Events
Students in Professor Govind Sreenivasan's course, "Early Modern History," reenacted a late 16th century infantry drill.
History Department Events and Speaker Series (2024-2025)
March 13, 2025
4-5:30 pm|Schwartz 112
Kerri Greenidge is the Mellon Associate Professor in the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts University, where she also co-directs the African American Trail Project. Dr. Greenidge is the author of the award-winning Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter (2019) and most recently, The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in An American Family (2022), which was a finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award. Dr. Greenidge will share part of her current research with us.
March 6, 2025
4-5:30 pm | Olin Sang 207
Gabriel Rocha is the Vasco da Gama Assistant Professor of History and Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University. A historian of Atlantic and environmental history, Dr. Rocha will share with us research from his current book project, The Atlantic Acceleration: Empires and Uprisings from the Global Commons, 1400-1560.
Past Events
November 21, 2024
4-5:30 pm | Olin Sang 207
Natalie Cornett (Brandeis PhD, ’21) is the “Le Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture (FRQSC) – Postdoctoral Fellow” at McGill University. Dr. Cornett is the author of The Politics of Love: Gender and Nation in Nineteenth-Century Poland (2024). Dr. Cornett will share a portion of her recently published book, and discuss her journey from dissertation writing to book production.
September 5, 2024
4:00 - 5:30pm
Olin Sang 207
A talk by Yuri Doolan Assistant Professor of History, and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University.
August 29, 2024
4:00 - 5:30pm
Olin Sang 207
A talk on digital innovations into rereading civil war history by Abigail Cooper, Assistant Professor of History at Brandeis University.
August 28, 2024
4:00 - 5:30pm
Olin Sang 207
A talk by Gregory Childs, Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Brandeis University.
April 17, 2023
Karen Tani (L '07, PhD '11), the Seaman Family University Professor, University of Pennsylvania, is a scholar of U.S. legal history, social welfare law, administrative agencies, and the role of rights in the modern American state. She is the author of States of Dependency: Welfare, Rights, and American Governance, 1935-1972 (Cambridge University Press, 2016), which won the 2017 Cromwell Book Prize from the American Society for Legal History.September 19, 2022
Speaker: Alice M. Goff, Assistant Professor of German History and the College, University of Chicago
November 18, 2021
Chris Gratien, Assistant Professor of History at University of Virginia, specializes in the history of the Ottoman Empire and is a producer of the Ottoman history podcast. His monograph entitled The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier will by published this Spring by Stanford University Press.November 19, 2020
Speaker: Daniel A. Rodriguez, The Manning Assistant Professor of History, Brown University
June 12, 2020
Virtual Panel Discussion: Chad Williams, the Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Chair in History and the Chair of the African and African American Studies department (Moderator)
Anita Hill, University Professor
Daniel Kryder, the Louis Stulberg Chair in Law and Politics
Leah Wright Rigueur, the Harry Truman Associate Professor of History
America is in the midst of reckoning with the legacies of racism, racial violence, and systemic injustice against black people. The current national uprising, sparked by the recent murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, have exposed the complex intersections of history, politics, and the law in how race, white supremacy, and anti-blackness function in American society. Join us for a conversation with leading Brandeis faculty about these issues and how we can chart a new future for black lives.
November 19, 2019
Speaker: Marisa J. Fuentes, Rutgers University
Associate Professor of Women's & Gender Studies and History; and Presidential Term Chair in African American History, 2017-2022
September 26, 2019
Speaker: Nurfadzilah Yahaya, Assistant Professor, History Department at National University of Singapore
March 28, 2019
Speaker: Philip Thai, Assistant Professor of History, Northeastern UniversityMarch 19, 2019
Jack Davis, PhD '94, will speak at Brandeis about his Pulitzer-Prize-winning history of America's gulf coast: The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea.March 6, 2019
A Conversation with Kate Wahl, Editor-in-Chief of Stanford University PressModerated by Naghmeh Sohrabi, Associate Director for Research at the Crown Center and the Charles (Corky) Goodman Professor of Middle East History at Brandeis.
February 5, 2019
Speaker: Gretchen Heefner, Associate Professor of History, Northeastern UniversityJanuary 31, 2019
Speaker: Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, Associate Professor of History and Spatial Studies, University of Southern CaliforniaJanuary 29, 2019
Speaker: Sarah Pearsall, Senior Lecturer, Cambridge University.
November 15, 2018
History Department Speaker Series
Speaker: Hendrik Hartog, Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the History of American Law and Liberty; Professor of History, Princeton University
October 25, 2018
History Department Speaker Series
Speaker: Yoav Di-Capua, Associate Professor of History, Univeristy of Texas, Austin
March 20, 2018
Speaker: Erika Rappaport, Professor of History, Univeristy of California, Santa Barbara
January 24, 2018
Speaker: Heather Ann Thompson, Professor of History, University of Michigan