Fall 2024 Graduate History Newsletter
Conference Presentations
Dr. Karen Holland presented a paper entitled “The Besieged Women of Londonderry in John Michelborne’s Ireland Preserv’d; or the Siege of Londonderry” at the 12th annual Tudor and Stuart Ireland interdisciplinary conference at the University of Galway, Galway, Ireland.
Dr. Edward Andrews presented a paper entitled: “Newport Gardner: An African Voice in Early New England,” at the Slave Dwelling Project Conference this October in Philadelphia, hosted by the Museum of the American Revolution and supported by the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, among others.
Publications
Dr. Guolin Yi’s chapter “From ‘Seven Speak-Nots’ to ‘Media Surnamed Party’: Media in China from 2012 to 2022” has been published in “China Under Xi Jinping: A New Assessment.”
Fr. David Orique was an editor of “The Dominicans in the Americas and the Philippines (c. 1500–c. 1820) Devotional Life, Catholic Literary Culture, and Models of Holiness.”
Dr. Karen Holland’s article entitled “The Politics of Attire: The Sidneys’ Elizabethan Gift Exchanges 1559, 1568, and 1579” will appear in the forthcoming issue of the Sidney Journal, vol. 42.2.
Curriculum Development
Dr. Alex Orquiza contributed to a curriculum development for the Choices Program through the Brown University Department of History. They make teaching modules for high school and higher education on topics oftentimes missing in American history curriculum. He contributed pieces on Asian American Studies, as well as race and ethnicity in American immigration history.
Student News
Providence College recently wrote an article on two Graduate History Students, Jacqueline Michels and Robert Smith-MacDonald. Michels and Smith-Macdonald are the most recent students to receive the prestigious James Madison Fellowship.
Connor Tully will be heading to Albuquerque, New Mexico in February to present at the Southwest Popular American Culture Association (SWPACA) conference, on the role of comic books as a form of propaganda during the Second World War.
James Kelly ‘22 began his PhD at the University of Arkansas as a Doctoral Academy Fellow.
