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At the History of Science Society meeting, Adrian Johns won the Pfizer Prize for The Science of Reading. Sachaet Pandey-Geeta Mantraraj, a PhD student, received the Rainger Prize for a paper he co-wrote with Elizabeth Chatterjee, “Dams and the Deep Earth.” Congratulations!
November 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
At the History of Science Society meeting, Adrian Johns won the Pfizer Prize for The Science of Reading. Sachaet Pandey-Geeta Mantraraj, a PhD student, received the Rainger Prize for a paper he co-wrote with Elizabeth Chatterjee, “Dams and the Deep Earth.” Congratulations!
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.
September 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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!
August 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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)!
July 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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!
Elena Tiedens (History major; Russian & Eastern European Studies minor, BA/MA 2025) who was awarded an English Teaching Assistant Award in Kyrgyzstan!
July 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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!
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).”
Xiaoyu's dissertation: “Empire of Copper: British and American Global Trade, Chilean Copper, and the Transformation of Chinese Monetary System (1800-1862).”
July 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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).”
Xiaoyu's dissertation: “Empire of Copper: British and American Global Trade, Chilean Copper, and the Transformation of Chinese Monetary System (1800-1862).”
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...
May 22, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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...
May 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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!
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May 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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...
wehc2025.com/conference_p...
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
April 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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.
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April 24–25, 2025
Social Science Research Building & 1155 E. 60th St.
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April 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
ENERGY—CAPITAL—METABOLISM
April 24–25, 2025
Social Science Research Building & 1155 E. 60th St.
tinyurl.com/3ax7mtdw
April 24–25, 2025
Social Science Research Building & 1155 E. 60th St.
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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!
April 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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...
April 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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.
April 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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.
March 31, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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.
March 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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.
March 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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...
March 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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."
March 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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!
March 3, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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!
March 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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!
March 3, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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!
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February 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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...
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.
February 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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.
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.
February 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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.
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.