Congratulations to Nadya Williams for her selection as Center for Christianity & Public Life “Public Life Fellowship.” The Public Life Fellowship Program is a nine-month program serving an intergenerational class of Christians interested in intensive, community-based learning about the intersection […]
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History is one of the largest majors at conservative Hillsdale College. Why?
Conservative pundit and First Things senior editor Mark Bauerlein seems to have discovered that the number of history majors in the United States is in steep decline: Here is a link to the 2021 piece he references. The low number […]
Daniel K. Williams is the new Director of Teacher Programs at The Ashbrook Center at Ashland University
A big congratulations to Current contributing editor Daniel K. Williams who was just appointed the Director of Teacher Programs at The Ashbrook Center at Ashland University. Dan is leaving his post at the University of West Georgia to assume the […]
Nadya Williams on leaving academia
Readers of Current will know Nadya Williams as our book review editor and lead blogger at The Arena. But she also spent the last fifteen years (following her Ph.D at Princeton) teaching ancient history at the University of West Georgia. […]
Check out Current‘s new “Reviews” section
We publish a lot of book reviews in Current features section. For those of you who love books and ideas that come from books, we have gathered all of our reviews and placed them under the “Reviews” tag above. Enjoy! […]
“The Arena” is coming to Current
When you wake up on Wednesday morning and point your browser to Current you will notice a change on the home page. Starting February 1, 2022, Current will be hosting a new blog called “The Arena.” It is a group […]
Editorial changes at Current
As Executive Editor, I am pleased to announce the following changes to our editorial staff: Nadya Williams, Professor of Ancient History at the University of West Georgia, moves from Current Contributing Editor to Book Review Editor. Nadya received her B.A. […]
A Current contributing editor on writing and motherhood in a pandemic
Over at The Chronicle of Higher Education, historian Nadya Williams writes about how the pandemic provided her with more opportunities to write. We at Current are thrilled about this. Earlier this year Nadya joined our team of contributing editors! (Check […]