It is with profound sadness that the Department of History learned of student Zoe Underwood’s passing. She had double majored in classical music and history and was preparing to complete […]
News & Announcements Archive
Dan Rodricks: A long thread of Black church history loops back to Baltimore | Baltimore Sun
Professor Lawrence Jackson, fellow parishioners, and colleagues in the Johns Hopkins Inheritance Baltimore initiative helped the South’s first Black Episcopal congregation convince Colonial Williamsburg to lend meaningful rare tapestry knitted, […]
Renowned historian of modern social science Dorothy Ross dies at 87
Dorothy Ross, pioneering historian of the origins of modern social science and a professor emerita in the Johns Hopkins University Department of History, died last week. She was 87.
Congratulations, Seniors!
Warmest congratulations to our History majors, minors, and graduate students on your graduation!
Gallito awarded a Summer 2024 PURA
Congratulations to History major Hilary Gallito on being awarded a Summer 2024 PURA (Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award) for her project proposal titled, “War, Women, and a Revolution: An Analysis of […]
2023-24 Departmental Prizes Awarded
As part of our History end-of-year reception festivities, we awarded the Kouguell, Butler, and Student Leadership Awards. This year, we split the Kouguell Prize between two outstanding undergraduate senior thesis […]
Spring BHCLA Events
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 […]
Newby awarded Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship
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 […]
A More Expansive Age of Revolutions Workshop
On April 12th, the History Department hosted “A More Expansive Age of Revolutions” workshop. They keynote was presented by Sir Christopher Clark, Regius Professor of History, Cambridge University. This event […]
Opening of exhibit “‘Revolution in our Lifetime’: The Black Panther Party and Political Organizing in Baltimore, 1968-1974”
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 […]