UNC PhD student Zora Piskačová has been awarded the prestigious Anthony Jung Award for Best Graduate Student Paper at the 48th Annual European Studies Conference, sponsored by the Unviersity of Nebraska at Omaha. Piskačová, who studies modern East Central Europe … Read more

Dr. Rob Waters, a historian of Modern Britain at Queen Mary’s University in London, has just published his second monograph with Oxford University Press: Colonized by Humanity: Caribbean London and the Politics of Integration at the End of Empire. In 2021, … Read more

This year, three UNC History graduate students have been selected to receive the Sally Markham Michie Award from the Orange County chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Cristian Walk, Nick Sifford, and Skye Brenner will be honored at … Read more

Sarah K. Miles, currently in her last year as a PhD student at UNC, is a host for the New Books Network channel in French Studies. Her most recent episode is an interview with Nicole Bauer, who graduated with her … Read more

Alison Curry, currently an ABD student in the History Department, was recently featured in a Research UNCovered post for the fascinating work she’s doing on Jewish cemetaries in Poland in the interwar period and during World War II. Her work … Read more

We are so incredibly proud of Nurlan Kabdylkhak, UNC History PhD Candidate in late imperial Russian and Central Asian History, who has been awarded a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for 2023. Nurlan’s dissertation is entitled “Muslim Institutions and … Read more

Have you ever thought about the history encapsulated by a set of swings? How about the way that parks might be shaped by popular memory? Inspired in part by his recent book, Prague: Belonging and the Modern City, and in … Read more

Congratulations to long-time member of the History Department and prolific scholar of German History, Dr. Konrad Jarausch for the publication of his new book! Dr. Jarausch’s memoir, The Burden of German Hisory: A Transatlantic Life (Berghahn, 2023) “presents a sustained academic reflection … Read more

At the recent annual meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Professor Emeritus Don Raleigh was presented by six of his former PhD students with the first of three installments of a festschrift in his honor at a panel … Read more

Despite UNC missing this year’s March Madness bracket, much-lauded History Professor Matt Andrews brought basketball to the March 23 Board of Trustees meeting. Andrews gave a brief presentation on five lesser-known basketball teams in North Carolina, highlighting how the history … Read more