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Announcement
The
History Department has won a million-dollar grant from the United
States Department of Education to train working teachers in the
subject of American history.
Our partners in the grant, "Inventing America: Creating
the Teacher/Scholar Community in the Santa Clara Valley," are
the Santa Clara County Office of Education and the Silicon Valley
History Online Project, a consortium of seven local archives
including Special Collections in the King Library.
"Inventing America" will extend into the academic
years 2006-07, 2007-08 and 2008-09. The department will
provide half the units of a masters degree in history to 35
teachers, professional development seminars for another 100
teachers, five American history guest lecturers at SJSU, book talks,
support for local History Day activities and an American history
symposium at SJSU in the summer of 2008.
Though many of these activities are reserved for teachers in the
field, teachers in training in the department are welcome to attend
many of these events, all of which are paid for by the grant.
Dr. Patricia Lopes Don, Academic
Advisor for "Inventing America," will keep all of our
students informed of these events through our regular email list and
occasional flyers.
Department
News
Graduation 2006
Over 200 guests were in attendance
at the 2006 History Department Graduation, where 22 B.A. and 8 M.A.
students were honored.
Charles B. Burdick Memorial Military History Symposium
Spring 2007 -
Faculty News
- Dr. George Vásquez became the new
College of Social Sciences Interim Associate Dean in July 2005.
- Dr.
Jonathan Roth became the new History Department chair in July
2005.
- Patricia
Lopes Don became the new History Department undergraduate
advisor in Fall 2005.
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Dr. Glen Gendzel joins the History
Department as an assistant professor, beginning Fall 2005
semester. Dr. Gendzel comes to us from the University of
Indiana-Purdue and specializes in the American West and California
History.
- Dr. Libra
Hilde joins the History Department as an assistant professor,
beginning Fall 2005 semester. Dr. Hilde joins SJSU after
teaching at Stanford University. She will teach courses in
19th century American History.
- Dr.
Allison Katsev joined the History Department in Spring 2005.
Dr. Katsev also teaches at Stanford University. She will be
teaching courses in Russian and European History.
- Dr. Bruce
Reynolds had two books published recently. In 2004, he edited Japan
in the Fascist Era, published by Palgrave Macmillian. Dr.
Reynolds wrote Thailand's Secret War: OSS, SOE and the Free
Thai Underground during World War II which was published by
Cambridge University Press in 2005.
- Dr.
Larry Engelmann's sixth book, Feather in the Storm: A Childhood
Lost in Chaos, is scheduled for release at the end of the year.
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