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News from and happenings around the Department of History at @UChicago. Profile image is a Gargoyle on campus, ca. 1900: https://t.co/zYn8VXGeNu
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Joined September 2016
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)!
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RT @UChicagoSSD: In an op-ed for the @bostonglobe, Prof. Emeritus and Former University President Hanna Holborn Gray argues for the importa….
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A form of support is needed from those outside the academy, assistance that alumni should be well qualified to offer.
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What was the Renaissance anyway? In an interview about her new book, Inventing the Renaissance, Ada Palmer discusses her this very question with Sophia Hollander for
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Italian artists pulled the world out of the ‘Dark' Ages—right?
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RT @TCRecord: In his book, Dr. Johns unpacks the story of America’s relationship with reading using a historical lens, problematizing the b….
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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.
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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:
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RT @UChicago: "Dialogo," a new podcast from @uchicagossd spotlighting alumni across industries, kicks off its first season with Maricopa Co….
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Podcast Episode · Dialogo | UChicago Social Sciences · 12/17/2024 · 32m
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RT @UChicagoSSD: THIS WEEK! The 2025 Allison Davis Lecture, 'Radical Dalit Humanism' with Professor Shailaja Paik of the University of Cinc….
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RT @UChicagoLibrary: Come to our panel discussion May 19 at 11 AM about artificial intelligence and its impact on scholarly content featuri….
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This panel discussion about artificial intelligence (AI) and scholarly content will feature Dave Hansen, Executive Director of Author’s Alliance,...
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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".
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It’s Danny Kind, and he’s not even Catholic. But he’s in a college class that simulated the conclave of 1492. (There were costumes, bribes and Oreos.)
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RT @UChicagoLaw: Profs. Alison LaCroix and @WilliamBaude were recognized by the University for communications excellence. Learn more about….
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RT @UChicagoSSD: Congratulations to PhD Students Daniel Fernandez and Sofia Butnaru, recipients of Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fell….
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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! .
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UChicago’s Women’s Distance Medley Relay Team took home the University’s first national Track and Field championship in four years and first Track championship in nearly a decade.
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UChicago History.Congratulations to History PhD Candidate, Daniel Fernandez who was awarded a 2025 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship!.
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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.
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In the 1950s, the wealthy were willing to pay higher taxes. Here's how America's fiscal patriotism unraveled.
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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:
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RT @UChicagoCEGU: Thursday, April 24:.CEGU Annual Conference 2025.Energy—Capital—Metabolism. Room 124, SSRB.1126 E 59th St.5:00–6:45pm. Cal….
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UChicago announces recipients of 2025 Academic Communicators Network awards | University of Chicago News
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Associate Professor of History, Amy Dru Stanley, on academic freedom and American history teaching in "Freedom for Sale" in Dissent Magazine.
dissentmagazine.org
The government funds institutions that stretch across American society. The Trump administration is demanding the relinquishment of constitutional rights to keep the money flowing.
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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 in conversation with Natacha Nsabimana (UChicago). Reception to follow.
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