Brandon and Professor Enyeart at the History Picnic. Brandon received the 2022 Prize in History, awarded to the senior demonstrating outstanding academic performance in the study of History.
Hi everyone! My name is Brandon Waldau, class of 2022, and I am currently a first year M.A. student at New York University in the Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies. HIST400 was one of my most memorable history courses in my four years at Bucknell. Through a semester-long seminar that is aimed at creating a single research paper, it opened the doors for me to begin formulating the boundaries of my research, and put me on a path of understanding what types of histories I want to continue studying and why. By engaging with various research, writing, and speaking methodologies, HIST400 gave me the experience and learning necessary to create a 30-page long writing sample about a subject I truly cared about; I ultimately used this writing sample to apply to graduate programs, and it currently serves as a foundational piece of writing in the trajectory of my research about visuality and carceral spaces in the Middle East. HIST400 is a great capstone course for the History major at Bucknell, and can also provide opportunities and interests beyond your undergrad experience — as it did with me!