Associate Professor Rashauna Johnson's second book, Sweet Home Feliciana: Family, Slavery, and the Hauntings of History, was just released by Cambridge University Press.
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Associate Professor Rashauna Johnson's second book, Sweet Home Feliciana: Family, Slavery, and the Hauntings of History, was just released by Cambridge University Press.
PhD Student, Kaya Colakoglu's paper, “The Short Leash: Sovereign Debt and Governing by Crisis, 1973-1988,” was selected for the Stanford Center for Law & History's Graduate Student Conference Paper Prize. He will present the paper at the annual conference in May. Congratulations!
Merci beaucoup Pierre, à bientôt!
TODAY: Please join us for the John Hope Franklin Lecture, which will be delivered by Thavolia Glymph on February 10 at 4:30 in The John Hope Franklin Room (SSRB 224). She will be joined by Thomas Holt as interlocutor. The title of the talk is “Mutiny”: The Fight for Freedom after Abolition, 1863-68.
Poster for The John Hope Franklin Lecture
Please join us for the John Hope Franklin Lecture, which will be delivered by Thavolia Glymph on February 10 at 4:30 in The John Hope Franklin Room (SSRB 224). She will be joined by Thomas Holt as interlocutor. The title of the talk is “Mutiny”: The Fight for Freedom after Abolition, 1863-68.
Professor Mauricio Tenorio speaks to WBEZ about Venezuela
www.wbez.org/immigration/...
At the History of Science Society meeting, Adrian Johns won the Pfizer Prize for The Science of Reading. Sachaet Pandey-Geeta Mantraraj, a PhD student, received the Rainger Prize for a paper he co-wrote with Elizabeth Chatterjee, “Dams and the Deep Earth.” Congratulations!
Associate Professor, Michael Rossi's new book, Capturing Kahanamoku, is reviewed by Reader. He will also be giving a book talk at the Sem Co-op on December 3. Register to attend by following the links in the article. chicagoreader.com/books/book-r...
Congratulations to Kirsten Macfarlane, Associate Professor of Early Modern Religious and Intellectual History, who won the 2025 Roland H. Bainton Theology and Religion Prize from The Sixteenth-Century Society for her book Lay Learning and the Bible in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World!
Could the U.S. see a general strike in 2025? with Gabriel Winant www.wbez.org/in-the-loop-...
Please join us next week at UChicago for a conversation with @peterbeinart.bsky.social, @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social, and @gabrielwinant.bsky.social
Patrick Finian, an alumnus of the History BA program, will be giving a book talk about his debut book, Ice's End, at 57th Street Books on Sunday, November 9. RSVP to attend!
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Find out how exciting early American history was by taking American Civ I in Autumn quarter! Open sections: WF 1:30-2:50 and 3-4:20.
HIST 21013 Plunder, Theft, Forgery: Crime and Cultural Property in the Ancient Mediterranean and Today Poster. Instructor, Elizabeth Heintges, Mondays and Wednesdays 4:30-5:50.
HIST 22213 Without a Label: The Emergence of Modern Jewish Self in the 19th Century Poster. Instructor, Svetlana Natkovich. Thursdays 8-10:50
HIST 28303 Science and Liberalism Poster. Instructor, Isabel Gabel. Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:30-10:50
HIST 29683 Race, Slavery, and Nation Poster. Instructor, Rashauna Johnson. Tuesdays 9:30-12:20
Here's a peek at some of the amazing courses we'll be offering in Autumn 2025!
HIST 21013 Plunder, Theft, Forgery: Crime and Cultural Property in the Ancient Mediterranean and Today Poster. Instructor, Elizabeth Heintges, Mondays and Wednesdays 4:30-5:50.
HIST 22213 Without a Label: The Emergence of Modern Jewish Self in the 19th Century Poster. Instructor, Svetlana Natkovich. Thursdays 8-10:50
HIST 28303 Science and Liberalism Poster. Instructor, Isabel Gabel. Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:30-10:50
HIST 29683 Race, Slavery, and Nation Poster. Instructor, Rashauna Johnson. Tuesdays 9:30-12:20
Here's a peek at some of the amazing courses we'll be offering in Autumn 2025!
Congratulations to alumna Sarah L. H. Gronningsater, UChicago History PhD 2014, for winning the 2025 James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic for her book, The Rising Generation (Penn, 2024)!
Congratulations to Gowri Rao (Linguistics major; History minor, 2022) who was awarded a Fulbright HAEF English Teaching Assistant Award in Greece and
Elena Tiedens (History major; Russian & Eastern European Studies minor, BA/MA 2025) who was awarded an English Teaching Assistant Award in Kyrgyzstan!
Congrats to the 2025-26 Center for International Social Science Research Dissertation Fellows, including UChicago History's Xiaoyu Gao!
Xiaoyu's dissertation: “Empire of Copper: British and American Global Trade, Chilean Copper, and the Transformation of Chinese Monetary System (1800-1862).”
What was the Renaissance anyway? In an interview about her new book, Inventing the Renaissance, Ada Palmer discusses this very question with Sophia Hollander.
www.history.com/articles/4-m...
Tara Zahra
Tara Zahra, the Hanna Holborn Gray Professor of East European History and the College, has been reappointed as the Roman Family Director of the Neubauer Collegium. news.uchicago.edu/story/tara-z...
Associate Professor of History, Eleonory Gilburd is one of just four UChicago faculty members to receive a 2025 Quantrell Award. Congratulations, Prof. Gilburd! Read more about the award and Prof. Gilburd in the UChicago News article: news.uchicago.edu/story/uchica...
Nicholas O'Neill
UChicago Alumnus Nicholas O'Neill's 2022 dissertation, "The Political Economy of Taste: The State and the Porcelain Industry in France, 1682-1815," has been shortlisted for the IEHA's triennial dissertation prize at the 2025 WEHC. Congratulations!
wehc2025.com/conference_p...
Assoc. Prof. Ada Palmer's course, "The Italian Renaissance: Dante, Machiavelli and the Wars of Popes and Kings is featured in the NYT Article, "‘The Only Person in the World Claiming to Be the Pope Right Now"
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...
Congratulations to History Undergraduate Nora Holmes and her teammates Ren Brown, Claudia Harnett, and Emma Kelly on winning the Distance Medley Relay at the NCAA National Track and Field Championship!
chicagomaroon.com/47038/sports...
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Congratulations to History PhD Candidate, Daniel Fernandez who was awarded a 2025 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship!
www.acls.org/fellow-grant...
UChicago History alumna, Betsy Wood (PhD '11), just published a new piece in TIME Magazine on how American attitudes towards taxation have shifted since the Second World War. time.com/7274242/taxe...
All are invited to attend the Minority Identities and Vernacular Visual Culture: Interdisciplinary symposium on May 9-10, 2025 at the Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago. See the website for details: www.not-so-ordinary.us/symposium2025
ENERGY—CAPITAL—METABOLISM
April 24–25, 2025
Social Science Research Building & 1155 E. 60th St.
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Associate Professor of History, Amy Dru Stanley, on academic freedom and American history teaching in "Freedom for Sale" in Dissent Magazine.
www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
Stone archways at the University of Chicago
We're pleased to announce that The Department of History at UChicago has been ranked second in the country for history graduate programs by US News & World Report. The report is based on peer assessment. Congratulations to our faculty for their excellence and dedication!