Deborah Barkun, Assistant Professor of Art History, is the recipient of the Society of Photographic Education’s 2014 Award for Excellence in Historical, Critical and Theoretical Writing. Read More
Tag Archives: History
Field Trip to Gettysburg for History Students
The Ursinus History Department students did some “field work” last semester with a trip to the battlefields and sites of Gettysburg. Read More
Class Taught Students Method of Reacting to the Past
Students in The Tumultuous Reign of Henry VIII (History 150: Historical Investigations) this past semester were swept into the past when their classroom was transformed into sessions of England’s Reformation Parliament. Read More
Pursuing Global Exploration: Watson Nominees Announced
Four Ursinus seniors are the nominees for The Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, which offers them the chance to complete a creative project during a year traveling abroad. Read More
Student Essay on Medieval Law to be Published
An essay by recent graduate Katherine Pierpont on the variety of late medieval laws governing prostitution will be published in Proto: An Undergraduate Humanities Journal in 2014. Pierpont, a double major in History and English, started the research for a History course called Gender and Sexuality in Medieval Europe last fall. Read More
New Faculty Members Join Ursinus
This year 11 full-time, 2 part-time visiting, and 14 part-time faculty members joined the Ursinus College faculty. Read More
Examining the Right to Bear Arms
As national headlines simmer on gun violence and gun rights, Tony Sierzega 2014 has been spending his summer examining the Second Amendment. More precisely, he is looking at the legal scholarship and politics behind the individual and collective right interpretations of this section of the United States Constitution. Read More
Professor Launches Innovative Way to Teach the Past
Ready to play – and learn? Assistant Professor of History Susanna Throop will employ an innovative way to teach the past by having her students take on the roles of historic figures and solve problems in the language and culture specific to the times of those figures. Read More
Six Students Present History Research at Conference, One Wins Prize
Six Ursinus students presented their independent research in history at the Phi Alpha Theta Pennsylvania East regional conference at Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg, Pa., on April 13, 2013. Read More
Assistant Professor of History Susanna Throop on Medieval Cultural History
Assistant Professor of History Susanna Throop organized three sessions at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association this January in New Orleans, LA. Read More