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BGSU Faculty Represented at Ohio Academy of History Annual Meeting

01 Wednesday Apr 2015

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The faculty in the History Department at Bowling Green State University were well represented at the Ohio Academy of History’s Annual Meeting, representing the top scholars from around the state. This year’s meeting was held at Ohio Northern University in Ada, on March 27-28th.

Dr. Larry Nelson presented “Green Clay’s Reinforcement at Fort Meigs, May 5th, 1813” on the panel “Fort Meigs and the War of 1812,” and Dr. Donald Eberle presented “‘Lift the Floodgates and Unloosen the Civic Spirit’: Public Health in Ohio During World War I” on a panel titled “Historical Perspectives on Health Care.”

Dr. Andrew Schocket served as commentator for a panel titled “Constructing Digital Humanities: (Mis)Representations of the Past in Video Games.” Dr. Beth Griech-Polelle served as chair of a panel titled “The Art and Power of Persuasion in Early Twentieth Century.” Dr. Benjamin Greene served as moderator for the Book Prize Roundtable on Daniel Rivers’ Radical Relations: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and Their Children Since World War II. Dr. Walt Grunden served as moderator for the session on “Teaching World History.”

For more on our faculty, their teaching, and their research interests, please peruse the faculty page!

Grunden and Pawlowicz featured in “The History Teacher”

18 Wednesday Mar 2015

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Rachel Pawlowicz, a Masters student in the Graduate Program in Policy History at BGSU, and Dr. Walter Grunden had a featured article in The History Teacher, the journal from The Society for History Education. “Teaching Atrocities: The Holocaust and Unit 731 in the Secondary School Curriculum” was published in the February 2015 issue. The article can be found here. For more on The History Teacher and for other articles in the issue, click here.

For more on Dr. Grudnen’s scholarship and teaching, please visit his faculty page.

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BGSU History Faculty Well Represented at Local History Award Reception

19 Wednesday Nov 2014

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Dr. Larry Nelson and Dr. Walt Grunden were recognized for their research at the Local History Award Reception hosted by the Center for Archival Collections at the Jerome Library at Bowling Green State University. Dr. Larry Nelson, BGSU PhD and faculty member at Firelands, won in the Best Article Division for “A Mysterious and Ambiguous Display of Tactics: The Second Siege of Fort Meigs July 21-28, 1813,” published in Ohio History. Dr. Walt Grunden received Honorable Mention in the book category for “Bryan,” an entry in Arcadia Publications’ “Images of America” series.

To read Dr. Nelson’s article, please click here.

For more on Dr. Grunden’s book, please click here. For more on Dr. Grunden’s research and teaching, please click on his faculty page.

Excellence in History: The Graduate Awards

08 Thursday May 2014

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Graduate Award Winners: Sherri Bolcevic, Honorable Mention Research Paper; Christian Lengyel, Outstanding Thesis; Alex Sycher, Honorable Mention Research Paper; Joe Faykosh, Outstanding Graduate Teaching; and Rachel Pawlowicz, Outstanding Departmental Service. Missing are Megan Cross, Nate Kuehnl, and Chloe Kosheva-Scissons, and Katie LaPlant.


The Graduate Awards for the Department of History at BGSU were given on Friday, May 2nd in the Bowen-Thompson Student Union as part of the Department of History’s Excellence in History celebration.

The Lawrence Friedman Thesis/Dissertation Award was presented to Christian Lengyel for his Outstanding Thesis, “Pictures of a Forgotten Past: The Socio-Historic Significance of Wartime Vignettes on Confederate Currency,” advised by Dr. Scott Martin and Dr. Ruth Herndon.

Honorable Mention for Outstanding Thesis were: Megan Cross for her thesis, titled “Formulas for Cultural Success: Behavioral Prescriptions in Early American Translations of Perrault’s Classic Fairy Tales,” advised by Dr. Ruth Herndon and Dr. Thomas Barden (University of Toledo); Katie LaPlant for her thesis, titled “Katherine Chidley, Damaris Masham, and Mary Wollstonecraft: The Development of a Liberal Feminist Tradition,” advised by Dr. Beth Griech-Polelle, Dr. Douglas Forsyth, and Dr. Susan Shelangoskie (Lourdes University); and Nate Kuenhl for his thesis, titled “Establishing Professional Legitimacy: Black Physicians and the Journal of the National Medical Association,” advised by Dr. Walter Grunden and Dr. Nicole Jackson.

The Outstanding Graduate Research Paper was presented to Chloe Koscheva-Scissons for her paper, titled “‘Puritan Indoctrination’ – The Politics of Publication in Mary Rowlandson’s and John Williamson’s Captivity Narratives,” written for the History 6210 seminar with Dr. Ruth Herndon.

Honorable Mention for Outstanding Graduate Research Paper were: Sherri Quirke Bolcevic for her paper, titled “Walk Lights, Goodnights, and Cardboard Cars: German Unification, the Culture of the GDR, and the Creation of Ostalgie,” written for her History 6540 seminar with Dr. Douglas Forsyth; and Alexander Sycher for his paper, titled “The Origins of the Final Solution in Europe: The Intentionalist vs. Functionalist Historiographical Debate,” for his History 6540 seminar with Dr. Douglas Forsyth.

The Bernard Sternsher and Edward & Xin-Zhu Chen Award for Graduate Teaching was presented to Joe Faykosh. Dr. Michael Brooks highlighted Faykosh’s teaching evaluations and observations, as well as mentoring of fellow graduate students. Faykosh has taught both American History survey sections.

The Outstanding Departmental Citizen Award was presented to Rachel Pawlowicz, with Dr. Michael Brooks highlighting Pawlowicz’s willingness to help out with departmental events, serving as student orientation leader for Graduate Student Orientation, and her service with Phi Alpha Theta.

For more on the Graduate Awards presented by the Department of History at BGSU, please click here.

For a list of previous winners, please click here.

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