2020
Internships
Summer scholar research projects completed in the history department in Summer 2020.
Date: September 14, 2020
Faculty
A partnership between the Black Panther Party and the United Farm Workers has paid off.
Date: July 22, 2020
What's Happening
We have forgotten the history behind Lafayette Square says Aurélia Aubert, incoming visiting assistant professor.
Date: June 25, 2020
Faculty
Denison University Professor of History Karen Spierling has been honored with the 2020 Bonar Award for exemplary teaching and mentoring
Date: June 5, 2020
Faculty
History major Rick Brewer ' 16 interviewed his former professor Adam Davis on Iowa Public Radio.
Date: June 2, 2020
Alumni
Historian Daniel Doepper '60 has received the Philippine National Book Award in history for his book "Feeding Manila in Peace and War, 1850-1945."
Date: May 26, 2020
Featured News
Denison University announces faculty who have been promoted to full professor.
Date: May 21, 2020
Featured News
Introducing the Michael G. and Barbara W. Rahal Professorship in History at Denison University.
Date: May 21, 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
Faculty
Welcome to the Spring 2020 newly tenured professors at Denison University.
Date: April 28, 2020
Faculty
In times of crisis, churches have long served as hospitals says Professor Adam Davis.
Date: April 27, 2020
In the News
In the face of the coronavirus outbreak, Prof. Karen Spierling focuses on the value proposition of a liberal arts education.
Date: March 15, 2020
Faculty
Professor of History Adam Davis has written a new book on the rise of the hospital during Europe’s first great age of commerce.
Date: January 21, 2020
2019
Faculty
During 2019, three members of the History Department published books that are shaping scholarly discussions in their fields of historical research.
Date: December 17, 2019
Faculty
"What are the chances that the world can survive increasing globalization without the humanities?" asks Prof. Karen Spierling.
Date: December 13, 2019
Internships
History & educational studies major Benny Mandelbrot '21 enjoyed an internship with the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries.
Date: November 19, 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
In the News
A 20-year National Park Service veteran, Sarah Davis '94 is the first female Chief Park Ranger at Yellowstone National Park.
Date: September 26, 2019
In the News
Our worries about fears over Generation Z are overblown, says Denison Asst. prof. Miranda Sachs.
Date: September 25, 2019
Faculty
This past summer was a busy one in the history department, full of research, travel, writing, and teaching.
Date: September 6, 2019
Faculty
Director of Global Commerce Karen Spierling addresses the recent Business Roundtable statement in a letter to the NYTimes editor.
Date: August 25, 2019
In the News
History major J. Stephen Smith '88 is president of the Kentucky Bar Association.
Date: July 1, 2019
Awards & Honors
Department of History student scholarship/awards recipients, fellows and Phi Alpha Theta Members, selected April, 2019.
Date: May 20, 2019
Provost’s Academic Excellence Award
Denison University honored three outstanding students with the Provost’s Academic Excellence Award.
Date: May 10, 2019
In the News
Jonathan Tyack '93 has been named a 2019 Ohio Super Lawyer for the ninth consecutive year.
Date: April 16, 2019
Faculty
Assistant Professor of History Joanna Tague has been granted tenure and will be promoted to associate professor in the fall of 2019.
Date: March 7, 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
Faculty
Next year, Professor Adam Davis will be researching medieval history as a newly minted Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall of Cambridge University.
Date: May 23, 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
