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History Senior Comps Presentations

Please join the History Department and the Class of 2021 History majors for senior comps oral presentations.

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Now Available: “Birds and Feathers in the Ancient and Colonial Mesoamerican World,” Co-Edited by Dr. Lisa Sousa
From Duke University Press (publisher):

“This special issue [of Ethnohistory] reconstructs the integrated roles of real and symbolic birds and their feathers in ancient and colonial Mesoamerican and trans-Atlantic societies.

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History Speaker Series: Dr. Maurice S. Crandall

Forgoing the Franchise: When Voting Endangers Indigenous Sovereignty is the second lecture in a three-part speaker series on Race and Electorates: From Sovereignty to Suffrage in U.S. History.

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Faculty Book Release: Dr. Erica Ball’s “As If She Were Free”

A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas

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Congrats, Hannah Huang, Winner of the History Department 2020 Junior Paper Prize

Hannah Huang ’21 is the recipient of the 2020 Junior Paper Prize for her HIST 300 essay titled, “Commitment to a Christian Nation and the Ideal Family: Writings on Christianity and Homosexuality in the 1970s American Politics.”

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History Speaker Series: Dr. Cathleen Cahill

Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement is the first lecture in a three-part speaker series on Race and Electorates: From Sovereignty to Suffrage in U.S. History.

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History Department Statement on Anti-Blackness and Historical Change

Our department's commitment to you about how we aim to combat anti-Blackness and promote anti-racism in the classroom and beyond.

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Dr. Jane Hong Promoted to Associate Professor

Congratulations to Dr. Jane Hong for receiving tenure through the 2019-20 promotion and tenure process at Oxy. Dr. Hong has been promoted to associate professor, effective in the 2020-21 academic year.

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Announcing Winners of the 2020 Hardy Prize for Best Senior Thesis

The History Department is pleased to announce the following winners of this year's Hardy Prize for Best Senior Thesis:

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Talking Books Presents Dr. Erica Ball

Join us for a talk by Oxy's own Dr. Erica Ball, Professor of History and Chair of Black Studies, about a collection of essays about race, gender, violence, and power.

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