Welcome
The Department of History aims to introduce students to a broad range of regions, methods, and issues across historical time. Although a small department, we offer basic and advanced courses and seminars in US, European, Asian, African and Latin American history, and are especially proud of our offerings in transnational and comparative history. We require a course in historiography (the study of the writing of history), and stress historiographical problems in our electives. Believing that no single methodology provides the "right" answer in historical investigation, we offer courses in political, social, and cultural history, including the history of ideas, religions, and gender, and consider such diverse issues as slavery, the meaning of cultural "renaissance," the conflicts of the Middle East, and the course and consequences of the Vietnam War. Our history majors are an inquisitive and motivated group who go on to careers in teaching, law, archival management, and public service. Our graduate students, often intent on a career in teaching, benefit from a training that is both broad and rigorous. You are welcome to join them!
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Current News
The History Department welcomes three new faculty members
The Department of History welcomes three new members. In the field of Jewish history, we are joined by Karen Stern, who received her Ph.D. from Brown University. Professor Stern, the author of Inscribing Devotion and Death: Archaeological Evidence for Jewish Populations of North Africa (Brill, 2008), held a fellowship at the Getty Villa Research Institute in Los Angeles and taught at Dartmouth College this past year.
In the History of US Public Health and Medicine, we welcome Associate Professor Christian Warren, who received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University. Professor Warren is the author of Brush with Death: A Social History of Lead Poisoning (Johns Hopkins, 2000) and co-editor of Silent Victories: The History and Practice of Public Health in Twentieth-Century America (Oxford, 2007). Professor Warren has most recently been academy historian at the New York Academy of Medicine.
In Russian history, we have hired Brigid O’Keeffe (Ph.D., NYU). After completing a 2008-2009 Havighurst Postdoctoral Fellowship in Soviet Studies at Miami University (Ohio), she will join us in September 2009.
Current Events
BC Historical Society visit to Boston
Professors Johnson and Napoli led a tour of Boston for the BC Historical Society, a student-run organization for history majors and non-majors alike, that included visits to the Old North Church, U.S.S. Constitution, the Massachusetts Historical Society and Paul Revere's House. For more information about the BC Historical Society please contact Michelle Schwartz at mschwartz930@gmail.com
The History Department held its annual student awards ceremony on May 10. Click here for a list of recent recepients. |
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