Our Faculty
Marilyn Weigold
Professor
University Historian
Dyson College of Arts and Sciences
History
Location
- @Pleasantville
Choate House
Office Hours
Fall 2015
Office Hours
Fall 2015
Office Hours
Fall 2015
- Biography
- Publications & Presentations
- Research & Creative Works
- Professional Contributions & Service
Biography
Dr. Marilyn E. Weigold is a Professor of History, University Historian, and Assistant Chair of the Department of Economics, History and Political Science. A specialist in regional and environmental history, she is the author of Long Island Sound: Its People, Places and Environment (New York University Press: 2004), as well as other works including Silent Builder: Emily Warren Roebling and the Brooklyn Bridge. Her most recent book, Yonkers in the Twentieth Century, was published by SUNY Press in 2014.
Education
PhD, St.John's University, Jamaica, N.Y., 1970
History
MA, St.John's University, Jamaica, N.Y., 1966
History
BA, Good Counsel College, White Plains, N.Y., 1965
History
Awards and Honors
East Hampton Library Foundation,
August 13,
2016
- Authors' Night
Westchester Council for the Social Studies,
December 1994
- Social Studies Service Award
Women in Communications,
1986
- Matrix Award
Pace University,
May 1982
- Kenan Award for Teaching Excellence
Rockefeller Archive Center,
January 1976
- Post-doctoral Research Grant
Board of Regents, New York State,
1968
- Herbert H. Lehman Doctoral Fellowship
N.Y. State Board of Regents,
September 1966
- N.Y. State Regents College Teaching Fellowship
PRESENTATIONS
Weigold, M. E. (2016, June 12). Nassau County Historical Society Lecture Series. Peconic Bay: Four Centuries of History. Nassau County Historical Society, Westbury, N.Y..
Weigold, M. E. (2016, June 9). Southampton Library/Southampton Museum Lecture Series. Peconic Bay: Four Centuries of History. Southampton Museum, Southampton, New York.
RESEARCH INTEREST
Regional and environmental history of the New York area.
MEDIA CONTRIBUTIONS
East Hampoton Star [Newspaper], July 2015
article dealing with my book on Peconic Bay published by Syracuse University Press
Journal News and other Papers [Newspaper], January 1995
As university historian, I provide information about Pace's founding and evolution through the decades and have done so from 1995 to date.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Historical Association
New York State Historical Association
New York State Historical Association
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
