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Welcome to the History Department at Furman University!
Department News:
Congratulations to History Department Faculty!
Dr. Monica Black, for being awarded a summer stipend by the National Endowment for the Humanities supporting her research in Germany, Austria, and the United Kingdom on folklorist Alfred Karasek.
Dr. Lloyd Benson, he has won the South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities Excellence in Teaching Award for his outstanding work in engaged learning and pedagogical innovation.
Dr. Courtney Tollison. Dr. Tollison has won a Fulbright that will enable her to travel to Ukraine to teach next spring.
Congratulations to the following History majors:
Phi Beta Kappa elections: Abigail, Eisener, Lauren Farrar, Margaret Granbery, Josh King, Elizabeth Lott, Claire McCoy, Marguerite Moeller, Rachel Pope, Brandon Reeser, Mary Stokes.
Endel Memorial History Prize (1937): Stephen Ramey
Gilpatrick History Prize (1937): Marguerite Moeller
Daughters of the American Revolution Prize in American History (1937): Margaret Granbery
Alumni Award for Academic Excellence (2003): Josh King, Elizabeth Lott, Katherine Ely
Beginning with the 2005-2006 academic year, the History Department found itself housed in the newly renovated Furman Hall. We have enjoyed our spacious and elegant suite that was constructed according to our specifications. It is a pleasure to entertain students and colleagues in. We are also pleased with our new classrooms and their technological capabilities. We believe that we are an especially strong teaching and research department. Over the years, our faculty have won more university-wide teaching awards than any other department on campus. We regularly sponsor a number of foreign study trips, including ones to China, England, South Africa, Central America, the Baltics,
and the Mediterranean. We also host a departmental internship program that appeals to students who are interested in public history and who wish to work in Greenville's new Upstate History Museum. Many of our professors are publishing scholars who have expertise in such diverse realms as Italian Immigrant women, Anglo-Norman cathedral clergy, German poor relief, death in twentieth century Berlin, environmental history, and the Civil War era. Others write about women's higher education, revolutions in Modern Latin America, or gender in East Asia. We are proud of our accomplishments and look with excitement to the future. Look us over. You will be glad that you did.
~Marian E. Strobel, Department Chair
Pictured above: Turn of the century stained glass recovered from the Judson Alumni Hall on Furman's former campus. The piece now hangs in the History Department suite in Furman Hall.
