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Chair of the History Department, Dr. Kevin Murphy shares his perspective on History:
In the NewsHistory Majors! Remember to submit your best papers to the Humanities Undergraduate Research Forum (HURF), to be held this spring. There are substantial CASH prizes for the winning papers! Contact Dr. Tim Kovalcik for details. Professor Kevin Murphy spent the spring 2008 semester at Webster University in Thailand with a group of twenty Millikin students. They returned in May, after excursions to Cambodia and Vietnam. At the end of the semester abroad, Dr. Murphy walked a good portion of the route of the Bataan Death March, and is now writing an article entitled, "Cruelty and Comity: The Bataan Death March Reconsidered." Dr. Tim Kovalcik will be taking a group of Millikin students to Eastern Europe on his second tour of Holocaust sites in May 2009. Dr. Keagle's course "The Jesus of History, the Christ of Faith" continues to be the single most popular elective at Millikin. In January, Dr. Keagle accompanies Louis Peralta of the Modern Language Department on an excursion to the Dominican Republic, where they will team teach a course on Dominican culture.
Dr. Tim Kovalcik's book, The Great Passion Play, was puiblished in April 2008. Dr. Dan Monroe has been awarded the Griswold Distinguished Professorship in History, and is writing his fourth book, a study of everyday life in the antebellum U.S. Lauren Vander Pluym, class of 2007 and currently in the University of Chicago's Master's Program in Social Sciences, was recently awarded a University iof Chicago fellowship/internship in human rights. Kate Schnake, class of 2007, has been admitted to John Marshall Law School in Chicago. Adam Stanley, class of 1998, received his Ph.D. in history from Purdue and teaches at the University of Wisconsin. His first book, Modernizing Tradition: Gender and Consumerism in Interwar France and Germany, was just published by the University of Louisiana Press! This website was prepared with financial assistance from a grant by the US Department of Education. However, its contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.
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