HINDSIGHT
The Student History Club

Why we are here:

The SPU History Club exists to bring excitement for history to campus, whether that is the history of our university, our city, our nation, or our global neighbors.  We seek to connect students to their past by bringing speakers to campus, organizing forums with faculty, and inspiring conversations about current issues.  We are also here to be a resource for history major and minors by organizing seminars on graduate studies and supporting your passions.

Student Coordinators:  Amanda McDougal, amcd@spu.edu; Eugene Terpay, terpaye@spu.edu; and Dave Stuart, stuard@spu.edu.

Faculty Advisor:  Dr. Rod Stiling, rstiling@spu.edu, (206) 281-2680

SPECIAL EVENTS

Special lectures in US Women's History - all lectures open to the public, all in Demaray 355:

Tuesday, November 1, 2011, 11:45 a.m.-12:50 p.m.  Guest Lecturer Sandi Dahlquist, who has had careers as an insurance adjuster and as owner of an independent jewelry store, discusses the obstacles faced by college educated women of the early 1960s who wanted to break out of traditionally female job tracks.

Tuesday, November 8, 2011, 10:30 a.m.-11:45 a.m.  Guest Lecturer Dr. Priscilla Pope-Levison, SPU Professor of Theology, discusses the surprising, colorful, yet often forgotten history of women evangelists in America.

Tuesday, November 15, 2011, 11:45 a.m.-12:50 p.m.  Guest Lecturer Dr. Jennifer McKinney, SPU Associate Professor of Sociology, discusses how, and why, evangelicals have borrowed ideas about gender roles from secular culture and baptized them with Bible verses. 

In 2004-05, History Club members reconstructed the story of Toshiko Senda, a Japanese-American SPU student who was interned during World War II.  Click here to learn more.