Public History MA student, Sawyer Castleberry-Backman, is turning her love of history and the outdoors into a full-time career. https://t.co/BFLORRhEcP
Professor Jordan Rogers recently did a Q&A regarding his recent edited volume, Working Lives in Ancient Rome. It's just been posted today on the NCSU research news blog, The Abstract. https://t.co/5jtCeCpTIR...
We honored Dr. Nancy Mitchell who is retiring after thirty years with a reception. Faculty, students and even Dr. Mitchell's former advisor were on hand to celebrate her.
Our grad students attended a cemetery clean up and restoration workshop with Verville Preservation on Saturday, November 2nd at Oakwood Cemetery. Michael Verville is a current PhD student in the Public History program.
Congratulations to Dr. Craig Friend (@professordeath)! He has a new book available for pre-order:
Friend, Craig Thompson. Becoming Lunsford Lane: The Lives of an American Aeneas. The University of North Carolina Press, 2025.
Congratulations to Dr. Steve Lechner! His article, "A Swann's Song: The NFL's War on Violence and a Concussion Crisis Averted in the 1970s" has just been published in the Journal of Sports History. https://t.co/FGjqdAvqGg
Congratulations to @TatePaulette1 whose article "The Fermented Crescent", was just published in Aeon and "The Land of Ninkasi: Beer in Ancient Mesopotamia" was published in Ancient History 51. https://t.co/HBBiEVW9wo
Congratulations to Petros Apostolopoulos, who graduated from our doctoral program in 2022. He has published his first monograph, Producing and Debating History: Historical Knowledge on Wikipedia, which is based on his dissertation. https://t.co/eZPdwWZjmn
Congrats to @TammySGordon on her journal article in The International Journal of the History of Sport: “‘Aikido Practitioners in Every Country Should Change and Unite with the Tradition’: Kisshomaru Ueshiba, Historical Memory, and the Internationalization of Aikido, 1948–1984.”
Our students are collecting relief supplies for those affected by the Hurricane in Western North Carolina. Boxes for physical donations will be on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th floors of Withers Hall.
We hope you can make it to our Ashes to Ashes Symposium Friday, Oct. 4 from 9-4 in Withers 140. Dr. Ellen Stroud is presenting the lecture, "Bodies at Rest?: Unearthing the American Dead."
Dr Tate Paulette ( @TatePaulette1) had a great turnout at D.H. Hill's Fishbowl Forum where he discussed his new book, "In the Land of Ninkasi, A History of Beer in Ancient Mesopotamia."
Students, did you know you can apply for travel awards? Tanmai Vemulapalli did and she was awarded funding to present a poster at an International Conference in Luxembourg. https://t.co/tfVULdflfe