Department information

Access key information and review student learning goals.

  • Identify historical problem
  • Exhibit knowledge and use of historiography
  • Exhibit knowledge of specific topic area in papers, exhibitions, or presentations
  • Clear, cogent, elegant writing style (writing in major)
  • Information literacy
  • Oral communication
  • Technology literacy
  • Visual literacy

Established in honor of Gladys and Gordon Lee, parents of Patricia-Ann Lee, professor emerita of history, who joined the faculty in 1967, and awarded to an outstanding student in English or European history.

Past recipients:

  • 2026: William John Bryce III
  • 2025: Emilia Brueggemann
  • 2024: Willa Flink
  • 2023: Isabelle Jaber
  • 2022: William Carswell
  • 2021: Isabell Long
  • 2020: Catherine (Katie) Coggins
  • 2019: Amalia "Molly" Krause
  • 2018: Meaghan McDonald
  • 2017: Owen Peterson
  • 2016: Hannah Smith

Established in honor of Alice Farwell Warren, professor emerita of history, 1937-1962, by an anonymous donor and awarded annually to an outstanding student in history.

Past recipients:

  • 2026: Graham Beers
  • 2025: Will Moyer Laurin
  • 2024: Lisle Jamieson
  • 2023: Justin Rizzi
  • 2022: William Kertzman
  • 2021: Mattie Saulnier
  • 2020: Joseph (Joe) Gouvin
  • 2019: Karen Hafter
  • 2018: Jessica Shapiro
  • 2017: Joshua Wagner
  • 2016: Leila Farrer

Contact History

Office

Tisch Learning Center 314
Phone: 518-580-5260
Fax: 518-580-8067

Department Chair

Jennifer Delton
Professor and The Harriet Johnson Toadvine '56 Chair in 20th Century History
jdelton@skidmore.edu

Administrative Assistant

Susan Metrazzo
smatrazz@skidmore.edu