OK State History Department

Please join us in congratulating our three graduate students who walked in the Spring 2024 commencement ceremony! Doctoral candidates Kristina Rogers, hooded by Dr. Kallie Kosc, & Savannah Waters, hooded by Dr. Douglas Miller, will both be completing their dissertations...(1/3)

Congratulation, Dr. Wells!!

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...this summer. Averee McNear successfully defended her MA thesis "More Than a Building with Books: Resistance, Resilience, and the Fight for African American Public Library Access, 1900 - 1970," in April. What great achievements! (2/3)

Please join us in congratulating our three graduate students who walked in the Spring 2024 commencement ceremony! Doctoral candidates Kristina Rogers, hooded by Dr. Kallie Kosc, & Savannah Waters, hooded by Dr. Douglas Miller, will both be completing their dissertations...(1/3)

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Congratulations to our own Dr. Holly Karibo! Read more about Dr. Karibo & this opportunity here: news.okstate.edu/articles/commu….

To learn more about Dr. Kelli Mosteller and the relationship between monarch butterflies and tribal communities in Oklahoma, you can visit: youtube.com/watch?v=nmKm2Y…

Dr. Kelli Mosteller became involved in butterfly conservation unintentionally. As an OSU history graduate, Mosteller went on to pursue her doctorate with a focus on the history of the Potawatomi Nation, her own tribe, at the University of Texas. 🧵

Did you see it? @OKState_History's Dr. Laura Arata was featured on @NewsOn6 sharing historical perspective on Stillwater's Washington Bears basketball championship win. Check out the story: buff.ly/3wo9gar

This celebration is taking place alongside continued efforts to preserve the historic school. History professor Dr. Laura Arata also weighed in on this historic moment for the 1956 team. Watch the segment to learn more! @okstate @OkstateCAS @OKStatePubHis @OkStateLibrary

Stillwater's Washington School has made state-wide news again as a celebration honoring the Washington High School Bears winning the 1956 Class C Basketball State Championships in Oklahoma finally happened after 68 years. newson6.com/story/66283795…

To learn more about the Center for Humanities group fellowships, future events, and Dr. Griswold’s project, visit: cas.okstate.edu/humanities/ @okstateCH @OkstateCAS @casresearchosu @okstate @OKStatePubHis @OkStateLibrary @historyclub_osu @OSUOKC @osutulsa #history #humanities

Focused on Non-violence and peace humanities, Dr. Griswold’s group presentation “No Justice, No Peace (in Oklahoma)” “emerged as the themes of war, violence, punishment, resistance, and campus activism slowly coalesced during the Fall 2023-Spring 2024 academic year.”

On Wednesday, Dr. Sarah Griswold and her co-fellows shared their proposals for their collaborative projects as part of the Center for the Humanities 2023-2024 Research Group Fellows presentations.

Use this link to find the schedule of open sessions, which begin at 9:00 a.m. in Wes Watkins Center, room 108. global.okstate.edu/globa.../ipgs/… @okstate @OkstateCAS @okstate_Global @OSUOKC @OkStateLibrary @casresearchosu @osutulsa @OKStatePubHis @historyclub_osu @OKStateSA

On Thurs., April 18 @OSUIranianStudy will welcome a dozen international experts from across the sciences and social sciences to Stillwater for a symposium on the State of the Environment in Iran. The first day of this symposium includes research presentations open to the public.

So excited to get together and see the exhibit on Pawnee Artists in WWII, which was developed with involvement by @OKState_History! #OKCHE

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“Disease movies serve as a form of truth telling, influencing popular ideas about disease and creating new myths about how to address disease... Disease history offers examples of how stories can create new realities."

Dr. Eisenberg recently co-authored this article in @jacobin magazine. It explores how disease history influences the depiction of disease and society in film, along with the disease genre's impact on society. jacobin.com/2024/03/pandem…