2015 HGSA Conference Kicks Off
The 2015 History Graduate Student Associaton Conference is set to take place on the LSU campus on March 20th & 21st. The Graduate History Conference is an opportunity for graduate student scholars...
View ArticleAnother win for the History Department
Congratulations to Nikolaus Overtoom, who received notice this week that he was among a handful of students to receive the Graduate School’s Dissertation Year Fellowship for 2015-2016. Nik is writing...
View ArticleUndergraduate Scholarship Winners Announced
The Department has awarded seven scholarships to undergraduate History majors to help support their studies during the 2015-2016 academic year. The Gary A. Crump Scholarship was awarded to Claire...
View ArticleContinuing a Great Tradition
The Department of History has always been known to do things right, and the 2015-2016 academic year starts off with a powerful series of lectures on Southern history. Nancy MacLean, William H. Chafe...
View ArticlePrivate Matter to Public Health Crisis
Prof. Catherine Jacquet spoke on Sept. 17 at the National Library of Medicine on “From Private Matter to Public Health Crisis: Nursing and the Intervention into Domestic Violence.” Dr. Jacquet is guest...
View ArticleProf. Jacquet on trans issues
Catherine Jacquet, LSU professor of History and Women’s and Gender Studies, participated in a workshop on ways students and faculty can work in unison with transgender and non-gender conforming...
View ArticleLSU Leadership recognized
Congratulations to Christine Kooi, who became Vice President of the Sixteenth Century Society at its annual conference this past weekend. The Sixteenth Century Society and Conference...
View Article“The 19th Century’s Plastic”
Boyd Professor Suzanne Marchand spoke in the “Science Cafe” series Nov. 24th, about ways in which we can study society and class in 19th Century Europe through the widespread use of porcelain. In the...
View ArticleGraduate Student Conference
The History Graduate Student Association’s Seventh Annual Conference, March 4-5, featured both conviviality and scholarship. Participants delivered papers on topics ranging from New Orleans...
View ArticleTeaching awards for LSU historians
Once again, the excellent classroom work of History Department members has drawn recognition from the Tiger Athletic Foundation. Congratulations to Professors Meredith Veldman and Margherita Zanasi,...
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