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Professor Kim awarded Fellowship at the Kluge Center, Library of Congress

February 8, 2018

Congratulations to Professor Yumi Kim, recipient of the David B. Larson Fellowship in Health and Spirituality at the Kluge Center in the Library of Congress, 2018.

Professor Jackson nominated for MWA Edgar Award

January 23, 2018

Congratulations to Professor Lawrence Jackson on your Edgar Award nomination, from the Mystery Writers of America, in the Best Critical/Biographical category for your book Chester B. Himes: A Biography!

Professor Jackson longlisted for PEN America Literary Award

January 3, 2018

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Lawrence Jackson’s biography of American author Chester Himes has been included in the 2018 PEN America Literary Awards Longlist. The PEN America Literary Awards have honored the […]

Congratulations to John Marshall

November 27, 2017

Congratulations to Professor John Marshall on being elected an Overseas Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University for the 2018 Lent and Easter terms!

Lawrence Jackson’s Chester B. Himes Receives Glowing New York Times Review

August 28, 2017

In the book review, the New York Times declares Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Lawrence Jackson’s research "unimpeachable." Chester B. Himes: A Biography is "neatly written and accessible, without cheap tricks to build suspense or sway readers’ opinions."

Professor Connolly Featured in The Washington Post

August 16, 2017

Professor Nathan Connolly puts the recent violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, in historical perspective in an editorial published by The Washington Post. His commentary argues that liberalism alone cannot defeat white […]

Prof. Balz featured on the BBC Podcast The Inquiry

June 19, 2017

Professor Hanno Balz was recently featured, as a guest historian, on part one of the June 8th episode of the BBC Podcast The Inquiry titled, “How Do You Report Terrorism?” where […]

The History Department Welcomes Martha Jones

June 1, 2017

The Department of History is pleased to announce that Martha Jones has just joined the Department as The Society of Black Alumni Professor of History. Professor Jones was formerly Presidential Bicentennial Professor […]

Call for Papers: “Spain and the American Revolution” Conference (June 2018)

January 17, 2017

Call for Papers The Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) Ninth Annual Conference on the American Revolution Spain and the American Revolution The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland June 8-10, […]

‘National Geographic’ gives best-of-year nod to JHU historian

January 10, 2017

Prof. Nathan Connolly helped digitize records of redlining in Mapping Inequality, an interactive database that allows users to search hundreds of maps and documents that contributed to housing discrimination beginning in the 1930s.

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