News and Features

Please join us on Friday, March 7th at 1:00PM in BEL 421 for a presentation by Walbolt Dissertation Fellowship recipient Weston Nunn.

The history department and the College are very pleased to announce a special lecture by Philip D. Morgan of Johns Hopkins University in honor of our esteemed friend and colleague James P. Jones, as he completes his 57th year on the FSU faculty.

STEM boosters take note: history knows microscopes! Ryan Patterson, a student in Charles Upchurch's Gender, Class, and Sexuality course last spring, is the recipient of this year's North American Conference on British Studies Undergraduate Essay Award.

Ph.D. candidates Anna Amundson and Rebecca Shriver are recipients this semester of the Ermine M. Owneby, Jr. Travel Award from the College of Arts and Sciences.

Scott Craig has been awarded the Spring 2014 Walbolt Dissertation Fellowship. 

Ben Weider Professor Darrin McMahon has published Divine Fury: A History of Genius (Basic Books).

Robert Gellately, Earl Ray Beck Professor of History, was interviewed by Marshall Poe about his new book Stalin's Curse. The interview is available here, and there are many more available on the New Books in History podcast.

History major Kayleigh Whitman received the John W. Day III Undergraduate Research Award for her Honors Thesis, prepared under the direction of Nathan Stoltzfus.

On November 1, US Air Force Colonel Terrance J. McCaffrey III will lecture on “Rising China—Responsible Stakeholder or Nascent Enemy? US-China Policy from a Military Perspective,” and on November 13, Anthony Austin will lecture on "A Teenager in Occupied Japan."

The history department is delighted to welcome Annika Culver, our new East Asian specialist.