News and announcements
Dr. Dan Glenn, Dr. Rachel Goossen, Dr. Alan Bearman, Dr. Tom Prasch, Dr.
Bruce Mactavish
Dr. Kim Morse, Anne Fund, Dr.
Kerry Wynn, Dr. Yongtao Du
Fall 2008
The History Department faculty and staff welcomes Dr. Dan Glenn in a lectureship position commencing in the fall semester of 2008. |
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POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT:
The Department of History at Washburn University is advertising a 3/4 time position (including proportional health and retirement benefits) in World History (specialization open), beginning in Fall 2009, and possibly renewable. The position entails teaching three courses a semester, including survey courses in world history as the primary responsibility, with the possibility of offering upper-level courses in area of specialty as schedules permit. The successful candidate will be ABD (PhD preferred), with demonstrated teaching ability and evidence of scholarly potential. Candidates should submit a letter of interest, statement of teaching philosophy, c.v., and at least three letters of recommendation to Thomas Prasch, Chair, Dept. of History, Washburn University, 1700 SW College, Topeka, KS 66621. Consideration of candidates will commence on April 24.
Please send questions and comments to Dr. Kerry Wynn .
Washburn University
Department of
History
1700 SW College Ave.
Topeka, KS 66621
Telephone:
(785)670-2060
Fax: (785)670-1084 |
Calendar
This coming fall the History Department will offer an unprecedented FIVE new upper division courses, ranging from Darwin to the American child:
HI 300A A History of American Childhood, 1:30-2:45 MW Rachel Goossen, Instructor. This new class will explore the historical literature on children and youth in American culture, and evolving notions of childhood from America's colonial period to the present.
HI 300B, Medieval Europe, 12:00-1:15 MW, Tony Silvestri, Instructor. Students will explore the development of European civilization from the fall of the Roman Empire to the dawn of the Renaissance. Students will also work in a medieval scriptorium, using authentic historic materials to create their own illuminated work.
HI 300C, War and Society, 11:00-12:15 TR, Dan Glenn, Instructor. How has armed conflict shaped the modern world? How have propaganda and popular history reconstructed our memories of warfare? Learn the answers to these questions from Clausewitz to Taxi Driver and Napoleon to Iraqi Freedom.
HI 300X, Women and Gender in Early America, 5:30-8::30 W, Kerry Wynn, Instructor. How were men and women expected to act in the 18th century? More importantly, how did they actually behave? Explore the myth and reality of gender relations in this class.
HI 300F, Darwin's Texts/Contexts, 4:00-5:15 MW, Tom Prasch and Marguerite Perret, Instructors. The year 2009 is the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's Origin of the Species and there is no better place to commemorate Darwin's breakthrough work on natural selection than in Kansas, where it has provoked so much recent controversy in the public schools. The course will study the works of Darwin, debate about his theory among his own contemporaries and ours, and the influence of his theory on science, literature and the arts.
These courses have never been offered here before, so don't miss an opportunity.
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Lecture Series
The Gleed Memorial Lecture, endowed in 1928
by friends of J. Willis Gleed, a Topeka corporate attorney and
university trustee whose devotion to education was highly regarded,
brings to campus notable authorities for a public lecture.
The Harman Memorial Lincoln Lecture promotes
the study of Abraham Lincoln's life and times by a lectureship
endowed in 1987 by Jerome Harman, distinguished Kansas jurist and
lifelong student of the nation's 16th
president.
The Far Travelers Oral History Website is now up and available. Go to: http://www.washburn.edu/cas/history/stucker/fartravelers/ to get a look at what they have done. |
