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Active Students (as of August 2021)<\/span><\/h2>\n

Undergrad majors: 623
\nUndergrad minors: 278
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\n\t\t\t\t\nHistorians like to study significant events, but in the 2020-21 academic year, we lived through one. We took many of our programs online, including our annual Shofner<\/a>, Washington<\/a>, Weldon Johnson<\/a>, Judaic Studies<\/a> and Pauley<\/a> lectures, bringing international scholars \u201cto\u201d UCF. We participated in a teach-in<\/a> on Black Lives Matter and a hybrid in-person and online conference on Afrofuturism as part of the annual Zora! Festival<\/a>. Our faculty were featured in the Orlando Sentinel<\/em>, WESH 2 News, Central Florida News 13 and other public media. Professor Luis Mart\u00ednez-Fern\u00e1ndez is now a nationally syndicated columnist<\/a> on world culture and education. He also was named as one of UCF\u2019s Pegasus Professors<\/a>, the university\u2019s highest faculty honor. Professor Moshe Pelli was named Professor Emeritus<\/a> of Judaic Studies. Vladimir Solonari was promoted to the rank of Professor, and his new book<\/a> A Satellite Empire: Romanian Rule in Southwestern Ukraine<\/em> won Honorable Mention for Best Book from the American Association of Ukrainian Studies.<\/p>\n
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Historians like to study significant events, but in the 2020-21 academic year, we lived through one.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Our students continued to shine. Undergraduate Mariana Kellis was awarded Order of Pegasus<\/a> and won a prize at the Georgia Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society Conference for \u201cAbolitionist Perspectives on Russian Serfdom Before the Emancipation of the Serfs,\u201d based on her honors thesis<\/a>. Two students won prizes at the 2021 UCF Student Scholar Symposium<\/a>: undergraduate Angela Yen for \u201cThe Roots of Homophobia in Modern Day Chinese Society,\u201d and MA student Jessica Oldham for \u201cRead All About It: The D-Day Inspired Shift in British World War II Journalism.\u201d Two graduate students in Public History, Patrick Anderson and Fred Poggi, were featured in the Maitland Art & History Museum\u2019s newsletter<\/a> for work done in Caroline Cheong\u2019s Introduction to Public History course. Matthew Patsis, \u201914 \u201820MA, won the College of Arts & Humanities\u2019 award for Outstanding MA thesis<\/a> on \u201cThe Troupes Coloniales: A Comparative Analysis of African American and French Colonial Soldiers in the First World War.\u201d Last but certainly not least, Brandon Nightingale \u201916 \u201819MA won a UCF Alumni 30 Under 30 award for 2021; he is working on a project for the University of South Carolina and National Park Service on \u201cConnecting African American History to Cumberland Island National Seashore.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Truth Laid Bare: Lessons from the Ocoee Massacre<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The First Independence Day and the True Challenge of Our Own Time<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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