Author: Melina Downs

McClurken Presents Digital Humanities Workshop and Plenary at Kansas State

Jeffrey McClurken, Professor of History and American Studies and Special Assistant to the Provost, presented at the Kansas State Digital Humanities Symposium, “Exploring the Digital Medium,” on Feb. 27-28.On Feb. 27 he led a workshop, “Integrating Digital Humanities in Pedagogy: Choosing Courses, Learning Objectives and Tools,” and on Feb. 28, he presented the opening plenary, […]

James Monroe Museum Presents Women’s History Month Lecture

Thursday, March 12: Third Annual Women’s History Month Lecture: “Never Caught: The President’s Runaway Slave Woman”A talk by Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Associate Professor of Black American Studies & History at the University of Delaware, on the fascinating life of Ona Judge Staines – former slave to George and Martha Washington – who took her freedom […]

Parking During Spring Break

The following message is from Parking Management: Greetings Campus Community,In anticipation of the upcoming Spring Break schedule, and with the possibility of inclement weather during the break, we ask that all vehicles left on campus unattended follow standard UMW rules for inclement weather.ALL unattended vehicles during Spring Break may be parked in any of the following locations:-Alvey […]

Hanna’s Edited Volume Published

Steve Hanna, professor of Geography, is the lead editor of a recently published book: Social Memory and Heritage Tourism Methodologies.  A part of Routledge’s Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility Series, this volume’s chapters demonstrate methodological innovations for analyzing the process and politics of remembering and touring the past through place. Hanna also co-wrote one of the book’s chapters on using […]