According to Dr. Kuenzli - "Come study sports and history at the University of South Carolina, live it, read it, do it!"

Last month, Associate Professor Dr. Gabrielle Kuenzli (on the right) crewed Hall of Fame jockey Ramon Dominguez in a Backyard Ultra at Lake Placid, which he won, running 112 miles in 27 hours! One of Dr. Kuenzli's research interests is Latinos in horse racing, especially Jockeys.

Congratulations to Gabrielle McCoy on the publication of her article "Riding through Norms: Creating and Performing Athletic Femininity at American Ladies' Equestrian Exhibitions, 1850-1890" in the journal Gender & History. Well done, Gabrielle!.

Riding Through Norms: Creating and Performing Athletic Femininity at American Ladies’ Equestrian Exhibitions, 1850–1890 - McCoy - Gender & History - Wiley Online Library

Even during the summer our faculty is hard at work! Here is Dr. Melissa Stuckey, Associate Professor and Director of Public History, at the African American Association of Museums Conference, which was held in Charleston last week.

Discover USC is the the University of South Carolina’s annual student research showcase. Awesome work Angelica!.

We would like to congratulate Angelica Williams, a Public History MA student, for being awarded the Discover USC Graduate Student Award in Public History for her work on the academic legacy of C.A. Johnson High School, a cornerstone in Columbia’s Black educational history!

Even during the summer our students are hard at work! Here is PhD student Gabrielle McCoy, who is a Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellow, at the American Antiquarian Society completing research for her dissertation. Keep up the good work Gabby!

RT @sc_humanities: SC Humanities is thrilled to announce Dr. Jennifer Gunter as the new Executive Director! Dr. Gunter will work closely wi….

Here’s a photo of two of our PhD students, Jennifer Marler and Gabrielle McCoy, at the New York History Conference in Albany, NY. Jennifer presented part of her dissertation and Gabby moderated the panel she was on. Keep up the good work Gabby and Jenn!

Check out some of the photos that Associate Professor Matt Childs recently took during the USC Portugal-Spain Study Aboard trip! .

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Dr. Mark M. Smith recently contributed to "Process: A Blog for American History." His post, "Making Sense of History, Then and Now," details how he started researching "sensory history," which is the study of how the five senses can help shape our understanding of the past.

Dr. Schaffer's presentation was "The Port City’s Fleet: Charles Town Society and the South Carolina" and Wilson's was "Cosmopolitan Georgetown: Slavery, Rice, Indigo, and the World." Way to represent USC!.

Although it may be summer, that doesn't mean our faculty and students are taking a break! Last week, Instructor Dr. Benjamin Schaffer and PhD Student JP Wilson attended the NASOH Conference in Natchez, MS and presented on the panel "Ports, Rivers, and Fleets of South Carolina."

In "The First Fleets," Dr. Schaffer reveals how, contrary to widespread beliefs, the American colonies had a long tradition of independent naval defense decades before the Revolution.

Congratulations to History Instructor Dr. Benjamin Schaffer on the release of his first book, "The First Fleets: Colonial Navies of the British Atlantic World, 1630–1775"!

Jenn’s committee applauded her deft use of theory and skilled, forensic use of difficult archival evidence. Congratulations, Dr. Marler!.

Her work brilliantly dissects the experience of enslavement and freedom in Revolutionary New York, charts in compelling detail a complex and often misunderstood story, and educates us on the meaning of agency and the texture of lived experience.

We delighted to report that Jennifer Marler successfully defended her dissertation, “’Make Yourselves Free’: The Revolutionary Black Experience in New York, 1776-1790," yesterday! (cont. in comments)