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! shorturl.at/EnTcW

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.

Here's a peek at some of the amazing courses we'll be offering in Autumn 2025!

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, 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...

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...

UChicago History 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. tinyurl.com/3ax7mtdw

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...

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!

UChicago History PhD Alumnae Sonia Gomez, Sarah L. H. Gronningsater, and Trish Kahle were each awarded prizes for their scholarship at the annual Organization of American Historians (OAH) meeting last week. Congratulations! www.oah.org/wp-content/u...

TOMORROW (4/8) Please join us at 4:30 in SSRB 224 for the annual John Hope Franklin Lecture, "On Losing and Gaining Conceptual Languages," by David Scott (Columbia), who will be joined in conversation with Natacha Nsabimana (UChicago). A reception will follow.

Tomorrow (4/2): Bathsheba Demuth will be delivering the second annual Shapiro Lecture titled "History from the Dogsled: Animals, Climates, and the Stakes of Telling the Past." Please join us at 5 PM in the John Hope Franklin Room (SSRB 224). A reception will follow.

Please join the Department of History for “State of the Field: A Conversation About US History” on April 16 at 4:30 in the John Hope Franklin Room (SSRB 224). The event will feature Sven Beckert, Martha Jones, and David Waldstreicher.

The John Hope Franklin Lecture has been rescheduled! Please join us on April 8 at 4:30 in SSRB 224 for a lecture, "On Losing and Gaining Conceptual Languages," by David Scott (Columbia), who will be joined in conversation with Natacha Nsabimana (UChicago). A reception will follow.

Undergraduate students are invited to a lecture and discussion with Bathsheba Demuth (Brown) on April 3 at 11 in SSRB 224. Prof. Demuth will speak on how the non-human animates her historical work. Lunch will be provided. Please scan the QR code to RSVP. www.bbc.com/audio/series...

Join us for the second annual Shapiro Distinguished Lecture on April 2 at 5 PM in the John Hope Franklin Room (SSRB 224). Bathsheba Demuth (Brown University) will present her paper, “History from the Dogsled: Animals, Climates, and the Stakes of Telling the Past."

Congrats to UC alum, Robert Suits, whose article "Hoboes, Wheat, and Climate Precarity" won the 2024 Alice Hamilton Prize for Best Article from the ASEH and the Vernon Carstensen Prize for Best Article in the journal Agricultural History from the Agricultural History Society!

Elena Tiedens, a History major, was selected as a Gates Cambridge Scholar! Elena's thesis examines the history of nuclear-powered icebreakers in the arctic. At Cambridge, Elena will receive an MPhil in Arctic Studies at the Scott Polar Research Institute. Congratulations, Elena!

Please note that today's scheduled John Hope Franklin Lecture with David Scott has been rescheduled. Details coming soon!

Congratulations to Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of History and the College, Bruce Cumings, for receiving the Association for Asian Studies, Inc. (AAS) Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies award! www.asianstudies.org/aas-2025-pri...

The annual John Hope Franklin Lecture will be on March 4th at 4:30 in SSRB 224. David Scott, Columbia, will present “On Losing and Gaining Conceptual Languages: Walter Rodney's How Europe Underdeveloped Africa between Revolution and Reparation.” In conversation with Adom Getachew, UChicago.

Please join the History Department on 3/4 at 4:30 in SSRB 224 for the John Hope Franklin Lecture. David Scott, Columbia, will present “On Losing and Gaining Conceptual Languages.” He will be joined in conversation by Adom Getachew, University of Chicago. A reception will follow.

Emma Dowling (University of Vienna) 2/18 "After Globalization: Fixes to the Care Crisis?" 4:30p SSRB 224 2/19 Workshop: Social Reproduction Theory 10-12 SSRB 302 2/20 grad student research discussions 1-5 SSRB 216 RSVP to [email protected] for workshop and discussions

In honor of her eminent career as a scholar and mentor, Amy Dru Stanley has been recognized by the American Society of Legal Historians through the establishment of a fellowship in her name: The Amy Dru Stanley Fellowship. Please join us in celebrating this momentous honor for Professor Stanley!

Adrian Johns, Chair of the Department of History, has been elevated as the Allan Grant Maclear Distinguished Service Professor. Please join us in congratulating Prof. Johns!

We hope you can come mingle at History's happy hour tomorrow! JHF (SSRB 224) from 4-5:30.

CFP: Minority Identities and Vernacular Visual Culture at the UChicago Franke Institute, May 9-10, 2025. Proposal deadline: Tue 12/10/24 @ 11:59 pm. Find details and the full CFP at www.not-so-ordinary.us/symposium2025

Prof. Dispesh Chakrabarty was award the European Essay Prize for the French translation of his essay, The climate of history in a planetary age (UCP, 2021). Watch his acceptance speech and Patrice Maniglier's laudation speech: www.youtube.com/watch?v=utr3... www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1PV...

Prof. Peggy Heffington is on Big Brains! Why are More Women Saying No to Having Kids? Read and listen: news.uchicago.edu/why-are-more...

#CFP Digital History in Sweden: deadline 1 Sep 2024. #digitalhistory #digitalhistoria lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

The University of Oxford has announced a new stipendiary Guru Nanak Junior Research Fellowship in the culture of the Punjab to be held at Wolfson College: www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/guru...

Environmental history is a powerful form of storytelling... #CFP out for #ESEH2025 in Uppsala, Sweden and I'm planning a session on #infrastructure (any) and environmental transformations, please do get in touch if interested! #envhis eseh2025.com/call-for-pap...

Come see the interactive memorial about the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave created by students in HIST 17706: How to Build a Memorial on the North Campus Quad, beginning on May 20!

History PhD student, Boone Ayala, will offer his paper, "Building Leviathan: The Tory Reaction in England's Municipalities, 1682-1685," at The Forum on Law and Legalities. April 16 5:00-6:30 in the John Hope Franklin Room (SSRB 224).

This Friday, April 12 at 12 PM: Yuting Dong (History, UChicago), "Cementing Infra-Technocracy." RSVP by TOMORROW April 10: t.ly/VTKmA. Email [email protected] or [email protected] for the pre-circulated paper.

RSVP for the John Hope Franklin Lecture, "Cross-Racial Histories, Transmedia Stories: The Bengali Harlem Project," featuring Vivek Bald of MIT. April 17 at 3 PM in SSRB 224. Reception to follow. Corresponding workshop on April 18 at 11:30 in SSRB 224. t.ly/whbGL