Sewanee's history professors boast remarkably different purviews, with concentrations in the history of women, medieval Europe, Russia and the Far East, the Middle East, Southern Africa, Latin America and the colonization of the New World, 19th- and 20th-century pop culture, politics and military, African Americans in America, and economics and society during and after the Reconstruction, among others.
As part of Scholarship Sewanee, History Honors' candidates Benjamin Axelrod, Brian Fennessy, Brian Easley, Erin Olbon, and Elizabeth Myers will present their theses at 2:45 p.m. in Walsh-Ellett 210 on Friday, April 27.
Professor Roger S. Levine, Associate Professor of History, has been quoted in a New York Times article on Amantle Montsho, one of the fastest women in the world and a favorite to win gold at the Summer Games in London.
Brian Fennessy, C'12, has received several graduate school offers. Fennessy will be attending The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he will enter their Ph.D. program in the Fall of 2012.
