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The Department of History is proud to announce that chair, Dr. Michael Stamm, won the Covert Award for his article: “The International Materiality of Domestic Information: The Geopolitics of Newsprint During World War II and the Cold War,” published in The International History Review.    The… Continue Reading Department Chair Dr. Michael Stamm co-wins Covert Award

Assistant Professor of History Gillian McDonald was featured in a video promoting a Jacobite Exhibit at the University of Guelph. Watch the video here:

Ph.D. Candidate Lyudmila (Lucy) Austin accepted the 2023-2024 Postdoctoral Fellowship in History at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. The Fellowship will support her dissertation research project, “From Internationalism to Displacement: Minoritized Communities in the Formerly Soviet Southern Tier.” This work explores… Continue Reading Ph.D. Candidate Lyudmila (Lucy) Austin accepts Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard

The Department of History would like to congratulate graduate student Marissa Knaak on being awarded the William & Mary Burgan Prize for her presentation Mourning and the Annual Sale: Sheffield’s Department Stores and Queen Victoria’s Death, given on March 25 at the Midwest Victorian Studies… Continue Reading Grad Student Marissa Knaak Awarded William & Mary Burgan Prize

Professor Emeritus Lewis Siegelbaum recently spoke on the Reimagining Soviet Georgia podcast. On Workers, Labor and Cars in the Soviet Union, Siegelbaum discusses labor and workers in the Soviet Union and what it was like teaching Soviet History during the height of the Cold War.… Continue Reading Professor Emeritus Lewis Siegelbaum appears on Podcast