Camila Townsend, Distinguished Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers, has been elected to the British Academy, a rare honor for an American scholar and a first for Rutgers. Learn more: sas.rutgers.edu/about/news/f...

The Rutgers History Department's fall 2025 newsletter is now live. Read about the careers of some of the extraordinary graduates of our Ph.D. program, including Dr. Lynn Mahoney, president of San Francisco State University. Enjoy! Here is a direct link: indd.adobe.com/view/4887452...

Rutgers History Ph.D, Satya Shik Chakraborty returns to Rutgers to discuss her book on the gendered history of race and caste in British India. #Rutgers

Did you know that Rutgers offers a "Law & History" minor? Start your "Law & History" minor with any of the several dozen approved courses, including "Law and History: (506:216) offered in Spring 2026. #rutgersuniversity

Do you love studying history, but don't have the time in your schedule for a History major? The History minor may be just the thing for you. # Rutgers

Congratulations to Rutgers History professor Barbara Cooper. Her book, Countless Blessings: A History of Childbirth and Reproduction in the Sahel, has been translated into French. #Rutgers

David Greenberg, our colleague in the Rutgers History Department, has just won the Georgia Historical Society 2025 Malcolm Bell, Jr. and Muriel Barrow Bell Award for the best book on Georgia history published in 2024. #Rutgers

Congratulations to Laura Caroline De Moya-Guerra (Rutgers doctoral candidate in the History Department). #Rutgers

Posting for our friends and colleagues in Global Medieval Studies at Rutgers. Our first big Global Medieval Studies event of the semester is next Friday, Oct. 24th. D. Vance Smith will be presenting work from his just published book, Atlas's Bones: The African Foundations of Europe. #Rutgers

Amanda Eubanks Winkler, chair of Music at Mason Gross, invites the Rutgers community to a rare treat. Tiffany Stern and Bill Barclay will host an evening of discussion about popular music from the past and its life in the present. There will be live performances! #Rutgers

Congratulations to Alissa Klots (Rutgers History PhD) for winning the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History for her book Domestic Service in the Soviet Union: Women's Emancipation and the Gendered Hierarchy of Labor (Cambridge University Press, 2024). Bravo! #Rutgers #CambridgeUniversityPress

After two weeks of escalating threats and harassment and no statement forthcoming from the university decrying them, the department voted and approved the following statement. We were pleased and surprised to see President Tate’s article in NJ.com the next day. #Rutgers

Enjoy reading Rutgers History professor David Greenberg's stimulating review of Kenneth Vogel's new book, Devils' Advocates: the Hidden Story of Rudy Giuliani, Hunter Biden, and the Washington Insiders on the Payrolls of Corrupt Foreign Interests. #Rutgers www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/b...

This will be a powerful discussion. As always, Rutgers undergraduates are welcome to attend the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis (RCHA) discussions. Please note that this talk will take place at 3:00 pm on Tuesday, October 14. #Rutgers

At the conference "Teaching Early Modern Now" at Rutgers today (October 10, 2025), history professors Alastair Bellany, Jack Bouchard, Samantha Kelly, and Camilla Townsend shared how they teach early modern history in this historical moment. #rutgers

Celebrating Rutgers prof Jochen Hellbeck's newest book, A major new history that transforms our understanding of World War II—tracing the conflict and its most infamous crime, the Holocaust, to Germany’s implacable hostility toward Soviet Russia. #Rutgers www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/742338...

Congratulations to Dr. Kendra Boyd (Rutgers History PhD) on her most recent prize for her scholarship. #Rutgers

A chance to learn how Rutgers professors across the disciplines are teaching early modern history and culture. #Rutgers

Check out this Q&A with Rutgers History prof Jack Bouchard about his forthcoming book, “Terra Nova: Food, Water, and Work in an Early Atlantic World” (@yalepress, 2025) #Rutgers history.rutgers.edu/news-events/...

Congratulations to Suzanne Kaufmann (Rutgers History, Ph.D. 1996) on her new article in French Historical Studies: "Incident at Sousse: West African Soldiers, Legionnaires, and the Racial Politics of Colonial Policing in 1930s French Tunisia" read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...

Congratulations to Lily Barker, second year Rutgers History major and artist at Douglass Residential College on her photobook, Douglass Ghosts. #Rutgers douglass.rutgers.edu/news/douglas...

Posting for our colleagues at the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice and the Center for Cultural Analysis. #Rutgers

Welcome to Efsun Cazu, one of our new Ph.D. students in the Rutgers History Department. #Rutgers

Welcome to Florencia Bertinotti, one of our new Ph.D. students in the Rutgers History Department. #rutgers

Meet Leah Long, one of our newest students in the Rutgers History Ph.D. program. #Rutgers

Let's welcome Andrew Mathis to the PhD program in History at Rutgers University. #rutgers

As always, the most fun to be had in Van Dyck Hall happens at the undergraduate History Club meetings on Monday night. All Rutgers students interested in history are welcome at the Monday evening club meetings. Sea Shanties on Monday, September 22, 2025. #rutgers

Enjoy meeting Koda Drake, one of our newest doctoral students in the Rutgers History Department. #Rutgers

Enjoy meeting Ben Jacob, one of the new cohort of doctoral students in the Rutgers History Department. #Rutgers

Welcome to Morgan Goode, one of our newest History Ph.D. students.#Rutgers

Welcome to Ian Scott, one of our newest History Ph.D. students! #Rutgers

Dr. Samantha Kelly has been awarded the Albert C. Outler Prize by the American Society of Church History for Translating Faith: Ethiopian Pilgrims in Renaissance Rome (2024). This prize honors the best book that illumines the diversity of global Christianity. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

The Rutgers History Department welcomes our newest Ph.D. students.

Don't miss Kristin O'Brassill-Kulfan's analysis of Trump's war on "vagrancy" in her recent article in Time magazine. #Rutgers time.com/7315567/vagr...

my brilliant colleague Kristin O'Brassill-Kulfan (@ruhistorydept.bsky.social) on the notable use of "vagrant," a throwback language of criminalization, by this administration in its assaults on communities. time.com/7315567/vagr...

Meet our newest History Ph.D. students. #Rutgers

Best wishes to RU History prof Nancy Sinkoff and the lucky Rutgers students she is traveling with to Poland this September 2025. Professor Sinkoff's educational trips to Poland are legendary. Learn about them here: tours.taubecenter.org/tour/polandt... #Rutgers

Are you ready to study history? Are you willing? Welcome to the first day of the Fall 2025 semester. #Rutgers

Countdown: One day to the start of the Fall 2025 semester at Rutgers. Time to put on your "history hat"! (And Happy Labor Day from the Rutgers History Department.) #rutgers

How thrilling to open the New York Times "Design" section on this beautiful Labor Day weekend to see an article on our colleague James Delbourgo's newest book, A Noble Madness: The Dark Side of Collecting from Antiquity to Now. # Rutgers www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/798395...

There are many ways to answer the question "Why study history?" It is useful to hear what Eric Foner had to say way back in 2002. #Rutgers

The start of the fall semester is a good time to remind ourselves why we do what we do -- teach and study history. Here is some inspiration from the great historian Natalie Zemon Davis. #rutgers

Enjoy this interview with Rutgers History PhD Judge Glock (now Director of Research at the Manhattan Institute) on reforming government hiring practices and HR. #Rutgers www.statecraft.pub/p/how-to-fix...

Congratulations to Rutgers History professor Leah DeVun for receiving a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) grant as part of the NYFA Artist Fellowship program in recognition of her inspiring photography. #Rutgers www.nyfa.org/uncategorize...

Discover the real history behind the new show "Chief of War" with Jason Momoa in Professor Matt Matsuda's fall 2025 Rutgers course, "Asia and Pacific Histories". #rutgers

Exciting new scholarship! Kendra Boyd (Rutgers History Ph.D.) is creating an interactive map and database of Detroit's historic Black-owned businesses. #Rutgers www.linkedin.com/posts/kendra...

The RU History Department is delighted to announce Professor Lou Masur's newest book, A Journey North: Jefferson, Madison, & the Forging of a Friendship (Oxford University Press). #Rutgers www.amazon.com/Journey-Nort...