History

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History is at the core of a liberal arts education, illuminating the ideas, institutions, and sentiments by which people have attempted to order their world.

Adriana M. Brodsky
- Department Chair
(240) 895-4108
Kent Hall 326
Professor of History Christine Adams Discusses “The Creation of the French Royal Mistress” on Virtual Author Panel
September 14, 2020
christine Adams pictured
St. Mary’s College Professor of History Christine Adams will participate in a virtual author panel titled, Medieval & Early Modern Women in Politics & Power, sponsored by Penn State Press, on her book, “The Creation of the French Royal Mistress: From Agnès Sorel to Madame Du Barry,” on… Find Out More
"Republican Populist" Introduction Included in American Heritage Special Issue
June 16, 2020
Charles Holden portrait
An edited version of the introduction to “Republican Populist: Spiro Agnew and the Origins of Donald Trump’s America” (University of Virginia Press, 2019) by Charles J. Holden, Zach P. Messitte and Jerald Podair, appears in American Heritage magazine (Vol. 65, Issue 3, June 2020). Holden is… Find Out More
Professor Christine Adams Receives Two Prestigious Fellowships
May 22, 2020
portrait of Chris Adams
Christine Adams, professor of history, received two prestigious fellowships:  one through the American Council on Learned Societies (ACLS) and the other from the Newberry Library, both long-standing, preeminent pillars of American scholarship in the humanities. Competition for these long-term… Find Out More
Assistant Professor Malena Receives Society-wide Award for Research
April 16, 2020
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Sarah Malena, assistant professor of history, has received the Society of Biblical Literature’s 2020 Regional Scholar Award. Malena was awarded for her paper entitled, “A House for Pharaoh’s Daughter: Diplomatic Marriage and Solomon’s Legacy,” which she presented at the 2019 Mid-Atlantic regional… Find Out More
Professor Brodsky Awarded $6,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities
April 14, 2020
Adriana Brodsky pictured
Adriana Brodsky, professor of history, was awarded a summer stipend of $6,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to complete the book-length monograph titled “Jewish Argentine Youth, 1940-1976.”  As Jews were persecuted and murdered in Europe, Argentine Jews looked to the youth for… Find Out More
Professor of History Christine Adams’ New Book Now Available
March 27, 2020
Christine Adams pictured
Professor of History Christine Adams’ new book, “The Creation of the French Royal Mistress: From Agnès Sorel to Madame Du Barry,” (2020, Penn State University Press) is now available.

The description: “Kings throughout medieval and early modern Europe had extraconjugal sexual partners. Only in… Find Out More
Professor Jeff Eden Featured and Interviewed on Radio Free Asia - Uyghur
March 12, 2020
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Jeff Eden, assistant professor of history, has been featured and interviewed on Radio Free Asia - Uyghur for his recent book, “Warrior Saints of the Silk Road.” Last month, a review of Warrior Saints in the Journal of Asian Studies (the leading journal of Asian history) concluded that the book "… Find Out More
“Robots, Rayguns and Alternate Views of Reality” Exhibition to Feature Collection of Science Fiction Paperbacks from 50s-70s
January 20, 2020
“Robots, Rayguns, and Alternate Views of Reality: Experiencing Art Through the Sci-Fi Paperback Collection in the SMCM Archives" exhibition invite and artwork
On Thursday, January 23, from 5 – 6:30 p.m., The Boyden Gallery will hold an opening reception for an exhibition created with a unique collection held in the Archives. The family of Thomas M. Barrett, a popular professor of Russian and world history, donated his collection of science fiction and… Find Out More
Assistant Professor Eden Published in the “British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies”
November 6, 2019
Assistant Professor of History Jeff Eden pictured
Assistant Professor of History Jeff Eden had a new article published in the “British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies.” 

With “Did Ibn Saud’s Militants Cause 400,000 Casualties? Myths and Evidence about the Wahhabi Conquests, 1902–1925,” Eden proposes that the claim that Ibn Saud’s militants… Find Out More
St. Mary’s College Board of Trustees Recognize Faculty Promotions
October 21, 2019
(Left to right) Charles Musgrove, Kent Randell, Michelle Milne, Kelly Neiles, Joshua Grossman pictured
In a special presentation on Friday, October 18, the St. Mary’s College of Maryland Board of Trustees recognized the following faculty promotions.

 

Promotion to Full Professor:

 

Betül Başaran (religious studies) joined the St. Mary’s College faculty in 2005. She is a scholar of the Ottoman… Find Out More
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