SMU NEWS Originally Posted: April 19, 2016 DALLAS (SMU) – When SMU’s Center for Presidential History (CPH) arrived on campus in 2012, Founding Director Jeffrey Engel had great expectations for bringing to life – and to Dallas – the detailed history of America’s chief executives. In less than four years, CPH has become a hub […]
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Congratulations to the Dedman College faculty and students who were recognized at the 2016 Awards Extravaganza on Monday, April 18. Recipients of the Outstanding Professor Awards presented by the Rotunda yearbook include: • B. Sunday Eiselt, associate professor and director of undergraduate studies, Department of Anthropology • Laurence Winnie, senior lecturer and director of undergraduate studies, […]
The Australian Broadcasting Network Originally Posted: March 28, 2016 The following is from the March 29, 2016, edition of The Australian Broadcasting Network. SMU History Professor Neil Foley provided expertise for this story. Donald Trump has some seemingly simple strategies to stop many Mexicans migrating to the US, but the relationship between the two North […]
SMU Department of History professors John Chavez and Neil Foley were invited to participate in ‘Envisioning American Studies, A Conference in Honor of American Culture’s 80th Year at Michigan.’ Recipients of Ph.D.’s from that interdisciplinary program, both professors were feted as significant alumni and asked to impart their wisdom to current students, fellow alumni, former mentors, old friends, as well as […]
Professor Edward Countryman, Department of History University Distinguished Professor a) Gave one of the plenary keynote addresses to the annual meeting of the Consortium on the Age of Revolutions 1750-1850, which met this year at Louisiana State University, Shreveport, February 25-27, 2016 The topic of his address was “The First American Civil War.” b) He […]
Fox 4 Originally Posted: March 16, 2016 Reaction to SCOTUS nominee Garland Two SMU professors discuss the nominee and the politics of a nomination in an election year. WATCH
SMU’s William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, in partnership with the Instituto Mora of Mexico City, will host a public forum on the history of violence along the U.S.-Mexico border, at 2:30 pm on Latino Cultural Center in Dallas on April 16, 2016. READ MORE
SMU NEWS DALLAS (SMU) — R. Hal Williams was a master teacher who inspired generations of SMU students as a professor and chair of the University’s Department of History. He served as an academic leader as dean of Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences and later as dean of research and graduate studies. He died […]
SMU News Originally Posted: February 16, 2016 DALLAS (SMU) – Jeffrey Engel, director of the Center for Presidential History at SMU, says just as the Senate has the right to block President Obama’s nominee to replace the late Antonin Scalia, Congress has the right to alter the number of sitting justices. But a presidential decision […]