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 […]
Michael Kwass receives NEH Fellowship
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!”
Laura Mason receives NEH Fellowship
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!”
Keywords for Black Louisiana Receives 2025 NHPRC Publishing Historical Records Grant
Congratulations to Jessica Marie Johnson and the team at Keywords for Black Louisiana on receiving a $125,000 grant from the NHPRC Publishing Historical Records program, a program dedicated to supporting […]
Arts and Sciences Meets AI: Bringing the Past Alive
A one-of-a-kind database is based on expertise from Professor Louis Hyman and other Hopkins researchers. Working with the museum curators and archivists, a treasure trove of employee insurance records dating back to the early 1900s for the B&O Railroad Museum, will now be able to be scanned and digitized using AI technology.
Women Who Wrote About a New American Nation
Hilary Gallito ’25 is studying the words of three remarkable Revolutionary-era women who wrote about America as it was being formed.
12/9: History Undergraduate Study Break
Need a change of scenery while you study for exams or wish to have a quick break?Stop by the History Department’s seminar room (Gilman 308), on Monday, Dec. 9th, between […]
Professor Kagan’s The Inquisition’s Inquisitor
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: […]
Perspectives on History: Notre-Dame Arises
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.
Moore wins 2024 American Religion Dissertation Prize
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!