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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Congratulations to history majors Hilary Gallito and Contessa St. Clair were who recently published in Issue VIII, the Fall 2023-Spring 2024 issue, of the Vanderbilt Historical Review! Their articles:“The “Poet’s […]

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 […]