Editor’s Note: The CSU History Club is a vibrant part of our department community. These dedicated students’ enthusiasm for studying the past is contagious, and they are always ready to lend a helping hand. Senior Kelsey Sagraves, CSU History Club president, reflects here on their founding year. Cleveland State’s History Club is a newly recognized student organization. The Club started […]
History Club: Year in Review
Summer Advising Notes
Attention History & Social Studies Majors As we begin summer classes please note the following for summer advising questions: 1. Dr. Tom Humphrey (tom.humphrey@csuohio.edu), Chair of the History Department is the main contact for major advising over the summer. For advising beginning in Fall 2020, please contact Dr. Laura Wertheimer (l.wertheimer@csuohio.edu) or, for Social Studies, Dr Shelley Rose (shelley.rose@csuohio.edu). 2. […]
Professor Jeanette Eckman Tuve Scholarship
Professor Jeanette Eckman Tuve taught in the History Department from 1965 until 1984. She began her career as an educator teaching high school, and then moved to the university level, earning her doctorate at age 55. Her final book (of four) was published when she was 81. Her work focused on women across a range of experiences. She wrote a book on […]
Faculty Feature: Professor Cory’s Fulbright Fellowship in Jordan
Editor’s Note: The following is a socially distanced interview with Dr. Stephen Cory, who recently returned months early from Jordan, where he was teaching on a Fulbright fellowship until the pandemic forced a sudden departure. Mark Souther: What plans did have for your trip to Jordan this year? Stephen Cory: I went to Amman, Jordan, in late August 2019 on […]
Leon C. Soulé Award
Prof. Leon Soulé taught in the History Department for many years, starting in the 1960s and retiring in the late eighties. He was known as an outstanding teacher and scholar. Indeed, as a teacher he was inspiring, and a number of his students were motivated by his teaching to get their Ph.D. and become professors themselves. These scholarships commemorate Prof. Soulé and his contributions […]
The Center for the Study of Religion and Spirituality in African and the African Diaspora (RASHAD) Award
The History Department is pleased to offer a scholarship provided by the Center for the Study of Religion and Spirituality in African and the African Diaspora, or RASHAD, which was founded by Dr. Regennia Williams in 2006 and funded generously in part by the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. Before becoming an assistant professor in the History Department at Cleveland […]
