WELCOME TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AT LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY

In the established tradition of liberal arts education, the Department of History provides students with personal cultural enrichment, while preparing them for employment in fields in which historical knowledge, habits of mind, and skills (such as research, analysis, and communication) are valued, and/or for further study leading to careers in teaching, the law, the ministry, government service, and many others.

DEPARTMENTAL NEWS

AWARDS:
LAMBDA-RHO CHAPTER OF THE PHI ALPHA THETA NATIONAL HISTORY HONOR SOCIETY WINS BEST CHAPTER IN THE NATIONAL COMPETITION AGAIN! This makes 25 Best Chapter awards since 1980! As customary, Phi Alpha Theta will donate $250 toward library acquisitions in history.  Congratulations to the student officers and members at Tech and GSU and a big thanks to all of the faculty members and administrators on both campuses who have worked so hard to achieve this recognition.

GRADUATE STUDENTS
Jenna Steward of Baton Rouge is the 2010 recipient of the W. Darryl Overdyke Prize, given by the North Louisiana Historical Association for the best research paper on a topic in the history of North Louisiana. Steward’s winning paper was entitled “ An Impossible Task: Gender and Desegregation at Louisiana Tech, 1965-1973.” The Overdyke Awards are granted by the North Louisiana Historical Association in recognition of the best research paper in North Louisiana history. Jenna has also been accepted into the PhD program in Public History at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio.

Tarah Thomas of Haughton is the 2010 recipient of the American History scholarship awarded by the Shreveport chapter of the National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century.

Winners of the Department of History’s 2010 graduate paper competition are Chad Shelley of Georgetown, Miss., first prize; and Jenna Steward of Baton Rouge, second prize.

FACULTY
Dr. Jeffery Hankins has been awarded tenure and promotion to Associate Professor. Congratulations to Dr. Hankins! Dr. Hankins has also been awared a Short Term Research Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. for Summer, 2011.

Dr. Jace Stuckey has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar Program Award to conduct research in residency at the Cardiff University in Wales, UK for the 2010-2011 academic year. Dr. Stuckey also participated in an NEH Summer Institute in Oxford, England on the topic of "Representations of the 'Other': Jews in Medieval Christendom" from July 6-August 11, 2010.

Dr. Laurie Stoff has been awarded an American Councils for International Education ACTR/ACCELS Title VIII Research Scholar Program Grant, to cover three months of research in Moscow during summer, 2011

PUBLICATIONS:

Dr. Jeffery Hankin's article, "Papists. Power, and Puritans: Catholic Office-Holders and the Rise of the 'Puritan Faction' in Early-Seventeenth Century Essex” was published in the Catholic Historical Review, Vol. XCV, No. 2 (October 2009)

 

 

Dr. David Anderson's article, “’Things Are Different Down Here’: The 1955 Perfect Circle Strike, Conservative Civic Identity, and the Roots of the New Right in the 1950s Industrial Heartland,” has been published in the journal International Labor and Working Class History, the leading scholarly journal in this field.

Dr. Jace Stuckey's co-edited volume, The Legend of Charlemagne in the Middle Ages: Power, Faith, and Crusade has been published by Palgrave Macmillan in its "The New Middle Ages" series.  In addition to sharing coordination and editorial duties with Matthew Gabriele of Virginia Tech, Dr. Stuckey is a contributor to the volume.  His chapter is called "Charlemagne as Crusader? Memory, Propaganda, and the Many Uses of Charlemagne's Legendary Expedition to Spain."

 

PRESENTATIONS AND OTHER PROFESSION ACTIVITIES:
Dr. Laurie Stoff presented a paper entitled “Angels of Mercy, Sisters of 'Comfort': Images of Russian Nurses of World War I,” at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies in Los Angeles, CA, Nov. 21, 2011.

Dr. Stephen Webre has been named contributing editor for Central American history for Vvolume 66 of the Handbook of Latin American Studies. Dr. Webre is also serving as a symposium convener for the 10th Central American Historical Congress, to take place in Managua, Nicaragua, in July.

Dr. Jace Stuckey presented a paper, entitled “ William of Malmesbury and the Long Crusade, ” at the 45th International Congress of Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Dr. Jeffery Hankins has been appointed volume editor and author of six essays appearing in The World and its Peoples: Europe, vol. IV: Belgium, Luxemborg, and Netherlands, a Marshall Cavendish reference publication.  Currently, Dr. Hankins is directing a Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Readings in Literature and Culture series on "Queen Elizabeth and Her World" at the Ouachita Parish Library in Monroe.

Dr. Brian Etheridge gave an invited lecture at Brigham Young University, entitled “Nazis and Berliners: State Power, Public Diplomacy, and Narratives of Germany in Postwar America.”

Dr. Laurie Stoff gave an invited lecture at Texas A&M University, Commerce, entitled “Babas in Breeches and Soldiers to Boot: Russia's Women Soldiers in the Great War.”

ALUMNI NEWS:
Ardala Wigman (MA 2011) is teaching at Linwood Public Charter School, Shreveport, La.

William Guillot (MA 2011) is teaching Advanced Placement and dual enrollment history at St. Frederick’s High School, Monroe, La.

Alexes Toomes (MA 2010) is teaching history at DeSoto High School in DeSoto, Texas. She is also an adjunct instructor at Tarrant County Community College in Arlington, Texas.

Jeremy T. Pendergrass (BA 2007) is president of Argent Property Services, a subsidiary of Argent Financial Group, Inc.

Eric Pardue (MA 2007) is Law Clerk to the Honorable Bernice B. Donald, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Memphis. Eric is also the author of the chapter, “ Kennedyphobia and the Rise of Republicans in Northwest Louisiana, 1960-1962,” in the recently published book, Painting Dixie Red: Where, When, Why, and How the South Became Republican, edited by Glenn Feldman (Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2011).

Robert Alan Lay, Jr. (BA 2004, MA 2006) is employed as assistant processing archivist at the Dole Institute of Politics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kans.  The Dole Institute collection houses a wide variety of text, audio, and photographic pieces highlighting the 35-year career of former U.S. Senator Robert J. Dole.

Josh Williams (MA, 2004) received the MLIS degree at Louisiana State University.  He currently works as park historian at Old Washington State Park in Hope, Ark.

Catherine J. Howell (BA 2003) completed the MA in International Development at the University of Denver and is now employed at the Economic Development Council in Washington, D.C.

Amanda McVay (BA, 2003) received the MA in public history at New Mexico State University.  Currently she is employed as museum director at the Municipal Auditorium in Shreveport.

Ryan Kilpatrick (BA, 2002) is employed as vice president for business development at Community Trust Bank, Ruston.

Roshunda Belton (BA, 1999; MA, 2001) received the PhD in history at Louisiana State University.  She is employed as assistant professor of history and interim head of the Department of History at Grambling State University.

LaGuana K. Gray (MA, 1999) received her PhD in history at the University of Houston in 2007.  Dr. Gray is now employed as an assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Kent B. Germany (BA, 1992; MA, 1994) received the PhD in history at Tulane University.  Previously employed at the Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia, he is currently assistant professor of history and African American Studies at the University of South Carolina.  Dr. Germany is the author of New Orleans After the Promises: Poverty, Citizenship, and the Search for the Great Society (University of Georgia Press, 2007) and a co-editor of The Presidential Recordings: Lyndon B. Johnson (W. W. Norton, 2007).

Gary D. Joiner (BA 1973, MA 1975) holds the PhD in history from Lancaster University, Lancaster, England.  Dr. Joiner is currently Mary Anne and Leonard Selber Professor of History at Louisiana State University-Shreveport.  He is author, co-author, or editor of eleven books.

FOR MORE ALUMNI NEWS, CLICK HERE