Department of History
Dr. Porter will be giving a lecture on Oilseed Archives: Plants and Chemicals as Material Witnesses of the African Diaspora and Violence in Guerrero, Mexico.
In this talk, Dr. Kristin Roebuck will introduce her new book, Japan Reborn: Race and Eugenics from Empire to Cold War.
In this seminar, you’ll be exposed to the perspectives of Muslim women themselves: what they have to say about their status in the Qur’an, Islamic law (the Shari`a), contemporary religious life, and most importantly, their frequent status as pawns in global geopolitics.
This hybrid event will feature Professor Camille Robcis (Columbia University) and Professor Agnieszka Graff (University of Warsaw).
Come join us for lunch and to hear our visiting colleague Julian Stoffel (University of Basel) discuss his dissertation work, "Radical Change? How to Talk about the Emancipatory 1970s in Switzerland”, sponsored by the Center for European Studies.
Kiamsha Bynes, PhD’24 in History, and Cherene Aniyan, PhD Student in History at Rutgers–New Brunswick will present on how they developed and used oral history collections to probe class, gender, and sexuality in African American history and Asian and Middle Eastern history.
In his new book, Harvests of Liberation, Professor Shokr tells a story of decolonization through the lens of cotton, Egypt's prized export.
This seminar on the modern history of the Middle East will focus on the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the aftermath of World War One on the region.
This presentation explores the creation of the largest living archive of Black Cuban oral histories by tracing our process of collecting, transcribing, and interpreting 95 interviews with Black Cubans in the United States.
This lecture offers a new interpretation of the centrality of genealogical notions of “Arabness” (ʿurūbiyyah) in the writings of political and intellectual elites in the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada (1232-1492), the last surviving Muslim polity in medieval Iberia.
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