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Mar 20, 2023 - Syrus Jin, PhD Student, Awarded the 23-24 National Fellowship through the Jefferson Scholars Foundation
Mar 20, 2023 - Spring 23 Newsletter, Corrected Edition
Mar 20, 2023 - Faculty Spotlight: Mary Hicks
Mar 20, 2023 - Student Spotlight: Stephanie Painter
Mar 15, 2023 - UChicago Grad Sabine Cadeau, Winner of the LASA 2023 Bryce Wood Book Award
Mar 13, 2023 - Amy Dru Stanley Comments in Globe and Mail on the Potential Trump Indictment
Mar 6, 2023 - Syrus Jin, History PhD Student, on Pop Stars and Military Conscription
Mar 1, 2023 - Jane Dailey on MTG's Tweet that African-Americans Should Be Proud When They See Confederate Monuments
Mar 1, 2023 - Thomas Holt on MTG's "National Divorce" Suggestion and its Disturbing Parallel to Confederate Secession
Feb 15, 2023 - Asst. Prof. Mary Hicks on Netflix's new series African Queens: Njinga
Jan 31, 2023 - Tara Zahra interviewed by The Nation on "Against the World"
Jan 30, 2023 - Chicago's CISSR Awarded to three history faculty members
Jan 27, 2023 - NYT Reviews Tara Zahra's new book, 'Against the World'
Jan 27, 2023 - WSJ Reviews Tara Zahra's 'Against the World'
Jan 20, 2023 - Gabriel Winant Discusses Nurse Burnout and the Failure to Value Care
Jan 19, 2023 - Adam Green Discusses Often-Overlooked Legacy of Civil Rights Figure F.D. Reese
Jan 17, 2023 - Syrus Jin, PhD student in history at UChicago, on Training Ukrainian Soldiers in the US- Wash Post
Jan 10, 2023 - Public History Practicum--A Distinctive Program
Jan 9, 2023 - Rashauna Johnson in NYT on "The Past, the Present and the Work of Historians" at the AHA
Jan 9, 2023 - Faculty Spotlight: Ada Palmer
Jan 6, 2023 - Doctoral Student Co-Teaching
Jan 4, 2023 - Special Projects Grant, First Awardee
Jan 4, 2023 - Spotlight- Visiting Professor Alina Shokreva
Jan 3, 2023 - the Forum on Law and Legalities Winter/Spring Schedule
Jan 3, 2023 - Faculty and Doctoral Student Publications and Awards
Dec 7, 2022 - Evelyn Atkinson, Teaching Fellow and History PhD, Wins ASLH Award
Nov 18, 2022 - UChicago History Major, Elizabeth Zazycki, explores climate solutions at UN COP27 conference in Egypt with three other UChicago undergraduates
Oct 28, 2022 - Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity Program Website is Online; History's Leora Auslander, Associate Chair
Oct 11, 2022 - Amy Dru Stanley comments in a Chilean newspaper on the "Chicago School" (Spanish)
Sep 26, 2022 - Welcome 2022 PhD Students!
Sep 20, 2022 - UChicago History Graduate Students Win Prizes at the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs
Sep 20, 2022 - ABC7: Steve Pincus on King Charles III
Sep 20, 2022 - WTTW: Steve Pincus Discusses the Funeral of Queen Elizabeth II
Sep 20, 2022 - Politico: James Vaught, PhD '09, on King Charles III
Sep 2, 2022 - Neil Harris Awarded the Harvard GSAS Centennial Medal
Sep 2, 2022 - Peggy O'Donnell on The History of the Prairie Dress
Aug 9, 2022 - Chicago Tribune: Audre Bagnell, AB'85, discusses U of C hospital in Crown Point
Jun 22, 2022 - NYT: Amy Dru Stanley Quoted on Juneteenth
Jun 10, 2022 - Chicago Tribune: Gabe Winant Quoted on New Wave of Union Activity in Chicago
May 23, 2022 - NYT: Paul Cheney's Book 'Cul de Sac' Referenced in Haiti Reparations Story
May 23, 2022 - SHCY: Betsy Wood, PhD'11, Interviewed on Her Book 'Upon the Altar of Work'
May 9, 2022 - Globe and Mail: Amy Dru Stanley Quoted on the Contest over Roe v. Wade
Apr 29, 2022 - Washington Post: Faith Hillis Quoted on What Victory Day Means for Russian Identity
Apr 10, 2022 - New York Times: Jonathan Levy Quoted on Our Era of Capitalism
Mar 11, 2022 - BBC: Faith Hillis on Putin's View of History
Mar 11, 2022 - Hyde Park Herald: Leora Auslander on Hiring New Faculty and the Remit of the RDI Department
Mar 1, 2022 - Inside Higher Ed: Leora Auslander on Building Racial Dialogue and the New Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity
Feb 28, 2022 - The Hill: Leora Auslander Quoted on UChicago's New Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity
Feb 27, 2022 - The Atlantic: Faith Hillis on Seizing Russian Oligarchs' Wealth
Feb 27, 2022 - Meduza: Faith Hillis on Putin's Presentation of Ukrainian and Soviet History
Feb 7, 2022 - Noema: Dipesh Chakrabarty on Planetary Politics and the Climate Emergency
Feb 7, 2022 - MarketWatch: Gabe Winant Quoted on Proposed 'Gig Work' Law for California Nurses
Jan 24, 2022 - NMAAHC: Eren Fitzgerald, AB'22, on Joe Louis' Contributions to Society, the War Effort, and Racial Equality during WWII
Jan 21, 2022 - Wired: Ada Palmer on Voltaire as the First Sci-Fi Author
Nov 7, 2021 - Smithsonian: John-Paul Heil, PhD Candidate, on Dante's "The Divine Comedy"
Nov 3, 2021 - Bloomberg: Gabe Winant Quoted on John Deere Strike
Nov 3, 2021 - Boston Review: Emily Kern on the Promise of Human History
Oct 25, 2021 - NYT: Matt Briones Quoted on Baseball
Oct 25, 2021 - NYT: Alexis Dudden, PhD'98, Quoted on "Comfort Women"
Oct 15, 2021 - Time: John-Paul Heil, PhD Candidate, Reviews The Last Duel
Oct 14, 2021 - Crain's: Adam Green on Timuel Black
Aug 24, 2021 - NPR All Things Considered: Interview with Kathleen Belew
Jul 23, 2021 - Chicago Sun Times: Adam Green Quoted
Jun 16, 2021 - Washington Post: Gabriel Winant Quoted
Jun 8, 2021 - Jacobin: Interview with Kenneth Pomeranz
May 27, 2021 - NYT: Kathleen Belew Quoted
May 18, 2021 - Chicago Maroon: New Faculty Members to Join History Department
May 18, 2021 - EFF: Ada Palmer on Free Speech
May 17, 2021 - WNYC: Gabriel Winant on Pittsburgh
May 10, 2021 - UChicago News: Ada Palmer and Students Create Digital Campus
May 10, 2021 - Boston Review: Review of 'Ages of American Capitalism' by Jon Levy
May 10, 2021 - Wall Street Journal: Review of 'Ages of American Capitalism' by Jon Levy
May 3, 2021 - NYT: Destin Jenkins on Financial Firms and Social Movements
Apr 19, 2021 - Jewish Currents: Interview with Gabriel Winant
Apr 19, 2021 - NYT: Review of 'The African American Struggle for Civil Rights' by Thomas Holt
Apr 12, 2021 - Bloomberg: Review of 'The Bonds of Inequality' by Destin Jenkins
Apr 1, 2021 - UChicago News: Kathleen Belew Delivers Harper Lecture
Mar 31, 2021 - NYT: Review of Gabriel Winant's The Next Shift
Mar 31, 2021 - Notion: Aebjohn Tomas '21 on Imagined Digital Communities
Mar 22, 2021 - Reuters/Westlaw: Matthew Briones discusses the connection between racism and violent attacks
Mar 19, 2021 - Dissent: Interview with Gabriel Winant on Deindustrialization and Health Care
Mar 17, 2021 - NYT: Gabriel Winant on Improving Conditions for Care Workers
Mar 15, 2021 - NYT: Ann Durkin Keating, PhD'84, on the Origin of the Great Chicago Fire
Mar 9, 2021 - WTTW: Steven Pincus on Prince Harry, Meghan Markle Interview
Feb 17, 2021 - WTTW: Jane Dailey on Her Book, ‘White Fright’
Feb 15, 2021 - Chicago Maroon: Amy Dru Stanley on Conducting Oral Histories with Essential Workers
Feb 8, 2021 - Columbia Journalism Review: Kathleen Belew on the White Power Groundswell
Jan 29, 2021 - NYT: Amy Dru Stanley on Unionization at Amazon
Jan 19, 2021 - Washington Post: Betsy Wood PhD'11 on Corporate America's Turn from Trump
Jan 18, 2021 - NYT: Kathleen Belew Quoted
Jan 7, 2021 - NPR: Kathleen Belew on the Right-Wing Insurrection at the Capitol
Dec 2, 2020 - UChicago News: Special Collections Research Center Renamed in Honor of Hanna Holborn Gray
Nov 30, 2020 - Washington Post: Kathleen Belew Quoted
Nov 21, 2020 - Australian Associated Press: Mauricio Tenorio Quoted
Nov 18, 2020 - NYT: Review of White Fright by Jane Dailey
Nov 12, 2020 - Honolulu Civil Beat: Christopher Kindell on Quarantine in Hawaii
Nov 6, 2020 - Los Angeles Times: Bruce Cumings Quoted
Nov 5, 2020 - USA Today: Thomas Holt Quoted
Nov 2, 2020 - Chicago Tribune: Kathleen Belew on the White Power Movement
Oct 12, 2020 - NPR: Kathleen Belew on Militias
Oct 12, 2020 - Chicago Tribune: Ada Palmer on Role-Playing Game, ExoTerra
Oct 12, 2020 - NYT: Cathleen Cahill, PhD'04, on Native Women's Voting Rights
Oct 2, 2020 - PBS News Hour: Kathleen Belew on Trump’s Response to White Supremacist Groups
Sep 24, 2020 - Chicago Maroon: Ada Palmer on Self-Care
Sep 15, 2020 - Scroll.in: Sarath Pillai, PhD candidate in history, on Anti-Parliamentarism in India
Sep 12, 2020 - NYT: Kathleen Belew Quoted
Sep 2, 2020 - Chicago Tribune: Jane Dailey's New Book, White Fright, Recommended
Sep 1, 2020 - The Conversation: Betsy Wood, PhD'11, on Child Labor