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Phillip Koyoumjian

PhD, 2019
Advisor: Stewart Weaver

Major Fields: Modern British History; Modern Europe
Minor Fields: Modernity and Modernism; History of Exploration

Research Interests

History of mapmaking and geography; historiography

Education

MS, Library and Information Science (with Graduate Certificate in Special Collections), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2013)
BA (summa cum laude), History, Roberts Wesleyan College (2010)

Selected Publications

  • ”The Culture of Maps in England, 1660-1760.” Northeast Conference on British Studies, Endicott College (14 October 2017) and the 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Department of History Workshop (upcoming, 7 December 2017)
  • "The Advent of Human Geography: Martin Martin, Lionel Wafer and 'Native' Peoples of the Atlantic." New York State Association of European Historians, University at Albany, State University of New York (1 October 2016) 
  • “Geographical Inquiry in Britain, c. 1695-1716: The Cases of Herman Moll and Martin Martin.” Midwest Conference on British Studies, Wayne State University (25 September 2015), and History Workshop, Department of History, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ (1 October 2015)
  • Nursing, Science and Math at Roberts Wesleyan College. Exhibition at the B. Thomas Golisano Library, Roberts Wesleyan College & Northeastern Seminary (Fall 2015)
  • B.T. Roberts and Roberts Wesleyan College. Exhibition for the Free Methodist General Conference Sesquicentennial, Roberts Wesleyan College & Northeastern Seminary (13-17 July 2011)
  • “Saint Francis’ Eucharistic Devotion and the Impurity of Heresy.” Undergraduate presentation at the 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (13 May 2011)
  •  for Three Percent: A Resource for International Literature at the 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳
  • Contributions to the 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ (N.Y.) Historical Society Observer

Teaching

  • Instructor, HIS 198: Science, Sex, and Society in Victorian Britain. 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ (Spring 2018)
  • Teaching Assistant to Thomas Fleischman, PhD, HST 126: Hitler's Germany. 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳, Spring 2017
  • Teaching Assistant to Dahpon Ho, PhD, HST 248: The Samurai. 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳, Fall 2016

Honors

  • Lina and A. William Salomone Prize, Department of History, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ (2017)
  • Roy E. VanDelinder Fellowship, Department of History, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ (2016)
  • Sanford Elwitt Memorial Prize, Department of History, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ (2016)