The AHA On a chilly January morning, four graduate students from Johns Hopkins hopped on a train from Baltimore to Philadelphia. The conference app downloaded, scoured and even memorized, Laurence […]

Graduate student research has been supported in recent years by new endowments given or bequeathed by former faculty, or given by others in their honor. These funds highlight the notably […]

Enthusiastic congratulations to our colleague, Sarah Pearsall, who has been awarded an NEH Public Scholars grant to support the completion of her book, Freedom Round the Globe: A New History of […]

U.S. Navy Commander Ryan Mewett ’22 PhD was featured in the spring 2023 issue of Arts and Sciences Magazine for his research on naval history and his current work as a permanent military professor at the U.S. Naval Academy.

The History Department is very pleased to award two William and Willie Lee Rose Fellowships this spring to Halle-McKenzie Ashby and Wesley Sampias.  Halle-McKenzie Ashby will pursue archival work in London for a […]

Congratulations to our colleague, Casey Lurtz who has been selected as a 2023 Catalyst Award Recipient. Granted by the Office of the Provost, the Catalyst Award “recognizes the work of exceptional […]

The History Department received a generous gift to endow “The Jean Hébrard Graduate Student Fellowship for Summer Research.”  Starting next year, the fellowship will support the exploratory pre-dissertation research travel […]

2023 Butler Prize awarded to Sheridon Ward for her First Year Paper “Lettered Women, Midwives, and Cursyde Calets: Navigating Ways of Knowing in Reproductive Healthcare Practice.” The paper interprets a complex […]

Congratulations to Holly Nelson, winner of the 2023 Arthur Kouguell Prize for her outstanding senior thesis, “’A Rare Standing Ovation”: Ballet Diplomacy, Russian Myth, and Black Transnationalism in the Dance […]