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Uplifted by the Power of Community, Natté Fortier ’24 Earns Fulbright Award
When Natté Fortier ’24 reflects upon what he believes to be the key to a fulfilling Hollins experience, one quality in particular stands out in his mind. He recognized it […]
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Wyndham Robertson Library Honors Undergraduate Research Award Winners and Finalists for 2024
Hollins University’s Wyndham Robertson Library has announced the winners and finalists of this year’s Undergraduate Research Awards. The library established the awards in 2011 to recognize exemplary undergraduate student research […]
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Meet Bailey Burger ’26, a HOPE Scholarship Recipient
In the fall of 2022, Hollins announced a new scholarship that prioritizes lifting the burden of private college tuition for students with financial needs. Designed for students living in the […]
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In Her Summer Internship, Sophia Ciatti ’24 Uncovers Little-Known History of Virginia’s Indigenous Peoples
This summer, history major Sophia Ciatti ’24 played a key role in bringing to fruition the very first exhibition of its kind at the Library of Virginia. Ciatti, who hails […]
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SURF Students Explore Foreign Policy Involving Central Asian Republics
As part of this year’s Hollins Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program, Susanna Helms ’24 and Sylvia Adongo ’26 have worked closely with John P. Wheeler Professor of Political Science […]
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Buoyed by a Lifelong Love of History, Mars McLeod ’23 Examines an Important but Little-Known Movement in 19th Century Black America
Mars McLeod ’23 can just about pinpoint the moment in her life when she realized she was destined to become a historian. “I was eight or nine years old, and […]
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“I’ve Come Into My Own as a Person Here”: Elizabeth Klein ’23 Discovers a Love of History While Spotlighting the Jewish American Experience
A double major in history and Spanish, Elizabeth Klein ’23 devoted her senior honors thesis to exploring Jewish participation in 19th century westward expansion in the United States. “I’m truly grateful for this opportunity and countless others as I’ve pursued my passion for studying Jewish-American history,” she says.
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On Her Journey to Becoming a Public Historian, Zoe Brooks ’23 Explores “Bloody Harlan” and 1930s Labor Conflict
History major Zoe Brooks ’23 says she enjoys “taking hard-to-understand primary source information, distilling it, and making it more accessible to everybody. History deserves to be taught, and it deserves to be taught in its entirety. The idea of having that as a career…there’s something really cool about that.”
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Wyndham Robertson Library Honors Undergraduate Research Award Winners and Finalists
Wyndham Robertson Library has announced the winners and finalists of this year’s Undergraduate Research Awards. The annual awards recognize exemplary student research projects completed in Hollins courses.
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Hollins Professor Receives NEH Summer Stipend to Underwrite Book Project
Ruth Alden Doan Assistant Professor of History Christopher Florio has received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend award of $6,000 to support his project, “The Problem of Poverty in the Anglo-American Age of Slave Emancipation, 1780-1865.”