Department of History

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From left to right: Kenji Cataldo, Sam Harshbarger, Alice McGuinness, Sam Bisno, and Marie-Rose Sheinerman.

Photos courtesy of Kenji Cataldo, Sameer Khan/Fotobuddy, and Denise Applewhite, Office of Communications, Princeton University.

News

New Faculty Books: April and May 2025

New books are out or forthcoming by Michael D. Gordin, Isadora Moura Mota, and Martha A. Sandweiss.

Laura Edwards Gives Fleming Lectures in Southern History

On April 15–16, Professor Edwards delivered a series of lectures on “Writing Law, Rewriting Lives: Legal Authority in the Nineteenth-Century South.”

Margot Canaday Awarded Cotsen Fellowship

The fellowship supports the development and teaching of new undergraduate courses, or other distinctive contributions to the undergraduate teaching program at Princeton.

"Life and Death of States" Wins 2025 Felicia Krishna Hensel IDSS Book Award

The award recognizes a work that is an original and outstanding contribution to interdisciplinary studies, broadly defined.

Xin Wen Wins Levenson Prize for "The King’s Road"

The award from the Association for Asian Studies recognizes the best English-language book on pre-1900 China.

Events

Final Public Oral Exam: Austin Bradley Schwartz
Newsman: Edward R. Murrow and the Invention of Truth
Apr 29, 2025, 10:00 am12:00 pm
Final Public Oral Exam: Cynthia Houng
The Art of Judgment and the Judgment of Art: From the Mercantile Evaluation of Goods to the Connoisseurship of Art, 1300–1800
Apr 29, 2025, 1:00 pm3:00 pm
Part 1: The Centrality of Constantinople: In and Beyond Early Christendom
Before 'West' and 'East'
Apr 29, 2025, 4:30 pm6:00 pm
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Joint MEW Workshop: Philip Decker and Austen Van Burns
Apr 30, 2025, 12:00 pm1:30 pm
Speakers
Anson Rabinbach in 2024