The Who Owns Black Data conference, held on March 28-29, 2024, by the Black Beyond Data Ecosystem at Johns Hopkins and Morgan State Universities, was a historic convening will gather […]

On March 28th, the History Department welcomed Ann Laura Stoler, the Willy Brandt Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at the New School for Social Research, to present the […]

Shani Tahir Mott, lecturer in the Center for Africana Studies and Department of History at Johns Hopkins University, died of cancer on March 12, four days before her 48th birthday.

Richard A. Goldthwaite, a renowned historian specializing in the economic and social history of Renaissance Florence, died March 4 in Italy at the age of 90.

The department celebrated the installation of Louis R. Hyman as the inaugural Dorothy Ross Professor of Political Economy in History with a lunch on February 22.  Professors Ross and Hyman […]

Congratulations to Prof. Louis Hyman and alumnus Dr. Sam Backer–and their co-PI Jeremy Alan Greene–for being among the winners of the inaugural AI-informed discovery and inquiry seed grant competition from […]

Professor J.G.A. Pocock, one of this Department’s most distinguished members, has passed away peacefully and surrounded by his sons Hugh and Stephen, his daughter-in-law Jill, and by two of his […]

A group of history majors and minors had the opportunity to explore different parts of Baltimore this month, and dig into local history alongside some the city’s historical experts. Students […]

JHU Arts & Sciences Weekly Newsletter, for October 25, 2023, featured none other than the History Department’s senior lecturer, Victoria Harms, in their “Faculty Focus” section: Describe your primary scholarship […]

In 2022, the Hopkins library acquired an almost complete collection of the Black Panther Party Newspaper for their archival database. Associate research professor at the Center for Africana studies, Stuart […]