Brian Beaton (BA, 2000) has been named the new Director of the Center for Expressive Technologies at Cal Poly (San Luis Obispo, California). Beaton will also be an Assistant Professor in Cal Poly’s College of Liberal Arts, with a primary home in the History Department.
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Jeffrey S. Reznick (PhD, 1999) received the 2015 Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences (ALHHS) best article award
Jeffrey S. Reznick (PhD, 1999), who is Chief of the National Library of Medicine’s History of Medicine Division, received the 2015 Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences (ALHHS) best article award for “Embracing the Future as Stewards of the Past: Charting a Course Forward for Historical Medical Libraries and Archives.” The article appeared in RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage (fall 2014 volume 15, number 2). Co-edited by Dr. Reznick and Michelle DiMeo, PhD, Curator of Digital Collections at the Chemical Heritage special, this open-access issue which contains the proceedings of the December 2013 symposium Emerging Roles for Historical Medical Libraries: Value in the Digital Age held at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
Alumni and Friends: Help Fund Student Research
The Emory College Department of History places student research at the heart of its mission. The department’s approach to learning—including quantitative analysis, close textual reading, work with primary materials, excellence in communication, and mastery of research methods—prepares students to do their own research on the cutting edge of the discipline. With a faculty distinguished for its expertise, Emory’s Department of History does more than ensure that undergraduates know about history. The department’s emphasis on independent research fosters the skills and intellectual discipline students need to thrive in any number of professions.
Through research, Emory students gain strong analytical abilities that help them in all aspects of their professional lives: in government work and with nongovernmental organizations, in medicine and other health professions, and in law and business.
Alumni and friends who want to champion historical understanding, educational excellence, or student success after graduation will find meaningful investment opportunities in undergraduate research at the Department of History.
Learn more here: Fund Student Research
Larissa Smith Fergeson (PhD, 2001) Named Associate Provost at Longwood University
Congratulations to Larissa Smith Fergeson (PhD 2001), Professor of History, on her appointment as Acting Associate Vice-President for Academic Affairs at Longwood University.
Meng Lim (BA, 1995) Advances to Superior Court
Congratulations to Meng Lim, BA 1995, on his appointment as superior court judge for the Tallapoosa judicial circuit in West Georgia. Read about this achievement in Emory Magazine.
Jonathyne Briggs (PhD, 2006) Publishes ‘Sounds French: Globalization, Cultural Communities and Pop Music, 1958-1980’
Jonathyne Briggs, Associate Professor of History at Indiana University Northwest, recently published Sounds French: Globalization, Cultural Communities and Pop Music, 1958-1980 with Oxford University Press. Briggs is an alumnus of the history graduate program.
Undergraduate Alumni Update: William S. Cossen (2008)
Here is an update from William S. Cossen, a 2008 graduate who double-majored in History and Political Science:
I received my M.A. with honors in history at Penn State in 2012, and I’m currently a Ph.D. candidate there, writing a dissertation titled “The Protestant Image in the Catholic Mind: Interreligious Encounters in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.” I have had two articles published in the last year inAmerican Catholic Studies and The South Carolina Historical Magazine, and I have another article forthcoming in The Catholic Historical Review. I also appeared on Jeopardy! in September and became a three-day champion.
Emily Blanck (PhD, 2003) and Rafael R. Ioris (PhD, 2009) Publish New Works
Congratulations to former Emory graduate students Emily Blanck and Rafael R. Ioris for their new publications. Blanck, Associate Professor of History at Rowan University, published Tyrannicide: Forging an American Law of Slavery in Revoluationary South Caroline and Massachusetts (University of Georgia Press). Ioris, Assistant Professor at the University of Denver, published Transforming Brazil: A History of National Development in the Postwar Era (Routledge).
Christopher A. Snyder (PhD, 1994) Receives University of Oxford Research Fellowship
Christopher A. Snyder, Dean of the Shackouls Honors College at Mississippi State University and Professor of European History, recently received a research fellowship to travel to the University of Oxford. Snyder, a former Emory graduate student working under Tom Burns and Steve White, will examine possible links between Mississippi State’s first Rhodes Scholar and the title character of The Great Gatsby. Read more about this fellowship here.
Alumnus Steve Goodson (PhD, 1995) Publishes ‘The Hank Williams Reader’
Congratulations to Steve Goodson (PhD 1995, currently chair of History Department, Univ of West Georgia,) on the publication of The Hank Williams Reader, by Oxford University Press.