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History Prize Day 2013
This spring, the History Department recognized the accomplishments of undergrads and grad students at the 2013 Prize Day.
Class of 2013: History Major Featured in UConn Today
History major Mairead Hynes ’13 (CLAS) will be teaching English in Japan next year, and contemplating where she’d like to go to graduate school.
"Gatsby Revisited in the Age of the One Percent"
Professor Micki McElya will be a panelist in the Gatsby Symposium scheduled for Monday, April 15.
Human Rights & Transnational Solidarity in Cold War Latin America
A round table discussion and book launch on Wednesday, April 10.
"Recovering Transnational Feminism's Radical Working Class Past in U.S. Women's History"
Jennifer Guglielmo, Associate Professor of History at Smith College, was the guest lecturer at the Visiting Scholars in Gender & History event, March 25-26, 2013.
"American Coasts, Past and Future"
John Gillis delivered a lecture on the current crisis of coasts in the context of massive environmental and cultural change on Tuesday, March 26 at the Avery Point Campus.
Roosevelt's Lost Alliances: How Personal Politics Helped Start the Cold War
Frank Costigliola will talk about his book at the UConn Co-op on Thursday, April 4
Traces of Life: Seen Through Korean Eyes, 1945-1992
Daniel Kim to deliver talk, "Nationalist Frames of Memory and the Korean War: The National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian and The War Memorial of Seoul," on Wednesday, April 3.
"The Politics and Policing of Information from Gutenberg to Google"
Adrian Johns, Allan Grant Maclear Professor of History at the University of Chicago, will give a public lecture on the long and vital history of intellectual piracy on April 15.
When to Hold ‘Em, When to Fold ‘Em
Doctoral Candidate Eric Sacco Wins Fellowship and Media Coverage Researching Gambling