Chair’s Letter
As I settle into my first weeks as department chair, fourteen years after the conclusion of my first term, senses of familiarity and difference are battling it out in my […]
Awards
Faculty Harry Rich Professor of Holocaust Studies Natalia Aleksiun received the Dalck and Rose Feith Family Fellowship from the Herbert D. Katz Center at the University of Pennsylvania. She […]
Graduate Program News
> Oren Okhovat (Ph.D., 2023) received a two-year postdoctoral research at Yale University’s Program in Jewish Studies. > Joseph Angelillo (Ph.D., 2024) was appointed to a lecturer (permanent instructor) […]
Retirement
After 37 years, Jeffrey D. Needell has retired as professor of history. Professor Needell arrived at UF after finishing his graduate work in Latin American, African, and European Cultural History […]
New Faculty
The Department of History welcomes four new faculty members in the fall 2024 semester. Assistant Professor William Robert Billups is a historian of the United States in the 20th century. […]
Publications
The Department of History had a great year of placing research in the world. Collectively, the faculty published a book and several edited collections, had works translated into other languages, […]
Bridget Phillips Award
Bridget Phillips (‘89) was one of the department’s outstanding students. Her UF program enabled her to spend a summer semester at Cambridge and to go on archeological expeditions to Austria. […]
Undergraduate honors program
The highlight of the department’s academic calendar each year is our Undergraduate Honors Symposium. The 2024 edition did not disappoint. On April 14, Smathers Library hosted eighteen presenters plus dozens […]
Alumni Board
The department is proud to announce the formation of its advisory board. In recent years, the department has increased its outreach efforts to show students and the public the value […]
Will Munro: Historian and Olympian
By Leah Mazur Historians write about events in the past that inspire them and help them understand the movements that matter to them. For the past seven years, Will Munro […]