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 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
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...
