News & Announcements Archive


Prof. Connolly Wins Book Award

Prof. Connolly Wins Book Award
Please join the history department in congratulating Nathan Connolly, who has just received the Liberty Legacy Foundation Award for his book A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking […]


1893 Letter Details Racially Restrictive Covenants in City Neighborhoods

History doctoral candidate Paige Glotzer was recently interviewed by the Baltimore Sun regarding a letter from 1893 she discovered while researching the Roland Park Co., which details the racially restrictive deed covenants that would, over the next 50 years, help to maintain segregation in many Baltimore neighborhoods. You can read her interview here.


Video: Prof. Connolly Discusses His Book on C-SPAN

Video: Prof. Connolly Discusses His Book on C-SPAN
Professor N.D.B. Connolly talked about his book A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida, in which he examines the relationship between race and property rights in the South during the Jim Crow era. This interview is part of Book TV’s College Series. Watch the video here.


History Thesis Publication

Congratulations to Jacqueline Randell on the publication of her Spring 2014 history senior thesis in Helvidius, the Columbia Journal of Politics & Society! View the online edition.


2014 Arthur Kouguell Memorial Prize Winner

2014 Arthur Kouguell Memorial Prize Winner
The history department would like to congratulate senior Geordan Williams on winning the 2014 Kouguell Prize for his senior thesis, "Upon the Frontier: Self-Identification Among the Cairo Genizah’s Merchants in the Indian Ocean System."


Prof. Marina Rustow Named Guggenheim Fellow

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced the 2014 class of Guggenheim Fellows, which includes the Department of History's Prof. Marina Rustow.


Hopkins Graduate Student Professional Development Workshop

Thanks to the kind support of the American Historical Association, the Hopkins Graduate Student Professional Development Workshop will host a special session on Alternative Career Pathways on Monday, April 21, […]


Franklin Knight Awarded a Gold Musgrave Medal by the Institute of Jamaica

Franklin Knight Awarded a Gold Musgrave Medal by the Institute of Jamaica
Eight distinguished Jamaicans are to receive the Institute of Jamaica’s Musgrave Award on October 16, 2013, at the Annual Musgrave Medals Award Ceremony. The medals are awarded for achievements in the literary, scientific, and artistic fields. One of two gold Musgrave Medals will be presented to Prof. Franklin Knight.