Larissa Fergeson

Dr. Larissa Fergeson presented a paper at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History entitled “To Tell the Truth(s): Interpreting Civil Rights History in Prince Edward County.”  The topic of the paper panel was “Why Not 1951?: Rethinking Civil Rights Anniversaries” and also included Caroline Emmons, Associate Professor […]

William Holliday

Dr. William Holliday received a Longwood University Faculty Research Grant for summer 2011. He used this award to support a project investigating the complex commodity chains that were created between the producers and consumers of Valencian silk in the early modern era, with an emphasis on consumers in Spain’s American colonies. The research was carried […]

Phillip Cantrell

Phil Cantrell, the department’s specialist in Africa and Asian History, presented a paper titled “Teaching Issues in World History thru Service-Learning in Africa” at the 20th Annual World History Association at Capital Normal University in Beijing, China, July 7-10, 2011. As a part of the conference, Prof. Cantrell engaged in historical and cultural activities around Beijing and […]

Steven Isaac

Steven Isaac has been invited by the Association “AQUAREL: Les Louvrais” and the city of Pontoise, France, on October 10, 2011 to give a presentation titled “Robin des Bois: Légende Médiévale/Icône Américaine” (“Robin Hood: Medieval Legend/American Icon”). The talk will present the myth of the outlaw in the Middle Ages and in modern times particularly […]

Steven Isaac

On Sunday, 14 November, at the North American Conference on British Studies in Baltimore, Steven Issac presented a paper, “The Role of Urban Forces in Plantagenet Warfare, 1140—1216” as part of a panel on Aspects of Medieval Warfare.  The commentator, Prof. Richard Abels, was impressed by Steven’s contention that as early as the twelfth century, […]

Melissa Yeager

Melissa Yeager chaired and commented on a panel at the North American Conference on British Studies this month, entitled ‘Britain and the Mediterranean since 1945’. She is also co-editing a book, Melissa Yeager and Charles Carter, Pacts and Alliances in History: Diplomatic Strategy and the Politics of Coalitions, I.B. Taurus, 2011, with a contracted delivery […]

Phillip Cantrell

Phil Cantrell presented a paper at the American Historical Association’s Annual Meeting in Boston in January, 2011 titled “‘We Were a Chosen People’: The African Revivalist Tradition among the Tutsi Refugees in Uganda”  He also has seven short biographies appearing on Rwandan historical figures in the forthcoming Dictionary of African Biography, by Oxford University Press.