Congratulations to Professor Kate Culkin. Emerson’s Daughters is longlisted for the prestigious Plutarch Award from Biographers International Organization (BIO).  Congratulations to Dr. [...]

Professor Kate Culkin explores the lives of Ellen Tucker Emerson and Edith Emerson Forbes in her new book, “Emerson’s Daughters” Congratulations to Dr. Kate Culkin (Professor and Deputy Chair) on [...]

Examining the educational legacy of Afro-Cuban teachers and activists   Congratulations to Dr. Raquel Otheguy (Associate Professor) whose new book Black Freedom and Education in [...]

Dr. Prithi Kanakamedala (Professor, History) is a scholar of the history of New York City during the 19th century. Her first full-length book Brooklynites: the Remarkable Story of the Free […]

Congratulations to Dr. William deJong Lambert (Professor, History) who has been awarded a 2024 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award. Dr. deJong Lambert will spend part of 2024/2025 academic year during [...]

The History Department is excited to announce new department leadership: Dr. Mara Lazda (Professor, History) will serve as Chairperson of History, and Dr. Kate Culkin (Professor, History), will [...]

Congratulations to Dr. Mara Lazda (Professor, History) whose co-edited book Routledge Handbook of Gender in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia (2021) has been been awarded the 2022 Heldt Prize [...]

Congratulations to Dr. Robert Wechsler (Adjunct Assistant Professor, History) who has been awarded The New York Labor History Association’s John Commerford Labor Education Award for his [...]

Dr. Prithi Kanakamedala has been awarded a Mellon/ ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowship. Her project includes a book manuscript, revision of HIS 37 African American History (a course that [...]