Faculty Spotlight: Saskia Coenen Snyder, “Under Pressure: Producing Diamonds for Nazi Germany”

Join us in celebrating distinguished faculty at the University of South Carolina. Saskia Coenen Snyder is Professor of Modern Jewish History and Director of the Jewish Studies Program. Coenen Snyder specializes in Jewish history, culture, and religion with particular interest in the intersection between material culture, economics, politics, and modern Jewish history. Coenen Snyder's most recent book is A Brilliant Commodity: Diamonds and Jews In A Modern Setting (Oxford University Press, 2022).

Faculty Book Launch

Date and Time: October 17 at 6 pm

Location: All Good Books

Join us in celebrating recent publications by University of South Carolina faculty. Faculty speakers and their work to be announced soon.

Lunch Colloquium: Clayton Whisnant

Date and Time: September 17 at 12-1:30 pm

Location: Gambrell 428/429

Clayton Whisnant is Chapman Family Professor of Humanities and European History, and chair of the Department of History at Wofford College.

 Lunch will be provided.

Faculty Spotlight and Lunchtime Workshop: Jessica Elfenbein

Date and Time: October 30 at 11:15 am

Location: Thomas Cooper Library/Level 2/L204

Join us in celebrating distinguished faculty at the University of South Carolina. Jessica Elfenbein is Professsor of History who specializes in American urban and public history. Elfenbein's current research interests include environmental and business history with the Wood Basket of the World project.

Lunch will be provided.

Margaret Renkl Lecture

Date and Time: December 2 at 6 pm

Location: SCSM

 Margaret Renkl is an award-winning and bestselling writer and opinion columnist for the New York Times. Renkl is the author of The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year (Spiegel & Grau, 2023) and Late Migrations (Milkweed Editions, 2019).