Organizations
The Tom Fiddick Lecture Series
This lecture series has been instituted in grateful memory of our distinguished colleague Professor Tom Fiddick who sadly passed away on April 28, 2002. Tom Fiddick made huge contributions to the life of the University of Evansville over his decades of service here, and he is hugely missed. His learning, passion, commitment and humor made him an extremely gifted teacher and historian, and he will never be forgotten by those of us who had the privilege of working with him.
The lecture is to be given by historians or those in fields closely related to history. The primary focus of each lecture will be a topic related to such themes as social justice, free inquiry, history of the arts (music especially), or Russian history. While most scholars should be professional historians affiliated with university history departments, those in related fields might be occasionally asked to participate. Historians and other scholars working outside academia would also be eligible. The lectures should be on topic of substantial work, closely related to the area of the scholar’s most recent research interest and likely to be eventually published, either as a portion of a book or an article in a scholarly journal.
It is our hope that this annual lecture will attract academics of the highest quality and that it will simultaneously mark the quality of UE History while celebrating the life and legacy of Tom.
The Inaugural Tom Fiddick Lecture was delivered on Friday February 21, 2003 by Professor Dick Werking, a highly-distinguished alumnus of the History Department and currently Head Librarian at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. His lecture was very well received by a standing-room only audience in the Koch Center.
Subsequent lectures have been delivered by
Roger Beck
Walter LaFeber
Herb Ziegler
Louis Clark
Donald Clark
Undergraduate Research
In addition to challenging course work the Department of History also offers students opportunities to pursue independent research and helps students identify venues for presenting their research results at conferences aimed at undergraduate scholars. Through the University’s Undergraduate Research Program (http://www2.evansville.edu/undergraduateresearch/) students can submit proposals for research conducted independently or in collaboration with members of the faculty. The UGR provides funding support for projects both during the school year and during the summer.
As part of the department’s commitment to undergraduate research, opportunities for research presentation (e.g. completed as part of course work) at various regional and national conferences. In recent years, UE History students have presented their work at the Butler Undergraduate Research Conference, Novae et Antiquus at Ball State University, and the Southwest Medieval and Renaissance Conference at the University of Wisconsin in addition to several regional conference of the Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society.
PHI ALPHA THETA NATIONAL HISTORY HONOR SOCIETY
The University of Evansville is home to the Alpha Delta Eta Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta. Founded in 1921, Phi Alpha Theta encourages and recognizes excellence in the field of history by college and university history majors. Phi Alpha Theta is a professional society that promotes the study of History through research, teaching, and publication among historians. It seeks to bring students, teachers, and writers of History together, both intellectually and socially, and it encourages and assists in a variety of ways, historical research and publication by its members.
The Alpha Delta Eta chapter identifies eligible students each Spring and invites those who qualify to join its society
The Society of History Scholars
The Society of History Scholars is designed to be an opportunity for all of the members of the Department to get to know one another in a variety of settings outside of the classroom. While faculty are available for advice, the Society is run entirely by students and all the office bearers are students. We sometimes pretend that it is a very serious academic undertaking, but the bottom line for the Society is to get to know one another and to have fun.
The Society works in close cooperation with the Black Students’ Union, and the two groups co-sponsor some of one another’s events.
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