Field Notes APSS - 2018-19

New Faces in the Program

A lyssa Quilling (’13) will be re-joining the department as our new Program Asso- ciate. After spending the last three years supporting water quality research and working with Dr. Paulson and Dr. Ferguson through the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources’ Lake Protection Grant program, she will now use her considerable research and organizational skills to keep the program running smoothly. In addition to working in APSS, she will also support the Professional Communication and Emerging Media and Video Production programs as well as the Honors College.

S enior Dillon Quest (‘19) spent his final se- mester in Athens at the American College of Greece. Taking classes in Greek & Roman Epic Literature, the History of Ancient Greece, Slaves and Slavery, and the Age of Enlightenment was a culminating experience for his History & Poli- tics concentration and Applied Peace Studies Minor. Over the years, APSS students have had amazing summer and spring break experiences in Greece with Dr. Chris Freeman , traveling as part of his Greeks, Romans, and Barbarians and Filming Capitalism and Culture in Modern Greece courses. This spring, Dr. Freeman plans to return to Hellenic peninsula with his Mythic Past of Modern Greece class. APSS students have enjoyed study abroad experiences in a multitude of nations in the past, including Germa- ny, Spain, Scotland, Peru, and China. Dr. Nels Paulson is also planning a faculty-led study abroad in Scotland during the summer of 2020 for a new course titled Quid- ditch and Beyond: Sociology of Leisure in Scottish Culture .

Study Abroad Spotlight

W e are also very pleased to have Dr. Le’Trice Donaldson join the APSS faculty in Fall 2019. She will teach history courses including African American History and topics relating to her research about military history and civil rights activism. She has a PhD from the University of Memphis and a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Tennessee.

She also brings a wealth of teaching experience, and her first book, Duty Be- yond the Battlefield: African American Soldiers Fight for Racial Uplift, Citizenship, and Manhood, 1870-1920 , is coming out in February from Southern Illinois Uni- versity Press.

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