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Recent Accomplishments from Graduate Students – April 2025
April 25, 2025

Jonathan Victor Baldoza was selected as the 2025 LHRT Justin Winsor Award Winner.

Thesis Day 2025
April 25, 2025

History seniors gathered at the arch by Dickinson Hall with their thesis advisers.

Courses to Consider
April 21, 2025

Looking for an exciting History course? Explore a range of courses from ancient to modern times, world history to history of science.

Thomas D. Conlan Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
April 18, 2025

He is among 198 distinguished and diverse group of culture-creators working across 53 disciplines chosen this year. 

Class of 2027 Celebrates Declaration Day
April 17, 2025

On Friday, April 11, students celebrated declaring their major in history. As per tradition, they gathered at Cannon Green wearing black and orange sweaters emblazoned with their class year, 2027, and posed for photos in front of banners for the different departments on campus.

 
Faculty Appointments: Beatrice Adams and Madeline Woker
April 16, 2025

In Fall 2025, we will welcome two new faculty members to our department: Beatrice Adams and Madeline Woker.

New Faculty Books: April and May 2025
April 16, 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
April 15, 2025

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
March 26, 2025

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

Announcing the 2025–26 Davis Center Fellows and Postdocs
March 11, 2025

The Shelby Cullom Davis Center is delighted to announce the recipients of its Truth and Information fellowships.

"Life and Death of States" Wins 2025 Felicia Krishna Hensel IDSS Book Award
March 5, 2025

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"
Feb. 15, 2025

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

Documentary Short by Michael Salama '24 Qualifies for 2026 Academy Awards
Feb. 10, 2025

“Qotzuñi: People of the Lake” was part of his senior thesis work.

Alumni Journeys: Annabelle Duval '23 and Wendi Yan '23
Feb. 5, 2025

Recent History grads discuss their journeys at Princeton and beyond.

Anson Rabinbach Passes Away at 79
Feb. 4, 2025

He was a specialist in modern European history with an emphasis on intellectual and cultural history, and he retired from the faculty on July 1, 2019.

Divya Cherian Awarded NEH Fellowship
Jan. 22, 2025

The fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities will support her project, "Conjured States: Witchcraft and Politics in Western India, 1750–1900."

Recent Accomplishments from Graduate Students and Alumni – January 2025
Jan. 7, 2025

Nick Barone, Jonathon Catlin *23, Disha Karnad Jani *22, and Natasha Wheatley participated in a roundtable, "The Return of Political Economy in Modern European Intellectual History", at the 138th annual meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA) on January 5, 2025. Richard Calis *20 published a book.

New Faculty Books: January and February 2025
Jan. 7, 2025

New books are out by Michael D. Gordin, Anthony Grafton, and Julian Zelizer.

"Merchants of Virtue" Receives Two Honorable Mentions
Jan. 3, 2025

Divya Cherian's book received honorable mentions from the Social Science History Association and the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians.

Linda Colley Appointed Distinguished Visiting Scholar in The John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress
Dec. 23, 2024

The Kluge Center brings the world's top scholars and thinkers to the Library of Congress to conduct research and interact with policymakers and the public.