For more than a century, the Department of History has flourished as an intellectual community committed to intensive research, collaborative seminars, public engagement, and methodological innovation. We offer a top-ranked graduate program and a rigorous undergraduate major and minor, all of which prepare students to engage issues of vital personal and global significance.
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The department seeks to develop each student’s capacity for comparative reasoning and to deepen their understanding of global connections.
Faculty research ranges from medieval to modern history and emphasizes the histories of Europe, the United States, East Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East.
Congratulations to emeritus professor, Richard L. Kagan, on the publication of his new book, THE INQQUISTION’S INQUISITOR: HENRY CHARLES LEA OF PHILADELPHIA, published last month by Penn Press. From Amazon: […]
Professor Anne Lester recently published a short article, in Perspectives on History, where she discussed the 2019 burning of the Notre-Dame cathedral in France, its historical significance, and the complex undertaking of rebuilding one of the most visited tourist sites in Europe.
The department congratulates recent alumna, Kelsey Moore. Her dissertation, What the Dead Witnessed: Clearing Black Knowledges in Jim Crow South Carolina has won the 2024 American Religion Dissertation Prize! Congrats, Kelsey!