Student Achievements

Graduate Students

Department Assistantships

2008-2009

Teaching Assistants:
Ingrid Fernandez
Alex Jordan

Graduate Assistants:
Paul Chartrand
Matthew Diamond
Rick Ramos
Renee Waller

Research Assistants:
Bill Mack

2007-2008

Graduate Assistants:
Ingrid Fernandez
Alex Jordan

Publications

Ingrid Fernandez, "The Upper Amazonian Rubber Boom and Indigenous Rights, 1900-1925," in Proceedings of the Florida Conference of Historians, Vol. 15 (March 2008), pp. 51-63.
 
Donald K. Routh, Review of Enoch Callaway, Asylum: A Mid-Century Madhouse and Its Lessons For Our Mentally Ill, in Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, forthcoming

Donald K. Routh, with Irvin Winsboro, "Dr. Cyrus R. Teed of Chicago and the National Mind-Cure Movement," Journal of Illinois History, Vol. 11, no. 2 (Summer 2008), pp. 74-94

Conference Presentations

2008 Graduate Association for African-American History at the University of Memphis:

Ingrid Fernandez, "Amy Jacques Garvey and Caribbean Feminism"

2008 Florida Conference of Historians Annual Conference:

Ingrid Fernandez, "Evita Peron as an Icon of Nationalism"

Ian Morris, "The Axemakers Gift: Women Scientists, the Manhattan Project  and the Gendered Dynamics of Nationalism"

Don Routh, "How German-Americans Lost Their Hyphen: American Nationalism and World War One"

David Seurkamp, "Nationalism and the Space Race"

 

Undergraduate Students

Conference Presentations

2008 Florida Conference of Historians Annual Conference:

Rick Ramos, "The Slave Ships: Deadly to Slaves and Sailors Alike"

2007 Florida Conference of Historians Annual Conference:

Ingrid Fernandez, "The Upper Amazonian Rubber Boom and Indigenous Rights, 1900-1925"
Rick Ramos, "The Cigar Factory Lector: Educator, Reporter, Entertainer and Revolutionary"

2004 American Historical Association Annual Conference:

Tammy Bosnojian, Michael Kilts, and Cristina Scoone, "Roundtable: Online History, The Students' Perspective"

2004 New College Medieval and Renaissance Conference:

Monica Piotter, "Escapist Erudition: Offensive and Defensive Uses of the Pursuit of Learning in the Life of Elizabeth I"

2004 Southeast Regional Conference of the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference:

Monica Piotter, "'Some Unseen Power': Observations of Hinduism in the Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley"

2003 Society for Utopian Studies Annual Conference:

Monica Piotter, "The Alien Leader in the Utopian Literature of the English Civil War: Examining Paradise Lost and The Blazing World."

2003 New England Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference:

Monica Piotter, "Indian Influences in the Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley"

Scholarships

Caloosahatchee Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Scholarship

- The recipients must be nontraditional students who are American History majors in pursuit of degrees or those finalizing a degree in the subject of American History. (Nontraditional students are defined as those who have been away from the academic environment for an extended period of time.)
- The donor and principal instructor of the History Department will be consulted before scholarships from this fund are awarded by the Scholarship Committee.

Recipients:

2008-2009
Teri Crowley

2007-2008
Edward J. Pagliarello

2006-2007
Ingrid Fernandez

Other

Story in the Port Charlotte Sun-Herald on FGCU Student Richard McManus (June 19, 2005):

http://www.sun-herald.com/newsarchive2/061905/ch10.htm