About the Student Research Series

In the spring of 2002, the Department's graduate students in conjunction with Georgetown's chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, the history honor society, held the first sessions of the annual Student Research Series. The Series, modeled on the Department's faculty seminars, is a collection of presentations of current research by graduate and undergraduate students in history. All graduate and undergraduate students in the Department are invited to attend the sessions of the Series. The presenters make their papers available in advance for participants to read; the presenters begin with a brief introduction of their work, and the remainder of the time is spent in scholarly discussion of the paper. Light refreshments are also provided.

The series grew out of the Department's 2001 Self Study, which identified graduate intellectual life as one of the many issues facing graduate education in the department. In an effort to help provide opportunities for enhancing graduate intellectual life, improve graduate involvement in Phi Alpha Theta, and promote the discipline among undergraduates, the Student Research Series was born. Each semester dozens participate in this scholarly exchange and enhance dissertations, senior theses, and the community of scholars that comprises the History Department.

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Congratulations to 2004 Ph.D. graduates James Class and Michael Coventry, who presented at the first two sessions of the Student Research Series in 2002, and Tracy Nichols Busch, who presented at one of the fall 2003 sessions. Congratulations also to 2004 B.A. graduate Kate Genry Henningsen, who presented at our spring 2004 session and who will be studying at Oxford on a Joseph L. Allbritton Scholarship.

 

Past Sessions:

• Spring 2002
• Spring 2003
• Fall 2003 & Spring 2004

For more information about the Series or to volunteer to present at an upcoming session, contact Phi Alpha Theta Advisor Prof. Horvath-Peterson.