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Chair's Note
 The 2022-2023 academic year is off to a great start, with Covid-rates low on campus (and relatively low across the country), in-person classes throughout the university, and more and more in-person gatherings that were typical in the “Before Times.” Moreover, it is a time of new beginnings. Under the new leadership of Julie Sullivan, SCU’s first lay and first woman president, many of us are looking forward to how we can collectively strengthen and improve the university. In the History Department, we are thrilled to welcome our newest faculty member, Dr. Mateo J. Carrillo, Assistant Professor of Latin American and Caribbean history (see below for more details).
Amy E. Randall, Professor and Department Chair, History Department, and Associate Director, Center for the Arts and Humanities
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Farewell
As noted in our last newsletter, the History Department mourns the loss of Tim O’Keefe, a much-beloved faculty member. We were heartened by the flood of condolence notes that came to the office and were forwarded to the (very grateful) O’Keefe family.
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Welcome to a New University President
The History Department was well represented when SCU inaugurated Julie Sullivan, our first lay person, and first woman, on October 7, 2022.
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Welcome Back to Mateo J. Carrillo
The Department is delighted to announce that Mateo J. Carrillo, a proud member of the History class of 2002, is our new Assistant Professor of Latin American and Caribbean history!
Learn more about this newest Double Bronco!
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Even Bucky can't resist reading Historical Perspectives, our department's multi-award-winning student journal.
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History Club
The student-run History Club organized a welcome back “Pizza with the Profs” in September. This event, which allows students and faculty to get to know each other outside the classroom, was well attended. Much pizza was consumed, and lively conversation ensued!
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Social Media Memes
Some of Professor Meg Gudgeirrson’s immense popularity with our students stems from her willingness to incorporate social media and other non-traditional forms of communication into her classes. Students in her class on the Cold War created memes, reviewed them, and placed them in the context of the course material. View three of the memes created by her students.
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The department is using some of the funds from our generous donors to create a new History Internship Program (HIP), paid summer internships for history students. This past summer three of our students gained invaluable experience interning with the Chinese Historical Society of America in San Francisco.
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Matthew Newsom Kerr's summer research in the UK was partly funded through a Hackworth Grant through SCU's Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.
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Michael Brillman's monograph Bengal Tiger, Celtic Tiger: Governing the Empire. Sir Antony MacDonnell, the Raj, and Irish Home Rule, published by Edward Everett Root, came out in July.
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Matthew Specter has been busy promoting his 2022 book The Atlantic Realists.
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Nancy Unger is featured in a six-minute “Office Hours” video produced by SCU as part of a YouTube series targeting high school juniors and seniors.
Following the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, Nancy’s “Made by History” post “The Supreme Court Letting States Mandate Morals Will End Badly,” was published in The Washington Post and widely syndicated.
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Dan Selmi '72
Law school, teaching at Loyola Marymount University, and a new book published.
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