Department of History

Historian Corinna Zeltsman Awarded NEH Grant

March 24, 2023

The grant is for researching and writing a book, “Making Paper in Mexico: A Material, Political and Environmental History,” spanning pre-Columbian times to the present.
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Class Trip Visits D-Day Sites in Normandy

March 21, 2023

Every few years, students in HIS 283: War in the Modern Western World and select members of Princeton's Army ROTC travel to Normandy, France, to visit D-Day sites.
Xin Wen Discusses His New Book, The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road

March 20, 2023

His first book provides an exciting and richly detailed new history of the Silk Road that tells how it became more important as a route for diplomacy than for trade.

Events

Final Public Oral Exam: David J. Robertson

Crazy Standards: The World Health Organization, Psychiatric Epidemiology, and the Remaking of Psychiatry

Mar 29, 2023, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

Divya Cherian: The Witch and the Wild Man: Colonial Humanitarianism in Nineteenth-Century India (CANCELED)

Mar 29, 2023, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm

Global History Workshop | Yana Prymachenko, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Mar 30, 2023, 12:00 pm – 1:20 pm

Alison, Glassie, “Oceanography Otherwise: Marine Methods in the Environmental Humanities”

Mar 30, 2023, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

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News

Faculty Books: March and April 2023

New books out and forthcoming by Michael A. Blaakman, Michael D. Gordin, and Max Weiss.

History Senior Austin Davis Receives Pyne Prize

Princeton University seniors Austin Davis and Ella Gantman are the recipients of the 2023 Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the highest general distinction conferred on an undergraduate.

Behind the Research: Elizabeth Ellis Illuminates Native American Histories

Assistant professor Elizabeth Ellis, the first specialist in Native American studies to join Princeton’s history department, describes her "haphazard" path to becoming a historian and her current research projects.

History Senior Shaun Cason '23 Awarded Sachs Scholarship

The Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship is one of Princeton University's highest awards.

Medieval Studies Director Helmut Reimitz Named Medieval Academy of America Fellow

The prestigious fellowship honors major long-term scholarly achievement within the field of medieval studies. He is among 11 new fellows and two corresponding fellows elected in 2023.

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