DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY

Join us in celebrating our graduating History students and award winners this year.

Professor Lauzière has been named the Alumnae of Northwestern Teaching Professor for 2020.

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced that Scott Sowerby has received a grant to complete his book project, The Violent Origins of Religious Toleration in Early Modern Europe, 1520–1800.
Read more and access the full list of awards

• Doug KIEL has won the Western History Association's 2020 Arrell M. Gibson Award for the best article of the year on Native American history thanks to his “Nation v. Municipality: Indigenous Land Recovery, Settler Resentment, and Taxation on the Oneida Reservation,” Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal (Fall 2019)  https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/natiindistudj.6.2.0051?seq=1

Our latest electronic newsletter is now available for reading.

“Latinos aren’t naturally liberal or conservative”: Professor Cadava examines the complicated political dynamics of a growing voting bloc.

Professor Harris will serve as the 2020–2021 Beatrice Shepherd Blane Fellow.

In her new course on the Black Death and other health crises, historian Dyan Elliott finds parallels to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Daniel Immerwahr and Keith Woodhouse will serve for 2020-2021

Our latest electronic newsletter is now available for reading.

The History Department mourns the death of our retired colleague Jock McLane, who passed away on January 24, 2020. His family is arranging a memorial service for April 4, 2020, at 2 P.M. in Alice Millar Chapel, with a reception to follow in Harris Hall. Click through to read Laura Hein’s obituary of Jock’s professional life.