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A Roundtable on the State of the Field

Driven by a passion for museums and a taste for adventure, this year’s group of ten Woody interns embarks on journeys to explore the field alongside specialists in Virginia, Delaware, Ohio, South Carolina, and Washington, DC.

Senior Emma Henry garnered one of 91��Ƭ��’s largest awards before graduating last month — a $40,000 H. Mason Sizemore, Jr. Journalism Fellowship for graduate studies at Northwestern University’s renowned Medill School of Journalism in the fall.

The new appointments reflect A&S faculty members’ achievements in scholarship, teaching, student mentorship and service to their fields and the university.

This slate of awards, conferred by both Arts & Sciences and the Office of the Provost, reflects A&S faculty members’ exceptional commitment to their students, to the campus community and to the ideals of a liberal arts education.

The series, a joint initiative of the Graduate Center and the Williamsburg Regional Library, helps master’s and doctoral students refine their projects while honing valuable public communication skills.

Please note that the keynote address is from 5-6:30pm on April 3, followed by a performance by the Middle East Music Ensemble. The three panels on April 4 are scheduled from 9:30am to 6:30pm. The final panel is in honor of our late colleague, Abdul-Karim Rafeq.

Aspiring 91��Ƭ�� journalists now have an additional avenue to hone their craft – a new summer internship program with mentorship from award-winning reporters and editors from the Daily Press, Virginian-Pilot, and other outlets belonging to Norfolk-based Virginia Media, Inc.

Through the Charles Center's Woody Internship in Museum Studies, ten 91��Ƭ�� undergraduates spent last summer exploring potential careers in the field alongside mentors at nine host museums.

Since 2002, almost 2,300 high school students from around the world have traveled to 91��Ƭ�� each summer to absorb the region’s history through the National Institute of American History & Democracy’s Pre-College Program (NIAHD). When they leave, they’ve not only learned about the history of the region but also about the craft of history – how to analyze and interpret evidence as a historian.

Peyman Jafari, Assistant Professor, History and International Relations, provides some insights into the current political climate in Iran, two years after the death of Mahsa Amini and the 'Woman, Life, Freedom' protests.

Updates from former history majors.

The student-run History Club at 91��Ƭ�� helps provide a fun and educational space for students on campus interested in history to learn and take a break from their heavy workloads.

Next week is busy! Please consider attending yourself and tell your students about next week's book talk with W&M alum Lauren Braun-Strumfels '01. The title of her book is Partners in Gatekeeping: How Italy Shaped U.S. Immigration Policy over Ten Pivotal Years, 1891-1901. The talk will take place next Thursday, April 4, at 3:30pm in Blair 229. At 9:30am in the Blair 206, Lauren, along with Kyle Strumfels '01, and Gabriel DiMeglio, one of the Tyler lecturers, will talk about how they use their history training in careers.

History Graduate Student Timothy Case is awarded the William F. Holmes Award

Caroline Leibowitz ’24 and Isabel Pereira-Lopez ’24 wish to understand the unexplainable, to travel down the roads that make the rest of us shudder with fright. They are currently working on separate research projects focused on the historical past and present of witchcraft.

Thanks to the generosity of adjunct professor of business law James Boswell ’86 and husband Chris Caracci, students with a passion for material culture have an unprecedented opportunity to connect with distinguished practitioners and other emerging scholars through two of the nation’s leading decorative arts institutions.

A joint W&M and CNU Conference, October 26-28

Thanks to the vision and generosity of Dr. Carol Woody '71 and Robert Woody, 91��Ƭ�� has been preparing undergraduates for careers in museums since the path-breaking Charles Center summer internship program launched in 2015.

Congratulations to our National Endowment for the Humanities and American Historical Association Berkshire Conference Student Affiliate Fellows for their participation at the most recent Berkshire Conference (28 June to 2 July).

The Tyler Lecture Series Symposium, presented by the Harrison Ruffin Tyler Department of History

For Six Decades, Spain Told a Dictator's Story. For the Past 22 Years, Citizens Have Been Creating a New Memory Landscape.

BERKSHIRE CONFERENCE FOR WOMEN HISTORIANS – THE COLLEGE OF WILLIAM & MARY AFFILIATE CHAPTER

Caroline Donovan '23 spent the summer unearthing Colonial Williamsburg's hidden history.

Disinformation, while difficult to define, is the information strategy of deliberately using falsehood, decontextualization, and distortion to sew disorder, chaos, and debilitating skepticism. While it is a matter of contemporary urgency, the Tyler Speaker Series this year investigates its long history.

The Rebirth of Revelation: German Theology in an Age of Reason and History, 1750–1850

Please join me in celebrating the publication of a new book by Richard Turits and Lauren Derby: Terreurs de frontière: Le massacre des Haïtiens en République dominicaine en 1937

Please join me in congratulating Lu Ann Homza on the publication of her book: Village Infernos and Witches’ Advocates: Witch-Hunting in Navarre, 1608-1614, published January 19, 2022 by Pennsylvania State University Press.

This article that appears in the American Historical Association's Perspectives on History was written by former graduate student, Laura Ansley

Colonial Williamsburg has renewed its commitment to independent scholarly research by joining 91��Ƭ�� to financially support the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.

Please join me in congratulating Chris Grasso on the publication of his new book: Teacher, Preacher, Soldier, Spy: The Civil Wars of John R. Kelso (Oxford University Press).

University of Alabama Press recently published Class of 2008 Allison Finkelstein's first book: Forgotten Veterans, Invisible Memorials: How American Women Commemorated the Great War, 1917-1945.

Chitralekha Zutshi is Class of 1962 Professor of History at 91��Ƭ��. She has written widely on nationalism, religious identities, and historical traditions in South Asia, primarily in the context of Kashmir. Her books include, Languages of Belonging: Islam, Regional Identity, and the Making of Kashmir; Kashmir’s Contested Pasts: Narratives, Sacred Geographies, and the Historical Imagination; Kashmir: Oxford India Short Introductions, and the edited volume, Kashmir: History, Politics, Representation.

Holly Gruntner, a Ph.D. candidate in 91��Ƭ��’s Harrison Ruffin Tyler Department of History, recently completed a short-term fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society, delving into the society’s vast collection of original documents for material to complete her dissertation on kitchen gardens in early America.

Martin Gallivan, professor and chair of 91��Ƭ��’s Department of Anthropology, was a consultant in the design of Machicomoco State Park.

Brianna Nofil won the Allan Nevins Prize for her dissertation, “Detention Power: Jails, Camps, and the Origins of Immigrant Incarceration, 1900-2002.”

Adrienne Petty is one of seven recipients of a fellowship designed to foster classroom innovation and diversify curricula.

Titled “Hearth: Memorial to the Enslaved,” the brick structure will resemble a fireplace and will feature the names of people who are known to have been enslaved by the university.

The College of 91��Ƭ�� in Williamsburg, Virginia, has renamed three buildings and a department that currently honor supporters of the Confederacy or Jim Crow segregation.

This week’s podcast is a recording of a live interview I did with Maria Cristina Galmarini for the Keynote session at the Aging, Disability and Health in Socialist Europe and Beyond Workshop held in late March at the University of Pittsburgh.

In total, 94% of the world’s population has been accounted for through the census. Bridget Kendall asks whether it has a future when there’s so much personal information online.

Following a consultative and thorough process established earlier this year, 91��Ƭ��’s Board of Visitors voted Friday to rename two campus buildings and name one campus structure to honor trailblazing alumni who helped open the door for marginalized people at both the university and beyond.

The names of those who were enslaved by 91��Ƭ�� slowly have been emerging during the past decade. This academic year, artists at the university have added faces, hands and other textured marks of belonging and humanity.

What Brand Historians Do

Jody Allen, assistant professor of history at 91��Ƭ�� and director of the Lemon Project, was recently appointed by Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam to the Commission to Study Slavery and Subsequent De Jure and De Facto Racial and Economic Discrimination.

The U.S. Mission in Nigeria has awarded a grant of $400,000 for the conservation of the late 14th century Sungbo Eredo Earthworks of the Yoruba Ijebu Kingdom in Nigeria. This is the largest Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) grant in Nigeria and the second-largest in sub-Saharan Africa.