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Seminars & Events

On Thursday, January 24th, 4:15-5:15, Information Session for Study Tour to Peru! Kent Hall 213.

On Monday, February 18, 4:45 pm, Natasha Zaretsky, Ph.D. from Rutgers University, will speak on the "Legacies of Repression: Testimony, Citizenship, and Survival in Jewish Buenos Aires." Location TBA.

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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Kenneth Cohen
Assistant Professor of History

Departments: History
Office: Kent Hall 124
Email: kcohen@smcm.edu
Phone: 240-895-2220

Spring 2013 Courses

HIST 219: Colonial American Survey
HIST 375: The American Revolution

Courses Taught

HIST 108: History of the Modern World
HiST 200: U.S.History, 1776-1980
HIST 219: Colonial American Survey
HIST 375: The American Revolution
HIST 392: Topics in U.S. History - The Early American Republic
HIST 395: Theories and Uses of History
HIST 415: Topics in U.S. History - Entertainment and Identity in American History

Prestigious Achievements

Refereed Journal Article, “‘The Entreaties & Perswasions of Our Acquaintance’: Gambling, Networking, and Political Culture in Early America,” Journal of the Early Republic 30:3 (Fall 2011), 599-638, was recognized in the “Roundup of Academic Studies,” a review of notable scholarly literature related to politics, from all academic disciplines, published by National Affairs and written by Boston Globe “ideas” columnist Kevin Lewis. http://www.nationalaffairs.com/blog/detail/findings-a-daily-roundup/civilization
Refereed Journal Article, “‘Sport for Grown Children’: American Political Cartoons and Sporting Culture, 1790-1850,” International Journal of the History of Sport 28:8-9 (May-June 2011), 1301-1318
Lead consultant on re-interpretation plan for Sotterley Plantation, a local museum of Southern Maryland life, in accord with a prestigious grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2010-2011.
Invited Speaker, The Visual in Sport: An International Conference, Bristol (UK), 2009
University of Pennsylvania McNeil Center Consortium Fellow, 2007-2008
Refereed Journal Article: "Well Calculated for the Farmer: Thoroughbreds in the Chesapeake, 1750-1830," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 115:4 (Fall 2007), 370-411.
Association of Historic Print Collectors Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society, 2006
University of South Carolina Institute of Southern Studies Fellow, 2005
University of Delaware Dissertation Fellowship, 2005-2006
Graduate Student Research Prize, North American Society for Sport History, 2003, for "Billiards and American Culture, 1660-1860"
Lois F. McNeil Fellow, Winterthur Program in Early American Culture, 2000-2002
Refereed Journal Article: "‘A Mutually Comprehensible World?' Native Americans, Europeans, and Play in the Eighteenth-Century Mid-Atlantic," American Indian Quarterly 26:1 (Spr. 2002), 67-93.
GTE Academic All-American, Allegheny College, 1998

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