Faculty News

Recent "In the News" of our History faculty!

2025

January

• Jody Russell Manning, NBC 10 International Holocaust Remembrance Day 
• Jody Russel Manning, 6 ABC International Holocaust Remembrance Day
• Melissa R. Klapper, "A Jewish, racist daughter of the Confederacy"
• Debbie Sharnak "Jimmy Carter's Dark Legacy in El Salvador"
• Chanelle Rose, "At first-ever Amistad Conference, teachers, scholars, community leaders explore innovative ways of teaching Black history"

2024

December

• Melissa R. Klapper, ‘The Civil War Diary of Emma Mordecai’: Rowan historian completes late colleague’s book focusing on Jewish life in the South. 
• Janet Moore Lindman, “’And well improved each moment as it flies’:  Spiritual Utility and Quaker Art,” EAS Miscellany, December 15, 2024. Read More

November

• Janet Moore Lindman, “And well improve each moment as it flies”: Spiritual Utility and Quaker Art 
• Jody Russel Manning, "Reverent remembrance: Conference on Holocaust memorial books brings international scholars to Rowan" 

October

• Jen Janofsky, "Facing history: In 2022, remains of Hessian soldiers were discovered at Red Bank Battlefield"  

September

• Edward Wang, "Japan a Good Fit for Chinese Intellectuals, Investors"
• William Carrigan, "Operation Uganda Renewed: Students, faculty give new life to 1960s initiative supporting African culture, history"

New Publications

• Janet Moore Lindman, "'Frequent Self-Examination Is the Duty of All':  Practical Religion, Moral Improvement, and Transatlantic Protestantism." Early American Studies Vol. 22, #4 (2024):647-680.