Members of the WKU and Bowling Green community were able to learn about religious medical history at the WKU history department Lowell Harrison Distinguished Lecture on Thursday, Feb. 15. Ronit Stahl, an associate professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley, was invited to present her research with a lecture titled “There’s Nothing.
The WKU history department will host their annual Lowell Harrison Distinguished Lecture this Thursday, Feb. 15, with a presentation titled “There’s Nothing Religious about an Appendectomy: The Complex History of Religious Hospitals in the United States.” The presenter is Ronit Stahl, an associate professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley and an.
The WKU History Department will offer the new course HIST 374: Secret Societies, Fraternities, and Sororities in the spring 2024 semester. Katherine Lennard, Frockt Family Chair and associate professor of history, will be teaching the new class, with a background in studying the cultural history of the United States after the Civil War. “The idea.
Katherine Lennard is a U.S. historian who studies the culture in the wake of the Civil War. But she certainly didn’t plan to be. Lennard studied costume design at The Theatre School of DePaul University in Chicago. She found herself wanting to understand the characters and their clothing on a deeper level. “The stuff that.