Professor Emeritus Dan Howe Passes Away
We are sad to announce that Professor Emeritus Daniel Walker Howe passed away peacefully on December 25, 2025. Dan specialized in the early national period of US history, especially intellectual […]
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Professor Emeritus John Laslett Passes Away
On March 23, 2025, Professor Emeritus John Laslett passed away at the age of 91. He held a BA and a PhD from Oxford University in England, and he taught […]
Soraya de Chadarevian Awarded 2025 Blaise Pascal Medal
Congratulations to Soraya de Chadarevian, who was awarded the 2025 Blaise Pascal Medal in Social Sciences and Humanities from the European Academy of Sciences. The award recognizes individuals who have […]
Preston S. McBride Publishes Article in California History
Alumni Preston S. McBride, now Assistant Professor of History at Pomona College, has published a new article, “‘No T.B. has ever been cured by white man’: Student Health, Reported and […]
Vivien Tejada Published in the Journal of the Civil War Era
Vivien Tejada participated in a roundtable published in the Journal of the Civil War Era: “The State, Unfreedom, and Emancipation in the Western Borderlands, a Roundtable” Journal of the Civil War Era 15, no. 4 […]
Rebecca Waxman Publishes Article in Radical History Review
The article “The Chimur Kranti of 1942: Dynamics of a Forgotten Rebellion, Repression, and Resistance“, co-authored by graduate student Rebecca Waxman, has been published in the most recent volume of […]
Kevin Terraciano, Digital Florentine Codex Win Bronze Medal at the Anthem Awards
Congratulations to Kevin Terraciano, Co-Head of the Digital Florentine Codex, which won a bronze medal at the Anthem Awards for the Education, Art & Culture Research Projects or Publications Awareness Categories. […]
Claire Votava awarded CHSTM Research Fellowship
Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate, Claire Votava, for being awarded a 2025-26 Research Fellowship from the Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (CHSTM). The award is supporting archival […]
Rachel Kaufmann Wins Pease Prize
Rachel Kaufman’s article, “A Mosaic of Exchange: History, Memory, and Representation of Women in the Borderlands Captivity Archive” (2024) won the Colonial Latin American Review‘s Pease Prize for the best article published in the […]
Sanjay Subrahmanyam Co-Organizer of Colloquium at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme
Sanjay Subrahmanyam is co-organizing an international colloquium at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme on November 27 and 28, 2025; alumni Mike O’Sullivan (PhD 2019) will be participating. On […]
