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Teaching History in the Kitchen by Dr. Amílcar Challú

19 Sunday Feb 2023

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This article is re-posted from Dr. Amílcar Challú‘s personal academic blog.

Last Thursday I took my pre-independence Latin America to The Teaching Kitchen, an annex to the main cafeteria in which a chef, in coordination with a faculty member, instructs how to cook a certain dish. I used food in classes before but it was the first time I tried using cooking as a teaching tool. We prepared tortillas from masa harina, baked them (don’t grill me for this) and then ate them with beans and salsa, with chocolate made with almond milk (no atole available, unfortunately).

Dr. Challú’s students prepare a meal as a class in the teaching kitchen
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Faykosh Presents at Alcohol and Drugs History Society Conference

25 Thursday Jun 2015

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Joe Faykosh, doctoral candidate in the Graduate Program in Policy History at BGSU, presented at the Alcohol and Drugs History Society conference, titled “Borders, Boundaries, and Contexts: Defining Spaces in the History of Alcohol and Drugs,” held at BGSU from June 18-21. Faykosh presented “A Place in the Party: Wets, Drys, and the Klan at the 1924 Democratic Convention,” part of his dissertation research, on a panel titled “Perspectives on US Prohibition” that also included Dr. Michael Brooks’ “‘Ham-Strung, Shackled, and Tied’: the Ku Klux Klan and Prohibition Enforcement in Wood County, Ohio.” 

Among other BGSU faculty participating in the conference were: Dr. Scott Martin, Dr. Amilcar Challu, Dr. Apollos Nwauwa, Dr. Beth Griech-Polelle, Dr. Walt Grunden, Dr. Don Rowney, and Dr. Shirley Green, who chaired panels and served as commenters.

Faykosh Presenting "A Place in the Party" at the ADHS Conference

Faykosh Presenting “A Place in the Party” at the ADHS Conference

 

BGSU History Department well represented at Alcohol and Drugs History Society Conference (this weekend!)

17 Wednesday Jun 2015

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The Department of History at Bowling Green State University will be well-represented when the Alcohol and Drugs History Society Conference meets this weekend (Thursday, June 18-Sunday, June 21) at Bowling Green State University’s Bowen-Thompson Student Union (BTSU). The conference includes panelists from all over the world, on a wide array of topics related to Alcohol and Drugs History.

Dr. Scott Martin, chair of the History Department at BGSU, serves as president of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society and is the coordinator of the conference. In addition, he is leading a plenary session on Thursday from 7-9 pm in 201 BTSU on “The Heroin/Opioid Epidemic in Northwest Ohio.” He will also chair a panel on “Medical Responses to Substance Abuse” on Saturday from 4-5:30 in 318 BTSU.

Dr. Don Rowney, professor emeritus at BGSU, will chair a panel on “Alcohol Policy in Soviet Russia and Beyond” on Friday from 9-10:30 in 318 BTSU.

Dr. Amilcar Challu, professor at BGSU, will chair a panel on “Drugs in North American Borderlands” on Friday from 9-10:30 in 315 BTSU.

Dr. Shirley Green, instructor at BGSU and Ph.D. alum, will chair a panel on “Crime and Law Enforcement in the History of Alcohol and Drugs” on Friday from 9-10:30 in 316 BTSU, with Dr. Matthew Daley, professor at Grand Valley State and Ph.D. alum of BGSU, presenting “Prohibition’s Hangover: Murder, Gangsters, and Gambling in Toledo, Ohio, 1920-1970.”

Dr. Apollos Nwauwa, professor at BGSU, will chair a panel on “International Drug Control: Colonialism and Its Aftermath” on Friday from 10:45-12:15 in 314 BTSU.

Dr. Beth Griech-Polelle, professor at BGSU, will chair a panel on “Gendered Spaces in Alcohol and Drugs History” on Saturday from 10:45-12:15 in 314 BTSU.

Dr. Walt Grunden, professor at BGSU, will chair a panel on “Defining Intoxicants and the Intoxicated” on Saturday from 10:45-12:15 in 316 BTSU.

Joe Faykosh, doctoral candidate at BGSU, will present a paper titled “A Place in the Party: Wets, Drys, and the Klan at the 1924 Democratic National Convention,” and Dr. Michael Brooks, professor at BGSU, will present a paper titled “‘Ham-Strung, Shackled, and Tied’: the Ku Klux Klan and Prohibition Enforcement in Wood County, Ohio” on a panel titled “Perspectives on US Prohibition” on Sunday from 9:30-10:45 in 318 BTSU.

For more on the Alcohol and Drugs History Society Conference, visit the conference site. For the detailed conference program, please click here.

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Excellence in History: Undergraduate Research Symposium

05 Monday May 2014

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The Undergraduate Research Symposium for the Department of History at BGSU was held on Friday, May 2nd in the Bowen-Thompson Student Union as part of the Department of History’s Excellence in History celebration.

Six undergraduate were chosen to present their original scholarship as part of the Symposium, chosen by faculty based on research papers turned in to seminars.

Elizabeth Casto presented “New Women: The Impact of Evolving Social Reforms on Women in Weimar and Nazi Germany” from Dr. Beth Griech-Polelle’s History 3670: Hitler’s Germany.

Kasie Durkit presented “Let’s Put Smokey’s Fire Out: The Repercussions of a Flawed Fire Prevention Campaign” from Dr. Amilcar Challu’s History 4790: Research Methodology and Historiography.

Joseph Lueck presented “‘Paying the Penalty for Lawlessness’: Major Stephen Cabot’s Account of the Boston Draft Riot” from Dr. Ruth Herndon’s History 4800: Research Seminar.

Alema Heywood presented “Overlooked but Heroic: A Biography of Daisy Bates” from Dr. Nicole Jackson’s History 4320: Aspects of African American History.

Devin Proudfoot presented “From Border Ruffian to Abolitionist Martyr: William Lloyd Garrison’s Changing Ideologies on John Brown and Antislavery” from Dr. Ruth Herndon’s History 4800: Research Seminar.

Megan Sympson presented “New World Propaganda: Pigafetta’s Journal, World Maps, and New European Ideologies, 1525-1556” from Dr. Ruth Herndon’s History 4800: Research Seminar.

BGSU presence in the 2014 Conference of the American Society for Environmental History

03 Thursday Apr 2014

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BGSU had a strong presence in the annual conference of the American Society for Environmental History, held in San Francisco last March 7-9. The ASEH meeting convenes about 750 participants with presentations on a wide variety of international topics. Undergraduate students Sara Starr and Jeff Kellermeyer presented poster on the history of St. John’s Nature Preserve and natural disasters and biological wellbeing in Haiti, respectively. Professor Amilcar Challu and Sara Starr gave a joint presentation on the experience with undergraduate research in HIST 3380 (American Environmental History). BGSU alum and current doctoral candidate in OSU, Dan Vandersommers, presented on his research on animal rights and zoos in the nineteenth century.

"Stewardship: destruction or restoration?" by Sara Starr

Natural Disasters and Biological Wellbeing in Haiti

Jeff Kellermeyer standing by his poster "Natural Disasters and Biological Wellbeing in Haiti"

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