What is New in the Department

Department Speakers' Series Spring 2023

Martin Nekola poster for April 4 2022 talk

Faculty Talks

Check out Dr. Robert Weems's discussion of the legacy of racism and small business in "Jim Crow in the Business World."

Check out this talk by Dr. Laila Ballout on immigration history and "who can become an American."

Check out this talk by Rannfrid Lasine Thelle on "The Bible and Race in American Culture."

Check out this recording of this recent talk that Dr. Weems gave at the Federal Reserve about racism and entrepreneurship

Check out Jeff Hayton's talk: The Big Lie: Nazi Propaganda, Antisemitism, and the Coming of the Third Reich in the Fairmount College Presents in its Perspecties: Reestablishing Reality Series.

Check out George Dehner's “Influenza pandemics since Russian Flu: Do they provide insight to COVID-19?” as part of a Fairmont College of Liberal Arts and Sciences series, Perspective on the Pandemic.

Department Speakers' Series

Scott Ellsworth

Ellsworth Poster