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| More than 60% of the department's majors
pursue graduate study in fields such as history,
political science, historical preservation, religion,
public administration, public relations, business,
education, art history, and library science. |
Graduates have attended graduate school
at scores of institutions. Some recent examples are:
- Princeton Theological Seminary
- Southern Baptist Seminary
- Boston University
- Duke
- Emory
- Georgetown
- Vanderbilt
- Penn State
- Connecticut
- Colorado
- Indiana
- Kentucky
- Virginia
- Florida
- Florida State
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- North Carolina
- North Carolina State
- Georgia
- Georgia State
- Minnesota
- West Virginia
- Wake Forest
- Mercer
- George Mason
- North Colorado
- Middlebury
- Clemson
- South Carolina.
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- Danielle Baker Gibbs '03, assistant to Senator Jim DeMint
- Jennifer Bradey '03, Manager of Political & Legislative Activities for the National Rifle Association
- Valerie Brock '03, Outstanding Masters of Public Administration student for 2005, recipient of the graduate student teaching award, and President Management Fellow; now working with the Center of Disease Control-International Division
- Chelsea Jaccard '03, Peace Corps in Ghana, recipient of the Ghanian Teacher of the Year Award 2004
- Renee Coffman '02, graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary and administrator with Bread for the World
- Deanna Fults '00, former assistant attorney general of the state of Alabama for Legislative Affairs and Special Projects and now attorney for the Tennessee Valley Authority
- Kirstie Waugh Tucker '96, works in White House
for George W. Bush
- Cheryl McIntire '95, former U.S. Air Force safety
launch officer at Cape Kennedy and served two tours in Iraq working with the transition team to Iraq self government
- Erin McGee '93, television and movie producer, now law school student
- Laura Mobley Mathias '92, first person to hold the title
of county manager in the state of Georgia
- Wendy Kobi '91, Peace Corps volunteer and
project manager for Save the Children in Losotho, Africa, now development officer
- Linda Layman Reading '88, in charge of the Loan
Market Research Group at First Union
Trust in Charlotte.
- Suzanne Coe '87, prominent civil rights attorney
- Beth Spenser Dixon '86, District Court Judge in North Carolina
- Deadra Jefferson '85, district court judge in Columbia, SC
- Elise Neil Bengston '83, former National Security Council analyst under three Presidents: Reagan, Bush, and Clinton; now President of the Chamber of Commerce of Greater McLean, Virginia
- Peggy Merriss '82, City Manager of the city
of Decatur, GA
- Phyllis Perrin Harris '82, Regional Counsel and
Director of the Environmental Accountability Division,
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Hannah Stewart-Gambino '78, one of the country's
leading experts on Latin American politics, author
of four scholarly books, and Associate Dean
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email: admissions@converse.edu
contact
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joe.dunn@converse.edu
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Members of the History/Political
Science faculty have:
won prestigious
awards such as
- South Carolina Distinguished
Professor
- Semi-Finalist for the
Carnegie Foundation U.S. Professor
of the Year
- O'Herron Faculty Excellence
Award
- Kathryne Amelia Brown Teaching Award
- Above and Beyond Award
- American Political Science
Association Outstanding
Teacher Award
- National Mortar Board
Advising Awards
- Scholarship and Creative Achievement Award
- Master Scholar for Teaching American History
- Joseph J. Malone Fellow
held significant administrative roles
such as:
- Executive Secretary of the
Southern Association of Women
Historians
- Executive Director of the
Carolinas Committee on
U.S.-Arab Relations
- President of the South
Carolina Association of
Scholars
- Board of Scholars of the
Vietnam Veterans Institute
- Executive Board of the South
Carolina Humanities Council
- Executive Board of the
Greenville and Spartanburg County Historical
Associations
- Executive Council of the Agriculture History Society
- Editorial Board of The
Journal of Political
Science
- Council for International Educational Exchange International Faculty Development Fellow
- Gilder Lehrman Institute Fellow
- Marshall Institute Fellow
- Liberty Forum Fellow
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