After a lifetime working for IBM, James Cortada looks back on working outside of academia: "'Handling ambiguity, prizing context, thinking historically, and communicating well in collaborative ways,' by the time I left FSU I was equipped with these skills and the courage to work in a world-class company."
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Hunter Ballenger decided to work on zoological gardens and exhibition culture in imperial Japan, leisure spaces open to the public. He investigated how these were used to project imperial authority and show that Japan had modernized to a western equivalency.
Visiting Scholar Marcandria Peraut talks about his use of oral history in his research projects on the history of Corsica. He decided to record the stories people were telling about the past and turn those memories into an oral history archive.
Ian Varga (FSU Ph.D. 2022) talks about life after Bellamy. Since 2024, he has been an assistant teaching professor at the University of Missouri - St. Louis.
Last summer, Panish interned at Heritage Village in Pinellas County. He worked on building 3D models of their historic houses using drafting and modeling software programs. The goal was to make the site more accessible.
Flora combined her interests in the history of science and technology and urban and environmental history to study the impact of architect and urban planner Ian McHarg on the development of GIS software.
With a first degree in biology and growing up in a rural area where most people hunted, Jacob was able to combine his interests in medieval history with those in nature and the environment in his Honors in the Major project.
In her senior seminar paper, Nina investigated educational and military reform in Meiji Japan. As an Anthropology-History double major, she applied Durkheim's concept of collective conscience to her historical research.
Daniel spent part of last summer excavating in the ancient town of Hippos, one of the ten Hellenized cities set up by the Roman General Pompey Magnus. In this interview, he describes his experiences on the dig.
Alejandro researched the changing attitudes toward Muslims in Al-Andalus from the pre-Crusading era to the 1300s from the Iberian Christian perspective. In addition to written sources, Alejandro was able to travel to Spain and explore the physical space in which El Cid had lived.