Faculty Profile

Regina Sweeney

(she/her/hers)Associate Professor of History (2001)

Contact Information

sweeneyr@dickinson.edu

Denny Hall Room 310
717-245-1682

Education

  • B.A., Tufts University,1980
  • M.A., University of California-Berkeley, 1986
  • Ph.D., 1992

Awards

  • Dickinson Award for Distinguished Teaching, 2011-12

2024-2025 Academic Year

Fall 2024

HIST 106 Early Modern Europe to 1799
Society, culture, and politics from the Renaissance through the French Revolution.

HIST 358 19th-20th C Europ Diplomacy
Cross-listed with INST 358-01.

INST 358 19th-20th C Europ Diplomacy
Cross-listed with HIST 358-01.

Spring 2025

MEMS 200 Pop Culture in Early Mod Eur
Cross-listed with HIST 213-01. This course will explore the everyday culture of early modern Europe including careful consideration of how people made sense of their world. It will range from examining religious rituals and objects such as relics to natural magic and the popular science that came with the Scientific Revolution. We will also examine the relationship between commoners and the elites while looking at how ideas spread whether by oral culture, images or the new technology of printing.

HIST 213 Pop Culture in Early Mod Eur
Cross-listed with MEMS 200-02. This course will explore the everyday culture of early modern Europe including careful consideration of how people made sense of their world. It will range from examining religious rituals and objects such as relics to natural magic and the popular science that came with the Scientific Revolution. We will also examine the relationship between commoners and the elites while looking at how ideas spread whether by oral culture, images or the new technology of printing.

WGSS 302 Consumerism, Nat'lism & Gender
Cross-listed with HIST 377-01. This reading seminar examines the development of consumerism and nationalism in Europe and America beginning in the late 18th century and continuing on into the post-WWII era - from American Revolutionary boycotts to French fast food establishments. We will look for overlaps or polarities between the movements and the way gender interacted with both of them. Students may be surprised at the gendered aspects of both movements. We will consider, for example, the historical development of the image of women loving to shop, and we will study propaganda from the two world wars with men in uniform and women on the "home front." Our readings will include both promoters and critics of each movement.

HIST 377 Consumerism, Nat'lism & Gender
Cross-listed with WGSS 302-03.

MEMS 490 The Senior Experience
Senior Projects and Research in Medieval & Early Modern Studies. Seniors in the major will work independently with a director and a second faculty reader (representing another discipline in the major) to produce a lengthy paper or special project which focuses on an issue relevant to the cluster of courses taken previously. Under the direction of the program coordinator, students will meet collectively 2 or 3 times during the semester with the directors (and, if possible, other MEMS faculty) to share bibliographies, research data, early drafts, and the like. This group will also meet at the end of the semester to discuss and evaluate final papers and projects.Prerequisite. 200; four-course "cluster."

HIST 500 Independent Study