Department of History

Please join us for a lecture by Dr. Ari Joskowicz entitled, "Who to Exclude in Order to Belong," to be held on 2 February 2015 at 4:00 pm in Room 005 of Keene-Flint Hall. One of the most prominent stories of modern Jewish life has focused on Jews’ adoption of liberal middle-class values. This talk deals with an equally powerful, if largely unexplored, aspect of Jewish modernity by illuminating the extent to which French and German Jews made use of…

Please join us for a lecture by Dr. Ari Joskowicz entitled, "Who to Exclude in Order to Belong," to be held on 2 February 2015 at 4:00 pm in Room 005 of Keene-Flint Hall. One of the most prominent stories of modern Jewish life has focused on Jews’ adoption of liberal middle-class values. This talk deals with an equally powerful, if largely unexplored, aspect of Jewish modernity by illuminating the extent to which French and German Jews made use of…

Please join us for a lecture by Dr. Ari Joskowicz entitled, "Who to Exclude in Order to Belong," to be held on 2 February 2015 at 4:00 pm in Room 005 of Keene-Flint Hall. One of the most prominent stories of modern Jewish life has focused on Jews’ adoption of liberal middle-class values. This talk deals with an equally powerful, if largely unexplored, aspect of Jewish modernity by illuminating the extent to which French and German Jews made use of…

Thursday August 20 @ 05 Keene-Flint Hall 9:00-9:30: Breakfast for incoming graduate students (coffee and bagels) 9:30-9:45: Welcome from Dr. Sean Adams, Chair of the Department of History 9:45-10:45: Introduction to the Graduate Program Requirements and Procedures Dr. Elizabeth Dale, Graduate Coordinator and Erin Smith. Graduate Program Assistant 10:45-11: Break 11-12:30: Session: What I wished I’d been told at my orientation Kyle Bridge Adrienne deNoyelles Matthew Koval 12:30-1:30: Lunch for new graduate students and student mentors 1:30-3:00: Session: what goes on in a…

Thursday August 20 @ 05 Keene-Flint Hall 9:00-9:30: Breakfast for incoming graduate students (coffee and bagels) 9:30-9:45: Welcome from Dr. Sean Adams, Chair of the Department of History 9:45-10:45: Introduction to the Graduate Program Requirements and Procedures Dr. Elizabeth Dale, Graduate Coordinator and Erin Smith. Graduate Program Assistant 10:45-11: Break 11-12:30: Session: What I wished I’d been told at my orientation Kyle Bridge Adrienne deNoyelles Matthew Koval 12:30-1:30: Lunch for new graduate students and student mentors 1:30-3:00: Session: what goes on in a…

Thursday August 20 @ 05 Keene-Flint Hall 9:00-9:30: Breakfast for incoming graduate students (coffee and bagels) 9:30-9:45: Welcome from Dr. Sean Adams, Chair of the Department of History 9:45-10:45: Introduction to the Graduate Program Requirements and Procedures Dr. Elizabeth Dale, Graduate Coordinator and Erin Smith. Graduate Program Assistant 10:45-11: Break 11-12:30: Session: What I wished I’d been told at my orientation Kyle Bridge Adrienne deNoyelles Matthew Koval 12:30-1:30: Lunch for new graduate students and student mentors 1:30-3:00: Session: what goes on in a…

Workshop for grad students writing grant and fellowship applications. Particular focus on the Fulbright application. Panel: Professors Curta, Needell and White

Workshop for grad students writing grant and fellowship applications. Particular focus on the Fulbright application. Panel: Professors Curta, Needell and White

Workshop for grad students writing grant and fellowship applications. Particular focus on the Fulbright application. Panel: Professors Curta, Needell and White

Morning with the Curators Please join us for an informal meet and greet with Curators and Experts in the Libraries for Humanities and Arts Graduate Students and Faculty. The Curators will share rare and unique treasures from the collections and introduce ways of thinking about and working with texts, collections, and materiality, including 3D printing. The event will start with brief introductions by all Curators, and then time for small group conversations with the Curators. Curators and their Collections: Sara…

Morning with the Curators Please join us for an informal meet and greet with Curators and Experts in the Libraries for Humanities and Arts Graduate Students and Faculty. The Curators will share rare and unique treasures from the collections and introduce ways of thinking about and working with texts, collections, and materiality, including 3D printing. The event will start with brief introductions by all Curators, and then time for small group conversations with the Curators. Curators and their Collections: Sara…

Morning with the Curators Please join us for an informal meet and greet with Curators and Experts in the Libraries for Humanities and Arts Graduate Students and Faculty. The Curators will share rare and unique treasures from the collections and introduce ways of thinking about and working with texts, collections, and materiality, including 3D printing. The event will start with brief introductions by all Curators, and then time for small group conversations with the Curators. Curators and their Collections: Sara…

A workshop for grad students interested in submitting articles to journals. Panel: Professors Dale and White

A workshop for grad students interested in submitting articles to journals. Panel: Professors Dale and White

A workshop for grad students interested in submitting articles to journals. Panel: Professors Dale and White

Unless otherwise noted, all events will be in 005 Keene-Flint Hall 9-9:30:  coffee and bagels 9:30-10:30  The Graduate Program Requirements and Procedures Dr. Elizabeth Dale, Graduate Coordinator and Erin Smith. Graduate Program Assistant 10:30-10:45:  break   10:45-12:15:  Graduate seminars and writing papers Bonnie Effros Stuart Finkel Jon Sensbach   12:15 : Welcome from Dr. Sean Adams, chair of the Department of History   12:30-1:30:  Lunch for new students   1:30-2:45:  Strategies for starting (and surviving) graduate school Cacey Farnsworth Elyssa Gage…

Unless otherwise noted, all events will be in 005 Keene-Flint Hall 9-9:30:  coffee and bagels 9:30-10:30  The Graduate Program Requirements and Procedures Dr. Elizabeth Dale, Graduate Coordinator and Erin Smith. Graduate Program Assistant 10:30-10:45:  break   10:45-12:15:  Graduate seminars and writing papers Bonnie Effros Stuart Finkel Jon Sensbach   12:15 : Welcome from Dr. Sean Adams, chair of the Department of History   12:30-1:30:  Lunch for new students   1:30-2:45:  Strategies for starting (and surviving) graduate school Cacey Farnsworth Elyssa Gage…

Unless otherwise noted, all events will be in 005 Keene-Flint Hall 9-9:30:  coffee and bagels 9:30-10:30  The Graduate Program Requirements and Procedures Dr. Elizabeth Dale, Graduate Coordinator and Erin Smith. Graduate Program Assistant 10:30-10:45:  break   10:45-12:15:  Graduate seminars and writing papers Bonnie Effros Stuart Finkel Jon Sensbach   12:15 : Welcome from Dr. Sean Adams, chair of the Department of History   12:30-1:30:  Lunch for new students   1:30-2:45:  Strategies for starting (and surviving) graduate school Cacey Farnsworth Elyssa Gage…

At Ustler Hall

At Ustler Hall

At Ustler Hall

10-12:00:  Teaching in the History Department Jeff Adler 111 Keene-Flint Required session for ALL new Ph. D. students and ALL continuing students who are teaching in 2016-17   11-12:00:  Strategies for the MA and 4-1 program 005 Keene-Flint Colby Johnson Annemarie Nichols   12:15-1:15:  Lunch for new students and grad mentors 005 Keene-Flint  

10-12:00:  Teaching in the History Department Jeff Adler 111 Keene-Flint Required session for ALL new Ph. D. students and ALL continuing students who are teaching in 2016-17   11-12:00:  Strategies for the MA and 4-1 program 005 Keene-Flint Colby Johnson Annemarie Nichols   12:15-1:15:  Lunch for new students and grad mentors 005 Keene-Flint  

10-12:00:  Teaching in the History Department Jeff Adler 111 Keene-Flint Required session for ALL new Ph. D. students and ALL continuing students who are teaching in 2016-17   11-12:00:  Strategies for the MA and 4-1 program 005 Keene-Flint Colby Johnson Annemarie Nichols   12:15-1:15:  Lunch for new students and grad mentors 005 Keene-Flint  

This brown bag lunch will be for students starting their second year in the PhD program.

This brown bag lunch will be for students starting their second year in the PhD program.

This brown bag lunch will be for students starting their second year in the PhD program.

Meeting with 1st year students

Meeting with 1st year students

Meeting with 1st year students

Presentation on how to effectively use LinkedIn and other networking tools for your job search.

Presentation on how to effectively use LinkedIn and other networking tools for your job search.

Presentation on how to effectively use LinkedIn and other networking tools for your job search.

Joe Spillane, Professor of History and Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will talk about CVs and cover letters.

Joe Spillane, Professor of History and Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will talk about CVs and cover letters.

Joe Spillane, Professor of History and Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will talk about CVs and cover letters.

Dr. Paul Ortiz: Book talk and signing: An African American and Latin History of the United States.

Dr. Paul Ortiz: Book talk and signing: An African American and Latin History of the United States.

The Alexander Grass Chair in Jewish History and the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica are co-sponsoring this talk by Dr. Julia Phillips Cohen, of Vanderbilt University. This lecture examines the shifting place of Jews in Ottoman society during the empire's modern reform era. at the start of this era, Jews were largely absent from government positions and major debates within the empire. Within a matter of decades, Ottoman Muslims and Jews alike regularly referred to Jews as a…

Graduate student Seyeon Hwang will present oral history interviews with refugees who resettled in Jacksonville, Florida. This is one of the events offered during Welcoming Week (September 14-23), a week long event on immigration, refugees, and native-born residents in American cities. Welcoming Week is sponsored by Welcoming America. This event is supported by the Florida Humanities Council.

In 1958, George Starke became the first black student at UF.  We are inviting a panel of alumni to discuss their experiences as minority students here.  The panelists include: Mrs. Evelyn Mickle who was the first black graduate of the UF School of Nursing; Attorney Funmi Olorunnipa who was a student activist and also was enrolled here in the years immediately following the One Florida executive order;  Ms. Joselin Padron-Rasines who was the first Latina president of student government in 2015; Dr.…

Dr. Trysh Travis will talk about how to conceptualize, fund, publish and present your work

Dr. Trysh Travis will talk about how to conceptualize, fund, publish and present your work

A dialogue with the students and faculty who helped found and establish La Casita, UF's Institute of Hispanic-Latino Cultures.

Join us for a conversation about how we can combine historical manuscripts and artistic renderings with ground-penetrating radar, laser scanning, 3D modeling and other digital technologies to understand and interpret material culture. Dr. Caroline Bruzelius will discuss her recent digital humanities projects Visualizing Venice and the Medieval Kingdom of Sicily Image Database. Feel free to bring a brown-bag lunch. This event is co-sponsored by the Mellon Intersections Group on Technologies of Time and Space and the Digital Humanities Working Group. Caroline…

Join us for a conversation about how we can combine historical manuscripts and artistic renderings with ground-penetrating radar, laser scanning, 3D modeling and other digital technologies to understand and interpret material culture. Dr. Caroline Bruzelius will discuss her recent digital humanities projects Visualizing Venice and the Medieval Kingdom of Sicily Image Database. Feel free to bring a brown-bag lunch. This event is co-sponsored by UF’s Digital Humanities Working Group. Caroline Bruzelius is a digital humanist with scholarly expertise in medieval…

Join us for a conversation about how we can combine historical manuscripts and artistic renderings with ground-penetrating radar, laser scanning, 3D modeling and other digital technologies to understand and interpret material culture. Dr. Caroline Bruzelius will discuss her recent digital humanities projects Visualizing Venice and the Medieval Kingdom of Sicily Image Database. Feel free to bring a brown-bag lunch. This event is co-sponsored by UF’s Digital Humanities Working Group. Caroline Bruzelius is a digital humanist with scholarly expertise in medieval…

The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program will host a panel discussion about the Mississippi Freedom Project fieldwork trip in the summer of 2018.

A meeting of history faculty interested in teaching Quest courses.

A work in progress presented by Dr. Florin Curta Copies of the paper will be available before the workshop. Contact Dr. Curta at fcurta@ufl.edu

A work in progress presented by Dr. Florin Curta Copies of the paper will be available before the workshop. Contact Dr. Curta at fcurta@ufl.edu

Dr. Alma Heckman, University of California-Santa Cruz will be giving a talk. This talk is part of the Mediterranean and North African Jewish History series  sponsored by the Alexander Grass Chair in Jewish Studies and the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica. The moment of Moroccan independence in 1956 was optimistic for Jews.  The Istiqlal (“Independence” in Arabic) government with King Mohammed V at its head appointed a Jewish minister, and the Muslim-Jewish unity group, al-Wifaq (“Accord”), drew the support…

Precirculated paper; please RSVP to mcampos@ufl.edu Dr. Heckman will discuss a chapter that explores the Moroccan Communist Party’s (PCM) evolution into a national liberation party in the post-war period. It addresses urban Jewish communal attitudes to the movement for independence and the available marketplace for political ideas and ideologies, including the accelerating popularity of Zionism.  As Jews began to leave Morocco for Israel, those Jews who were members of the PCM entrenched themselves in national liberation politics. Included in this chapter is…

Dr. Alicia Maggard, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Maritime Studies Program of Williams College and Mystic Seaport This talk is sponsored by the Hyatt and Cici Brown Chair in History. For further information contact Dr. Sean Adams spadams@ufl.edu  

On November 1, 2018, the UF African American Studies Program will honor the late civil rights pioneer Virgil Hawkins from 2pm-3:30pm in the Chamber Room of the Reitz Union.  Attorney Harley Hermann and members of Mr. Hawkins family will discuss his life’s work as an activist.  As a result of Mr. Hawkins’ 1949 class-action lawsuit, the University of Florida eventually desegregated in 1958.  We hope you can join us for this informative dialogue.

A talk by Gerald Steinacher Gerald Steinacher is the Hyman Rosenberg Professor for Judaic Studies at the University of Nebraska. He is the author of Nazis on the Run: How Hitler’s Henchmen Fled Justice, which won the Jewish Book Award, andHumanitarians at War: The Red Cross in the Shadow of the Holocaust.

Talk by Rachel Rothstein, sponsored by the Alexander Grass Chair, Jewish Studies In March 1968, the Polish government launched an anti-Zionist campaign, which forced over 12,000 Jews to leave Poland. Many saw the expulsion as the final chapter of Polish Jewish history. Yet, today's Polish Jewish community is thriving with Jewish schools, summer camps, and Jewish community centers and congregations, often supported by international Jewish organizations. Polish non-Jews, too, have played a significant role in creating Jewish spaces which allow…

Dr. Rachel Rothstein, a graduate of our program, will talk about what you can do with your PhD.

Work in progress presented by Dr. Jon Sensbach. Copies of the paper will be available before the talk. If you would like a copy, contact Dr. Curta at fcurta@ufl.edu.

Richard J. Milbauer Symposium on Southern History.

A work in progress presented by Dr. Lilian Guerra. Copies of the paper will be available before the talk. To get one, contact Dr. Curta at fcurta@ufl.edu.

Talk by Professor Aviad Moreno, Ben Gurion University This lecture examines the process of Jewish emigration from Spanish-dominated northern Morocco, and points to the trans-regional, inter-personal, communal and institutional networks that jointly shaped the character and pace of that exodus to Israel and Latin America, beginning in the 19th century. The talk is free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Alexander Grass Chair in Jewish Studies and cosponsored by the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica. Dr.…

Lunchtime seminar with Professor Aviad Moreno, Ben Gurion University.   Lunch provided, please RSVP to mcampos@ufl.edu

This paper will be presented by recent Cameron Ruff (MA History). For questions, or copies of this paper, contact fcurta@ufl.edu    

For information, contact Dr. Sean P. Adams, spadams@ufl.edu

The Hyatt and Cici Brown Professor of History presents a workshop with Kenneth Lipartito, Florida International University. For further information, contact Dr. Sean P. Adams, spadams@ufl.edu

A talk by Raef Zreik (SJD, Harvard Law School), the academic co-director of the Minerva Center for the humanities at Tel Aviv University. Is the National State Law legislated this year in Israel really new or just a continuation of old, settled and known Zionist ideology and practice? In many ways the new basic law does not add anything new to the basic principle and ideals that laid the foundation for Israel as a Jewish State. Since its early days…

In this conversation I will probe the political imaginary that frames and nurtures the increasingly used analogy of present-day Palestine/Israel to apartheid South Africa. This inquires as to why the analogy has gained momentum only in the last two decades and seeks to explain the circumstances of its emergence. First, I discuss the construction of the apartheid regime in South Africa, and give an account of the historico-political conditions that made it both "necessary" and possible. Then I suggest four…

Dr. Austin will talk about her book, The Caribbeanization of Black Politics: Race, Group Consciousness, and Political Participation in America and Dr. Ortiz will talk about his recent work, An African American and Latin History of the United States.

Professor Devin Naar (University of Washington) will present the paper. Abstract: The Mediterranean port city of Salonica (Thessaloniki) was once home to the largest Sephardic Jewish community in the world. The collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the city's incorporation into Greece in 1912 provoked a major upheaval for Salonica's Jews. This lecture tells the story through the voices of Salonican Jews as they forged a new place for themselves in Greek society prior to the Holocaust. Sponsored by the…