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![Edmund Kern poses for a photo on Main Hall Green.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2024-05/On%20Main%20Hall%20Ed%20Kern%20crop.jpg?h=172fb4e5&itok=Vs_LWcpj)
Meet history professor Edmund Kern, a specialist in early modern European history who has provided scholarly insights on contemporary topics ranging from Harry Potter to the development of a role-playing video game.
![Diana Van Gilder poses for a portrait.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2024-04/VanGilder.jpg?h=6dae3a3b&itok=8TWG0pT5)
Diana Van Gilder, a history major from Moraga, California, is heading to France this summer to present a paper at a conference that explores links between tourism and fiction.
![Monica Rico is joined by her dog, Connor, on the sidewalk with the Lawrence Arch in the background.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2023-02/MonicaRicoOnMainHallGreen_7.jpg?h=0fcd2229&itok=sIcLN8vV)
Monica Rico, a member of the history faculty at Lawrence, specializes in the history of early and 19th-century America. We talked with her about interests in and out of the classroom.
![Jin Han leans against a window of the Wriston Art Center.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2022-06/JinHan%20Profile_202206%20%281%29.jpg?h=84ced5d1&itok=ajRdhOOg)
Inspired by a class with history professor Brigid Vance, junior Jin Han set out to explore the history of some of the Wriston Art Galleries' East Asian artifacts.
![Avery Greene stands on a sidewalk decorated with chalk drawings of constellations.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2021-12/AveryGreen_202109.jpg?h=55156e01&itok=Jutn32lx)
Avery Greene '24 is collecting stories and histories about constellations in the night sky as part of a research project.
![Jerald Podair, wearing a black coat, smiles at the camera.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2021-06/JeraldMainHallGreen-new-768x534.jpg?h=11c29a07&itok=k2fR0bx9)
A two-time winner of Lawrence’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship, Jerald Podair co-authored 2019’s Republican Populist: Spiro Agnew and the Origins of Donald Trump’s America.