{"id":5094,"date":"2024-11-15T00:27:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T08:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/hist\/?p=5094"},"modified":"2025-04-11T13:54:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T20:54:56","slug":"letter-from-the-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/hist\/letter-from-the-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter from the Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h2><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1><em>Welcome!<\/em><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As of this July 2022, the <strong>USC<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Van Hunnick History Department<\/strong> has truly entered a new era. Thanks to the extraordinary generosity of Elizabeth Van Hunnick, our department will be growing and our faculty and graduate students will have the resources to be still more productive as researchers and scholars. But even before our department received its new name, we were in the midst of something like a renaissance, welcoming into our community a new group of scholars whose work spans the globe and who bring to their investigations a wide range of methodological approaches and life experiences.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We encourage you to visit our faculty and graduate student pages. Get to know our community. Explore our calendar of events. And feel welcomed and encouraged to take our classes, attend our lectures, participate in our conferences, and investigate the complex histories that have shaped our world and that give us glimpses of better worlds that might yet be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Paul Lerner<\/strong>, Department Chair<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Letter from the Chair<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/hist\/letter-from-the-chair\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Letter from the Chair - 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