Entries tagged with ‘history’
Kate Aguilar, 2023 Swenson-Bunn Memorial Award for Teaching Winner
Kate Aguilar (History) was selected as the 2023 recipient of the Swenson-Bunn Memorial Award for Teaching. The award honors the memory of two Gustavus students and members of the Student Senate, Greg Swenson and Holly Bunn, who were killed in a car accident in 1989. Presented each year at Honors Day, this is the only […]
Faculty Spotlight: Kate Aguilar
Kate Aguilar (History) was selected for the CIC Faculty Seminar on the Legacies of American Slavery at Yale (Summer 2023), along with the Southern Historical Association’s Junior Scholars’ Workshop (2023-2024). She was also awarded the 2023 North American Society for Sport Historians Dissertation Award.
Faculty Spotlight: Kathleen Keller
Kathleen Keller (History) was elected to the editorial board of the journal French Historical Studies.
Faculty Spotlight: Kathleen Keller
Kathleen Keller (History) was Awarded the American Philosophical Society Franklin Grant to conduct research in France in summer 2023 on her new book, “A Magnificent Fraud: An African Life in Twentieth Century France.” The grant provides $6,000 to support research travel.
Faculty Spotlight: Kate Aguilar
Kate Aguilar (History) published a piece in the Washington Post about the historic significance of having two African American quarterbacks square off in this year’s Super Bowl.
Faculty Spotlight: Kate Aguilar
Kate Aguilar (History) published an opinion column in the Washington Post, “Blocking Black history is an attempt to counter Black Power,” about the academic changes happening in Florida, on the first day of Black History Month.
Gustavus History Professor Publishes Essay in the Washington Post
Professor Kathleen Keller of the history department published an essay in the Washington Post on Tuesday January 10, 2023, titled “China’s Increased Surveillance Capacity Could be Dangerous.” The essay appeared in the Made by History section of the Post which provides historical context to current events. Connecting to recent news about surveillance in China related […]
Faculty Spotlight: Kathleen Keller
Kathleen Keller (History) attended the Western Society for French History annual meeting in Victoria, British Columbia from November 4-6, 2022, where she participated in a roundtable discussion about researching and writing biographies about the French Empire and provided a comment on a panel about networks and decolonization in the French Empire.
Faculty Spotlight: Kathleen Keller
Kathleen Keller (History) published a book review in H-France Review of the book Marianne is Watching: Intelligence, Counterintelligence, and the Origins of the French Surveillance State by Deborah Bauer. H-France Review is “the premier review program for newly published books on Francophone history and culture in the Anglophone world.”
Faculty Spotlight: Maddalena Marinari
Maddalena Marinari (History) participated in a roundtable that examined the aftermath of the 1918-1919 flu pandemic published in the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era this spring. This academic year, she also published an essay on migration, war, and the transformation of the U.S. population in the Cambridge History of America and the […]