🗣We invite submissions of completed papers, preliminary findings, and works in progress, including a Master’s thesis, first or second-year research projects, and dissertation chapters. Please submit a 250-word abstract along with a brief bio to [email protected] by January 19, 2026.

✨Join this conversation between Laura Field and Richard Wolin on the intellectual descent from mid-century conservatism to Trumpism and as a warning that the U.S. now faces a radical, post-conservative right driven more by myth and ressentiment than by any genuine political philosophy.
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🍹☺️Happy Hour time! The Peers Mentors are hosting a happy hour on Tuesday, November 18 at 6:30 pm in the History Lounge (room 5114). Come by and unwind while enjoying delicious refreshments 🥂

✨ Our faculty member, Professor Richard Wolin just published his article "Blanchot Collabo: From the Jeune Droite to Jeune France."

🔗 Here is the to the full article:
www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...

✨ Here are some highlights from our Fourth Annual Judith S. Stein Lecture in Political Economy held yesterday. This year, we were honored to have Professor Dr. Robin D. G. Kelley as our speaker.

🍕The Peer Mentor Coordinators invite you all to the Second Pizza and Pedagogy of the Fall semester. The topic of discussion will be dealing with AI.

🍕As always, there will be pizza and drinks.

✨🥂 Yesterday, we celebrated Jessica Georges, the 2025 recipient of the Carolina Brown Educational Award! We thank The National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York for sponsoring this dissertation fellowship for over 50 years! ❤️

#GChistoryStudents #thegraduatecenter #dissertationaward

🎃🕯️Halloween is here again, and the Peer Mentors are hosting a special happy hour to celebrate! As part of the evening’s entertainment, students will give micro-presentations on spooky, scary, or weird bits of history. Let’s come together to be amused and terrified! Boo 👻🏚️☠️

🗣️Help us spread the word: our Open House is coming! Join us in person or online to hear from the history faculty and doctoral students about the program and learn why you should apply to the Ph.D. program in History at the Graduate Center✨
#phdhistory #thegraduatecenter #cuny #openhouse #phdprogram

📝 Wondering what goes into a successful dissertation proposal (and why that matters)? Join us to hear from Professors Dagmar Herzog and David Waldstreicher as they share their experiences advising students.
💡 A Q&A period will follow their presentation.

✨ You are all invited to celebrate The National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York and this year’s 2025 Caroline Brown Educational Award recipient: Jessica Georges!

🎖️🥂The award ceremony and reception begin at 4:15 PM on October 28 in Room 5114.
💌 RSVP to [email protected]

✨Join us for a talk with Human Rights Activist, Alberto Yepes.

🗓️ Friday, October 10, 2025
⏰ 4:30 - 5:30 PM, Reception to follow 5:30-6:30 PM
📍Graduate Center CUNY, History Lounge (Room 5114)

#graduatecenter #humanrights #activism

🔇Fourth Annual Judith S. Stein Lecture in Political Economy.
✨Speaker: Robin D. G. Kelley✨

📍Hybrid event - RSVP:
📩In-Person: email [email protected]
💻Online: scan the QR code on the flyer

#history #historyphd #politicaleconomy #judithsteinlecturer #gchistory #blacklaborhistories #classstruggle

🚨Interested in American Studies? Curious about how others lean into their scholarship in this current political climate?
Join scholars, writers, and students practicing various aspects of American Studies.
⭐History faculty members David Waldstreicher and David Reynolds will be among the speakers.

📇Join our Peer Mentors for their Research Roundtable event on Sept 30!
⏰ 2:00 PM
📍 Graduate Center, History Lounge, Dissertation Room

🥗🥪Lunch will be provided!

📚🗣 Book talk "The Concentration Camp Brothel: Forced Sexual Labor under Nazi Rule," with the author Robert Sommer (Berlin), and hosted by Professor Dagmar Herzog.

🗓️ Wednesday, October 8, 2025
⏰ 4:15 PM
📍Graduate Center CUNY, Room 5114

📚🗣 Book talk with author Stephan Steiner (Vienna), hosted by Prof. Dagmar Herzog.

🗓September 30, 2025
⏰4:15 pm
📍Graduate Center CUNY, History Lounge (Room 5114)

⭐SAVE THE DATE⭐ The first Pizza and Pedagogy session of the Fall semester is on September 18 🍁🍂

🍕Pizza and Pedagogy is a series where students and faculty from our department come together to discuss important topics related to undergraduate teaching (and eat pizza!).

✨ Congratulations to our alumna Professor Mila Burns on her new book! "Dictatorship Across Borders" reveals Brazil's hand in fueling a brutal South American dictatorship.