The Medieval Institute, located on the seventh floor of the Hesburgh Library, is a scholarly and academic unit of the University that promotes research and teaching on the cultures, languages, and religions of the medieval period (from roughly the fifth through 15th centuries). Its faculty come from more than a dozen different departments in the College of Arts and Letters
Read moreHip-hop and boxing are not just entertainment for Notre Dame’s two new Moreau Academic Diversity Postdoctoral Fellows, Brian Su-Jen Chung and Jesse Costantino; they’re fertile ground for academic research. Chung, in the American studies department, and Costantino, in English, joined the College of Arts and Letters in fall 2011 as part of a University effort to enhance cultural awareness and diversity within the campus community.
Read moreJulia Douthwaite, professor of French in Notre Dame’s Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, is organizing a series of events to honor Swiss philosopher and writer Jean–Jacques Rousseau’s 300th birthday and stimulate a cross–disciplinary discussion on social justice and human dignity. The project, called Rousseau 2012: On the Road to DIGNITY, will be part of the curriculum for more than a dozen courses throughout the College of Arts and Letters and the Law School and will feature both guest lectures and an Amnesty International photography exhibit on poverty and human rights that includes portraits from Mexico, Egypt, Nigeria, India, and Macedonia.
Read moreFormer chair of the Department of History at the University of Notre Dame, Thomas F.X. Noble, has been elected vice president of the American Catholic Historical Association (ACHA) in 2011 and will become its president in 2012. Noble is a professor of history and former director of the Medieval Institute in the College of Arts and Letters.
Felipe Fernández-Armesto, William P. Reynolds Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, has been appointed the 2011 Cátedra Hispano-Británica Reina Victoria Eugenia at the Complutense University of Madrid.
Thomas F.X. Noble, professor and chair in the Department of History, has been selected to receive the 2011 Sheedy Excellence in Teaching Award. “Tom Noble is an unusually worthy recipient of the Sheedy award,” says John T. McGreevy, I.A. O’Shaughnessy Dean of the College of Arts and Letters.
Undergraduates interested in the History Club or Exploring History, please check out our Exploring History Page or stop by the Department to see Dr Graff for more information.
Darren Dochuk, Ph.D. '05 has published a new book with Norton. From Bible Belt to Sun Belt tells the dramatic and largely unknown story of “plain-folk” religious migrants: hardworking men and women from Oklahoma, Texas, and Arkansas who fled the Depression and came to California for military jobs during World War II.
The Department also welcomes the newest members of the Department, Dr. Paul Ocobock and Dr Rebecca McKenna!
Congratulations to Fr. Wilson Miscamble on the recent publication of his latest book, The Most Controversial Decision: Truman, the Atomic Bombs, and the Defeat of Japan, published April 11th, 2011.
Welcome to the incoming Chair, Dr Patrick Griffin. The Department is looking forward to its new leadership, though it will miss the outgoing Chair, Dr Thomas Noble. Good luck to Dr Griffin in his new position, and good luck to Dr Noble as he continues his research on leave.
