DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY

Professor Carroll was just elected to the China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies for a 3 year term.

Professor Cadava has just joined ten other History Department faculty as a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians.

The Economic History Association awarded Professor Joel Mokyr the 2019 Jonathan Hughes Prize for distinguished teaching of economic history.

U.S. Representative Adam Schiff, chair of the House Intelligence Committee, delivered the 30th annual Leopold Lecture.

Our latest electronic newsletter is now available for reading.

An interview of “Historian and artist Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern” appeared in the Ukrainian Weekly.

“A society’s values and beliefs matter for its economy—and cultural change can unlock the economic potential of people and ideas.”

His book, “The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical Environmentalism,” has won the S-USIH Book Prize, for the best academic book in US intellectual history.

The Theodore Zev and Alice R. Weiss - Holocaust Educational Foundation held its Summer Institute this year from June 24 to July 5. Faculty included Northwestern History Department professors Sarah Cushman, Benjamin Frommer, Daniel Greene, and Peter Hayes.

Professor Henry Binford won the E. LeRoy Hall Award for Excellence in Teaching, and Melanie Hall and Joy Sales both won Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Awards at the 2019 Weinberg College Teaching Awards.

His book, “The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1890-1950,” ranks at #9 on the Best Books about the History of New York.

Our first semi-annual electronic newsletter is now available for reading.

Professor Boyle will receive a Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence Award

Ken Alder and Lauren Stokes will serve for 2019-2020

Scott De Orio was awarded the 2019 John D'Emilio LGBTQ History Dissertation Award for his work “Punishing Queer Sexuality in the Age of LGBT Rights” by the Organization of American Historians.

“How to Hide an Empire” explores U.S. overseas territories