New Drinko Fellowship Awarded May 3, 2025
History Professor Dr. Christopher M. White is the 30th Distinguished Drinko Fellow. Dr. White teaches Latin American history, U.S. history, world history, food history, conspiracies in U.S. history, and courses on the war on drugs and the global south. He earned his Ph.D. in history in 2005 and his M.A. in Latin American studies in 2002 both from the University of Kansas, and he earned a B.A. in Spanish education from Humboldt State University in Arcata, Calif., in 2001. He also served in the United States Marine Corps from 1994 to 1998.
Dr. White has received the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism’s Outstanding Community Contributor Award, the Marshall University Distinguished Artists and Scholars Award, and a Marshall International Innovation Grant. He served as director of the Latin American studies minor at Marshall University from 2006 to 2011 and has led the History Department’s “Food Past/Food Present” series since its inception in 2019.
Dr. White has authored four books, including Creating a Third World: Mexico, Cuba, and the United States during the Castro Era, The History of El Salvador, A Global History of the Developing World, and The War on Drugs in the Americas. He is also co-editor of Appalachian Epidemics: From Smallpox to COVID-19. He will present the results of his fellowship work at the university’s 2027 Drinko Symposium. See the full news release here.
31st Drinko Academy Booklet
28th Drinko Fellow Featured at 2025 Symposium
Dr. Luke Eric Lassiter, Professor of Humanities and Anthropology and Director of the Graduate Humanities Program, delivering his Symposium presentation “New Generation Change Agents in Appalachia.”
June 1, 2025
American Milestone Symposium Call for Papers Deadline
Faculty, undergraduates, graduate students, and independent scholars, as well as K-12 teachers, are welcome and encouraged to submit proposals that address U.S. and global themes in Black history and culture for the American Milestone Symposium which will be held at Marshall University March 5-7, 2026, with an excursion to the historic HBCU, Land-grant university founded in 1891 – West Virginia State University.
Looking forward to Fall 2025!
September 3 & 4, 10 & 11, 2025 – 4 p.m., Buskirk Field
Open Quoits Tournament
Students, faculty, staff, and alumni are all welcome to play
Sign up to play
September 12, 2025 – 3 p.m., Buskirk Field
President’s Invitational Quoits Match
Open Quoits Winners vs. President Brad Smith’s Team
September 16, 2025 – 10 a.m.-2 p.m., MSC Plaza
National Voter Registration Day
September 17, 2025 – 4 p.m., Drinko Library Atrium
U.S. Constitution & Citizenship Day Trivia
September 19, 2025 – 11 a.m., Buskirk Field
Media Quoits Challenge
Members of the press and civic leaders play Marshall Quoits Teams
September 23, 2025 – 10 a.m., Joan C. Edwards Playhouse
Court on Campus
Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia Oral Arguments Session
October 23, 2025
Jayne Anne Phillips
AE Stringer Visiting Writers Series
November 6, 2025 – Joan C. Edwards Playhouse
Javier Zamora
Marshall Artists Series
Spring 2025
May 2025 Graduating ACTA Scholars List
May 3, 2025
Drinko Symposium featuring 28th Drinko Fellow Dr. Luke Eric Lassiter
May 2, 2025
Honors Convocation
March 11, 2025
3:00 pm – Drinko Library Atrium – Faculty Publication Celebration
March 8, 2025
7:30 pm – Drinko Library Atrium – International Women’s Day Recital featuring Dr. Julie Park and Dr. Johan Botes
February 19, 2025
Video of our standing-room-only Carter G. Woodson Lecture featuring Former West Virginia State Senator Marie E. Redd. She spoke about the Burlington 37, who formed the first free-black community west of the Allegheny Mountains in 1849.
2024
July & December 2024 Graduating ACTA Scholars List
Oct. 8, 2024, Candidate Forum Photo Gallery
Drinko Fellowship Awarded April 20, 2024
Dr. Vicki Stroeher, a professor of music at Marshall University, has been named the university’s 29th Distinguished John Deaver Drinko Fellow.
Stroeher earned her Ph.D. in 1994 in musicology with a specialization in music theory from the University of North Texas. She is the coordinator of Music History and Literature and program director for Marshall’s School of Music and serves as faculty advisor for the Marshall chapter of Delta Omicron International Music Fraternity. Stroeher has a long and impressive record of community outreach and engagement in her field. She teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in music history at Marshall.
A recipient of the 2018 C.B. Oldman Prize that is awarded by the International Association of Music Libraries and Documentation Centres of the United Kingdom and Ireland, Stroeher also received Marshall’s Distinguished Scholars and Artists Award in 2023.
Stroeher’s work on Benjamin Britten illuminates the way in which art music addresses the plight of the individual who is forced to confront war, nationalism, and other perils of modernity. According to Stroeher, Britten imbued remarkable “humanness in his music, expressing with it the very qualities that make us all human, from our innocence to our arrogance to our passion and our coldness.”
Stroeher has edited two books about Britten, including Benjamin Britten in Context, along with Justin Vickers, as well as My Beloved Man: The Letters of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears, with Nicholas Clark and Jude Brimmer.
She will present the results of her fellowship work at the university’s 2026 Drinko Symposium. See the full news release here.
Dr. Vicki Stroeher receiving her Drinko Fellow medallion from Dr. Montserrat Miller, Drinko Academy Executive Director, at the Drinko Symposium April 20, 2024.
27th Drinko Fellow Featured at 2024 Drinko Symposium
Dr. Habiba Chirchir, Associate Professor of Anatomy, delivering her Symposium presentation “Bones: How the Deep Past Informs the Present.”