Kent State History Department

The Kent State History department stays busy in the summer! At the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era's inaugural conference held in Chicago, Professor Frantz talked about her research about the WCTU and police in Pittsburgh, PhD candidate Jacob Harver presented his research on Youngstown's Monkey's Nest, and PhD student April Platt presented her work on violence and women workers in Chicago.

What a historic semester! The Department of History applauds all of the great work done by undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty this semester. Congratulations to all graduating students, our scholarship winners, and faculty who have been given an extra day to grade due to the Canvas (learning management system) outage! We hope everyone has a great summer.

Monday, Professor Crawford's graduate class will present their primary source projects! Covering a wide range of topics, the History from Below course focuses on how common people and historically marginalized groups shaped history. Considering the question "who makes history?", the class learned about analyzing these histories and also doing their own primary source research with this lens.

🏡 From a history degree with a political science minor to a corporate career at Arhaus, Kent State alum Julia Ryan shows how skills from the humanities like research, communication and critical thinking can open doors in unexpected industries. Her journey underscores the value of staying true to your path, even if it takes you beyond what you first imagined.

Read more: https://www.kent.edu/cas/news/kent-state-alums-path-history-degree-corporate-career-arhaus

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Check out this feature on one of our hard-working and very accomplished History majors! Hannah completed her senior thesis last fall and is only weeks away from graduating.

https://www.kent.edu/today/news/flash-focus-hannah-fletcher-history-may-4-center?fbclid=IwY2xjawRNMJpleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFZZkhWcE42Vnh5bVBhMno0c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHjjNxqplq78ANdQ_fRUXDYDx9UOUDCW2KKktGEuZJe0i5gTU6ublik1fZvLX_aem_ZBeX9anGMru6QV8q9VzjBw

Flash Focus: History Major Hannah Fletcher | May 4 Visitors Center Meet Hannah Fletcher, a Kent State history major and Ravenna native who balances student life with her role at the May 4 Visitors Center.

Today! We are excited to host Dr. Ivan Kurilla, Historian of US-Russian relations and the US Civil War. This will surely be a very informative talk.

Please join us on Monday April 13th starting at 2:15pm for Revolutionary Ideas: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity!

Professor Starkey and her students will be giving short presentations highlighting ideals of the French Revolution, along with its connections to the American Revolution.

This is the second event of our four-part series commemorating the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence.

Refreshments and an exclusive sticker, created special for this event, will be available!

Awesome work by our PhD candidate Jacob Harver!

He would also like to talk with people who have connections to the neighborhood. Read more here: https://www.wkbn.com/news/local-news/youngstown-news/local-man-researching-youngstowns-historic-monkeys-nest-neighborhood/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_WKBN_27_Youngstown_OH

Meet Sarah Wojnarwsky, an Environmental Studies major with minors in Park Management and History. Sarah volunteers with the First Ladies National Historic Site and Cleveland Metroparks while pursuing her goal of working for the National Park Service to help protect and preserve parks for future generations.

After years in the workforce as a professional embroidery machine embroiderer, Sarah returned to college to follow her passion for nature and conservation.

“Nature has been incredibly therapeutic for me, and it helped me realize that working in parks is where I’m meant to be. I want to help protect and preserve these spaces so future generations can experience them too.”

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History alum Julia Ryan shares her perspective on the value of humanities education in a new alumni article.

“[My history degree] is how I look at the world and it’s how I compile, document and present information,” she said. “It has paid off in spades across the board. My current position is a little bit of everything, but a lot of it is highly detailed research—I am so thrilled to be able to do what I do every single day.”

Read the article here:

Kent State Alum’s Path from History Degree to Corporate Career at Arhaus | College of Arts & Sciences, Department of History Kent State University wasn’t just where alumna Julia Ryan went to school; it was part of her life growing up in Northeast Ohio with her father, Frank X.