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 […]

Congratulations to our colleague, Leah Wright Rigueur, narrator and production consultant for the ABC podcast, Reclaimed: The Story of Mamie Till Mobley. “Reclaimed” (ABC) won two Webby awards: for Best […]

This year, for the first time and thanks to the Dean’s new Faculty-Student Engagement and Enrichment Fund, all of the students who completed a Senior Honors Thesis in the History Department—Hanan […]

Congratulations to Dr. Nathan Connolly on receiving the Dr. Frank W. Hale, Jr., Distinguished Service Award from the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (NADOHE). Dr. Connolly received […]

The Podcast Academy recognized Professor Leah Wright Rigueur with their “Best Host” award at the 2023 Ambies. The Podcast Academy (a group of 1,000 industry executives) awards the Ambies to recognize […]

Ada Ferrer, a 2022 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History, gave the Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Lecture on February 23, titled , “Writing Between Personal and International History: Cuba: An […]