Steven Stoll (Fordham, History), who works on agrarian societies in 17th and 18th century America. We look forward to see you at the seminar. Please RSVP (to gyshen at fordham dot edu) if you plan to attend, thank you! Continue reading
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Panel to Explore Compatible Careers 4/15
On April 15 at 6:30 in the McGinley Center Faculty Lounge the Fordham Center for Medieval Studies will host a panel discussion on the topic “Compatible Careers for Medievalists.” The panel promises interesting suggestions and approaches to finding a job, not only for medievalists but historians and those in the humanities more generally. The panelists include three Fordham History PhDs and includes former graduate students now working in fields like game design and publishing. Come and find out about the many interesting career possibilities that exist for those with degrees in the humanities. Click the image below to see the full flyer. Continue reading
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New Course to Explore Material Culture in Early America
Perforated cooking spoon: eighteenth century
This Fall, Professor Elaine Crane will offer a new course, HIST 4658 Home Sweet Home: the Material Culture of Early America. The course will meet on Tuesdays 3:30-5:30 at the New York Historical Society in Manhattan.
Professor Crane writes:
Home Sweet Home will explore early America through objects in daily use. We will look at candle molds to see how hot wax and string turned darkness into light. We will handle utensils and cooking ware to learn how people produced the food they ate and the beverages they drank without the help of microwave ovens and processors. Wooden plates and porcelain cups will distinguish rich from poor as will the furniture and textiles people passed from one generation to another. Room by room and article by article early Americans will reveal how they lived their lives.
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“The Distinctive Lineage of Digital History”
Tom Scheinfeldt, nationally known for his leadership role at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University, now serves as an Associate Professor of Digital Media and Design and Director of Digital Humanities at the University of Connecticut.
Dr. Scheinfeldt has been behind such pathbreaking initiatives as the September 11 Digital Archive, Omeka, and THATCamp. He is co-editor (with Dan Cohen) of Hacking the Academy: New Approaches to Scholarship and Teaching from Digital Humanities (University of Michigan Press, 2013) and a contributor to Debates in the Digital Humanities (University of Minnesota Press, 2012). He blogs at Found History and co-hosts the Digital Campus podcast.
This program is organized by Professor Roger Panetta (History) and hosted by the History Department with support from the Dean of Fordham College-Rose Hill through the Innovative Pedagogy Initiative.
Join us at McMahon Hall 109, Lincoln Center Campus, on Friday, April 4th at 4:30pm.
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Alex Novikoff to Speak at Cambridge University
Dr. Alex Novikoff will be delivering an invited lecture at Cambridge University this week at a symposium devoted to “Ancient and Medieval Jewish-Christian Disputations: Fiction and Reality.” The event is sponsored by the Woolf Institute for Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations, the University of Paris I (Sorbonne), and Lucy Cavendish College (Cambridge). The title of his presentation, “The Role of Petrus Alfonsi in the Medieval Culture of Disputation,” is related to his recently published book, The Medieval Culture of Disputation: Pedagogy, Practice, and Performance (Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013).
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Events: St. Robert Southwell, SJ Lecture (April 10)
The History Department is proud to present the next St. Robert Southwell, S.J. lecture. Dr. Susan Bridgen of the University of Oxford will present “Reformation Diplomacy: the Tudor Kings and Their Ambassadors.” The talk will take pace on Thursday, 10 April 2014 at 6PM in the Flom Auditorium of Walsh Family Library on the Rose Hill Campus of Fordham University.The lecture will be followed by a reception. The Southwell Lectures are free and open to the public. Continue reading
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