Prof. Mary Jane Maxwell guest edits
From the GMC Journal
Week of February 25, 2013
Prof. Mary Jane Maxwell (history) is the guest editor for a forum on “Travel and Travelers in World History” for the peer-reviewed journal, World History Connected vol. 10 issue 1 (February 2013). She will also be guest editor for the journal in June, 2013 for issue 2. Read her introduction to the publication’s online forum here. Maxwell also serves as book review editor for this journal. Her new book Women and Mysticism in World History, 800-1200: An Era of Divine Love (M.E. Sharpe) will appear in Spring 2014.
Students Explore Morocco during Winter Break
From GMC Journal
Week of February 11, 2013
Over winter break December 27-January 11, a handful of prof. Mary Jane Maxwell’s history students escaped the biting cold of Vermont to warm, distant Morocco to experience first-hand the culture and history they had explored together in the classroom. Led by prof. Maxwell and adjunct history prof. Andrew Duffin, students in the class titled Morocco: Arab, European, and Berber Fusion traveled the breadth of the northern African country, including its dense cities, high mountains and the remote Sahara desert. Read more...
Prof. Mary Jane Presents Paper at Conference
From the GMC Journal
Week of April 30, 2012
Prof. Mary Jane Maxwell (history, religious studies) recently presented her paper, “Spiritual Constructs: Challenges to Conventional Paradigms” at the New England Historical Association conference in Nashua, N.H. on April 21.
GMC Students Present Their Senior Thesis at the Vermont Academy of Arts
From the GMC Journal
Week of April 16, 2012
Students Shai O'Rourke, Kevin Lindstrom and Clara Walsh presented their senior history theses at the Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences 2012 Intercollegiate Student Symposium at Marlboro College in Southern Vermont.
Morocco Travel Course
From the GMC Journal
Week of April 16, 2012
Interested in traveling to and studying in Morocco next year? Join Mary Jane Maxwell for an information session Wednesday, April 18 and Sunday, April 22 at 6 p.m. in the Dickgeisser room in the basement of Griswold library.
Shai O’Rourke ’13 and Mary Jane Maxwell Presents at Conference
On November 5, Shai O’Rourke ’13 and prof. Mary Jane Maxwell (history) presented a conference paper at the New England Regional World History Association in Salem, Mass. Their paper, “Spiritual Constructs: Making Sense of Female Mystics in a Global Era of Divine Love,” included contributions from Shai’s URA research for prof. Maxwell, as well as a continuation of Maxwell’s research which she presented in Beijing over the summer at the World History Association.
Walsh and Maxwell Published in The Middle Ground
From the GMC Journal
Week of September 12, 2011
Last October in Eugene, Ore., Clara Walsh ‘12 made a presentation on the development of art and architectural traditions in the Islamic world at the Seventh Northwest World History Association Conference. The presentation was based on an article Clara co-wrote with assistant professor Mary Jane Maxwell (history) “Teaching Early Islamic Art and Architecture: A Model of Cultural Exchange.” Now the article has been published in the world history peer-reviewed journal The Middle Ground (Number 3, Fall 2011). See the article here.
Williams Gives Talk in St. Louis, Missouri
From the GMC Journal
Week of April 26, 2010
Prof. Tom Williams (history) gave a paper April 1 at the American Cultural Association’s national conference in St. Louis, Missouri. The paper was titled “The American Civil War and the Shaping of Shanghai.”
History Professor Hosts Faculty Colloquium
From the GMC Journal
Week of March 22, 2010
On March 24, Prof. Andrew Duffin (history) hosts the third presentation in this spring’s GMC Faculty Colloquium Series. His talk, titled “Paradise Lost? Nature’s Economy & the Modern West,” begins at noon in Terrace 124. He will focus on the question of environment and history in two distinct regions of the American West: the Palouse region of Washington and Idaho, and the Yaak Valley in northwestern Montana. In each, the commodification of nature has resulted in a dramatic alteration of the landscape. Andrew explores the extent to which these unique landscapes have been lost, and the steps that have been taken to restore them.
Wildlands & Woodlands the Focus of Upcoming Talk
From the GMC Journal
Week of February 8, 2010
Brian Donahue, associate professor of American Environmental Studies at Brandeis University, will present a lecture titled "Wildlands, Woodlands, and Farmlands: Natural Infrastructure and Sustainability in New England" on February 16 at 7 p.m. in The Gorge. Donahue is an award-winning environmental history scholar, earning the George Perkins Marsh Prize for the Best Book in Environmental History for his 2004 work, The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord. He is also the author of Reclaiming the Commons: Community Farms and Forests in a New England Town. His talk is sponsored by the GMC Family Farm Forum and the history program.
