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Congratulations to Mosunmola Ogunmolaji, Marcus Chatfield, and Licinio Miranda!

Three graduate students won research awards at UF in fall 2023. Mosunmola Ogunmolaji (Nancy Hunt, supervisor) won a Research Abroad for Doctoral Students (RAD) award from the UF International Center to conduct research on the transnational history of the migration of Nigerian nurses to the United Kingdom. Marcus Chatfield (Joseph Spillane, supervisor) received a CLAS […]

Congratulations to Rothman and Tedder Fellows Tyler Cline and Jeffrey Jones!

PhD candidates Tyler Cline and Jeffrey Jones won Rothman and Tedder fellowships, respectively, from the Center for the Humanities in the Public Sphere. Cline will use the funding toward research on his dissertation project, called “To Slake the Thirst of Liberty: Migration, Race, and the Transformation of Transnational Anglo-Saxonism, 1830-1890.” Jones will use the funding […]

Congratulations to Prof. Sandy F. Chang, winner of a 2023-24 ACLS Fellowship!

The Department of History is proud to announce that Prof. Sandy F. Chang has been awarded a 2023 ACLS Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). The ACLS Fellowship Program supports exceptional scholarship in the humanities and interpretive social sciences that has the potential to make significant contributions within and beyond the awardees’ fields. Dr. […]

PhD Students Kristen Miller and Thomas Miller Awarded UF Travel Funding

Kristen Miller received a Richard J. Milbauer Fund Travel Award and a Center for European Studies Graduate Travel Award to conduct pre-dissertation research in England and Scotland in summer 2022 on the history of slavery in British East Florida. Thomas Miller was awarded a Field Research Grant from University of Florida’s Hugh L. Popenoe Mesoamerican […]

Back to School!

Whether you arrive in Gainesville by plane, automobile, or a good old-fashioned donkey, the History Department welcomes you back for the 2018-19 academic year.  Be sure to check out our many courses listed in the slideshow below–including brand new classes on China–and please have safe travels. Check in to this site from time to time […]

Why Did You Become a Historian?

Dr. Lily Guerra (pictured here as a youngster) provides a compelling answer to this question in the most recent edition of the American Historical Association’s Perspectives.  Dr. Guerra responds to an earlier article by AHA President Mary Beth Norton entitled “Why Are You a Historian?”  After a meeting with UF’s chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, the history honor […]

The Dog Days of the Academic Year?

The History Department wishes all its undergraduate and graduate students good luck as they embark on these final days of the 2017-18 academic year.  If you are graduating, congratulations and we wish you success. If not, then we look forward to seeing you next year.  No matter where you are headed, please stay in touch […]

The Birth of an Icon

Please join us for a public lecture on Thursday, 15 March, 2018 4:00 pm at the History Department conference room in 5 Keene-Flint Hall, as Professor Azzan Yadin-Israel of Rutgers University will present: “The Birth of an Icon: How the Forbidden Fruit became an Apple.” Though we often assume Adam and Eve sinned by eating an […]

Gary and Eleanor Simons Lecture–Joseph Crespino on Atticus Finch

The History Department is proud to announce that this year’s Gary and Eleanor Simons Lecture will be on Thursday, 22 March 2018 at 5:30 in Smathers 100.  Dr. Joseph Crespino of the Emory University History Department will give a talk entitled, “Searching for Atticus Finch: Harper Lee & American History.” Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is […]

17th Carter Conference from UF’s Center for African Studies

UF’s Center for African Studies is devoting its 17th Carter Conference to creating a critical public forum about new methods and politics in curation and text-image studies. Emphasizing juxtapositions, sequences, montage, friction, and postcolonial politics, it will problematize archival, field, and curatorial techniques in the global humanities. We aim to interrogate art, fables, lexicons, dreams, and […]

Heather Vrana’s New Book on Student Activism in Latin America

Dr. Heather Vrana, a recent addition to UF’s History Department, has published her first book with the University of California Press entitled, This City Belongs to You: A History of Student Activism in Guatemala, 1944-1996.  This book analyzes the role of students from the University of San Carlos in Guatemala’s turbulent history in the half-century following World […]

Jack Davis Wins 2017 Kirkus Prize

The History Department is proud to recognize that Dr. Jack Davis has won the 2017 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction for his book, The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea.  Here is their original review in its entirety: A sweeping environmental history of the Gulf of Mexico that duly considers the ravages of nature and man. […]

Honoring a Legend in Florida History

This April, the History Department was sad to learn of the passing of our former colleague, Dr. Michael Gannon. In recognition of his long career and his many contributions to the field of Florida history and to the University of Florida, the Department will hold a memorial service at the Baughman Center on the campus of the University […]

Dr. Heather Vrana Joins UF History

The History Department is pleased to welcome Dr. Heather Vrana, formerly of Southern Connecticut State University, as an assistant professor beginning in Fall 2017.  Dr. Vrana received her Ph.D from Indiana University in 2013 and is the author of This City Belongs to You: A History of Student Activism in Guatemala, 1944-1996 (University of California Press, 2017), Anti-Colonial […]

Why Did You Become a Historian?

Dr. Lily Guerra (pictured here as a youngster) provides a compelling answer to this question in the most recent edition of the American Historical Association’s Perspectives.  Dr. Guerra responds to an earlier article by AHA President Mary Beth Norton entitled “Why Are You a Historian?”  After a meeting with UF’s chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, […]

Don't Be an Impoverished Intellectual!

Interested in writing a senior thesis? Applying for money to do research this summer? Come to one of the information sessions this week!  On Wednesday, March 15 and Thursday, March 16 and 4PM Dr. Sheryl Kroen will hold information sessions on the History Honors Program in the history conference room(downstairs in Keene-Flint–across the hall from the main office). ​If you […]

Speaker Series on Empire, Religion, & Ethnicity in Europe and Beyond

A new speaker series will feature new and cutting-edge work of historians working on questions relating to ‘multicultural Europe’ in earlier historic moments.  The History Department is a co-sponsor of this program,  which ties into departmental interests in comparative empires, intercommunal relations, transnationalism, and globalization.  Stay tuned for announcements regarding these events!  

Nancy Hunt's New Book on Violence and Medicine in Colonial Congo

The History Department congratulates our new colleague, Dr. Nancy Rose Hunt, on the publication of her book entitled, A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo with Duke University Press.  This book draws out the anxiety and resilience of the people of post-colonial Belgian Congo, using medicine as a way to join these seemingly […]

Nina Caputo's New Graphic History on Medieval Religion

The History Department congratulates Dr. Nina Caputo on her new graphic history, published with Oxford University Press, entitled Debating Truth: The Barcelona Disputation of 1263.  This creative blend of art, primary sources, and historical commentary offers a unique perspective on the debate between a Dominican Friar  and the Jewish scholar Nahmanides over the Messiah as […]

Michael Schuering's New Book on West German Churches and Environmentalism

Congrats to Dr. Michael Schuering on the publication of his new book entitled, “Bekennen gegen den Atomstaat“. Die evangelischen Kirchen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und die Konflikte um die Atomenergie (“Professing against the Atomic State”. The Protestant Churches in West Germany and the Conflicts Concerning Atomic Energy (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2015) This book explores the intersection […]

Jeffrey Needell's Book on Brazil's Rise

The History Department is proud to promote Dr. Jeffrey Needell’s new edited collection entitled Emergent Brazil: Key Perspectives on a New Global Power, published this year by the University Press of Florida.  The contributors to this volume take an interdisciplinary look at Brazil’s rise to economic prominence and the dynamic changes that have occurred as a […]

Matt Gallman's New Book on Popular Culture in the American Civil War

The History Department is proud to announce the publication of Dr. J. Matthew Gallman’s book, Defining Duty in the Civil War: Personal Choice, Popular Culture, and the Union Home Front with the University of North Carolina Press. Dr. Gallman interrogates the meaning of citizenship and duty during this pivotal time in American history through an analysis […]

Luise White’s New Book on Sovereignty

Congrats to Dr. Luise  White, who is publishing her new book,  Unpopular Sovereignty: Rhodesian Independence and African Decolonization, with the University of Chicago Press.  White challenges the traditional narrative that describes the way that African states transitioned from colony to state in the 20th century.  “The result is one of the most decisive challenges to linear […]

Pozzetta Lecture: Michelle Campos on Jerusalem's History in the Digital Age

The History Department is pleased to announce the first of  the 2014-15 George E. Pozzetta Lectures.  Dr. Michelle Campos, Associate Professor of History, will present on “Urban History in the Digital Age: Mapping Intercommunal Relations and Social Networks in Late Ottoman Jerusalem,” on Thursday, 31 October 2014 at 4 p.m. in the History Department’s Conference […]

History Major Receives "Best Paper" Award

UF History major Jackson Loop (’14) has just been named the winner of the “Best Qualitative Research Paper” from The Center for Undergraduate Research at the University of Florida.  His paper, entitled “The Astor Place Riot: Anti-Aristocratism Voiced with a Cobblestone,” will be published next year in the Center’s journal, Journal of Undergraduate Research.