illustration  

News and Events

Department Weekly newsletter (current issue)

Department Calendar of Events

Viewed Historically, our friends and alumni newsletter, Vol. 4 Number 3 (May 2009). (pdf)
also see Viewed Historically archives

News Archives >>

News Services

 

Scholarship and Teaching News

Books published (opens new window) >>

 

PhD candidate Autumn Dolan honored by Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship

Autumn Dolan received the Best Graduate Student Paper in 2009 for her paper “A Revival of Female Spirituality: Adaptations of Nun’s Rules during the Hiberno-Frankish Monastic Movement of the Seventh Century” from the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship. The paper will be published in the journal, Medieval Feminist Forum. more >>
 

Ian Worthington's video course released

Professor WorthingtonIan Worthington, Frederick A. Middlebush Professor of History, has just completed a video course for The Teaching Company. The course The Long Shadow of the Ancient Greek World, a 48-lecture course with over 700 visual elements on 8 DVDs and CDs, was released by The Teaching Company in April 2009.  The Teaching Company, founded in 1990, boasts that out of every 5,000 professors from all over America that it puts through a rigorous selection procedure it invites only one to design, write, and tape a course.  Its courses are aimed at professional people and those with higher degrees, and like university-level courses must be challenging, thought-provoking, and stimulating.  For more details on it and on Worthington's course, go to www.teach12.com.
Professor Worthington >>

 

Professor CollinsCollins newest Byler Chair

Professor Robert Collins has been appointed the Byler Chair in Social and Behavioral Sciences beginning with the 2008-09 academic year. Congratulations, Bob!
Professor Collins >>

 

Pres. Forsee and Prof. KingKing honored for outstanding book

Professor Wilma King has received the 2008 Curators’ Award for Scholarly Excellence. King’s publication The Essence of Liberty: Free Black Women during the Slave Era (2006) has been selected the most outstanding book edited by an MU faculty member published by the University Press.
Professor King >>

Book Prizes >>

Grants >>

Teaching Awards >>

News Archives >>