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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, […]

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 […]