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Welcome to the Department of History
In October 2008, Lindsey Newman (CNU history graduate, 2007) returned to CNU. Lindsey is currently working toward her master's degree at Virginia Tech on a full tuition and teaching scholarship. She was joined by fellow grad student, Emily Bibby as well as by Dr. Crandell Shiflett of Virginia Tech's Department of History. They met with current CNU history majors to discuss VT's Master's Degree Program in History and to answer questions about the ins and outs of the graduate school experience.
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| Presenters: Emily Bibby and Lindsey Newman (CNU history graduate, 2007). |
| Lindsey is completing her Master's Thesis on witchcraft in the seventeeth century Colonial Virginia and, in the Spring of 2009, she will teach the American History survey course at Tech. |
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| Dr. Crandell Shiflett (Virginia Tech), Emily Bibby and Lindsey Newman. |
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The History Department congratulates our majors on their achievements.
• Frank Garmon won 3rd place in the U.S. History, undergraduate category at the PAT Virginia Regional Conference held February 28, 2009. His paper was titled, "Subverted Democracy and Political Power: Proxy Voting in the Early Years of the Bank of the United States."
• David Porter has had an article published in The Virginia Masonic Herald, Vol. 102, No. 1 at pages 8 and 9. The article is entitled "Persecution of Freemasons during the Third Reich."
• Jennifer Herbert has been accepted into the MBA progam at the College of William & Mary for fall 2009.
• Alexandria Ruble was awarded second prize in the undergraduate category in the DAAD essay contest, Changing Demographics: Mogration Flow From and To Germany.
• Frank Garmon was awarded the second prize in the undergraduate division at the 81st annual Virginia Social Science Association conference.
• Nicole Justice was awarded the US State Department Gilman Scholar for 2007-2008
• Nicole Justice is the editor of Femme Sole, CNU's Independent Student-Run Undergraduate Research Journal on Women's Studies |
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The Department of History was one of the first departments established by Christopher Newport College in 1961. When the school moved to a four-year program in 1970, the Department achieved degree-granting status. From 1970 to the 1990s, the Department consisted of five faculty members, who specialized in European and American history.
In recent years, the History Department has dramatically grown. We currently have thirteen full-time scholars, who offer courses in U.S., European, Russian, Middle Eastern, African, Latin America, and East Asian history. Our faculty also teach specialized classes in Indian history, archeology, American slavery, military and ancient history. The Department, moreover, is developing a Public History program to prepare students for careers with museums and other historical agencies. In addition, the Department participates in the MAT (Five-Year Masters of Arts in Teaching) Program. The History Department prides itself on maintaining high standards while at the same time each faculty member is committed to working closely with students to help them achieve their academic and career goals. Over the past several years, student enrollment in history has grown substantially and the number of history graduates is the highest ever. This past academic year (2007-08), the Department graduated 67 history majors and 7 students in the MAT program.
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