On Friday, April 26, 2013 at the 5th Annual Campus Leadership Awards, Wilkinson College student and PAT President Priya Shah (pictured left to right: Priya Shah, Dr. Cumiford and Erika Aguilar), a History/Spanish double major, was awarded the Cheverton Award for the 2012-13 academic year. The Cheverton Award is presented annually to an outstanding graduating
History Professor Alexander Bay recently published a book titled, Beriberi in Modern Japan: The Making of National Disease with University of Rochester Press. The book is about modern Japan, beriberi (or thiamin deficiency) becoming a public health problem that cuts across all social boundaries, afflicting even the Meiji Emperor. Read more …
Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Department of History present The 5 th Annual Alpha Mu Gamma History Conference on Saturday, March 16, 2013, starting at 8:15 a.m. in Beckman Hall. Seniors will present their papers as part of the capstone Senior Seminar courses 496/498, while commentators come from Historian’s Craft
The Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education is pleased to announce a lecture on War and Ethnic Cleansing: The Smyrna Catastrophe, 1922-2012 with Dr. Richard Hovannisian on September 5 in Beckman Hall, Room 404 at 7 p.m. Dr. Hovannisian is the Chancellor Fellow in the Department of History and the Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education at
Chapman University history major Lauren Abel ’13 didn’t know anything about American arts and crafts pottery of the late Victo rian era when she was asked to plan and design a museum exhibition on – you guessed it – American arts and crafts pottery of the late Victorian era. But Abel says she knew
Wilkinson College and the History Department is pleased to announce that Alpha Mu Gamma, Chapman University’s chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, the National History Honors Society, has won the best chapter award in Division 2 (programs without graduate studies) for the fifth year in row. This honor recognizes the outstanding achievements of the student-led organization.
Chapman University Assistant Professor of Art History, Justin St. P. Walsh, will be giving a special talk on Thursday, Aug ust 9 titled, “’Giant Leaps for Mankind’ and the Future of the Past,” , at 8 p.m. at the Machine Project in Los Angeles (1200-D North Alvarado Street, 90026). Professor Walsh’s talk will explore
The old photograph projected onto the overhead screen showed what seemed to be a merry bunch of solid Americans looking on and cheering at a happy occasion. But that was just part of the story and literally half of the photo. In the next slide the entire photograph was revealed, and the classroom of history
Led by Jennifer Keene, Ph.D., professor of history and chair of Chapman University’s Department of History, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History will hold a week-long seminar at Chapman, “Teaching American History with Images,” from July 29 to Aug. 4. Read more in Happenings …
Wilkinson staff member and graduate student Ashley Liberio will be heading to Eastern Europe this week to participate in an MBA travel course put on by Dr. Jim Coyle of the MAIS program. The course will last three weeks and will take her to Tbilisi, Georgia and Baku, Azerbaijan where she will study the geopolitics