Department of History
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.
The Center for Cultural Analysis Race in Pre-Moder
"The Whole Problem with Black Feminist Criticism" by Brittney Cooper
This event is your chance as a History major or minor to learn about a wide range of career options for History majors — ranging from business to non-profits to media and the arts.
"White Supremacy, Anti-Blackness, and the Logics of Denationalization " by Kaysha Coinealdi
The RAICCS Speaker Series events feature scholars who have utilized a wide array of topical, narrative, digital, and stylistic approaches in their works in ways that unsettle disciplinary boundaries.
This seminar explores the bloody and contentious process of the abolition of slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean during three key moments and places: the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804); the Wars of Independence in Spanish South America (1810-1825); and Brazil, Cuba, and Puerto Rico, the last bastions of slavery in the hemisphere.
A talk with Lisa Ford, endowed Professor of Modern British Imperial History at George Washington University
