History Spotlight

Dr. Cameron Blevins, who was interviewed for UnHerd Article

Dr. Cameron Blevins gives insights on US Post history for UnHerd article - "How mailmen saved rural America"

Dec. 10, 2024

At the core of this social trust were institutions, like the Post Office, that for Blevins represent the veritable cartilage and guts of the nation. “The US Post,” he says, “is a model of what an effective government could be.” The Postal Service most certainly stayed close to the expanding...

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The National WW II Museum in Louisiana where Chandler Stark was appointed historian

History graduate, Chandler Stark, appointed the Gary Sinise Foundation Oral Historian

Chandler Stark, who graduated in 2022 with an MA from the History Department, has been appointed the Gary Sinise Foundation Oral Historian at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. As an MA student at CU Denver, Chandler focused on the histories of US Foreign Policy and the...

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Gabriel Finkelstein Lectures in Canada and France on the History of Medicine

Sept. 27, 2024

Last spring, Gabriel Finkelstein spoke at two foreign conferences. On March 15, 2024 he delivered the keynote address to the 33rd annual History of Medicine Days at the University of Calgary, where he also served as judge and committee chair. Then on May 31, 2024, he gave a talk titled...

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Public History Students Collaborate with East High School Museum Club

Sept. 26, 2024

In the past two years, students in Dr. Peter Kopp's museum studies and public history courses have collaborated with members of East High School's Museum Club (along with teacher Matt Fulford, a CU Denver alum) to catalog historical objects and curate a series of exhibits in the school's foyer. Graduate...

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Xiaofei Gao Named 2023 Luce/ACLS Early Career Fellow in China Studies

Aug. 30, 2023

Xiaofei Gao, Assistant Professor of History, has been awarded a 2023 Luce/ACLS Early Career Fellowship in China Studies . This program is made possible by a major grant from the Henry Luce Foundation , and is administered by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the leading representative of American...

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Award-Winning Northeast Asia Panel Featured Xiaofei Gao

April 27, 2023

Xiaofei Gao, an Assistant Profession in History, was on the panel, " Labor and Knowledge Production in Modern Northeast Asia ," which won the Hilary Conroy Award at the Association of Asian Studies (AAS) annual conference in Boston, March 16-19, 2023. This award recognizes academic excellence in AAS Annual Conference...

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Alum David Duffield Honored with the Eleanor Gehres Award

April 12, 2023

The Denver Public Library is honoring History alum David Duffield with the Eleanor Gehers Award for his outstanding work with the Western History and Genealogy Department for collecting archives as part of the Colorado LGBTQ project for The Center on Colfax. This partnership has added 28 collections to the Western...

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Gabriel Finkelstein Publishing on Claude Bernard

April 12, 2023

Associate Professor of History Gabriel Finkelstein’s essay "Paris or Berlin? Claude Bernard’s rivalry with Emil du Bois-Reymond" has been published in a special issue of History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences devoted to re-appraising Claude Bernard’s legacy. Finkelstein says, “I am honored to be the sole American scholar contributing...

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Student Michelle Rich Participated in Recent National Humanities Center Institute

March 2, 2023

Last Month Michelle Rich, Graduate student in History and Social Studies Teacher at East High School, had the opportunity to participate in the National Humanities Center’s More than a Slogan: Understanding the Historical Context of Black Lives Matter . This weeklong institute situated the Black Lives Matter movement in the...

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CLAS Faculty Proud Recipients of Recent NEH Grants

Feb. 2, 2023

Assistant Professor of History Rachel Gross, Clinical Associate Professor of History Cameron Blevins and Associate Professor of English Michelle Comstock all recently won a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant to pursue a digital walking tour and curriculum project related to Auraria's history. Recovering Auraria’s Past: Building a Digital...

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