The History Department's 2019 Newsletter Is Now Available!

September 6, 2019

Picture of Elizabeth Hinton (Photograph by Stu Rosner)

Color and Incarceration: Historian Elizabeth Hinton Probes the Roots of a Gathering Crisis

August 30, 2019

Professor David Armitage Elected to the American Philosophical Society

July 25, 2019

"A Colorful Figure" - with Q&A from Professor Phil Deloria

July 12, 2019

Abbie Modaff and Professor Elizabeth Hinton Awarded Phi Beta Kappa Prizes for Excellence in Teaching

May 29, 2019

Abbie Modaff and Professor Elizabeth Hinton were two of the three honorees selected for the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prizes.

From Harvard Magazine:
Each year, the PBK students nominate, and their undergraduate marshals select, particularly distinguished teachers. Given that the nominators are among the academically most distinguished products of the College themselves, the award is particularly...

Six Seniors Elected Phi Beta Kappa for 2019

May 29, 2019

A warm congratulations to the following seniors for their election into Phi Beta Kappa!

-Philip Balson
-Arthur Schott Lopes
-Sierra Nota
-Jules Ziqi Qiu
-Benjamin Schafer
-Wonik Son

The full member list for 2019 can be found at: https://pbk.fas.harvard.edu/members

Harvard Gazette: Wonik Son Is Using Historical Photographs to Analyze Representations of Disability

May 28, 2019

Hannah Shepherd Awarded 2019 Gross Prize

May 22, 2019

Dr. Hannah Shepherd received this year’s Gross Prize for her dissertation entitled “Cities into Empire: Fukuoka, Pusan, and Japan’s Imperial Urbanization, 1876-1953.” The Harold K. Gross Dissertation Prize is “awarded each year at Graduation to the Ph.D. recipient whose dissertation, in the opinion of a committee of Department [of History] members, gave greatest promise of a distinguished career of...

Professor Annette Gordon-Reed elected to the American Philosophical Society

May 20, 2019

Six History Seniors Awarded Hoopes Prizes

May 14, 2019

Warm congratulations to:

Sunaina Danziger for her submission entitled “Nazis in America: The US Intelligence Programs That Shaped the New World Order, 1945–1949”

Robert Hope for his submission entitled “The Refinery of Eden: Abadan and the Global Petroleum Order of the Early Cold War, 1940–1954”

Sierra Nota for her submission entitled “Make Way for the Railway: Transit-Oriented Development in the...

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