Professor Julie Berebitsky has been awarded an NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Summer Stipend Grant for a new scholarly project, “Republican Feminists: Between Party Loyalty and Women's Rights."

Professors Register and Willis were named to endowed chairs during the University's recent Commencement.

As part of Scholarship Sewanee, History Honors' candidates Katie Brown, Elisabeth Wharton, Robert Allen, Michael Petrosh, Lacy Broemel, Lauren Berny and Peter Sidrys will present their theses at 2:30 p.m. in Walsh-Ellett 210 on Friday, April 26.

Each semester members of the Department of History offer a section of History 100, a "core requirement" that all Sewanee students must complete (unless they are participating in the four-semester Humanities Program) in order to graduate. Most students take this course during the first year.

Leslie Reagan, professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will give the 2013 Goodstein Lecture in Women’s History, “When Abortion Was a Crime: The American Past, and Present?”

Each semester members of the Department of History offer a section of History 100, a “core requirement” that all Sewanee students must complete (unless they are participating in the four-semester Humanities Program) in order to graduate. Most students take this course during the first year.

Kelly Whitmer (History), Jeff Thompson (Art History) and Shelley MacLaren (Art History/University Art Gallery) recently won an ACA/UNCA Undergraduate Research Award to pursue a project entitled "Science and Art: Collections, Exhibitions and the Production of Knowledge." The project aims to generate new approaches to interdisciplinary undergraduate research in the humanities on the campus of the University of the South.

Professor John Willis will offer a lecture, "Perimeter Trail Discoveries or, History Hidden in Plain Sight," to the Ecce Quam Bonum Club (EQB) at 12:30pm on Wednesday, October 31.

Undergraduates at the University of the South write and edit The Mountain View: Sewanee Historical Perspectives.

Topics and themes related to the development and impact of the Western civilization upon the human community. The subjects are analyzed through an intensive examination of a specific historical theme, issue, or period.

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.