- Masters Graduates at May Commencement
- Dr. Norma L. Flores and Dr. Robert L MacDonald
Commencement exercises were held for the 2012-2013 school year, and the Graduate Program in Policy History at Bowling Green State University celebrates the graduation of our great students!
Graduating from the Master’s Program during the Spring 2013 commencement were: Kristen Oviatt, Kim Rewinkel, Ryan Duffy, Elliott Mortensen, Kevin Moore, Matt Ferguson, Chris Blubaugh, Kelly Keith, and Michelle Bologna. Nathan Kuehnl and Felix Muniz expect to graduate in August.
Graduating from the Doctoral Program during the Winter 2012 commencement were: Dr. Robert L. MacDonald and Dr. Norma L. Flores.
Photos courtesy of Robert MacDonald and Kristen Oviatt.
The Gamma Upsilon chapter of Phi Alpha Theta Induction Ceremony was held as part of the Excellence in History Recognition on April 15th in the Prout Chapel.
The Gamma Upsilon chapter represents BGSU history undergraduate and graduate students who meet national organization criteria and maintain a 3.0 GPA.
New initiates were: Amanda Belcher, Rebekah S. Bline, Sherri Q. Bolcevic, Jesse Carr, Jared W. Corbin, Danielle E. Havel, Brian E. Kempfer, Chloe Kosheva-Scissons, Lisa Rose Lamson, Joseph Lueck, Lindsey A. May, Andrew McCaffrey, Felix Muniz, Kirsti R. Pellegrini, Bradley D. Potts, Jordan Gregory Ruppert, Erich Schulz, Kimberly Shearer, Megan Sympson, Benjamin D. Tobe, Justin Wicker, and Nathan Wisniewski.
2012-2013 Officers for the Gamma Upsilon chapter of Phi Alpha Theta were: President Joe Faykosh; Vice President Andrew Van Camp; Secretary Nathan Kuehnl; Treasurer Ryan Duffy; Public Relations Chair Jeff Zalewski; Archivist Kevin Moore; Historian Elliott Mortensen; and Liason to the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Josh Steedman. Advisor was Dr. Beth Griech-Polelle.
- 2013 Phi Alpha Theta Initiates
- Oath taking for Phi Alpha Theta
The Celebration of Excellence in History at Bowling Green State University was held on Monday, April 15th in the Prout Chapel. Undergraduate and Graduate awards were given and outstanding scholarship recognized.
The Undergraduate Scholarship and Award recipients were: Stuart R. & Florence P. Givens Scholarship to Devon Proudfoot; the Grover & Virginia Platt Memorial Scholarship to Brittany Riecke; the Jo Enger Arthur Scholarship for Study Abroad to Kimberley Shearer; the Undergraduate Research Excellence in History to David Adam Coldren; and the Outstanding Senior Award to Robert E. Fitzgerald. Special Recognition for service to the History Society was given to Chelsea Burden, Joan Eardly, Ariel Ehmer, and Tabitha Timbrook.
The Graduate Student Award recipients were: the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper to Timothy Prindle; the Lawrence Friedman Thesis/ Dissertation Award to Steven Pedler; the Bernard Sternsher and Edward & Xin-Zhu Chen Award for Graduate Teaching to Rex Childers; and the Outstanding Departmental Citizen Award to Lisa Lamson.
The second Gary R. Hess Lecture in Policy History was held on Thursday, April 18th in the Bowen-Thompson Student Union. Dr. Walter Hixson, Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Akron delivered a lecture titled: “Are Indians Part of Diplomatic History?”
Dr. Gary Hess welcomed the audience and introduced Dr. Hixson, and questions were presented by the audience after the lecture.
The Gary Hess lectureship is held to recognize his contributions to the profession and university during his forty-five years of service from 1964 to 2009, at the initiative of several of Dr. Hess’ former students. For more on Dr. Hess’ contributions to scholarship and BGSU, please visit his emeritus faculty page
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Dr. Walter Hixson is the award winning author of George F. Kennan, Cold War Iconoclast published by Columbia University Press. He is in the process of completing a book manuscript tentatively titled The Boomerang of Savagery: Settler Colonialism, Ambivalence, and Ethnic Cleansing in American History. Hixson has two essays forthcoming – “No Savage Shall Inherit the Land’: The Other Indian and Early American Foreign Policy” forthcoming in a book edited by David Ryan, Cambridge University Press, and “Vietnam in History and Memory,” forthcoming in a book edited by Scott Laderman and Edwin Martini, with Duke University Press. Hixson’s next project will focus on the United States and the Israel-Palestine conflict. In July 2012 he spent two weeks as part of a delegation to Israel, Palestine, and southern Lebanon.
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History graduate and undergraduate students will present several papers in the upcoming Latin American and Latino/a Studies Conference, Thursday, March 28th at BGSU. Click on the image for a bigger version of the poster.
For the second consecutive year, Bowling Green State University hosted the district competition for Ohio History Day featuring young students from all over the local area. The event was held in the Bowen-Thompson Student Union on Saturday, March 16th.
History graduate students who served as judges were: Chris Blubaugh, Nate Kuehnl, Kristen Oviatt, Josh Steedman, Lisa Lamson, Megan Cross, Sherri Bolcevic, Andrew Van Camp, and Joe Faykosh. Instructors who helped judge were: Michael Carver and Dustin McLochlin.
- Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Water
- Nate Kuehnl Judging Exhibits
- Dustin McLochlin Judging Exhibits
- Kristen Oviatt Judging Exhibits
- Andy Van Camp Judging Websites
Professor Danziger’s Retirement Reception was held on December 7th in McFall Hall. Past and current students gathered with faculty to wish Dr. Danziger well and listen to his farewell speech.
Photos were contributed by Dr. Laura Lengel.
Shirley Green recently was the keynote speaker at Lourdes University’s Black History Month. Green, who received her doctorate from Bowling Green State University’s Graduate Program in Policy History and now serves as Deputy Mayor of Toledo, discussed the rigors of tracing her family history through centuries and multiple countries in her speech on February 28th, at Lourdes. For more on Shirley Green’s speech, please read at the Toledo Blade’s site:
http://www.ourtownsylvania.com/local/2013/02/28/Toledo-deputy-mayor-shares-family-s-story-as-part-of-Black-History-Month-celebration-at-Lourdes.html.
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
The Department of History at BGSU will be hosting a Retirement Reception for Distinguished Teaching Professor Edmund J. Danziger, Jr., on December 7th, from 3:30-5:30 PM in the McFall Center Gallery (2nd floor).
The Reception will celebrate Dr. Danziger’s extraordinary contributions to the historical craft and our university over more than forty years of professional service. Among Danziger’s research and teaching interests are: Native American history, American environmental history, and Ohio history, in addition to serving as chair of the History Department from 1981-1985. His books include Indians and Bureaucrats: Administering the Reservation Policy during the Civil War (1974), The Chippewas of Lake Superior (1978; rev. ed., 1990), Survival and Regeneration: Detroit’s American Indian Community (1991), and Great Lakes Indian Accommodation and Resistance during the Early Reservation Years, 1850-1900 (2009).
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
The Graduate Program in Policy History at Bowling Green State University was well represented by Master’s students at the University of Toledo’s Graduate Research Colloquium on Saturday, November 17th.
Chris Blubaugh (“Agent Orange: U.S. Policy, 1961-1971″) and Elliott Mortensen (“The Acheson-Lilienthal Report and the Baruch Plan: Disunity among Policymakers”) presented on a panel titled “U.S. Policy.”
Kelly Keith (“More than Just a Pretty Face: The Women of the OSS and SOE”) and Katie LaPlant (“Katherine Chidley, Religious Toleration, and the Subversion of the Subject/Other Relationship during the English Revolution”) presented on the “Gender” panel.
Kevin Moore (“Lighting up the Darkness: A Policy History of Rural Electrification in Ohio, 1900-1940″) presented on the “U.S. History” panel.
In addition, Norma Flores, recent Ph.D recipient, moderated the “Europe” panel.
- Kelly Keith and Dr. Michael Brooks talking before her presentation
- Chris Blubaugh ready to present
- Katie LaPlant and Kelly Keith presenting on "Gender"
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