Johns Hopkins UniversityEST. 1876
America’s First Research University
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.
Contribute new research to the oldest PhD history program in the country.
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 our emeritus colleague, Richard Kagan, who has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru in recognition of his stellar contributions to the study […]
Associate Teaching Professor Victoria Harms on the history of soccer and what it means this month's world cup.
Congratulations to the Butler Prize winner Alexis Estevane for her First Year Paper “Thérèse – Philosophe, Iconoclast, or Object? Contextualizing Thérèse Philosophe’s Resurgence in Relation to Eighteenth-Century Ideas about Gender.” Congratulations also to Emily Sanchez to whom the […]
