Archive: Department of History

• Five College of Arts & Sciences Alumnae Awarded Prestigious NSF Fellowship

  August 14, 2023

  This year, five alumnae of the College of Arts & Sciences were awarded fellowships through the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program

  Category: News Story Tags: Alumni, Department of Biology, Department of History, Research

• The Unsung History of the Third French East India Company and the Shaping of the Modern World 

  July 24, 2023

  In her new book, Company Politics, Elizabeth Cross wants the world to reconsider the Third French East India Company

  Category: News Story Tags: Department of History, Faculty

• 4 Georgetown Faculty Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

  April 20, 2023

  Four Georgetown faculty members, including three from the College of Arts & Sciences, have been elected to the 2023 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

  Category: News Story Tags: African American Studies, Awards, Department of History, English, Performing Arts

• Georgetown Professor Wins James Beard Award for Story of Black America Told Through Fast Food

  June 13, 2022

  Georgetown historian Marcia Chatelain won the James Beard Award for her book Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America.

  Category: News Story Tags: African American Studies, Awards, Department of History, Faculty

• Analyzing Ceramics Sheds Light on Xenophobia, 1300 Years Too Late

  June 7, 2022

  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.

  Category: News Story Tags: Art & Art History, Department of History, Research, Student

• History Professor Wins Guggenheim to Explore Japanese History

  May 4, 2022

  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.

  Category: News Story Tags: Department of History, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Faculty, Research

• Earliest African DNA Paints Vivid Picture of Ancient Human Lives

  March 2, 2022

  Kathryn de Luna, a history professor at Georgetown, is an author of a new paper examining the earliest DNA ever recovered from Africa.

  Category: News Story Tags: Department of History, Faculty, Research

• Why Democrats Can’t Govern Effectively, According to a Historian

  February 28, 2022

  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.

  Category: News Story Tags: Book, Department of History, Faculty

• The Untold Story of the Windy City: Georgetown Professor Paints New History of Mexican Americans in Chicago

  February 18, 2022

  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. 

  Category: News Story Tags: Books, Department of History, Faculty

• Has the Black Death’s Impact Been Overstated? New Medieval Data Complicates Understanding 

  February 17, 2022

  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.

  Category: News Story Tags: Department of History, Faculty, Research