On Oct. 17, Dr. David La Vere received the 2025 Edmonds-Gavins Award by the Historical Society of North Carolina for the Best Article in the North Carolina Historical Review for 2024 for the article “Making War on the Deer: Deer Hunting and Deerskins in Colonial North Carolina.” He received a nice certificate and a small cash prize.
Student Sarah Creel's essay on "The Williams Family of Historic Wilmington" was published in the Lower Cape Fear Historical Society Bulletin in June 2025. Sarah's research on this began when she was an intern at the Latimer House.
On October 23, 2025, Dr. Yixin Chen gave a talk at UC Berkeley on "Famine and Rebellion: the Counterrevolutionary Case of the Chinese People's Life-Saving Army in the Western Stream Villages, 1919-1960." He previously gave a talk on this topic at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University in March 2025.
Dr. Jarrod Tanny recently self-published a new book on Amazon: Tales of a Yid in Dixieland: Bible Jokes, Southern Folks, and the Woke Who Shame the Jews.
Recent MA Graduate, Matthew Parker, has accepted an adjunct professorship at Methodist University.
Recent MA Graduate, Chandler Hicks, has accepted a position as a Social Studies Teacher at RJ Reynolds High School in Winston, NC.
Dr. Michael Seidman authored the chapter, “The Spanish Civil War,” in Ian Ona Johnson and Robert Clemm's edition of A Violent Peace: A Global Military History of the Interwar Period, (University of Kansas Press, 2025), pp. 260-285. Contributors to the book focused on wars erupting on four continents during the first half of the twentieth century,
Dr. Yixin Chen is the author of recent book publications: When Food Became Scarce: How Chinese Peasants Survived the Great Leap Forward Famine (Cornell University Press, Aug. 2024), and Experiencing the Famine: Natural Environment, Social Mechanism and the Life and Death of Chinese Peasants, 1958-1961 (The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, Jan. 2025).
