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Welcome to the History Department!

History encompasses the whole of human experience, helping us understand ourselves in the context of our times and traditions through the study of times and traditions other than our own. History means not only the record of the past but also the discipline of investigating and interpreting the past. The study of history develops habits of critical thinking and effective writing, as well as it cultivates the careful analysis of various types of quantitative and qualitative evidence. It should be of value not only to undergraduates who intend to pursue advanced degrees in the field, but also to students interested in exploring the diversity and complexity of the human past, even as they hone their analytical and expository skills.

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New Oral History Track for Senior Thesis!

Senior Thesis Fellowship for Research in European Archives

Current junior history majors in Barnard and CC are eligible to apply for summer research fellowships of $4,500 to fund senior thesis research in European archives. (Research topics need not be in European history, but your research must take you to archives in Europe.) Successful fellowship recipients will also have the opportunity to participate in a workshop on July 6-8 at the Columbia Global Center in Paris, led by History Department faculty.

Applications are due March 27, 2020. In addition, all history majors are warmly invited to attend two workshops prior to the application deadline, on identifying potential archives and writing a research proposal. For details of those workshops, please see the flyer. For questions and to sign up for the workshops, please contact fellowship program TA Emily Rutherford (emr2213@columbia.edu).

Sample Course Syllabi Now Available

UNDERGRADUATE SUMMER FELLOWSHIPS

The IRCPL Undergraduate Summer Fellowship supports travel and living expenses for summer research or internship opportunities for undergraduate students with a strong interest in the study of religion and/or secularism. Successful candidates will receive a maximum of $2,500. See more details here.

Apply by Wednesday, March 25th, 2020.

Women’s History Institute Summer Research Fellowship: Call for 2020 Applications

The deadline for application has past (December 31st, 2019) and fellowship awards will be announced on February 3, 2020.

https://hudsonvalley.org/news/womens-history-institute-summer-research-fellowship-call-for-applications/

New Course

Visting Scholar: Professor Ohannes Kılıçdağı Presents Renaissance, Annihilation and Survival: The History of Armenians in Turkey from the Tanzimat to the Present

EXHIBIT OPENING | ARTISTS TALK

Join us on February 21, 2020 for the opening of IN ALL MY DREAMS, a collective, multivalent project situated at the intersections of literature, history, and visual art in the Caribbean.
Date: Friday, February 21
Time: 7-9PM
Location: Louise McCagg Gallery at Barnard College
For further details, be sure to visit the exhibition website.
RSVP here

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Recent News

Professor Nara Milanich Nominated for 2020 PROSE Award

February 14, 2020

Professor Nara Milanich's Book Featured in Uruguayan Newspaper

February 7, 2020

Congratulations to Emily Reed (Class of '19) on the publication of her op-ed in the Washington Post!

"In keeping with the Trump administration’s determination to disincentivize migrants from coming to the United States, U.S. Customs and Border Protection often conveniently exploits asylum seekers who cannot read. Along with an unfamiliarity with our deliberately complex immigration system, the illiteracy of Central American migrants, especially women, facilitates the deportation of parents and separation of families..."

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September 20, 2019