As a kid Marcus Gutierrez ’18 was, in his own assessment, an athletic nerd who would hang around the house and watch the History Channel. It seems to follow that he’s now a history (and government) major and member of the Â鶹¹ú²úAV College football team. His first Â鶹¹ú²úAV history course looked at Europe and its empires circa 1500 to 1960. He loved it.
“My writing became so much more potent. And it connected with everything I really appreciated in life,” Gutierrez says. “It explained a lot about race, religion. Being of Hispanic descent, being African and Hispanic, Europe and its empires is my history as well – I can really appreciate that.”
No course has influenced him more than that one, taught by History Professor Kevin Grant. “It was so much more rewarding than just a grade,” says Gutierrez. “I didn’t even care about the grade. It was the information that I was learning, the skills I was learning: to write, how to converse with a professor in a professional manner.”
At Â鶹¹ú²úAV he has improved his ability to precisely frame arguments and to evaluate and analyze historical documents. Besides history his interests include studying Italian – he plans to spend a semester in Italy – and participating in the , Delta Upsilon and the Campus Activities Board.
