History and Geography

The Sustainability Faculty Scholars program identifies, supports and recognizes faculty who are interested in incorporating or enhancing a focus on sustainable principles and practices in their courses.

Students in History Professor Clyde Ellis' Issues in Native American Religions course are studying how Native traditions have held their forms and meanings while adapting to outside influences and restrictions.

Garner spend two months during the past summer conducting field research that included interviewing more than 20 women about their memories of political violence. 

Amy Johnson, associate professor of history and the executive director of the Elon Core Curriculum co-authors article in the Haitain History Journal

Sinn, an assistant professor of history, joined the Elon faculty in 2016 and is also director of Elon’s Jewish Studies program.

President Connie Ledoux Book presented the medallion to a retired faculty member, a retired staff member and a long-time Cone Health executive and supporter of the School of Health Sciences. Faculty members selected for named professorships were also honored as the faculty/staff Planning Week got underway. 

Associate Professor of Art History Evan Gatti presented "Things They Carry Re-Presented: Episcopal Simulacra or Decorative Ephemera,” presided over two sessions on Gender, Identity, & the Medieval Bishop & the Secular Clergy, and moderated the Brevia on Bishops & the Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, England.

Associate Professor of Art History Evan A. Gatti co-organized a 2-day conference held at Sarum College on the role of the medieval bishop as patron. 

“Waiting in the Midfield” highlights the life of Omar Alhamwi, a Syrian refugee and former professional soccer player, as he makes a new life for himself in Greensboro. The film will air on Wednesday, May 29, at 9 p.m., with replays the following day.

Evan A. Gatti, associate professor of art history and associate director of the Elon Core Curriculum, presented "Drawn in Ink With Love: Desire in Looking at and Looking Back” and "Re-Presentation and a Theology of Images" at the International Medieval Studies Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan.