History and Geography

Clyde Ellis, a professor of history, served recently as an outside consultant on tenure and promotion standards for the Department of History at Ithaca College.

Many people don’t think twice about water, or how new roads, parking lots and buildings to accommodate a growing population can harm water quality. As Elon University senior Samuel Shoge discovered in Alamance County, more asphalt and concrete means more pollution in local streams and lakes, and his work is the latest to be featured in a series of E-net profiles on undergraduate research to be presented during CELEBRATE! 2011.

Assistant professor Michael Matthews presented at the 58th annual Rocky Mountain Council of Latin American Studies in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Associate professor of geography Honglin Xiao presented his research, "Land use land cover changes under a market economy," at the 2011 annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers at Seattle, Wash.

Clyde Ellis, a professor of history, gave a public lecture on April 11 as part of the University of South Carolina at Lancaster's annual Native American Studies Week.

Clyde Ellis, a professor of history, has been selected to attend a four-week National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminar on the ethnohistory of Indians in the American South. The seminar will meet at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and will include fieldwork in the Eastern Cherokee, Catawba, and Lumbee communities.

Clyde Ellis, professor of history, joined a panel of invited scholars from Wake Forest, Clemson, and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and gave a public lecture on Friday, March 25, at UNC Charlotte's fourth-annual American Indian Studies Symposium.