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Perri Meldon Accepted to Symposium at the Huntington Art Museum

Perri Meldon, PhD Candidate, has been accepted to the “Objects, Pathways, Afterlives: Tracing Material Cultures in Early America,” symposium hosted at the Huntington Art Museum in California. She will present, “The Muck of Material Culture: Canals, Enslaved Labor, and Public History in Mid-Atlantic Wildlife Refuges.”

Katherine Evans Successfully Defends Dissertation

Congratulations to Katherine Evans! She successfully defended her dissertation, “I am Going to be a Veteran of this War: American Women’s Explorations of Domestic Life on the Western Front.”

Sean Case Accepts Postdoctoral Fellowship at Yale University

Sean Case accepted the Henry A. Kissinger Visiting Scholars Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Johnson Center for the Study of American Diplomacy with International Security Studies (ISS) at the Jackson School of Global Affairs at Yale University. Congratulations, Sean!

Fallon Murphy Accepted to NEH Institute for Higher Education Faculty

Fallon Murphy, PhD Candidate, accepted a stipend to attend the NEH Institute for Higher Education Faculty, “Willa Cather: Place and Archive,” hosted by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. As a part of the program, she will use the Cather Archive and the Special Collections at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to research Willa Cather’s utilization of photography […]

Megan LeBarron Successfully Defends Dissertation

Congratulations to Dr. Megan LeBarron, PhD. She successfully defended her dissertation, “Heartland Cosmopolitanism: The Midwest and Literary Modernism in the Work of Willa Cather and Sinclair Lewis,” this afternoon.