History and Geography

Yasmine Arrington competes next August in Seattle on a platform of mentoring and supporting children of incarcerated parents.

Professor Mary Jo Festle's presentation, “American women’s sports: what’s gender got to do with it?”, prompted discussion at the Nov. 4 dinner.

James Ingram, who performs as the first ordained Baptist slave preacher in North America, visits Elon University’s Numen Lumen Pavilion in character on Oct. 28 at 7 p.m. to share how the Revolutionary War, the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution impacted enslaved people of his era.

Yasmine Arrington's "ScholarCHIPS" program has provided 17 scholarships to date to children whose parents are imprisoned, and her work both on and off Elon University's campus has caught the attention of nonprofit leaders and government policymakers.

The professor of history is the fourth recipient of an honor that supports preeminent teachers and scholars at Elon University.

Elon University professors and students filled McKinnon Hall on Aug. 27, 2014, to discuss race, privilege and justice following the Missouri police shooting death of an unarmed black man and subsequent protests that have galvanized the nation.

Winter Term 2015 classes in Israel and Ghana have been canceled or postponed due to regional security and health concerns in Africa and the Middle East.

A two-month program ended July 25, 2014, with scholars in Elon University’s Summer Undergraduate Research Experience displaying their work for professors and peers inside McKinnon Hall during a special College Coffee.

The Elon University professor of history spoke with the North Carolina television station on June 6, 2014, about the Allies' D-Day invasion of Europe 70 years earlier.

The Class of 2014 is sending more scholars overseas next year with Fulbright English Teaching Assistant grants than any previous class in Elon University history.