Congratulations to Professor Martha Jones who has been included in Diverse: Issues in Higher Education’s list of 35 leading women in higher education in 2020!
News & Announcements Archive
History Alumnus, Di Wang, inducted to Society of Scholars
Professor William Rowe’s former advisee, Di Wang, JHU History PhD 1999, has been named to the Society of Scholars, the Krieger School’s honor society for its most distinguished doctoral graduates. […]
Johnson’s “Markup Bodies” a Duke University Press “Top 10 Most Read in 2019”
Alongside “On Necropolitics” by Achille Mbembe and “Punks, Bulldaggers and Welfare Queens” by Cathy Cohen, Professor Jessica Johnson’s Markup Bodies was one of Duke University Press’s top ten most read articles […]
Fantasy and the Forbidden City
Professor Tobie Meyer-Fong’s recent essay published in The China Channel titled, “Fantasy and the Forbidden City,” focuses on the Chinese soap opera The Story of Yanxi Palace (延禧攻略) and how […]
America must invest in knowledge infrastructure to address global challenges
Professor Tobie Meyer-Fong’s recent policy op-ed titled, “America must invest in knowledge infrastructure to address global challenges,” was featured in The Hill.
Professor Jones book makes the ZORA Magazine’s 100 Best Books by Black Women Authors
Congratulations to Professor Martha Jones whose 2007 book, “All Bound Up Together: The Women Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900” made ZORA Magazine’s comprehensive list of 100 greatest books […]
AADHum Welcomes Third Cohort of Black Digital Humanities Scholars
The African American History, Culture and Digital Humanities (AADHum) initiative at the University of Maryland is proud to announce the 2019–2020 cohort of AADHum scholars. Started in 2017, this community […]
Take Two – Local Immigration Detention Centers, Black Women’s Suffrage History And How The Dodgers Came to LA
Professor Martha Jones was recently featured on 89.3 KPCC’s Take Two® Local Immigration Detention Centers, Black Women’s Suffrage History And How The Dodgers Came to LA where she discussed the […]
What is Beijing Planning for Hong Kong?
Professor Tobie Meyer-Fong’s book, What Remains: Coming to Terms with Civil War in 19th Century China, featured in the ‘What We’re Reading’ section, of the Foreign Policy article, “What is Beijing Planning […]
Professor Jones wins the 2019 AHA Littleton-Griswold Prize
Congratulations to Professor Martha S. Jones on winning the 2019 American Historical Association’s Littleton-Griswold Prize in U.S. law and society for her book, Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and […]