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.
SMP Spotlight
"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!"
Adriana Brodsky
Associate Professor of History
Departments: History
Office: Kent Hall, Room 304
Email: ambrodsky@smcm.edu
Phone: 240-895-4108
Bio:
Dr. Adriana M. Brodsky received tenure in Spring 2011 and was promoted to Associate Professor. She was awarded a Fall 2011 Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress, where she is currently finishing her manuscript on Sephardi Jews in Argentina. An article on Jewish beauty queens will appear in a special issue of the Journal Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe (Spring 2012), and a chapter on Sephardi schools was published in Ran, A., and Cahan J., eds., Returning to Babel: Jewish Latin American Representations, Experiences and Identity (Brill, 2011). In 2010-2011, she presented her work at the Conferences of the American Historical Association, Association of Jewish Studies, Society for the Study of Youth and Children, and was invited to present her work "Crossing Borders: New Approaches to Modern Judeo-Spanish (Sephardic) Cultures" at a UCLA workshop (organized by the UCLA Amado Program in Sephardic Studies). She also co-led (together with Dr. Cristin Cash and Billy Friebele) the "third edition" of the St. Mary's College Andean Studies Study Tour to Peru in May 2011.
Dr. Brodsky participated in a symposium "Returning to Babel: Jewish Latin American Experiences and Representations" that was held at the Harris Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (April 19-20, 2009). She presented a paper entitled "Educating Argentine Jews: Sephardim and Their Schools, 1920-1960."
Education:
Dr. Brodsky finished her undergraduate degree in her hometown, Buenos Aires (Argentina). She received her Ph.D from Duke University in 2004.
Spring 2012 Courses
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