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The 2022 History Lecture Series: Capitalism in Action
Next year’s History Lecture Series, titled “Capitalism in Action,” will feature Professors Anand Yang, Mark Metzler, and Liora Halperin. Charity Urbanski will moderate the series as well as the bonus content, an interactive panel where our speakers will answer audience questions and connect the history of capitalism to the most pressing challenges that our society faces today. The series will take place on January 19, January 26, and February 2, 2022.
Amanda Robb, UW History alumna (MA ’18), recently landed a full-time job as a Chinese Language Materials Archivist at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University. She started the position in September 2020, after obtaining an MLIS (Master of Library and Information Science) degree at the UW.
As an archivist at HILA , Amanda’s work primarily involves processing untapped… Read more
Melinda Whalen, a sophomore History and Russian major, won a prestigious Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship to advance Russian language skills and conduct a Soviet history research project in the 2021-2022 academic year. She is also the 2021 History Department nominee for the Burton College of Arts and Sciences Social Sciences Scholarship.
Driven by a keen interest in Soviet history, Melinda enrolled in Russian 101… Read more
History doctoral students Jorge Bayona and Adrian Kane-Galbraith, awardees of Mellon Foundation Reimagining the Humanities PhD and Reaching New Publics: Catalyzing Collaboration fellowship for the academic year 2019-2020, shared valuable observations on the teaching of transnational histories at… Read more
The Department of History ad-hoc remote learning team--Eric Johnson, Kristin Roberts, Tracy Maschman Morrissey, and Alexandra DuSablon--received the 2021 William J. Rorabaugh Departmental Service Award in recognition of their outstanding service to the History community since the Covid-19 pandemic started. The Rorabaugh Departmental Service Award Selection Committee comprises Joshua Apfel, James Gregory, and Glennys Young.
In her nomination letter for the award, Department Chair Glennys Young… Read more
HSTLAC 185: Race, Gender, and Class in Latin America and the Caribbean
Prof. Ileana Rodriguez-Silva
This course is an overview of significant historical processes led by peoples in what we know today as Latin America and the Caribbean. The first half of the course explores the fifteenth century Atlantic world; the violent workings, reproduction, negotiations, and challenges that conformed colonial… Read more
On May 19, 2021 Tiya Miles gave a talk about her forthcoming book for the annual Stephanie M.H. Camp Memorial Lecture Series in Race & Gender. This event was sponsored by the UW Department of History and the UW Libraries. Tiya Miles' talk was titled "A Tattered Dress”: Materiality and Memory in the Lives of Enslaved Women and highlighted artifacts of Black women’s material culture to consider ways that objects can help us recover experiential aspects of the gendered Black past. Dr… Read more
On Wednesday, May 12, the Department of History hosted a panel titled, "Sports & Civil Rights History." The panel was moderated by UW Professor of Sociology and Presidential Term Professor Alexes Harris and featured Seattle Storm co-owner Dawn Trudeau, Mariners player Braden Bishop, sportswriter Dave Zirin, GVSU Professor Louis Moore, and WSU Professor David Leonard. As historians, athletes, and sports leaders, the speakers discussed the role that athletes and sports organizations have… Read more