Evelyn Jennings
Assistant Professor of History/Margaret Vilas Chair

“I feel lucky to be able to work at something I truly enjoy,” says Evelyn Jennings. She has always enjoyed working with students, and feels at home in St. Lawrence’s small liberal arts college environment. “There’s a lot of interaction with students because of the relatively small class sizes,” she says. “And the advantage of being the Latin studies specialist in the history department is that I can design my own curricula and teach whatever I want.”

A native of Rochester, N.Y., Jennings received a B.A. in Spanish language and literatures from SUNY Oswego, and spent a year in Spain. She received an M.A. in Modern Latin America from SUNY Stony Brook. Putting her studies on hold, she moved back to Rochester to start a family. She taught Spanish at a community college in Rochester for 10 years before entering the doctoral program at the University of Rochester. In 2001 she earned her Ph.D. in modern European history with a focus on Spanish colonialism. She held a visiting professorship at SUNY Brockport before coming to St. Lawrence in 2002.