Andrew Barge: Reflection on History Major
Sep. 21, 2022—Andrew Barge ’09 I’ve always loved sports. At Twitter, I manage product and revenue partnerships with sports leagues, networks, teams, and athletes. Day-to-day responsibilities range from consumer product launches that impact tens of millions of sports fans, to negotiating streaming media rights, to “Wait, who got hacked?!” For five years’ prior, I worked in the...
Jadzia Butler Reflection on History Major
Sep. 21, 2022—Jadzia Butler ’10 While at Vanderbilt, Jadzia was one of the founders of the Vanderbilt Political Review. Here are her reflections on the history major: ”I came to Vanderbilt obsessed with politics and public policy, knowing that I wanted to end up in D.C. someday. As a result, I double majored in political science and...
Vanderbilt Arts and Science professor named Guggenheim Fellow
Sep. 19, 2022—Emily Greble, a historian of modern Europe whose research explores how the Balkans challenge presumptions about European history, is among 184 artists, writers, scholars and scientists awarded a 2021 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.
Daniel Usner presents the Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures
Sep. 19, 2022—Daniel Usner, Holland N. McTyeire Chair in History, will deliver the Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History on April 20 and 21 at Louisiana State University.
Kimberly Welch awarded Mellon Foundation’s New Directions Fellowship
Sep. 19, 2022—The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has selected Kimberly Welch, a Vanderbilt scholar of American slavery, race, and law, for a New Directions Fellowship that will expand her interdisciplinary research on African Americans and the history of finance.