Williams History Junior and Senior Advisory Group Presents: HISTORY TABLE with Professor Chris Waters Love history? Come join us and consume some history! Bring your lunch! Professor Chris Waters will be there to discuss his career and what history… Continue reading »
On Thursday, October 26, at 4:15 pm in Griffin 3, Professor David Armitage, Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University will be doing a lecture entitled Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro and 18th-Century Diplomatic Culture. This lecture approaches opera, more specifically Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro (1786), from an unusual angle:… Continue reading »
In the early nineteenth century, an irrepressible woman named Tsuneno ran away from her home in the Japanese snow country. After three marriages and three divorces, she was determined to find a new life in the great city of Edo (now Tokyo). But the choice sent her tumbling down… Continue reading »
A talk by MAUREEN C. MILLER Chancellor’s Professor University of California, Berkley THU, SEP 28 – 4:15 PM GRIFFIN HALL – ROOM 3 Sponsored by the Department of History, the Oakley Center, and the Lecture Committee … Continue reading »
Williams faculty and staff, I write, with sadness, to announce the death of Robert F. Dalzell Jr., the Frederick Rudolph ’42 Class of 1965 Professor Emeritus of American Culture. Professor Dalzell passed away late last week after a brief hospitalization. Bob earned his B.A. from Amherst College and his Ph.D. Continue reading »
Robert Fenton Dalzell, Jr., professor, author, beloved husband, brother, father, grandfather and great-grandfather, died on Thursday, June 23, 2022. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on April 28, 1937, son of Robert Fenton Dalzell and Lucile Cain Dalzell. After graduating from University School in Cleveland (Class of 1955), he… Continue reading »
Scott Wong was declared Charles R. Keller Professor of History, Emeritus, at the 233rd Williams College Commencement on Sunday, June 5, 2022. The following citation was read by President Maud Mandel: What a long, strange trip it’s been. You’ve taught courses that carried students from the Trojan War to… Continue reading »
On February 16, Tom Kohut read the Memorial Minute for William “Bill” Wagner at the Faculty Meeting: Memorial Minute for William G. Wagner Brown Professor of History, Emeritus Bill was born in 1950 in Erie, Pennsylvania. There were many things that were important for Bill about growing up in… Continue reading »
Dr. William G. Wagner, a celebrated historian of modern Russia who was an integral part of the Williams College community, including as Brown Professor of History Emeritus and former Interim President, died peacefully of natural causes on September 12, 2021, in Williamstown, Mass. He was 71. Professor Wagner was… Continue reading »
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