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Spring Awards Ceremony
The Department of History held its annual Spring Awards Ceremony and Reception on April 30, 2013. Twenty student awards were presented and eight students were inducted into Phi Alpha Theta, the National History Honor Society.
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Faculty/Staff News
Georgia Tsouvala has just signed on to serve as co-director of WIU’s study abroad program in Italy this summer. One of our students, Dan Magnetta, will participate in the program.
Kat Paehler will give a paper, “Nazi Foreign Intelligence, Italy, and Gender,” at the international “Intelligence in the Mediterranean and the Balkans” conference in Athens, Greece in June.
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To all our Seniors…CONGRATULATIONS!! We are very proud of you.
Please consider participating in the Senior Challenge as your first philanthropic contribution. Donors will be honored at a pre-commencement event hosted by President Bowman and receive a special tassel to be worn at commencement. Check it out here: 13-1389 Spirit Tassel 13 – Brochure copy
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Student Worker Wanted Beginning Fall 2013
The History Department (SCH 301) is looking for a student worker who is available during the lunch hour, Monday through Friday, to cover the reception desk, prepare copy and scanning jobs and handle general office work. Job begins August 19, ten hours a week, $8.50 an hour. To apply, contact Linda Spencer at ljspenc@ilstu.edu or stop by the office for an application.
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Four History Department majors participate in Undergraduate Research Symposium
See more about the symposium in this article that includes some of our History Department student participants in the Illinois State magazine’s campus blog, STATEside http://stories.illinoisstate.edu/2013/04/magazine/illinois-state/state-side/research-event-opens-doors-for-eager-undergrads/
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Congratulations to Faculty/Staff
John Reda’s chapter, “From Subjects to Citizens: Two Pierres and the French Influence of the Transformation of the Illinois Country,” was published in Engelbert and Teasdale, eds., French and Indians in the Heart of North America, 1630-1815 (Mich. State Univ. Press, 2013).
Touré Reed published “Oscar Handlin and the Problem of Ethnic Pluralism and African American Civil rights” in the Journal of American Ethnic History32, no. 3 (Spring 2013): 37-45.
Hemanth Kadambi presented a paper, “Constituting Royal-Dynastic Identity in South India: Negotiations in a Sacred Landscape (ca. 550-750 AD),” at the annual meetings for the Society for American Archaeology in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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IMPORTANT INFO. for All History-Social Sciences Ed. Majors
There has been a change to receiving the Middle-School Endorsement. In the past, many students re-enrolled after graduating and took Psych 302 and TCH 233.01 as Graduate Students At Large to add the endoresement. Unfortunately, because the transcript notes that you cannot receive graduate credit for 233.01, the state is ignoring both the class and the grade. As a result, the College of Education is suggesting that all students scheduled to graduate in May do one of the following: Middle School Endorsement Handout
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Want to learn Latin?
Latin begins in Fall 2013!
ISU Now offers Latin
Latin 111 will be offered in Fall 13 & 14
Latin 112 will be offered in Spring 14 & 15
Latin 115 will be offered in Fall 14 & 15
More information is available here Introducing Latin
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