Our next alumni to be featured in our series “Where Are They Now?” is Kenny Libben, class of 2010! He is currently the curator of the Cleo Redd Fisher Museum in Loudonville, Ohio (about 30 minutes south of Wooster), where he oversees the preservation and promotion of the history and cultural heritage of the Mohican area. He is also the co-editor of Voices of Regional… Read More
Come join the information session on Thursday if you’d like to learn more about this spring-summer course on documentary filmmaking & history in Buenos Aires. Info Session: Thursday, October 21 at 11am in APEX Commons HIST 218 – Documentary Filmmaking & History in Buenos Aires (Crosslisted with Communication Studies, GMDS, History, and Latin American Studies)… Read More
Owing largely to the pleasant weather, good food, competitive lawn games, and heartening turnout from both students and faculty, the History Department’s 2021 fall picnic was a great success! The picnic welcomed some Scots back to campus for the first time in over a year and gave prospective history majors an opportunity to mingle with… Read More
It was wonderful seeing so many faces last Friday at the Spring Gathering–in person, no less! Many thanks to all of the students, faculty, and guests who joined us in the surprisingly nice weather. Jackson Stuff, Phi Alpha Theta, and the many others who helped arrange the event did a stupendous job ensuring there was… Read More
Join us this Friday afternoon for the Spring Gathering, hosted by Phi Alpha Theta and the history department! Feel free to bring friends and drop by for croquet, snacks, and good music!
Our next alumni spotlight is Abigail Padfield Narayan, graduate of 2008. Here is a little about her experience after the College of Wooster! “I am currently a PhD student at the University of Central Florida in Texts and Technology, focusing on Public History, and the Academic Programs Coordinator at Spurlock Museum of World Cultures. I would encourage current… Read More
Dear Students and Faculty in History and Classics, We write to invite you to a Wooster Family Feud Night! Friends are welcome to join as well. The event will take place on April 9 at 8:00pm over Zoom; the Zoom link will be sent out to those who RSVP’d on the day of the event.… Read More
For our next feature on “What Are They Doing Now?” we would like to introduce Joe Skonce, graduate of 2012. Read on to hear about how his history degree helped him with his career at Hale Farm! “I am the Education and Public Programs Manager at Hale Farm & Village, a living history museum located in Bath, Ohio. We talk about Early Ohio… Read More
Greetings! The Department of History and the Department of Global and International Studies would like to invite you to a special screening and discussion of Rubika Shah’s 2020 documentary, White Riot, which explores the Rock Against Racism movement that developed among punk rockers in Britain in the 1970s. The film distributor is making unique licenses… Read More