Seminars & Events
On February 6, 2012 at 8:00pm in St. Mary's Hall, the cartoonist Denis Kitchen will give an illustrated lecture entitled "Underground Comix: An Inside History."
See the History Department Calendar for more information!
Program Highlight
The Colonial History Concentration takes advantage of our special relationship with Historic St. Mary's City, the first capital of Maryland and a colonial archeological site, research facility, and museum.
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SMP Spotlight
Megan Anderson, "That Which Remains: The Interplay of Memory and Fiction in Holocaust Remembrance," 2011.
"My St. Mary's Project was truly the culminating experience for my undergraduate years. The process brought me full circle; I was able to take a piece of literature I had read in my very first semester and keep discussing and applying theory to it in my last. My SMP proved to me that I could sustain great ideas and discipline myself, even when I was discouraged. Working so closely with my SMP mentor, Christine Adams, was really valuable, offering a one-on-one environment that I had never had with my regular classes. I came away from my project knowing more about my topic than I thought I ever would -- and I still love it!"
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Linda Hall
Professor of History
Departments: History
Office: Kent Hall, Room 204
Email: ljhall@smcm.edu
Phone: 240-895-4434
Spring 2012 Courses
HIST 104: Historical Foundations of the Modern World to 1450
HIST 383: Byzantine History
HIST 435: Topics in European History - The World of Late Antiquity
Previous Courses
- HIST 104: Foundations of Western Civilization syllabus
- HIST 272: Ancient Mediterranean World syllabus
- HIST 381: History of Greece and the Hellenistic World syllabus
- HIST 382: History of the Roman Empire syllabus
- HIST 383: History of the Byzantine Empire syllabus
- HIST 395: Theories and Uses of History
- HIST 435: Topics: European History - Ancient Family syllabus
- HIST 435: Topics: European History - Ancient City syllabus
- HIST 435: Topics: European History - Law and Society in the Ancient World syllabus
- HIST 475: Topics: Comparative, Global and Thematic -- Travel and Transformation in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds syllabus
- HIST 493-494: St. Mary's Project
Prestigious Achievements
- Author of the leading book on Beirut during the time of the Roman law school: Roman Berytus: Beirut in Late Antiquity. London and New York: Routledge, 2004.
- Author of an important article on the evidence of the conversion of Constantine:
“Cicero’s Instinctu Divino and Constantine’s Instinctu Divinitatis: The Evidence of the Arch of Constantine for the Senatorial View of the ‘Vision’ of Constantine,” Journal of Early Christian Studies 6:4 (1998) 647-671. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_early_christian_studies/v006/6.4hall.html
- Author of three articles on ancient Tyre and Phoenicia in international publications, including:
- "Rescuing the Reputation of Tyre in Late Antiquity: The Documentation of Gynaecea/Genicia as Weaving Factories, not Brothels," CHRONOS: Revue d'Histoire de l'Université de Balamand 12 (2005) 125-150.
- "The Governors of Phoenicia as known to us from the Letters of Libanius," in "Mélanges offerts à Rey-Coquais," Mélanges de l'Université Saint-Joseph 60 (2007): 433-445.
- "Tyre in Late Antiquity," Electrum 12 (2007): 73-87.
- Invited lecturer for the Seminar in Late Antiquity, at Princeton University, in April 1999, on "Revising Past Paradigms: The Case of Late Antique Berytus in Phoenicia."
- Invited key lecturer for the session on Roman Beirut, Beirut: History and Archaeology, ARAM Twelfth International Conference, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, April 1999, on "Classical Beirut through the texts."
Personal Information
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