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Active Students (as of April 2022)<\/span><\/h2>\n

Undergrad majors: 581
\nUndergrad minors: 285
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\nGraduate students: 71<\/p>\n

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During the 2021-22 academic year, history faculty contributed to the public conversation by providing context and clarity about a number of the world’s most pressing issues, including the continuing COVID-19 crisis and Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine. Faculty including Professor Vladimir Solonari provided clarity and context to Russian media and propaganda through interviews with international media.<\/p>\n

Our major events \u2013 the annual Jerrell Shofner Lecture Series on Florida Culture and History, John T. Washington Lecture Series for Africana Studies<\/a>, Annual Pauley Lecture Series on Global Affairs<\/a>, and Judaic Studies lectures \u2013 returned to campus in a hybrid format, blending the strengths of in-person events with best practices for remote audiences that we learned during the pandemic. <\/p>\n

The Judaic Studies program had a banner year. Kenneth Hanson was named as the second Abe and Tess Wise Endowed Professor of Judaic Studies<\/a>, and the program established its first scholarship<\/a> , thanks to a generous donation from the Temple Shalom of Deltona, Fl.<\/p>\n

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History faculty contributed to the public conversation by providing context and clarity about a number of the world’s most pressing issues [and]… produce[d] innovative, wide-ranging, and award-winning research<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Faculty continued to produce innovative, wide-ranging, and award-winning research in our community and around the globe. Peter Larson published a new book with Oxford University Press, Rethinking the Great Transition<\/em>, in which he argues for an earlier and more complex transition from feudalism to capitalism; John Sacher\u2019s new book on Confederate conscription won the Landry Award from LSU press and was a finalist for the prestigious Lincoln Prize. Rose Beiler has launched PRINT<\/a>, a new crowd-sourced project to transcribe letters from the seventeenth and eighteenth century Atlantic world, while the Vayots Dzor Fortress Landscape Project<\/a>, led by Tiffany Earley-Spadoni, brings together an international group of scholars to historicize the intentions, creation and use of fortress landscapes in ancient Armenia. The documentary film Marching Forward <\/em>by Robert Cassanello and Lisa Mills (Film) was nominated for a Suncoast Emmy Award<\/a>. Rhiannon O\u2019Neil \u201821MA won the 2022 CAH Excellence Award for Outstanding MA Thesis<\/a> for \u201c\u2018Clothes Make Men\u2019: Clothing and the Embodiment of Gender in Virginia, 1750\u20131775,\u201d while James Stoddard \u201820MA (and currently a doctoral student in the Texts and Technology program) was awarded the 2022 CAH Excellence Award for a Graduate Teaching Associate<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Faculty and students continued to tell local stories, from the Bending Toward Justice<\/a> digital project to an attempt to locate and identify Union soldiers buried at the Olustee battlefield<\/a>. Our annual Veterans Month festivities included a visit from congresswoman Stephanie Murphy<\/a> and the unveiling of a new Supply Vault for Student Veteran Success<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In conclusion, we offer our congratulations to Fon Gordon who retired from the department at the end of the spring semester.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Peter Larson, department chair<\/span>
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Historians Provide Insight Into Cuban Protests<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Larson Reappointed Chair<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Amplifying Orlando\u2019s LGBTQ History<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Serving as Fellows for the Royal Historical Society<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Discussing the Roots of Native American Boarding Schools<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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What is Hanukkah?<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Don Quijote Award Finalist<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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2022 ZORA! Festival Season Highlights\t<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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