2025
Announcements & Updates
Denison’s 2025 student commencement speaker is Jess Cohen, a history and Black studies double major from Brooklyn, New York.
Date: April 8, 2025
2024
Students
Jess Cohen ’25 spent a semester in Ghana learning to rethink her ideas about the world.
Date: September 25, 2024
Faculty
Lauren Araiza gives a virtual talk on ‘The Black Freedom Struggle and the United Farm Workers’ to celebrate Cesar Chavez Day.
Date: April 22, 2024
Field Trips
History majors in a senior seminar cracked into the archives at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center Archival Program.
Date: January 31, 2024
2023
Faculty
Megan Threlkeld compares 1890s Progressive-era arguments for civics and history education with present-day battles over the "Hillsdale Curriculum."
Date: August 21, 2023
Alumni
Donald Grady '09, Denison graduate with a degree in history, directs legislative affairs for the International Dairy Foods Association in Washington D.C.
Date: July 21, 2023
Denison Magazine
With help from history professor Megan Threlkeld, Carter Patton ’23 tapped his family past for an inventive senior project on World War II.
Date: June 9, 2023
What's Happening
Professor Megan Threlkeld helps students "understand that the past is contested terrain."
Date: April 19, 2023
Faculty
"If we think of ourselves as working in a world separate from these "real-world" realities, we ourselves become obstacles," says Prof. Spierling.
Date: April 6, 2023
Awards & Honors
Jay Jackson ’25 wins Denison’s Joe Hines ’04 Award, which recognizes a student with a keen interest in diversity, serving others, and leadership.
Date: March 7, 2023
Lectures & Discussions
Faculty Panel will be held discussing the Critical Scholarly Perspectives of the recent film Wakanda Forever.
Date: February 8, 2023
Denison Magazine
For these high-achieving ’90s graduates, an education on The Hill was about exploring, stumbling, adapting — and thriving.
Date: February 6, 2023
2022
Denison Magazine
Conversations with faculty about what it means to teach — and to trigger those amazing moments of illumination
Date: February 21, 2022
2021
Awards & Honors
Department of History student scholarship/awards recipients, fellows and Phi Alpha Theta Members.
Date: May 26, 2021
Denison Magazine
How Sarah Davis ’94 works to protect the park from the people and the people from the park as Chief Ranger at Yellowstone.
Date: January 1, 2021
2020
Awards & Honors
Department of History student scholarship/awards recipients, fellows and Phi Alpha Theta Members
Date: September 29, 2020
Awards & Honors
Three Denison students have been honored for work in humanities with the Megan Lisska and Elin Lisska Christensen Award.
Date: May 19, 2020
2019
Lectures & Discussions
A round-table discussion moderated by Professor Yang (Denison University) with Guest Speakers from Kenyon College and University of Notre Dame.
Date: November 15, 2019
Awards & Honors
Department of History student scholarship/awards recipients, fellows and Phi Alpha Theta Members, selected April, 2019.
Date: May 20, 2019
2018
Awards & Honors
Department of History student scholarship/awards recipients, fellows and Phi Alpha Theta Members, selected April, 2018.
Date: May 20, 2018
2017
Awards & Honors
Department of History student scholarship/awards recipients, fellows and Phi Alpha Theta Members, selected April, 2017.
Date: April 27, 2017
2016
Awards & Honors
Sarah Winnicki, history major, was honored by Denison President Adam Weinberg with the President's Medal.
Date: July 14, 2016
Awards & Honors
Department of History student scholarship/awards recipients, fellows and Phi Alpha Theta Members, selected April, 2016.
Date: May 2, 2016
2015
Awards & Honors
The Department of History Celebrates Our Students Accomplishments!
Date: May 13, 2015
Awards & Honors
Department of History student scholarship/awards recipients, selected April 2015.
Date: May 6, 2015
2014
Awards & Honors
Department of History student scholarship/awards recipients, fellows and Phi Alpha Theta Members, selected March 2014.
Date: May 7, 2014
2013
Awards & Honors
Department of History student scholarship/awards recipients and fellows, selected March 2013.
Date: September 19, 2013
Awards & Honors
Departmental award winners for the 2012-2013 academic year
Date: May 12, 2013
