Associate Professor of History and Director of Social Studies Teaching Jessica Jackson was selected as a recipient of the Faculty Excellence Teaching Scholar Award for 2025. The award honors early-career faculty to…
Ruth Alexander’s research into the history of climbing at Rocky Mountain National Park revealed important stories to tell about access to our public lands.
The BIPOC Joy Art Show challenges the constant focus on trauma that Black, Indigenous and People of Color are often reduced to, prioritizing happiness and hope over suffering and hardship.
Two Colorado State University faculty members have received a four-year, $200,000 grant to write an updated history of the U.S. Forest Service. Leisl Carr Childers Michael Childers and Leisl Carr Childers are assistant professors in…
Associate Professor Deborah Yalen has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers for the 2017 academic year. Funding will support Dr. Yalen’s own scholarly contribution to an international research project entitled “Ideologies…
In the southwestern corner of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, on the border between Arizona and Mexico, one finds Quitobaquito, the second-largest oasis in the Sonoran Desert. There, with some effort,…
Nicole Archambeau explores how the inhabitants of southern France made sense of the ravages of successive waves of plague, the depredations of mercenary warfare, and the violence of royal succession during…
Colorado Day by Day is an engaging, this-day-in-history approach to the key figures and forces that have shaped Colorado from ancient times to the present. Historian Derek R. Everett presents a…
Tune in here to listen to Dr. Andrea Duffy’s podcast interview with Matthew Brown, New Books Network Host. Chronicling the retreat of mobile pastoralization from Mediterranean…
This article explores the reasons why the most important anti-corruption campaign in twentieth-century Venezuela failed to win sustained support. Employing a constructivist approach to historical actors’…
“Corruption costs the world between $2.5 and 3.5 trillion dollars every year and also creates obstacles that prevent effective responses to urgent public problems, such as environmental protection and the reduction of different forms of inequality. And yet historians rarely focus directly on the history of corruption and anticorruption. This is beginning to change, in part due to European Union support for academic research on the history of corruption and anticorruption. My research contributes to this exciting new trend in historical studies.”
Dr. Doug Yarrington Author of A Coffee Frontier: Land, Society, and Politics in Duaca, Venezuela
“From the plateaus, prairies, and peaks to the gold-domed Colorado State Capitol, I seek to understand ways in which the community of Colorado endures and thrives, as well as its connections to the West, the United States, and the wider world. Colorado might be a perplexing creation of political geometry, but in understanding the stories that have unfolded in our own backyards, we can begin to appreciate how those tales impact our lives every day in the Centennial State and the reverberations of Colorado’s past on its present and future in our own immediate experiences.”
Dr. Derek Everett Author of Colorado Day by Day
“I study a time and place when epidemic illness, military violence, and unstable weather patterns disrupted the lives of millions of people. In a few short decades, these people had to adapt their city buildings, family structures, religious practice, and even food choices to survive. My research into 14th-century Provence reveals dynamic communities using creative methods to survive disease, attack, flood, and drought. My work dispels the tired clichés of feudalism, the “Church”, and general ignorance. Historical research in general can help us move away from judgment of other cultures so that we can learn from every historical moment.”
Dr. Nicole Archambeau Author of Souls under Siege: Stories of War, Plague, and Confession in 14th-Century Provence
