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 Diego Javier Luis—the department’s inaugural Rohrbaugh Family Assistant Professor—has been awarded the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize by Harvard University Press for the Best First Book in Any […]
Congratulations to Professor Michael Kwass for being awarded a NEH fellowship to support his current research project “The Price of Freedom: Haiti’s Struggle for Sovereignty in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World!”
Congratulations to Professor Laura Mason for receiving a NEH fellowship to support her current book project “Jean-Baptiste Carrier in a Slave-Trading City: Atlantic World Violence and the French Revolution!”