Florin Curta, Medieval Europe, 250-1450 (Routledge, 2025)

Philip Janzen, An Unformed Map: Geographies of Belonging between Africa and the Caribbean (Duke UP, 2025)

Jeffrey Adler, Bluecoated Terror: Jim Crow New Orleans and the Roots of Modern Police Brutality (Oakland: University of California Press, 2024).

Prof. Bernstein Promoted, Profs. Glotzer and Janzen Awarded Tenure

Wonderful news across the department! Dr. Seth Bernstein’s promotion to Full Professor has been approved and will take effect on August 16, 2026. Dr. Paige Glotzer has been awarded tenure and it will be official as of August 16, 2026. Dr. Phil Janzen’s tenure has been approved as well as his promotion to Associate Professor, […]

Emma Jo Donnelly (BA, 2022) Wins Student Project Award from National Council on Public History

The National Council on Public History announced Donnelly as the winner for her project “An Archive for Activists: Historical Preservation for Environmental Justice in North Carolina. Donnelly is currently a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. You can read the announcement here.

Prof. Lillian Guerra Launches Web Series Haiti’s Path to Liberation

Prof. Guerra and other specialists have launched a web series of articles that offer new ways of thinking about Haiti and a powerful vision and approach rooted in the country’s culture and history that can build a different future. You can view the entire web series here.