Announcement

         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.
  
• 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.