November 11, 2025

2025 Department of History Newsletter Celebrates Achievements

The 2025 Department of History Newsletter reports on the achievements of our majors and minors in History, graduate students, alumni, staff, faculty, and emeriti. You can find everything from publications to endowed fellowships in this document. Feature essays show how historians contribute to and shape our society. The Communications Committee this year is made up of Drs. Adela Cedillo, Matthew Clavin, N. L. A. Gharala, Gerald Horne, Kairn Klieman, Kristina Neumann, and Josiah Rector. We all worked hard on this record of what we have accomplished as a community and hope you enjoy reading it!

• Department Updates
• History

November 10, 2025

HHP Undergraduate Scholarship Winners for 2025

• Student Success
• Health and Human Performance

November 7, 2025

Dr. Michael Snediker named as a winner of Tupelo Press’s Open Reading Period contest for his latest poetry collection

Professor Snediker's collection of poems entitled Reciprocity was selected for the 2025 award amongst record-breaking numbers of competitive submissions.

• Faculty Success
• English

November 7, 2025

UH PhD student Mathew Weitman named as a winner of Tupelo Press’s Open Reading Period contest

Weitman, a PhD student in Creative Writing, was recognized for work drawn from his poetry collection The Campus Novel: Poems

• Student Success
• English

October 30, 2025

UH WCL Internship Connects Students to Culture and Careers

The University of Houston’s World Cultures and Literatures (WCL) program in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages is helping students turn classroom learning into real-world impact.

• Student Success
• Modern and Classical Languages

October 17, 2025

Behind the Scenes with Professor Keith Houk

Behind the Scenes with Professor Keith Houk

• Jack J. Valenti School of Communication