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Oct 11, 2021 - Course Spotlight: "Disastrous Histories"
Oct 5, 2021 - Department Announces Enhanced Funding Program for Graduate Student Work
Sep 20, 2021 - Welcome, 2021 PhD Students!
Sep 1, 2021 - Kenneth Pomeranz Named Faculty Director of Hong Kong Faculty Advisory Board
Aug 9, 2021 - 2021 John Hope Franklin Lecture Series Speakers and Registration
Aug 4, 2021 - Noel Swerdlow, 1941-2021
Jun 24, 2021 - Campaign for John Hope Franklin Lecture Series Endowment
Jun 11, 2021 - BA Thesis Prizes
May 31, 2021 - History Undergrads Conduct Independent Research
May 31, 2021 - Dipesh Chakrabarty Awarded Honorary Doctorate from École Normale Supérieure
May 20, 2021 - Historians Win 2021 Teaching Awards
Apr 29, 2021 - University Launches Visiting Scholar Program in Paleography and the Book
Apr 29, 2021 - Graduate Students Earn Mellon/ACLS Fellowships
Apr 9, 2021 - History Faculty Receive Fellowships
Mar 9, 2021 - David Nirenberg Named Dean of Divinity School
Feb 16, 2021 - Faculty Spotlight: Elizabeth Chatterjee
Feb 3, 2021 - Course Spotlight: “Disability History”
Jan 25, 2021 - Tetsuo Najita, 1936-2021
Jan 19, 2021 - Diary of an Online History Student, Part 3: Zoom Doom
Jan 13, 2021 - Students Interview Essential Workers During Pandemic
Jan 13, 2021 - James Sparrow Named Director of the National Fellowship Program at the Jefferson Scholars Foundation
Dec 10, 2020 - Alumni Spotlight: Isaac Wink
Nov 10, 2020 - Diary of an Online History Student, Part 2: Remote Internships
Nov 2, 2020 - Grad Student Spotlight: Jessa Dahl
Oct 13, 2020 - Course Spotlight: "Public History Practicum"
Sep 28, 2020 - Diary of an Online History Student, Part 1
Sep 27, 2020 - Tara Zahra Gives Kann Memorial Lecture
Sep 24, 2020 - Welcome, New PhD Students!
Sep 14, 2020 - Students to Design New Society in Original Role-Playing Game
Aug 5, 2020 - Clifford Ando Named Distinguished Service Professor
Jul 17, 2020 - Mark Philip Bradley Named Editor of American Historical Review
Jul 7, 2020 - Students Map Hyde Park’s Commemorative Landscape
Jun 30, 2020 - Spotlight from the Class of 2020: Lena Breda
Jun 8, 2020 - Undergraduate Historians Win Awards
Jun 5, 2020 - History Graduate Students Win Research and Teaching Awards
Jun 5, 2020 - Statement Condemning Racism and Police Brutality
May 27, 2020 - Kenneth Pomeranz Wins 2021 Toynbee Prize
May 15, 2020 - Two History Graduate Students Participate in 2019-2020 Fulbright Program
Apr 30, 2020 - Career Spotlight: Michael Modak-Truran, AB'16
Apr 23, 2020 - Eduardo Contreras, PhD'08, Wins OAH's David Montgomery Award
Apr 16, 2020 - History Faculty Receive Fellowships
Apr 2, 2020 - Course Spotlight on “Prostitution in Global Perspective”
Feb 28, 2020 - History Faculty Members Receive Neubauer Fellowships
Feb 15, 2020 - University of Chicago Ranks 10th Nationally by Number of History Bachelor's Degrees
Jan 29, 2020 - Career Spotlight: Stephanie Ban, AB'18
Jan 16, 2020 - Eleonory Gilburd Awarded Three Book Prizes
Jan 16, 2020 - Kenneth Pomeranz Receives Honorary Degree
Jan 9, 2020 - History Alumni Receive AHA Prizes
Jan 6, 2020 - Course Spotlight on “The History of Alchemy”
Dec 31, 2019 - Career Spotlight: Regina Wen, AB'19
Dec 14, 2019 - Isaiah Lorado Wilner wins Modernist Studies Association Prize
Dec 4, 2019 - Watch "Slavery and its Afterlives," the 2019 John Hope Franklin Lecture Series
Nov 30, 2019 - Career Spotlight: Rose Berman, AB'15
Nov 2, 2019 - Welcome Class of 2019
Oct 31, 2019 - Career Spotlight: Sonia Gaur, AB'19
Oct 16, 2019 - Loose Machinery: A Symposium on the Chicago Race Riot of 1919
Oct 10, 2019 - Venus Bivar, PhD'10, Wins Book Prizes
Oct 5, 2019 - Discussing History with Jahne Brown, Student Government President
Sep 21, 2019 - Course Spotlight on “Dracula: History and Legend”
Sep 14, 2019 - Announcing the John Hope Franklin Lecture Series
Sep 9, 2019 - Isaiah Lorado Wilner wins Forum for History of Human Science Prize
Jun 3, 2019 - Mauricio Tenorio Receives 2019 Quantrell Award
May 23, 2019 - Dipesh Chakrabarty Receives Tagore Memorial Prize
May 9, 2019 - Jahne Brown Elected President of Student Government
May 6, 2019 - Liam Mannix, PhD’18, Wins Saller Prize
Apr 4, 2019 - Chicago Alumni, Faculty, and Students at 2019 OAH
Mar 14, 2019 - Daniel Greene, PhD'04, to Head Newberry Library
Feb 6, 2019 - The French Goverment Honors Jan Goldstein
Feb 5, 2019 - Kenneth Pomeranz Awarded Dan David Prize
Jan 31, 2019 - Postone Memorial Conference Schedule Announced
Jan 26, 2019 - Mark Bradley Reviews Vietnam War Documentary
Jan 26, 2019 - Doug Kanter, PhD'06, Writes Bio of Emmet Larkin
Jan 22, 2019 - Sarah (Rowlands) Miller, 1989–2019
Nov 14, 2018 - How to Do Public History
Oct 31, 2018 - Scholarly Prizes to Historians
Oct 30, 2018 - Welcome Class of 2018
Oct 4, 2018 - Public Dialogue on Censorship
Oct 4, 2018 - Tea For You
Sep 18, 2018 - NEH Grant for Paul Cheney
Sep 13, 2018 - Moishe Postone Memorial Service
Jul 18, 2018 - Hernández Receives Another Fulbright
Jun 29, 2018 - The Academic Job Market Demystified
May 30, 2018 - Save the Date--Moishe Postone Memorial
May 17, 2018 - Kyle Gardner Receives Teaching Award
May 16, 2018 - 10 of 19 PRISM Grants to History Students
May 3, 2018 - Elizabeth Dia Receives Ignacio Martín-Baró Prize
May 2, 2018 - Guggenheim to Alain Bresson
Apr 23, 2018 - It's So Nice to Go Traveling
Apr 23, 2018 - The NY Public Library Names Faith Hillis a 2018-19 Cullman Center Fellow
Apr 18, 2018 - Amy Dru Stanley Chairs Pulitzer Prize for History Jury
Mar 21, 2018 - Moishe Postone, Social Theorist, 1942–2018
Mar 19, 2018 - Cheney's Cul de Sac Awarded Chinard Prize
Feb 28, 2018 - Paul Finkelman Named President of Gratz College
Feb 20, 2018 - Online Textbook Brings U.S. History Within Reach
Feb 13, 2018 - Six Historians Launch Four Collaborative Projects
Feb 2, 2018 - Feminism, Poverty, and Class
Feb 2, 2018 - Fascism Has a Place on Campus. Do I?
Jan 17, 2018 - Teaching the Teachers
Jan 4, 2018 - NEH Grants to Faculty and Alumna
Jan 3, 2018 - Payne Receives the World Award for Book of the Year
Dec 15, 2017 - Inaugural Knowledge Conference Features Historians
Dec 15, 2017 - First-Gen Students Find Support
Dec 13, 2017 - International Conference on the Iron Age
Oct 27, 2017 - History Welcomes 3 New Faculty Members
Oct 24, 2017 - Department of History Adopts Diversity Statement
Oct 19, 2017 - Chicago Alumni Lead AHA
Oct 12, 2017 - A Rich Year for Collaborative Research
Sep 30, 2017 - Historians Garner Teaching Prizes
Sep 28, 2017 - Scholars Convene to Translate the Great Qing Code
Sep 26, 2017 - Statement from the Senior Members of the Department
Sep 22, 2017 - Sheila Fitzpatrick and the Russian Revolution Centenary
Sep 19, 2017 - History Launches New Workshops
Sep 17, 2017 - Conspiracy/Theory Conference Features Chicago Historians
Sep 17, 2017 - Ryan Yokota Consults on Incarceration Exhibit
Sep 17, 2017 - History Faculty Provide University Leadership
Jun 20, 2017 - Pitting Child Safety Against the Family Farm, New York Times Op-Ed
Jun 20, 2017 - Jim and Jap Crow: A Cultural History of 1940s Interracial America
Jun 20, 2017 - Fitzpatrick Wins Award for Distinguished Contributions to Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Jun 20, 2017 - Zahra Wins Radomir Luza Book Prize
Jun 20, 2017 - Zahra Awarded AHA's 2012 Beer Prize
Jun 20, 2017 - Fitzpatrick Receives AHA Award for Scholarly Distiction
Jun 20, 2017 - Five History Graduate Students Win Fulbright-Hays DDRA
Jun 20, 2017 - Kenneth Pomeranz in the Chronicle of Higher Education
Jun 20, 2017 - AHA Interview with Alum Douglas Kanter
Jun 20, 2017 - Miller-Davenport on JAH Podcast
Jun 20, 2017 - Weicksel Accepted to NEH Summer Institute
Jun 20, 2017 - Nirenberg in the Chronicle of Higher Education
Jun 20, 2017 - Three History Faculty Honored
Jun 20, 2017 - Rudnicki Awarded 2014 Gates Cambridge Scholarship
Jun 20, 2017 - Tara Zahra Awarded 2014 MacArthur Fellowship
Jun 20, 2017 - Dipesh Chakrabarty Awarded Toynbee Prize
Jun 20, 2017 - Nirenberg Awarded Ralph Waldo Emerson Award by Phi Beta Kappa
Jun 20, 2017 - OAH Names 7 Chicago Historians as Distinguished Lecturers
Jun 20, 2017 - Betsy Wood Brings Historian's Perspective to Op-Eds
Jun 20, 2017 - WWI through the Eyes of French Illustrators
Jun 20, 2017 - Taking the A Train: Korey Garibaldi Wins Amtrak Residency
Jun 20, 2017 - What Comparative History Brings to Political Science
Jun 20, 2017 - History Graduate Students Present Research at Divisional Conference
Jun 20, 2017 - Make It Work: Career Prospects for Professional Historians
Jun 20, 2017 - A Desire for History: Students Build a Queer Archive
Jun 20, 2017 - From Archives to Court: Historians and Human-Rights Abuses
Jun 20, 2017 - Mauricio Tenorio Awarded Laing Prize
Jun 20, 2017 - Intern Helps Restore Montpelier
Jun 20, 2017 - Beatty's Dissertation Awarded Prize
Jun 20, 2017 - The Uniform Makes the Soldier
Jun 20, 2017 - New History Minor Appeals to Wide Variety of Students
Jun 20, 2017 - Congratulations to Our Spring Graduates!
Jun 20, 2017 - History Garners Nine Dissertation Fellowships in 2015–16
Jun 20, 2017 - Prizes Awarded for Alumni Dissertations
Jun 20, 2017 - Carlo Ginzburg Lecture
Jun 20, 2017 - Mellon Grant to Study Algorithms
Jun 20, 2017 - Historians Host a Human-Trafficking Conference
Jun 20, 2017 - Chakrabarty and Winter Speak at Franke Institute Anniversary
Jun 20, 2017 - Many Awards for History Graduate Students
Jun 20, 2017 - Lydia Cochrane, a Great Friend to History, Dies
Jun 20, 2017 - Onassis Visiting Professor Delivers Lecture
Jun 20, 2017 - Historians Launch Wide-Ranging Research
Jun 20, 2017 - Practicing Theory for Ten Years
Jun 20, 2017 - Homer's Odyssey Through Print
Jun 20, 2017 - Conference on 18th-Century Political Economy
Jun 20, 2017 - Javier Moscoso Delivers Lurcy Lecture
Jun 20, 2017 - Conference Honors Thomas C. Holt
Jun 20, 2017 - Jeremy Adelman to Lecture on "A Global History of Humanitarianism"
Jun 20, 2017 - David Nirenberg Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Jun 20, 2017 - Holt Elected to the American Philosophical Society
Jun 20, 2017 - Chicago History Journal Sponsors Talk on Love & Law
Jun 20, 2017 - Fulbright Singles Out 7 Chicago Historians
Jun 20, 2017 - Historians Convene Major Symposium on Climate Change
Jun 20, 2017 - Quantrell Award to Emily Osborn
Jun 19, 2017 - Alison Winter, AB’87, Historian of the Mind, 1965–2016
Jun 19, 2017 - William H. McNeill, Pioneering World Historian, 1917–2016
Jun 19, 2017 - NEH Awards $350K Grant for PhD Training
Jun 19, 2017 - Bradley & Zara Discuss Their Books
Jun 19, 2017 - Alison Winter Memorial Service
Jun 19, 2017 - David Nirenberg Participates in Habitation Conference
Jun 19, 2017 - One-Day Workshop on Digital History
Jun 19, 2017 - Economy & Its Boundaries Conference Features Historians
Jun 19, 2017 - Chicago Journal of History Considers Bio-History
Jun 19, 2017 - Alumni Organize Symposium to Honor John W. Boyer
Jun 19, 2017 - Inhabiting the Past: Memory & Politics in 20-C South Asia
Jun 19, 2017 - Eduardo Manzano Returns to Chicago
Jun 19, 2017 - Remembering Alison Winter
Jun 19, 2017 - History Faculty Discuss the Rise of Trump
Jun 19, 2017 - U of C History Dept Features Trump Lecture Series
Jun 19, 2017 - Albritton Jonsson Discusses Climate Change in the Guardian
Jun 19, 2017 - Lines of Control Brings International South Asian Scholars to Chicago
Jun 19, 2017 - International Conference on Writing & Religion in Arabia
Jun 19, 2017 - A Papal Election Here on Campus
Jun 19, 2017 - John Boyer Writes a History of the University of Chicago
Jun 19, 2017 - Brenda Shapiro Gift Will Bring Top PhDs to Chicago
Jun 19, 2017 - 2016-17 Excellent Year for Graduate Awards
Jun 19, 2017 - Panel Discussion Celebrates Julie Saville's Career
Jun 19, 2017 - Graduate Students Invited to History Challenge
Jun 19, 2017 - Give the Lady What She Wants
Jun 19, 2017 - Ajay Mehrotra to Lead American Bar Foundation
Jun 19, 2017 - Online Form Fits Function
Jun 19, 2017 - Faculty Book Party
Jun 19, 2017 - OAH Names 7 Chicago Historians as Distinguished Lecturers
Jun 19, 2017 - History and Fiction Panel
Jun 19, 2017 - Theresa Mah, PhD '99, Runs for Office
Jun 19, 2017 - Chicago's Queer Clout: From the Margins to the Center
Jun 19, 2017 - Prizes Awarded for Alumni Dissertations
Jun 19, 2017 - Sarah Gronningsater, PhD '14--Interview with Pasadena Now
Jun 19, 2017 - From Archives to Courts: Historians and Human Rights Abuses
Jun 19, 2017 - Betsy Wood Brings Historian's Perspective to Op-Eds
Jun 19, 2017 - Mills Interviewed on "Marketplace" and "In Black America" Radio Shows
Jun 19, 2017 - Writing a History of Passing is Writing a History of Loss
Jun 19, 2017 - Alumni Win OAH Book Awards
Jun 10, 2017 - 2017-18 Graduate Fellowships Announced
Jun 10, 2017 - Speed Research at History Presentation Extravaganza
Jun 4, 2017 - Undergraduate Historians Win Prizes
Jun 4, 2017 - Class of 2017—You Are Amazing!