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Department News
Graduation 2010
Over 150 guests were in attendance at the 2010 History Department Graduation, where 41 B.A. and 14 M.A. students were honored.
2010 Phi Alpha Theta Northern California Regional Conference
SJSU's Beta Lambda chapter of Phi Alpha Theta hosted the Northern California Regional Conference on April 23rd and 24th, welcoming almost 100 honor students and their faculty advisors to San Jose to hear 39 student papers. The conference began with a Friday night reception and featured Stanford University's Dr. Barton Bernstein at the luncheon on Saturday.
Teaching American History Grants
Together with its partners in area schools, the SJSU Department of History was awarded three Teaching American History grants from the U.S. Department of Education that began during Academic Year 2009-2010. One involves elementary teachers from San Jose's Berryessa, Oak Grove, and Evergreen districts and another high school teachers from the city's East Side Union High School district. A third Teaching American History grant was awarded to a partnership between the Department of History and four districts that constitute the Central Coast American History Consortium.
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Faculty News
Dr. Robert D. Kumamoto and Dr. Stanley Underdal are retiring this spring--both after 25 years of service.
Dr. Glen Gendzel has been awarded tenure and promoted to associate professor.
Cambridge University Press published the 2nd and 3rd volumes of Dr. Mary Pickering's three-volume Auguste Comte: An Intellectual Biography in the fall of 2009. The work was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography. In April, Dr. Pickering received the Austen D. Warburton Award of Merit, the highest honor given by SJSU's College of Social Sciences.
Also from Cambridge University Press—
Dr. Jonathan P. Roth's Roman Warfare, which surveys the history of Rome's fighting forces from their inception in the 7th century BCE to the fall of the Western Empire in the 5th century CE (2009) and a new paperback edition of Dr. E. Bruce Reynolds's Thailand's Secret War: OSS, SOE and the Free Thai Underground during World War II (2010).
And new in 2010 from the University of Oklahoma Press—
Dr. Patricia Lopes Don's Bonfires of Culture: Franciscans, Indigenous Leaders, and the Inquisition in Early Mexico, 1524-1540.
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