Emerita Professor Genna Rae McNeil is co-winner of this year’s Charles Hamilton Houston Medallion of Merit, conferred by the Washington DC Bar Association. In 1925, the Association was co-founded by Charles Hamilton Houston, whose prize-winning biography, Groundwork, was written by … Read more

Read about Dr. Turk’s spring 2020 HIST 179H, and their virtual walking tour exploring women’s history on UNC’s campus, in The Well.

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.

Earlier this year, Dr. William Sturkey earned a 2022 Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Created in 1952, the Tanner Award celebrates inspirational teaching of undergraduates, especially first- and second-year students. Read about Dr. Sturkey’s accomplishment and reflections on … Read more

Earlier this year, Bradley Sadowsky ’24, a math and comparative literature major, won a SEC-AAS award for their paper “Post-War Japanese Society and Mishima Yukio’s The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea.” Sadowsky originally wrote the paper through … Read more

On February 25 in Richmond, Virginia, the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies recognized Professor Emeritus Donald J. Raleigh with its Lifetime Achievement Award. Join us in congratulating Dr. Raleigh!

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

Professor Sarah Shields has been awarded this year’s Middle East Studies Association Undergraduate Education Award. Professor Shield’s teaching about Middle East history has been creative, innovative, student-centered, and diverse. She also has shared both her historical expertise and pedagogical strategies … Read more