The Department of History welcomes Professors Bonnie Effros, Norman Goda, Lynn Patyk, and Ben Wise.
UF was recently ranked 9th nationally in Latin American History.
The Department of History's highly successful series, Faithful Narratives:The Challenge of Religion in History, continues this fall. It is directed by Professors Nina Caputo and Andrea Sterk.
Check out UF's history students putting their skills into intellectual action! Read the diverse selection of articles and book reviews--ranging from Soviet Asia to Florida and from North Africa to the Caribbean. The current issue of Alpata, the Department of History journal, is now available for purchase in the Main Office. If you would like us to mail you a copy, contact Linda Opper.
Our Phi Alpha Theta Chapter is very active. Click here to see pictures of their recent events.
Workshop on Decolonization and the Franchise (April 18, 2009)
See Recent Faculty Publications for the latest books published by UF professors.
Betty Smocovitis has been named the 2009-2011 Distinguished Alumni Professor, a two year position that is provided for by the University of Florida Alumni Association. There is only one such award given out. Past award winners in the Department of History include Mike Gannon and David Chalmers.
Jeff Needell has been awarded both a Fulbright Scholar Award AND a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship for research and study in Brazil.
Jack Davis has been named a Waldo W. Neikirk Term Professor for AY 2009-2010. These privately funded one year term professorships are awarded by CLAS to recognize outstanding teacher-scholars.
Choice’s list of Outstanding Academic Titles for 2008 includes Bob Zieger's For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America Since 1865 (Kentucky, 2007).
Faculty featured on Head of the CLAS:
Sean Adams
Paul Ortiz
Faculty publications featured on CLAS Bookbeat:
Jack Davis (Oct 2008)
Mitch Hart (June 2008)
Bill Link (Jan 2008)
Fred Gregory (Oct 2007)
Jessica Harland-Jacobs (Aug 2007)
David Colburn (Aug 2007)
UF's Journal of Undergraduate Research has produced a special, 10th anniversary publication featuring ten articles-a "greatest hits" of sorts, with student-authored pieces from various years. They include an article from a 2005-2006 University Scholar in History, Christopher Church. Christopher was mentored by Sheryl Kroen. His article, "Testament to Torture: The Gangrene Affair" was one of only two CLAS-authored selections.
Adam Amir, a political science and IDS major supervised by Geoffrey Giles, has been awarded the prestigious Truman Scholarship. For a profile, click here.
Sara Hartmann has received the Outstanding Leadership Award from the UF Alumni Association.
Featured past events
2007 Gus Burns Lecture: Dr. John Hope Franklin, Mirror to America: An Autobiography
The East in the West: Muslims and Jews in Christian Europe (Spring 07 lecture series)
"For
the Life of the Flesh Is in the Blood: A Conference on the Significance
of Blood in Jewish History & Culture," an international
conference (Spring 07) [poster: front, back]
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