We recently caught up with PhD student Jess Cavalari, who is on a five-month research trip to Seville in southern Spain. With support from the David and Helen Pinkney and Costigan fellowships, as well as the Antoinette Wills Endowed Fund for Graduate Students through the UW College of Arts and Sciences, Jess is spending their days in the General Archive of the Indies looking for traces of the mule trains of sixteenth and seventeenth-century colonial Panama. In their research, Jess argues that… Read more
In January of this year, Professor Aditya Ramesh joined the faculty of the Department of History as a historian of South Asia and environmental history. He came to us from the University of Manchester in England where he had spent the last three years teaching as a presidential fellow in environmental history. We caught up with him recently to see how he is adjusting to Seattle and to learn a bit more about him.What have been your first impressions of Seattle? What do you like the most… Read more
The Department of History is delighted to announce this year’s scholarship and prize recipients. Thanks to our dedicated and generous alumni and friends, we were able to award an impressive $440,000 to 41 undergraduate and 4 graduate students in recognition of their academic excellence and service. In addition to the student awards, members from our faculty and staff, as well as one Washington State educator, were given special recognition for their outstanding service.
Undergraduate Awards… Read more
Robert Nathane, Jr. (Class of 1971) is an ardent supporter of UW History. He has been an active member of the History Advisory Board for many years now, and he also established the Robert A. Nathane, Sr. Endowed Fund in History, which supports a wide range of critical departmental activities including faculty research and course development.
What brought you to the UW and what sparked your interest in history?
I was born and raised in Seattle and attended Franklin High School before… Read more
It is with great joy that we share some of the recent accomplishments of our history community.
Faculty
Liora Halperin has received one of two inaugural Linda and Stewart Rescnick Fellowships at the National Library of Israel. The award supports a period of in-person research at the library as well as remote support for digitization of materials. She will be working on her research over the diverse Jewish communities who lived in Palestine prior to the founding of the Zionist movement and… Read more
It is with deep sadness that the Department of History announces the passing of professor emeritus George Behlmer, who died on January 4, 2024.
George earned his BA, with highest honors, in 1970 from the University of California, Santa Barbara. During his time as an undergraduate, he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and also named a Regents Scholar and a President’s Undergraduate Research Fellow. What's more, George was also a… Read more
Husky Giving Day was held on April 4. It is the one day each year in which Huskies from around the world come together to support the programs, activities, and units they love the most at the University of Washington. In the Department of History, we are fortunate to have so many active and generous alumni and friends who consistently show their love of UW History through giving. Because of this generosity, we are happy to report that we set a record with $33,000 raised! That's a 30% increase… Read more