The department congratulates recent alumna, Kelsey Moore. Her dissertation, What the Dead Witnessed: Clearing Black Knowledges in Jim Crow South Carolina has won the 2024 American Religion Dissertation Prize! Congrats, Kelsey!
News & Announcements Archive
Franklin W. Knight receives the American Historical Association Award for Scholarly Distinction
Congratulations to Franklin W. Knight, Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor Emeritus of History, on receiving the American Historical Association (AHA) Award for Scholarly Distinction which is awarded to senior […]
Johns Hopkins students unpack the past at the Bmore Historic ‘Unconference’
Recently, 168 such historians gathered at Baltimore’s Museum of Industry to discuss interests, describe research in progress, and share resources and connections. Ten Johns Hopkins students plus one recent graduate were among them.
Harms receives 2024 Transform Mid-Atlantic Alan G. Penczek Service-Learning Faculty Award
Associate Teaching Professor, Victoria Harms, has been selected as the recipient of the 2024 Transform Mid-Atlantic Alan G. Penczek Service-Learning Faculty Award in the 4-year private institution category. This award […]
History Rum Tasting
The History Department and Professor Emeritus Franklin Knight hosted a rum tasting on October 7th. Prof. Knight introduced everyone to the marvels, and history, of three selected Caribbean rums from […]
Keywords for Black Louisiana (K4BL) Launches Public Beta of Black History Documents
Keywords for Black Louisiana (K4BL) is thrilled to announce the launch of a digital collection of enslaved testimony from French- and Spanish-controlled Louisiana. Visit K4BL Keywords for Black Louisiana (K4BL, […]
KSAS History Undergraduate Open Houses
Join us for the KSAS Open House for the History Department which will be held in Hodson 203 in two sessions: 3:00-3:30pm and 3:45-4:15pm. We hope to see you there!
Remembering Zoe
It is with profound sadness that the Department of History learned of student Zoe Underwood’s passing. She had double majored in classical music and history and was preparing to complete […]
Dan Rodricks: A long thread of Black church history loops back to Baltimore | Baltimore Sun
Professor Lawrence Jackson, fellow parishioners, and colleagues in the Johns Hopkins Inheritance Baltimore initiative helped the South’s first Black Episcopal congregation convince Colonial Williamsburg to lend meaningful rare tapestry knitted, […]
Renowned historian of modern social science Dorothy Ross dies at 87
Dorothy Ross, pioneering historian of the origins of modern social science and a professor emerita in the Johns Hopkins University Department of History, died last week. She was 87.