Articles: Tag: History

Three More Allegheny College Students Awarded Gilman International Scholarships

by Paige Penfield January 21st 2022

Allegheny College students Charisma Tesch ’23, Megan Dennis ’23, and Maria Cabrera ’24 have been awarded prestigious Gilman International Scholarships to help fund study abroad experiences. They join four other Allegheny students who also received Gilman Scholarships in 2021.  “Our continued success in the Gilman Scholarship competition suggests to me that Allegheny students are competitive

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Allegheny Students Give Voice to Silent Historical Narratives with Pop-up Museum Event

by Katheryn Frazier November 29th 2021

Allegheny College students taking an Introduction to Public History course this semester created an imaginative, two-day pop-up museum event to introduce lesser-known historical narratives to the campus community. “We examine what narratives have dominated representations of the past in historical museums, and we seek out histories that have not been at the center of understanding the

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Two Allegheny Students to Be Honored for Environmental Sustainability Work

by Richard Stanley April 30th 2021

Two Allegheny College students will be recognized by the Pennsylvania Environmental Resource Consortium as 2021 Campus Sustainability Champions. The Campus Sustainability Champion title is awarded annually to students, faculty, administrators and staff of Pennsylvania colleges and universities who have made meaningful contributions benefiting social, economic or environmental sustainability on their campus or in their community.

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Persistence Pays Off With Opportunities Abroad for Allegheny College Junior

by Richard Stanley April 20th 2021

Allegheny College junior Sebastian McRae doesn’t give up easily when it comes to pursuing one of his immediate goals: traveling out of the country to study and to explore a new culture. McRae, an environmental science and sustainability major and a history minor, plans to attend a summer program in Costa Rica with the School

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Recent Allegheny College Graduate Awarded Fulbright to Study Medieval Literature in England

by Josh Tysiachney June 6th 2018

If you think of the Middle Ages as little more than dirt, blood and Bubonic Plague, recent Allegheny College graduate Madeline Hernstrom-Hill can enlighten you. “Sure, all that is there, but there is also so much more — complicated medical manuals, treatises about forms of government, astrological thought, trade across incredible distances, I could go

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Allegheny College to Host National History Day Competition

by Josh Tysiachney February 16th 2018

Allegheny College will host the northwestern Pennsylvania National History Day academic competition on Saturday, Feb. 24, with middle- and high-school students presenting projects related to the theme of “Conflict and Compromise in History.” More than 20 students from schools in Erie, Crawford, McKean and Warren Counties are set to participate in the regional event. Students

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Wu Presents at Southwestern Conference on Asian Studies/Western Conference of Association for Asian Studies

by Josh Tysiachney December 5th 2017

Associate Professor of History Guo Wu presented a paper titled “Exhibition, Pedagogy, and Academic Inquiry: Museums of Minority Nationality and Ethnology in Southern China” to the Southwestern Conference on Asian Studies/Western Conference of Association for Asian Studies in Dallas, Texas, Nov. 17–18.

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Miller Presents Paper at German Studies Association Conference

by Josh Tysiachney December 5th 2017

Brian Miller, visiting assistant professor of history, presented a conference paper entitled “‘Turkey will be Delighted’: Transnational Discourse on Turkish Modernization in the Pages of the 1960s Anadolu Gazetesi,” at the 41st Annual German Studies Association Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, in October 2017.

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Senior Hernstrom-Hill Wins Stony Brook Short Fiction Prize

by Erica Erwin October 17th 2017

Allegheny College senior Madeline Hernstrom-Hill has won the Stony Brook Short Fiction Prize for her short story “The Church of the Reformed Eden.” The prize, awarded to an outstanding undergraduate author, includes a $1,000 prize, a full scholarship to the Southampton Writers Conference in July 2018 and consideration for publication in The Southampton Review. Judge Amy

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