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...this summer. Averee McNear successfully defended her MA thesis "More Than a Building with Books: Resistance, Resilience, and the Fight for African American Public Library Access, 1900 - 1970," in April.
What great achievements! (2/3)
Please join us in congratulating our three graduate students who walked in the Spring 2024 commencement ceremony! Doctoral candidates Kristina Rogers, hooded by Dr. Kallie Kosc, & Savannah Waters, hooded by Dr. Douglas Miller, will both be completing their dissertations...(1/3)
Did you see it? @OKState_History's Dr. Laura Arata was featured on @NewsOn6 sharing historical perspective on Stillwater's Washington Bears basketball championship win. Check out the story: https://t.co/H4jyaHx9pB
This celebration is taking place alongside continued efforts to preserve the historic school. History professor Dr. Laura Arata also weighed in on this historic moment for the 1956 team. Watch the segment to learn more!
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Stillwater's Washington School has made state-wide news again as a celebration honoring the Washington High School Bears winning the 1956 Class C Basketball State Championships in Oklahoma finally happened after 68 years.
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Focused on Non-violence and peace humanities, Dr. Griswold’s group presentation “No Justice, No Peace (in Oklahoma)” “emerged as the themes of war, violence, punishment, resistance, and campus activism slowly coalesced during the Fall 2023-Spring 2024 academic year.”
On Wednesday, Dr. Sarah Griswold and her co-fellows shared their proposals for their collaborative projects as part of the Center for the Humanities 2023-2024 Research Group Fellows presentations.
On Thurs., April 18 @OSUIranianStudy will welcome a dozen international experts from across the sciences and social sciences to Stillwater for a symposium on the State of the Environment in Iran. The first day of this symposium includes research presentations open to the public.
“Disease movies serve as a form of truth telling, influencing popular ideas about disease and creating new myths about how to address disease... Disease history offers examples of how stories can create new realities."
Dr. Eisenberg recently co-authored this article in @jacobin magazine. It explores how disease history influences the depiction of disease and society in film, along with the disease genre's impact on society.
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Newberry Consortium in American Indian and Indigenous Studies (NCAIS), 2023 Civil War Institute summer conference, and Oklahoma History Symposium. Please help us continue helping history students at OSU and please share this post with other interested parties!
Since the fund started in 2021, thousands of dollars have been collected to help OSU History students present research at professional meetings including: American Historical Association (AHA), Western Historical Association (WHA)...
Hey friends of OSU History, consider donating a few bucks to the Ron Petrin Memorial Fund! Money in this fund helps current OSU History students conduct and present research.
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Dr. Laura Arata and students have been working with Washington School Heritage Project members on the restoration of the Booker T. Washington School in Stillwater. Arata and others involved were interviewed by Stillwater News Press about the project.
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