PhD Candidate Mira Markham recently penned an insightful essay about her experiences in the archives for her dissertation research. Read her essay in Contingent Magazine.
HIST 051.001: Latin American Revolutions (First Year Seminar) Days and Times: TTh 11:00AM – 12:15PM Instructor: Miguel La Serna HIST 062.001: Nations, Borders, and Identities (First Year Seminar) Days and Times: TTh 12:30 – 1:45PM Instructor: Sarah Shields HIST 084: Monsters, Murders, and … Read more
The college of arts and sciences website recently featured a spotlight on Fitz Brundage’s long-term project to produce a digital collection of North Carolina’s monuments, shrines and commemorative public art. Commemorative Landscape, an interdisciplinary collaboration, “contains information on roughly 1000 historical … Read more
Multiple department graduate program alumni have recently appeared in various media outlets discussing the historical context of the war in Ukraine. Here are some of their appearances. Virginia Olmsted McGraw – NPR: Putin’s puffy coat and Zelenskyy’s T-shirts show the … Read more
Congratulations to department graduate student Cristian Walk on receiving a Tanner Award for Graduate Teaching Assistants. Read more about Cristian and his philosophy on teaching here.
Last week, the Daily Tar Heel featured an article about the History department’s William Sturkey. The article, entitled “UNC history professor William Sturkey aims to empower students to talk about race,” discusses Dr. Sturkey’s teaching and his public facing work … Read more
The Society for Military History’s Distinguished Book Awards Committee selected The Oxford Handbook of Gender, War, and the Western World since 1600 (Oxford University Press, 2020), edited by Karen Hagemann, Stefan Dudink and Sonya Rose, as the winner of the … Read more
In the latest episode of The Cutting Room Floor, Chad Bryant, Associate Professor of History at UNC – Chapel Hill, tells the story of Jiři Smichovský. Smichovský was an interwar Czechoslovak occultist turned Nazi informant. And then Communist informant. Oh, … Read more
Congratulations to Professor William Ferris on being honored with the Cora Norman Award from the Mississippi Humanities Council. The award recognizes Ferris’ “distinguished career as a scholar and national leader in the humanities.” Read more about the award on the … Read more
The Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Naming University Facilities and Units has decided to rename the Student Affairs building on campus in honor of Henry Owl. Owl was a Cherokee historian and the first American Indian student to enroll at the … Read more
