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Professor Rachel Gross published her first book this spring, Shopping All the Way to the Woods: How the Outdoor Industry Sold Nature to America, a Yale University Press publication. Congratulations! This achievement is the culmination of 13 years of research, writing, and tireless effort on Professor Gross’s part. The book...

Chris Agee Dr. Agee presented a panel Paper titled “Police Survival and Police Union Organizing in Philadelphia and Houston, 1970-1988” at the Urban History Association Conference. His paper discussed how a union leaders during the 1970s and 1980s began promoting a “survival ideology”: the notion that police officers should always...

The History Department congratulates Professor Dale Stahl on his recently-awarded tenure and promotion to Associate Professor. The CU Board of Regents awarded Professor Stahl on April 15, 2024, a wonderful culmination of his years of study and dedication. Professor Stahl’s areas of expertise include Environmental History & Middle Eastern and...

The history department is thrilled to recognize Brianna Matson for her outstanding achievement in winning the CU Denver Graduate Student Leadership and Service Award. This award is bestowed upon students who demonstrate exceptional leadership and service, both within and beyond the university. Brianna's nomination by the director of graduate students,...

Always striving to enhance his students' educational experience, Matthew Fulford earned his MA in history at CU Denver in order to bring CU Denver Succeed classes, a program that allows students to take college-level transferable courses, to his students at Denver East High School. Throughout the MA program, Matthew was...

This spring, CU Denver students helped the Black American West Museum and Heritage Center (BAWMHC) take a major step toward accreditation. As part of Professor Bill Wagner’s Management of Material Culture and Museum Collections class, twenty-two undergraduates and graduate students created a digital catalog of more than 1,400 items—roughly three-quarters...

Dear Alumni, Students, Colleagues, and Friends, I hope all of you are enjoying a wonderful start to the summer. Over the past academic year of 2023-2024, our department has seen great accomplishments and successes. From our critically acclaimed research to an acknowledgement from the university of our department’s student community,...

The History Department is thrilled to congratulate Professors Rachel Gross and Cameron Blevins foron winning a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for their project “Recovering Auraria’s Past: Building a Digital Tour of a Displaced Neighborhood and Reckoning with Campus History.” They will be co-PIs on the...

CU Denver alumnus Shawn Trenell O’Neal earned his Ph.D. in Critical Ethnic Studies from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2022 and has remained to teach in the Ethnic Studies Department. Despite these achievements in higher education, Dr. O’Neal did not always plan on a career in academia. Before he...

The History Department is excited to welcome Dr. Steven Vose to the faculty as a visiting assistant professor. Dr. Vose holds the Bhagwan Suparshvanatha Endowed Professorship in Jain Studies. As a historian of South Asia, Dr. Vose specializes in politics, religion, and culture of the late medieval or Islamicate era...