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.
The Billie Holiday Center for Liberation Arts at Johns Hopkins sponsored several major events this spring. These included “Rent Party: African American Urban Dance Music from Ragtime to House” featuring the […]
Congratulations to Jessica Newby for receiving a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship (DIF) to support her project, Kinship in Motion: Women & Slavery in 18th Century Rural Jamaica!!! Jessica is one […]
Congratulations to Victoria Harms and Stuart Schrader on the record-setting opening of their exhibition “‘Revolution in Our Lifetime’: The Black Panther Party and Political Organizing in Baltimore, 1968-1974″ at the […]