News & Announcements Archive


Professor Connolly Featured in The Washington Post

Professor Nathan Connolly puts the recent violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, in historical perspective in an editorial published by The Washington Post. His commentary argues that liberalism alone cannot defeat white supremacy in the United States. History shows that active resistance and anti-racist institution building have always been essential to the struggle for equality. (Read more […]


Prof. Balz featured on the BBC Podcast The Inquiry

Professor Hanno Balz was recently featured, as a guest historian, on part one of the June 8th episode of the BBC Podcast The Inquiry titled, “How Do You Report Terrorism?” where he discusses the media impact of terrorism in relation to the Red Army Faction in 1970s Germany.


The History Department Welcomes Martha Jones

The Department of History is pleased to announce that Martha Jones has just joined the Department as The Society of Black Alumni Professor of History. Professor Jones was formerly Presidential Bicentennial Professor and Arthur Thurnau Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Professor Jones is the author of All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African […]


Krieger Diversity Award Winner

Congratulations to History graduate student, Mo Speller, on winning a Krieger Diversity Recognition Award granted by the university’s Diversity Leadership Council! Mo won an Individual Award for his tireless work to create a more diverse, equitable university through service, teaching, and research. Mo spearheaded the creation of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Graduate Student Group […]


Emily Sneff , Class of ’12, featured in the New York Times

Read about the important discovery made by alumna Emily Sneff  as project manager with Harvard’s Declaration Resources Project. Emily, who majored in History, wrote her senior thesis on Sir John Sloane’s ‘Nicknackatory’ and worked at the American Philosophical Society Museum before moving to Harvard.  Congratulations, Emily!


History Alumna receives Carlton C. Qualey Memorial Article Award

Congratulations to alumna, Krystyn Moon, Associate Professor of History at the University of Mary Washington–and recipient of the Carlton C. Qualey Memorial Article Award for the best article in the Journal of American Ethnic History in the past 2 years. The article is titled, “The Alexandria YWCA, Race, and Urban (and Ethnic) Revival: The Scottish […]


2017 Mellon-CLIR Fellowship

Congratulations to History graduate student, Tara Tran–recipient of a 2017 Mellon-CLIR Fellowship for Dissertation Research in Original Sources. Congrats, Tara!


Call for Papers: “Spain and the American Revolution” Conference (June 2018)

Call for Papers The Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) Ninth Annual Conference on the American Revolution Spain and the American Revolution The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland June 8-10, 2018 The Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) invite proposals for papers to be presented at the Ninth SAR Annual Conference on the American Revolution. […]


Prof. Connolly to co-host ‘Backstory with the American History Guys’

N.D.B. Connolly will soon become a co-host of the national radio program and podcast BackStory with the American History Guys which brings historical perspective to current events. You can read more about BackStory at The Hub, VFH News, and the BackStory Radio’s website.