High School History Club Speaks with Dr. Noam Chomsky

Jonathan Grybos is a high school social studies teacher from Pennsylvania. He dedicates his classroom and time to a history club. This is no ordinary history club, however. Grybos has been able to cultivate several guest speakers for his club, including Dr.

Culture, regional pride, and culinary choices are deeply connected, and a given dish can tell us a lot about the history of any region and culture. Just as pizza, barbecue, and frybread connects New Yorkers, Chicagoans, various Southern states, and Native Americans to their culture and their history, respectively, the anticucho serves the same purpose for Peruvians.

 Do you love history? Are you thinking about joining a club? Well, we have the perfect one for you! The Student Historical Association (SHA) is a club where lovers of history can come together to listen to guest speakers and talk about their favorite historical topics.

Jessica Lawson is a veteran and a historian for the 944th Fighter Wing at Luke Air Force Base. She graduated from SHPRS with her bachelor’s in history and a minor in religious studies. We asked her about her time here at ASU and why she chose Public History.

Manuel Cartagena is a high school history teacher in the Chandler Unified School District, sharing his passion for history. In 2012, he graduated with his bachelor’s degree in history (secondary education). More recently, he graduated from SHPRS with a master’s in history in 2018.

Jennifer Schaper recently graduated with her master’s in history. She currently works as a digital curation executive at Ovation Data. We asked her a few questions about her time here at ASU and how she utilizes the skills she learned while at SHPRS.

Last year philosophy major Christina Soriano interned at Dorn Policy Group. Christina was eager to dip her toes into a new field, but couldn’t find any internships in Arizona.

“I eventually stumbled upon an article Dorn Policy Group had released about what their interns did from a few years ago, in that article it had stated that if you wanted to intern with them just send an email through their website of why you think you would be a good fit, so I did,” she said.

I sat down with SHPRS Academic Advisor Michael Currey to talk about how the humanities can be added to your resumé, and how they can help you in the workplace. 

Michael Currey has a bachelor of science in business administration, a bachelor degree in philosophy, a master’s degree in philosophy and a master’s degree in history.

Samuel Watson is triple majoring in chemical engineering, Asia Studies (Southeast Asia), and economics. 

His honor thesis project is based in Vietnam and specifically looks into how relations in the country have normalized, asking how the country was able to reunify so effectively in just a generation or two after the Vietnam War.