History and Geography

Join students in GEO 310/GST 317 (8 a.m. to 9:40 a.m.) in Alamance 218 or students in INT 461 (10:30 a.m. to 12:10 p.m.) in the Honors Pavilion, room 101, as they hear Ms. Breton speak about Extractive Industries and Conservation in Amazonia.

Brian Digre, a professor of history and coordinator of the international studies major, will speak about his summer experiences in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Kuwait in a presentation on Monday, Sept. 20, at 12:15 p.m. in Lindner 206.

Associate professor of history Peter Felten, assistant provost and director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning, co-authored an article in the latest edition of Liberal Education.

Assistant Professor of History Michael Matthews has published an article that examines representations of the railroad in art, poetry and literature printed in publications targeting middle- and upper-class audiences during the government of Mexican President Porfirio Diaz.

Carole Watterson Troxler, professor emerita of history, published five articles and chapters and presented six conference papers during the past two years.

Jim Brown, an associate professor of history, was made a presentation to a workshop on May 8 in Nong Khai, Thailand, for graduate students in the Master of Education program at Maharasakham University and teachers of the Phrathatwitthaya School.

Elon University history professor Brian Digre has received a 2010 Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad award, which will fund a six-week visit to the Gulf nations of the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Kuwait for study and research.

Michael Matthews presented his paper "El Camino de Ultratumba: Porfirian Railway Development in Popular Verse" at the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies.

The air was filled with beeping, digging, scraping and laughter Saturday when the Old North State Detectorists, a group of metal detector enthusiasts, searched for artifacts buried on the grounds of an historic schoolhouse Elon plans to restore after a local family gifted it to the university last year.