John Eicher, associate professor of history at Penn State Altoona, was selected as a resident scholar at the Penn State Humanities Institute for the 2025 spring semester.
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May 23, 2024
ALTOONA, Pa. — John Eicher, associate professor of history at Penn State Altoona, was selected as a resident scholar at the Penn State Humanities Institute for the 2025 spring semester.
As a Humanities Fellow, Eicher will continue to research and write his current project, “The Sword Outside, the Plague Within: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Europe," which he began in 2019. "The Sword Outside" focuses on socio-cultural interpretations of the 1918 influenza pandemic via a collection of nearly 1,000 personal memories of the event gathered from across ten European countries.
