Professor Eric Nelson was selected as the recipient of this year’s Master Online Course Recognition Award. Missouri State Online selects the annual winner based upon a best practices rubric in the design and delivery of distance education course material. Dr. Nelson’s course, HST 397 Europe: Paleolithic to 1650 was judged best in all categories from a highly competitive pool … [Read more...] about Distinguished professor awarded with Master Online Course Recognition Award
One of our former M.A. students, Blake Perkins ('10), is in high cotton. Last week he signed a contract with the University of Illinois Press; his revised dissertation., BACKCOUNTRY DEFIANCE: A HIDDEN HISTORY OF RURAL RESISTANCE TO FEDERAL POWER IN THE OZARKS, will be published in 2017 as part of the press's Working Class in American History Series. Also, Blake is this week's … [Read more...] about Publication by Former History Student
Please join us in congratulating Brooks Blevins on his recent publication in the prestigious, Journal of Southern History. “Region, Religion, and Competing Visions of Mountain Mission Education in the Ozarks,” Journal of Southern History, LXXXII, No. 1 (Feb. 2016): 59-96. … [Read more...] about History Professor has article published
Dr. Sarah Myers recently accepted a tenure track position as Assistant Professor of History at Saint Francis University in Central Pennsylvania for the 2016-2017 school year. Sarah received a MA in History at Missouri State University in 2009. Sarah has created a page for the World War II Collection that she is running at SFU. It … [Read more...] about History alumnus receives teaching position
Eric Nelson’s article, which was awarded the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference’s Nancy Lyman Roelker Prize, looks at how the history of Paola and the Minim Order was recorded. “The problem I came across when studying Paola was that almost none of what the written histories told me matched what documents from the actual time period said,” said Nelson. That was when … [Read more...] about History Professor Receives Award