Archive: Department of History
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Georgetown Professor Wins James Beard Award for Story of Black America Told Through Fast Food
Georgetown historian Marcia Chatelain won the James Beard Award for her book Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America.
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Analyzing Ceramics Sheds Light on Xenophobia, 1300 Years Too Late
This spring, Xin Zheng, a double major in art history and history, presented his paper on the depiction of ethnic minorities in Tang Dynasty (618-907) pottery at the SUNY New Paltz Undergraduate Art History Symposium.
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History Professor Wins Guggenheim to Explore Japanese History
Jordan Sand, a professor of Japanese history and culture, has been named a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow. Japan, which has been around for more than 1,300 years.
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Earliest African DNA Paints Vivid Picture of Ancient Human Lives
Kathryn de Luna, a history professor at Georgetown, is an author of a new paper examining the earliest DNA ever recovered from Africa.
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Why Democrats Can’t Govern Effectively, According to a Historian
Michael Kazin, Ph.D. and a professor in the Department of History at Georgetown, wants to chart a course forward for the Democratic party by studying its long evolution – from its creation in the 1820s through the election of 2020.
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The Untold Story of the Windy City: Georgetown Professor Paints New History of Mexican Americans in Chicago
Mike Amezcua’s new book, Making Mexican Chicago, tells the story of the Windy City as it was built by its Mexican and Mexican-American population, exploring the ways in which post-WWII federal policies, funding and priorities shaped the reality of urban lives in the second half of the 20th century.
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Has the Black Death’s Impact Been Overstated? New Medieval Data Complicates Understanding
Timothy Newfield, an assistant professor in the Department of History, is the co-author of a new paper on the impacts of the bubonic plague.
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Transcription Event for Georgetown Slavery Archive Honors DC Emancipation Day
More than 100 Georgetown students, staff, faculty, alumni and descendants of individuals enslaved and sold by the Maryland Province of Jesuits in 1838 participated in a weeklong virtual transcription event to commemorate Washington, DC’s Emancipation Day.
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