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Professors Gilburd, Harrison, and Shaw

3 SSD Faculty Awarded for Graduate and Undergraduate Teaching

Thursday, May 22

Tara Zahra reappointed as Roman Family Director of the Neubauer Collegium

Thursday, May 22

Eleonory Gilburd

Eleonory Gilburd, Associate Professor of History, Received a 2025 Quantrell Award for Undergraduate Teaching

Thursday, May 22

Nicholas O'Neill

Nicholas O'Neill (PhD '22) has been shortlisted for the International Economic History Association’s triennial dissertation prize at the 2025 World Economic History Conference

Friday, May 9

Nicholas O'Neill's 2022 dissertation, "The Political Economy of Taste: The State and the Porcelain Industry in France, 1682-1815," has been shortliste...

NYT Article Features Ada Palmer's course, "The Italian Renaissance: Dante, Machiavelli and the Wars of Popes and Kings"

Tuesday, May 6

NYT - ‘The Only Person in the World Claiming to Be the Pope Right Now’; Article highlights Assoc. Prof. Ada Palmer's "The Italian Renaissance: Dante, Machiavelli, and the Wars of Popes and Kings" class

Tuesday, May 6

History PhD Candidate, Daniel Fernandez, Awarded a 2025 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship

Thursday, May 1

Members of UChicago’s national champion distance medley relay team, joined by head coach Chris Hall (center) included (from left): Ren Brown, Nora Holmes, Claudia Harnett and Emma Kelly.

History Undergraduate, Nora Holmes, On the Winning Distance Medley Relay Team for the National Championship

Thursday, May 1

UChicago History alumna, Betsy Wood (PhD '11), in TIME Magazine "Paying Your Taxes Used to Be Patriotic"

Monday, April 28

Amy Dru Stanley

Amy Dru Stanley, "Freedom for Sale" in Dissent Magazine

Tuesday, April 22