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Fulbright Jenny Kromm ’13 Goes After History in Vienna
Kromm ’13, a history major with a minor in music, recently won a Fulbright scholarship that will take her to Vienna in September, where her research will combine two of her passions: history and music.
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History Major Zipporah Ridley ’17: Summer in Ghana
Zipporah Ridley, a senior history major, spent two months this summer in Ghana working with the Bright Generation Community Foundation.
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Hector Navarro ’17: Service Project in Nicaragua
Hector Navarro, a senior history major, spent almost a month this past summer working as an intern for a non-profit social agency in Nicaragua.
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Emily Stewart '18: Departmental Office Assistant
As Office Assistant, Emily will assist our Administrative Assistant, Carole Wentz, in the operations of the office.
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Faculty Activities
Click here to learn what some of our faculty did over this past summer.
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Advice from a Graduating Senior: Do More
Emma Chen let her passions guide her academic and extracurricular involvement at SCU, and she’s ready to embrace the new opportunities ahead.
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Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting Hits Home for SCU History Professor
Brillman struggles to understand attack on “small but strong” Jewish community
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Guy Marzorati '13 Reports on California Politics
History major works at KQED
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Historian Unger Honored With Research Award
Research explores progressive era politics, suffrage, environment
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Michael O'Sullivan '10
Michael O’Sullivan '10 (History), is a Ph.D. candidate in History at UCLA. Read in his own words how his time as a history major at SCU shaped his exciting career path.
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Fusing Science and Humanistic Thinking
Kyra McComas '16, currently in medical school, writes in her spare time
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Molony recognized for excellence in mentorship and service
She also presented a paper at Oxford University
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A New Chapter Begins
Héctor Navarro '17 answered the call to teaching after working for two years at Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
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Pioneering Women
Professor Nancy Unger featured in a PBS short on Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to Congress
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Summer Internship Prepares Alumna for Next Steps
Haley Butler '20 interned with the National Democratic Redistricting Committee as a research intern
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The Study of History Provides Perspective
Colonel (Ret) Bart Howard '84 recounts his long Army career and how studying History at SCU helped him keep a bigger perspective
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An Update from Jackson Stotlar '11
The value of a History major
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Historical Perspectives Wins Award Again
The 2019 edition took second prize in the Phi Alpha Theta Nash Journal contest
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Sonia Gomez: The Anti-Japanese Movement of 1908-1924
New article rethinks the making of the Gentlemen’s Agreement of 1908
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Paul Mariani: The Chinese Catholic Church
People, Communities, and the Catholic Church in China now available in paperback
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Barbara Molony: Engendering Transnational Transgressions
Reclaims the transgressive side of feminist history, challenging hegemonic norms and the power of patriarchies
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Amy Randall: Soviet and Russian Masculinities
Article published in the prestigious Journal of Modern History
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Matthew Newsom Kerr: Two Recent Publications
Historical context of the testing regimes seeking to identify sick and asymptomatic carriers of the Covid virus and visible signs/claims/questions of immunity (like mask-wearing today)
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Harry Nii Koney Odamtten talks about his book
Edward Blyden's Intellectual Transformations: Afropublicanism, Pan-Africanism, Islam and the Indigenous West African Church
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Nancy Unger: New essay on the LGBQT+ Community
Unger also started a two-year term as president of SHGAPE
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Roshan Rama '16
Currently in his last year of law school at Duke University
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Eduardo Cuevas '16
Moved to New York in August 2020 to attend journalism school at Columbia University
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Jace Lynch '15
Graduated SCU law school in 2019 and co-founded Hyperdraft
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Harry Odamtten Gives a Presentation to SCU Athletics
The history of Black boxers and social change
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Phi Alpha Theta 2021
Reflection by Brandon Schultz '21
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Catching up with Professor Emerita Jo Burr Margadant
Travels, family, and work on anew book
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Nancy Unger Gives Two Presentations
Women's suffrage and women's work in environmental history
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Paul Mariani Interviewed and Gave a Talk
Catholicism in Asia
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Reimagining a City
History alum Neil Datar and the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics team up to help the city of Santa Clara become more equitable and inclusive.
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Historical Perspectives through a Modern Lens
SCU’s Historical Perspectives serves as a way for History students to publish their research done in the classroom, providing an avenue to reach the larger community.
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Faculty Updates Fall 2021
Catch up with what history faculty have done fall 2021
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Faculty Updates Winter 2022
Catch up with what history faculty have done Winter 2022
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Brandon Sanchez '18
Experience in journalism and heading to graduate school
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Madison Givens '18
Publishing graduate school research that began at SCU
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Haley Butler '20
Pursuing a master's degree in London
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Faculty Updates Spring 2022
Catch up with what history faculty have done Spring 2022
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Art Liebscher, S.J. Retires from the History Department
Fr. Liescher will continue to serve the University.
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Michaela Scanlon '16
From History to Occupational Therapy
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Welcome back to Mateo J. Carrillo
The Department is delighted to announce that Mateo J. Carrillo, a proud member of the History class of 2002, is our new Assistant Professor of Latin American and Caribbean history!
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New Student Internships!
The department is using some of the funds from our generous donors to create a new History Internship Program (HIP), paid summer internships for history students. This past summer three of our students gained invaluable experience interning with the Chinese Historical Society of America in San Francisco.
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Faculty Activities and Achievements
Updates from Matthew Newsom Kerr, Michael Brillman, Matthew Specter, and Nancy Unger
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Alumni Feature: Dan Selmi
Class of 1972
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Welcome to a New University President
The History Department was well represented when SCU inaugurated Julie Sullivan, our first lay person, and first woman, on October 7, 2022.
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Social Media Memes
Some of Professor Meg Gudgeirrson’s immense popularity with our students stems from her willingness to incorporate social media and other non-traditional forms of communication into her classes. Students in her class on the Cold War created memes, reviewed them, and placed them in the context of the course material.
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Shared Memories
The History Department mourns the loss of Tim O’Keefe, a much-beloved faculty member. We were heartened, however, by the flood of condolence notes that came to the office and were forwarded to the (very grateful) O’Keefe family.
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Faculty News, Activities and Achievements Winter 2023
Updates from Mateo Carrillo, Naomi Andrews, Marwan Hanania, Matthew Specter, Matthew Newsom Kerr, Nancy Unger, and Michael Brillman/Meg Gudgeirsson
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Faculty News, Activities and Achievements Spring 2023
Updates from Nancy Unger, Mateo Carrillo, Sonia Gomez, and Meg Gudgeirsson
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History Has Its Eyes on SCU
SCU’s “Historical Perspectives” has won the nation’s top undergraduate history journal prize two years in a row. Is a third win around the corner?
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Finding Interdisciplinary Connections
During his time at SCU, Wohl studied political science, history, and philosophy, finding different ways to connect these three interests.
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Naomi Andrews Recognized by the College of Arts and Sciences
Naomi Andrews awarded the Dr. David E. Logothetti Teaching Award
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Faculty News, Activities and Achievements Fall 2023
Updates from Naomi Andrews, Michael Brillman, Mateo Carrillo, Meg Gudgeirsson, Sonia Gomez, Matthew Newsom Kerr, Amy Randall, Matthew Specter, Nancy Unger, Gregory Wigmore
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Alumni Feature: Ralph Spaulding
Class of 1967
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Faculty News Winter 2024
Updates from Mateo Carrillo, Sonia Gomez, Marwan Hanania, Harry Odamtten, Amy Randall, Nancy Unger, and Gregory Wigmore