SOAR Projects
Student Opportunities for Academic Research (SOAR) is a 91¿´Æ¬ program that provides stipends to support projects in which students are engaged in scholarly or creative activity with faculty members. There are two separate programs. In the semester program, a student is working on the designated project eight hours a week and will be paid accordingly. In the summer program a student is engaged full-time in a research project for ten weeks.
All members of the History Department are active scholars who are interested in sharing with the students their life of the mind. This is a great opportunity to work with some of the leading scholars in their fields.
Recent SOAR projects in history:
- "What Skeletal Markers can tell us about Disease and Gender in Medieval England."
- Honor and Masculinity: The Experiences of German Soldiers during the First World War and the Emergence of Right-Wing Radicalism, 1914-1923
- The American Civil War and the Lehigh Valley: A Study and Analysis of Primary Sources
- Rediscovering and Including Women in the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1975
- The Bethlehem Area During the Great Depression
- Canada: A Community History
- Honor and Economics: The Ideologies of the Nazi-SS and Their Uses in Germany, 1926-1941
- Canajoharie: An Eighteenth-Century Mohawk Village
- Mistaking Africa: American Popular Culture Myths
- The Method of Healing: The Concept of Vital Force in Samuel Hahnemann's Organon (1810)
- Race and Family Formation on the Eve of Cuban Slave Emancipation
- Emotional Culture in Eighteenth Century Moravian Communities
