Department of History

In a Washington Post op-ed, Rochester professor Mical Raz outlines the pitfalls of using babies’ brain function and biology to inform anti-poverty family policies.

The Rochester historian also wins a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to write her third book.

The annual award honors the contributions of graduate students in classrooms and laboratories across the University. This year’s recipients come from different disciplines, but share many things in common.

Rochester scholars in the humanities and social sciences will study human migration as part of a “temporary research center” supported by a Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar grant.

Distinguished leaders, educators, and humanitarians will be honored during this spring’s commencement ceremonies.

Stewart Weaver offers an explainer on the partition of Ireland, which took place a century ago.

Stuck indoors on a tiny island in Bermuda during a COVID lockdown, Rochester historian Michael Jarvis dug into his files to learn more about Bermuda’s previous experiences with imported epidemics.

In an essay in the Washington Post, history PhD student Kevin Sapere argues the pandemic has made it “all the more relevant” to compensate housework.

Three women in the history PhD program have completed a video project showing the wife of Lincoln’s secretary of state as more influential than typically depicted.

Work to preserve testimonies of a people and their culture is recognized as an “outstanding model of applied environmental history scholarship.”