Student Research

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Fall 2019 Undergraduate Honors Recipients

April 20, 2020

Every semester the History Department is proud to support its students in their academic pursuits and celebrate with them when they reach the end of the BA program. In the Fall 2019 several students graduated with honors and exemplified the traits of professional historians with their Senior Seminar papers. The...

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History Students and the Historical Studies Journal

April 13, 2020

Each year the History Department is proud to support its students and their research through the Historical Studies Journal . Our faculty review assignment submissions each semester and choose outstanding papers based on the papers’ arguments and content. Th journal is published at the end of each term. The History...

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Streetcars and Student Teaching

March 23, 2020

Each semester the History Department is proud to support students as they work on diverse projects, both in and outside the university classroom. Harrison Sokol, a History major, is currently working toward earning his Secondary Social Science License. This semester Sokol worked with North High School, a public school in...

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Wakashu, the 3rd Gender in Endo Period Japan

Nick Ota-Wang Presents on Wakashu, a 3rd Gender in Edo Period Japan, at Inaugural Queer History Conference

April 16, 2019

Nick Ota-Wang, MA student, was recently accepted to be part of a panel at the inaugural Queer History Conference in San Francisco from June 16-18, 2019 at San Francisco State University. The panel is entitled “Phase, Folly or Felony? Sex between Men and Youths in Australia, Japan, Ireland, and Italy.”...

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Saving Spaces Conference 2019, Shelby Carr '19

April 9, 2019

Shelby Carr, MA student, presented her research on the Crawford Hill Mansion at the Saving Places Conference in Denver this February. The Saving Spaces Conference held in Denver February 4th-7th focused on topics of historic preservation and community representation. A panel of CU Denver Graduates Students, under the mentorship of...

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