Student News
Student News
Student News
Regional Phi Alpha Theta Conference at West Chester University
Congratulations to History students (left to right): Libby Campbell, Julieann Wattley, Gloria Schulz, (Dr. Chris Saladin of the History Department), Abbigail Ealer, Emily Schmidt, and Christian Mammarella-Pietrafitta on presenting their research at the Regional Phi Alpha Theta Conference at West Chester University.
2025 Warren Fellowship for Future Teachers
EXCITING NEWS! Join us in congratulating History majors, Chris Roberts and Alisha Weiss. Chris and Alisha have been awarded a 2025 Warren Fellowship For Future Teachers. This is a fully funded fellowship that runs 18-23 May 2025 through the Holocaust Museum Houston. The Warren Fellowship’s main objective is to provide new teachers with the necessary historical and pedagogical tools for teaching the Holocaust from the onset of their teaching careers. (In addition, Lucas Brenner - a Holocaust and Genocide Education graduate - is featured on their website!)
President's Day Lecture & Student Poster Sessions
Thank you students, parents, and faculty for a wonderful President's Day Lecture and Poster Session! We're so proud of the hard work that students put into their research topics. We hope everyone enjoyed the lecture from Dr. Nicole Eustace and spending time with students as they demonstrated their historical knowledge.
Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon
On February 14th, students and faculty joined Dr. Jessica Mack at the Center for Digital Humanities for their 3rd Annual Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon event! Together with the Library of Congress, volunteers helped to transcribe rare documents and manuscripts on African American history into a digital format. Each year attendees write small reflection notes on their transcribe-a-thon experience. These notes are framed and can be observed in Bunce Hall 252 at The Center for Digital Humanities.
History Student Updates
Congratulations to History student Emily Schmidt! Emily has been accepted into UDEL's Masters in history program. We're very excited to hear about her upcoming research in 18th century material culture and the formation of identity in early American history.
Edward W. Pell Fellowship Award
Congratulations are in order for History student Abbigail Ealer! Abbie has been offered the 2025 Edward W. Pell Graduate Fellowship in Archives/Transcription/Education. We're so excited for Abbie to embark on this well-earned educational experience for the Summer!
American Historical Association Conference 2025
Abbie Ealer started off the new year at the Annual AHA Conference in New York City, January 3rd - 6th. During the AHA lightening round, Abbie presented her research on Philadelphia's Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church and its role in the Underground Railroad. The conference was also attended by History students, Angelina Witting and Sara Farris.
Annual Conference for Northeastern Historical Archeology
Brianna Brida presented her poster "Unearthing Perspective: Observations of Public Archaeology at Red Bank Battlefield Park" at the annual Conference for Northeastern Historical Archaeology in New Haven, Connecticut, October 17-20, 2024.
Commencements
In May 2024, history undergraduates and history graduate students participated in the 101st Commencement exercises at Glassboro! Photos below from the last two commencements, the one that began an the one that ended Rowan's year of Centennial celebration. In 2023, we were all very proud that the Dean selected Gillian Moore to give the Student Address, and she made us even more proud with her delivery. Congratulations to all of the graduates.
On April 22, 2023, John Reres and Emily Schmidt, supported by several other students, presented their research at the annual meeting of Phi Alpha Theta (Eastern Regional) at Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Both students earned accolades for their word and special prizes.
On April 13, 2023, the Department of History hosted its annual Senior Recognition Banquet and Honors Society Induction. Every seat was filled at Filomena Lakeview as family and friends joined the faculty in honoring our students. Congratulations to all who attended. Much thanks to William Carrigan, Mikkel Dack, Stephen Hague, and Debbie Sharnak (facultya advisors) and Gillian Moore (President of Phia Alpha Theta) and James Cater and John Reres (co-Presidents of the Student History Association) for their hosting and organizing of the event. Thanks to Scott Morschauser for a fascinating address on his revolutionary research on "Journeying with Sinhue."
President's Day 2023 was another great success. Beginning at 4pm, undergraduate and graduate students presented their research projects in poster format. Nominated for their excellence by faculty, these students impressed all who attended, including keynote speaker, Jay Sexton of the University of Missouri.
Professor Sexton delivered a fantastic address after the poster session. Dr. Sexton's talk, entitled "The Monroe Doctrine at 200: Past, Present, and Future," succeeded at both conveying the historic importance of this foreign policy statement over the past two centuries while also noting how the doctrine and its related ideas continue to impact international relations in the 21st century. Thanks to Edward Wang for this great photograph.
Congratulations to Dr. Jessica Mack and all who helped plan and pull off on a very successful Douglass Day 2023!
Past Student News
- In the summer of 2017, undergraduate Tyler Jiang appeared on The Point, a policy talk show on China Global Network Television. You can watch his interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLt-M8o1W_GdSNhViAVk4Fq8IItW8PHBVf¶ms=OAFIAVgB&v=xGhOmwk6ZMo&mode=NORMAL&app=desktop
- Undergraduate Zachary Baer recently published an article in the journal Sojourn entitled “School Segregation in the Post-Civil War Era: Burlington County, New Jersey, 1865 – 1915.” https://blogs.stockton.edu/sjchc/
