- Four History Majors presented their research at the January PAT Biennial Conference held in Orlando Florida:
- Eleanor Davison (’12) presented “‘Winston-Salem had its Mob’: Textiles, Tobacco, and Race in the Industrial South”
- Meenakshi Krishnan (’13) presented “Images of Kingship: Statebuilding, Patronage, and Architecture in the Capitals of the Mughal and Ottoman Empires”
- Margaret Rodgers presented “The Turkish Premiership of Tansu Ciller: Lasting Influences Amid Political Failures”
- Margaret Wood (’12) presented “‘We Called Ourselves Revolutionaries’: Remembering Integration at Wake Forest University”
- Gerson Lanza, a junior history major, makes the news with his unique style of tap dancing.
- Madeline Eckenrode featured in Old Gold & Black Graduation issue.
- Kara Peruccio presented her paper, “Big Screen, Little Boxes: Hollywood Representations of the Suburban Housewife, 1960-1975,” at Culturing the Popular Conference at Converse College in Spartanburg, S.C., on September 24, 2010. She presented another paper, “‘An Undue Indulgence’: Design, Power and Culture in the Harem Hamam of the Topkapi Saray Palace, 1453-1880,” at the Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, TN, on March 25, 2011.
- Christopher Falzon presented his paper, “No Land for Old Rumis: Mustafa Ali’s Description of Cairo,” at the Phi Alpha Thete Regional Conference at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City on March 26, 2011.
- Madeline Eckenrode presented her paper, “Science as a Stabilizing Force in Cuba, 1960-2000: How the Promise and Reality of Scientific Advancement Contributed to Economic Gains and Social Cohesion in post 1959 Cuba,” at the SUNY Stony Brook Latin American & Caribbean Studies Center 10th Annual Graduate Conference in New York City on April 8, 2011.
- Emma Lawlor presented her paper, “A Step from the Test Tube or the Domain of the Wooden Plow? The State, the Peasantry, and the Industrialization of Mexican Agriculture,” at the SUNY Stony Brook Latin American & Caribbean Studies Center 10th Annual Graduate Conference in New York City on April 8, 2011.