Author Archives: Mrs. Jennifer Kretsch

2019 Phi Alpha Theta

Congratulations to newly inducted Phi Alpha Theta members. The Phi Alpha Theta Induction Ceremony was held on Monday, April 8th, 2019. Listed below are newly inducted members for 2019. Rebecca Brady John William Burke Hayden S. Davis Anna DiTaranto Sarah … Continue reading

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Dr. Shuhua Fan, Summer 2018- Presentation and Publication

Conference Presentation: “The Knight Brothers at Newchwang (Niuzhuang): Foreign Community in Mid-Nineteenth Century Chinese Treaty Ports,” at the June 21-23, 2018 Annual Conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Philadelphia, PA. Publication: Chinese edition of The Harvard-Yenching … Continue reading

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Phi Alpha Theta 2018 Induction Ceremony

Congratulations to newly inducted Phi Alpha Theta members. The Phi Alpha Theta Induction Ceremony was held on April 16th, 2018. Listed below are newly inducted members for 2018. Matthew Peter Didelot Mary Virginia Farrell Anna Maria Giblin Kyle J. Kolcharno … Continue reading

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Dr. Aiala Levy: Collaborative Reading and Note-Taking: How to Foster a Forum Using Google Docs

Be sure to check out this article written by Dr. Aiala Levy in the April 2018 Perspectives magazine. https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/april-2018/collaborative-reading-and-note-taking-how-to-foster-a-forum-using-google-docs      

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Alana Siock and James McKane Present at Wyoming Valley Undergraduate History Conference

Allie Siock and James McKane, recently attended the Wyoming Valley Undergraduate History Conference at Wilkes University. The paper they presented was titled “The Jesuit Takeover of the University of Scranton.” Allie and James worked on this paper in the fall, … Continue reading

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American Historical Association Panel Discussion

Kudos to University of Scranton History faculty and alumni that just participated in a panel discussion at the recent American Historical Association Annual Conference which took place January 4-7th in Washington, DC. Sex, Marriage, and Family in Catholic Europe Chair:    … Continue reading

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Senior History Major Maura Burns Wins Research Awards at Pennsylvania Historical Association Annual Conference

  Congratulations to Senior History Major Maura Burns for earning 2nd place in the poster competition at the Pennsylvania Historical Association Annual Conference which was held October 12-14 at the Radisson Lackawanna Station in Scranton. Maura’s poster was the result … Continue reading

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Dr. Fan Had a Busy Summer With a Fellowship at The Library of Congress!

Fellowship: Residential fellow at the Library of Congress, funded by a 2016 Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship from Asian Division of the Library of Congress. I am one of the two 2016 residential fellows at the Asian Division of the Library. … Continue reading

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Dr. Shaffern Helps Commemorate the 500th Anniversary of the German Reformation

  From June 26 until July 6, Dr. Robert Shaffern of the History Department took part in a seminar on the Protestant Reformation at the invitation of the Studienforum Berlin, a non-for-profit scholarly institute in Berlin, Germany. This seminar was … Continue reading

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Phi Alpha Theta Inducts New Members

On April 12, 2016 The University of Scranton chapter Phi Alpha Theta inducted ten new members. Congratulations on your scholarly achievement! Megan Alexandra Bershefsky Kaelyn Jacques Matthew Lasewicz Albert J. Mackarey Colin Arthur Moretti Amanda T. Palardy Joseph Carlo Princetta … Continue reading

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