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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
> 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) […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 (‘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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]