历史

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If you like history, Wilkes is the place for you. Small classes with subjects that span time periods and continents, as well as study abroad options, internship opportunities and individualized mentoring help you meld on-campus scholarship with off-campus experiences.

项目快照

项目类型	格式	学分
大,小	在校园	120 (18 for minor)

Why Study 历史 at Wilkes?

In studying history at Wilkes, you will join a tight-knit community with full-time faculty historians who bring world perspectives to their classes. 的y will work with you one-on-one with individualized attention and mentoring, without sacrificing the diversity and breadth of programming offered by larger institutions.

的 program offers four specialized yet flexible tracks that help prepare for your 你的职业:

Pre-law/pre-graduate prepares you for advanced study in law, history or other related professional disciplines.
Public history prepares you for work or study in careers that present history to a non-academic audience including museum curator, archive manager, museum educator and 更多的.
Secondary education prepares students for careers as secondary education teachers.
Digital history allows you to learn the skills necessary to present history in a variety of media, including websites and audio and video documentaries.

What Will You Learn as a 历史 Student?

You’ll develop skills in research and critical thinking, as well as articulating both written and oral arguments.
Study ancient, medieval and modern world history, early and modern American history, women’s history, cultural history and political and economic history.
You’ll learn skills that employers are looking for: being able to process large amounts of information and the ability to sift through what is relevant and what is not.
Learn how to solve problems and construct arguments in support of one course of action 或另一个.

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Program Highlights

实习

As a history major, you have the opportunity to participate in an internship at archives and historical sites and museums throughout the region. If you are interested in public history rather than teaching, internships are a great way to explore these options.

Clubs and Organizations

的历史 Club meets regularly and travels to sites around the region, including Boston, Gettysburg and Washington, D.C. Expand on what you learn in class and have 也有一些乐趣. Wilkes is also home to a chapter of Phi Alpha 的ta, the national history 荣誉学会.

Experiential Learning

Become part of history. Participate in the annual Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon by transcribing papers of Black activist Julia Ann Cooper. Wilkes students also created a collection for the University archives as well as a public exhibition, 2020年的推荐全球十大博彩公司排行榜, to preserve the experiences of Wilkes students during the pandemic.

Tell the 历史 Behind Today's 新闻

的 历史 Behind the Headlines podcast allows Wilkes students provide historical 上下文 to current events. 这 student-led production can provide fantastic real-life experience in historical research 和沟通.

认识我们的教师

Our 历史 faculty are experts in their specialties and provide hands-on mentoring and opportunities to gain valuable experience in research, critical thinking and other valuable skills vital to future academic and career success.

Assistant Professor

艾米.sopcakjoseph@nhot.org

Dr. 艾米Sopcak-Joseph is an American historian focusing on early American social, cultural and economic history, especially the history of the book and women's and 性别的历史.

In 2020, her dissertation, Fashioning American Women: Godey's Lady's Book, Female Consumers, and Periodical Publishing in the Nineteenth Century, was awarded the prestigious Zuckerman Prize in American Studies by the McNeil Center for Early America Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Prior to earning her PhD. at the University of Connecticut, she worked as a public history professional at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, MA, making her a tremendous resource for students interested in public history and digital history. In her classes, she has led trips to the Luzerne County Historical Society and organized students in the creation of the 2020年的推荐全球十大博彩公司排行榜 collection, to document the life of the campus community during the COVID-19 pandemic.

She also facilitates opportunities for students outside the classroom, receiving a 补助金 历史研究 Lab, mentoring students in primary source research over the summer. Her advisees have also taken advantage of opportunities in digital history, recent projects include digitizing Wilkes' yearbooks from 1947-2019 外部网站.

Associate Professor

阿基拉.shimizu@nhot.org

Dr. 彰清水 is a specialist in the history of Japan and East Asia, receiving 他的Ph值.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is particularly interested in the history of daily life, food and foodways, which is reflected in 他的研究. 他的第一本书， Specialty Food, Market Culture, and Daily Life in Early Modern Japan 外部网站, and his current research is on the history of 为了. Dr. Shimizu brings this interest in food and his experience as a former professional chef into the classroom teaching courses on global food history, as well as courses on global history and the history of Japan and East Asia.

Associate Professor of 历史, Honor Program Director

乔纳森.kuiken@nhot.org

Dr. 乔纳森Kuiken is specialist in the history of the British Empire and energy history, focusing on the development of the international oil industry, receiving 他的Ph值.D. in 历史 from 波士顿学院. He teaches global history courses as well as a unique “Energy in 历史” course, which is part of Wilkes’ interdisciplinary Energy Studies minor and has published articles on the British Empire in post-colonial Africa and British oil policy in the leading up to the 1973 oil crisis.

Dr. Kuiken领导 Contemporary 历史 Project at Wilkes, which organizes speakers and events that put contemporary events in historical 上下文.

He also advises the student-led 历史 Behind the Headlines podcast, which is a great opportunity for students to get experience work on projects in public history and digital history.

听...... 历史 Behind the Headlines 在一夜外部网站

读到 历史 Behind the Headlines in 灯塔外部网站

Assistant Professor of 历史

切尔西.chamberlain@nhot.org

Dr. 切尔西D. 张伯伦 is a historian of modern America. Her research and teaching focus on US histories of citizenship, education, medicine and disability. Dr. 张伯伦 earned her PhD in 历史 from the University of Pennsylvania and a MA from the University 蒙大拿. Her research on the history of institutionalization in Pennsylvania has 出现在 Journal of Social 历史 and the academic blog 护理克莱奥.

Currently, she serves on the advisory board of the Pennhurst Memorial and Preservation Alliance and as the Humanities Advisor for the documentary film 的 Fate of Human Beings, which explores the history and memorialization of institution cemeteries.

As a history major at Wilkes, I’ve enjoyed learning how to think 更多的 critically about history and how to research historical events. Studying history at Wilkes was one of the best decisions I’ve made.
William Billingsley '21 - 政治科学 and 历史

政治科学

研究 at Wilkes

James Alfano '18 Received Fulbright Award to Teach in Taiwan

Alfano taught English at Hualien City School Districts as part of a project to further promote cultural understanding and language instruction to Taiwanese students at their respective schools. Alfano was one of over 1,900 U.S. citizens to conduct research, teach English and provide expertise abroad for the 2018-2019 academic year through 富布赖特大学.S. 学生项目.

Fulbright Program