Archive:News

• Environmental Historian Dagomar Degroot Looks to the Past to Navigate the Future of Climate Change

  For Degroot, the value of history lies in its ability to inform what comes next. Environmental history, in that sense, is about the future that is still being shaped.

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• The Power of History: Book Recommendations With History Professor Adam Rothman

  Rothman, who studies 19th-century U.S. history with a focus on the history of slavery and emancipation, shares the books that have shaped his understanding of the past and why they matter today.

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• Seaweed, Colonialism and a Fulbright Grant Bring Ph.D. Student to Japan’s Cultural Capital

  Now a Ph.D. candidate in history at Georgetown, Barkalow is spending a year immersed in Japanese language, history and culture through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.

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• The Hoya: Prof. Mustafa Aksakal Argues New Reasons for Ottoman Decline in New Book

  In “The War That Made the Middle East,” Mustafa Aksakal, a history and Turkish studies professor, argues the Ottoman Empire actually collapsed due to a mixture of external developments, including imperialist ambitions and the breakout of World War I.

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• Global Irish Studies Professor Wins Research Prize for Book on Irish History

  “We are proud to see Professor Gannon’s work recognized with the NUI Irish Historical Research Prize,” said Fr. David J. Collins, S.J., a professor and chair in the Department of History. “This award is particularly meaningful because it validates the global approach to history that we champion here at Georgetown.

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• Vatican-Affiliated Scholars Join Students in Dialogue About the Virgin Mary

  In Catholic teaching, the Virgin Mary is understood to bring people together under her “mantle,” guiding them toward Jesus. She is a bridge and a unifier. At the College of Arts & Sciences, Vanessa Corcoran, an advising dean and medieval historian, teaches the course, Mary Through the Ages, which examines the figure of Mary from interreligious and intercultural perspectives.

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• The Hoya: GU History Seminar Collaborates on Clara Barton Research with Historic Site

  Ten Georgetown University students are researching the life of American Red Cross founder Clara Barton in collaboration with a National Park Service site to bolster the content of the site’s exhibits and website content.

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• How Space Shapes Human History and Why the Future May Be in Asteroids

  GU’s Ask a Professor series digs into Prof. Dagomar Degroot’s new book to learn about the threats posed by cosmic events and discover Prof. Degroot’s vision of a human civilization settling in asteroid cities while preserving Earth’s climate.

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• History Professor Maurice Jackson Explores the ‘Rhythms of Resistance and Resilience’ in DC

  The athletes and musicians of Rhythms of Resistance and Resilience take complex ideas and apply them in ways that are understandable, and that’s “the most difficult thing to do,” said Jackson. Throughout the book and exhibit, Jackson hopes to do something similar.

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• The Hoya: Citizen Historians Document Smithsonian Fearing Censorship Efforts

  Two Georgetown University history professors are leading a group of volunteers to archive exhibits across the Smithsonian Institution in anticipation of federal directives that could alter or remove museum content.

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