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The Department of History and Politics emphasizes independent research. Each major
completes a research paper in her junior and senior years. Several students have completed major projects to
receive honors in their discipline. Other students have won
South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities Summer
Research grants.
Converse encourages students who have completed
outstanding projects to present their research at scholarly
conferences. In recent years, students have read papers at the:
- South Carolina Historical Association
- South Carolina
Political Science Association
- South Carolina Undergraduate
Social Science
- and the Citadel New South conferences.
Students have published articles in the Converse Bulletin and
Newslines: The Newsletter of the Carolinas Committee on
U.S.-Arab Relations.
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email: admissions@converse.edu
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Dr. Joe Dunn,
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joe.dunn@converse.edu
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Every
major completes a research project.
Recent notable original research projects
include:
- the study of an African-American school (which
provided the documentation to have the school placed on the
National Register of Historic Places)
- women's lives as depicted in women's
magazines during World War II
- the role of Spartanburg County
churches during World War II
- the impact of World War II on
women in Randolph County, NC
- diversity of women's lives in
the Moroccan family
- a new interpretation of witchcraft
trials in seventeenth-century England
- the politics of a pilot
case of minority environmental justice in Spartanburg
County
- and Indochinese communities in Spartanburg.
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