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This is the official Bluesky account for the Rutgers History Department (New Brunswick, NJ), designed to celebrate our students, faculty, and alums and to build intellectual networks and community.

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Rutgers History Department @ruhistorydept.bsky.social · 17h

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

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Rutgers History Department @ruhistorydept.bsky.social · 6d

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

Rutgers History Department @ruhistorydept.bsky.social · 6d

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/...

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Rutgers History Department @ruhistorydept.bsky.social · 8d

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...

Volume 48 Issue 3 | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press

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Rutgers History Department @ruhistorydept.bsky.social · 8d

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...

Douglass Ghosts: A Student's Look into Douglass' Past | Douglass Residential College

douglass.rutgers.edu

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Rutgers History Department @ruhistorydept.bsky.social · 10d

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

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Rutgers History Department @ruhistorydept.bsky.social · 15d

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

Rutgers History Department @ruhistorydept.bsky.social · 16d

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

Rutgers History Department @ruhistorydept.bsky.social · 16d

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

Rutgers History Department @ruhistorydept.bsky.social · 17d

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

Rutgers History Department @ruhistorydept.bsky.social · 17d

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

Rutgers History Department @ruhistorydept.bsky.social · 17d

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

Rutgers History Department @ruhistorydept.bsky.social · 19d

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

Rutgers History Department @ruhistorydept.bsky.social · 19d

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

Rutgers History Department @ruhistorydept.bsky.social · 19d

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

Rutgers History Department @ruhistorydept.bsky.social · 20d

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...

Translating Faith — Harvard University Press

A revealing account of the lives and work of Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims in sixteenth-century Rome, examining how this African diasporic community navigated the challenges of religious pluralism in th...

www.hup.harvard.edu

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Rutgers History Department @ruhistorydept.bsky.social · 21d

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

Rutgers History Department @ruhistorydept.bsky.social · 22d

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...

Trump's War on 'Vagrancy' Has a Dark History

Using the antiquated language of "vagrancy," Trump Administration officials are tapping into a long history of policing.

time.com

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 22d

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...

Trump's War on 'Vagrancy' Has a Dark History

Using the antiquated language of "vagrancy," Trump Administration officials are tapping into a long history of policing.

time.com

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Rutgers History Department @ruhistorydept.bsky.social · 22d

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

Rutgers History Department @ruhistorydept.bsky.social · 29d

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

Poland, Then and Now: Through Jewish Eyes – Taube Jewish Heritage Tours

tours.taubecenter.org

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