News & Announcements

Trumps ‘Go Back’ Tweets as Seen Through the Lens of History

Two of our department’s historians, N.D.B. Connolly and Martha S. Jones, weigh in on how racism has historically shaped conversations about citizenship in the United States in recent The Boston Globe article, “The long, sordid history behind Trump’s ‘go back’ to your country comments.”

Professor Kim receives the 2019 Berkshire Conference Article Prize

Congratulations to Professor H. Yumi Kim on being awarded the 2019 Berkshire Conference of Women Historian’s Article Prize for her article, “Seeing Cages: Photographs of home Confinement in Early Twentieth-Century Japan” in The Journal of Asian Studies, 77, no. 3 (August 2018): 635-658.

Jessica Levy wins Dissertation Prize

Congratulations to recent PhD graduate, Jessica Levy, on winning the 2019 Betty M. Unterberger Dissertation Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR)! She is currently a postdoctoral research associate, in the Department of African American Studies, at Princeton University.