The Saint and the Count: A Case Study for Reading like a Historian

Faculty Feature

While historians know that history is about interpreting primary sources, students tend to think of history as a set of facts. In The Saint and the Count, History Professor Leah Shopkow opens up the interpretive world of the historian using the biography of St. Vitalis of Savigny (d. 1122) as a case study.

Robin Nokes

Undergraduate Feature

Robin is an Indiana University-Bloomington sophomore from Jeffersonville, Indiana, majoring in English, history, and sociology. Robin is pictured here at the Oscar Wilde monument in Dublin, Ireland. 

"The value of a history major comes in its incredible power to provide context for the world we live in today. In the world of fake news, being able to work efficiently with primary sources is a skill that cannot be undervalued."

Dr. Jessica Leach

Graduate Alumni Feature

Jessica Leach (Ph.D., 2017) received her Ph.D. in Medieval History under the supervision of Dr. Leah Shopkow in 2017. She is the Indigenous Languages Grant Manager for The Language Conservancy (TLC) and the Lakota Language Consortium. In 2020, Jessica wrote a National Endowment for Humanities grant “E-Learning Platform Expansion and Reader Creation” for the Lakota Language Consortium (LLC), which was awarded. This grant allowed LLC to add a Teacher Portal and classroom integration feature into their Lakota e-learning platform called Owóksape (“Learning Place” in Lakota).