Spring 2006

James Marten

Welcome to the Spring 2006 issue of Timeline, the History Department Newsletter! As you’ll find in the following articles that we’ve had a busy year since our last newsletter: there have been the usual comings and goings of faculty and graduate students, the publication of several books by members of the department, and the addition of two more tenure-line faculty members, Irene Guenther (our new German historian) and Michael Donoghue (whose research and teaching deals with US Foreign Relations and Latin America).

 

Among the topics you’ll find in this issue are:

• Athan Theoharis, who has been a faculty member since 1969. This is his last semester at MU, as he retires in May 2006
• ways in which alumni and friends of the department have helped through donations to several programs
• an update on the new public history minor and on the programs John Krugler, Lezlie Knox, and Dan Meissner have offered in relation to it
• news from Phi Alpha Theta, the history honor society
• congratulations to Professors Steve Avella and Alan Ball, who both won promotion to full professor
• a report of our softball successes against cross-town rival UWM.

 

There’s much more, and I hope you enjoy our effort to keep in touch with you. Please feel free to pass the website address along to friends and classmates; we obtained email addresses from the Alumni Relations office, so only history grads with up-to-date files received the email linking alumni to this newsletter. With your help, we can reach even more former students. In the meantime, check out the history department website http://www.marquette.edu/history/.

If you are a former undergraduate or graduate student and have something you’d like to share in the next newsletter, please contact Dan Meissner at daniel.meissner@marquette.edu.