UChicago History

05/18/2026

The transformative education offered at the UChicago begins in the classroom, with the faculty who teach, inspire and mentor their students. Meet the eight recipients of this year's Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Awards and the Ph.D. Teaching and Mentoring Awards.

Learn more: http://ms.spr.ly/6184vRX7m

05/18/2026

"Authoritarianism 101," an American Historical Association effort helmed by Prof. Mark Bradley, aims to bring historians into the conversation on democratic backsliding, creating modules designed for college, university, and high school teachers to drop into their existing courses or use to develop their own courses on authoritarianism.

30 historians were invited to participate and contribute modules to the project, including Prof. Mark Bradley and Assoc. Prof. Samuel Fury Childs Daly of the Department of History.

Learn more in our recent profile:
https://socialsciences.uchicago.edu/news/new-history-project-helps-educators-make-sense-democratic-backsliding

05/12/2026

An interdisciplinary Neubauer research project led by four UChicago professors, including Michael Rossi, Associate Professor of History, titled "The Biodiversity of Color: Safeguarding Natural Dye Sources and Practices in Michoacán and Oaxaca" is featured in a NYT article, "What’s in a Name? For These Snails, Legal Protection."

Scientists are debating the classification of threatened mollusks that an Indigenous community relies on for their way of life.

05/05/2026

Euro Civ to be replaced with a new Western Civ sequence in 26-27.

The new iteration of the sequence, which will survey Western civilization from the ancient world to the European Union, resurrects a once-flagship College course that was condensed in 2002 after an overhaul of the Core Curriculum.

04/27/2026

Dialogo S2 Episode 3 is out now, featuring Sarah Jones Weicksel (AM'09, PhD'17 History) and Julia Brookins (AM'03, PhD'13 History), Executive Director of and Senior Program Analyst for the American Historical Association, respectively.

Dialogo is the alumni podcast of the Division of the Social Sciences. Our hosts, Dean of Students Kelly Po***ck and Assoc. Prof. Paul Poast, sit down with alumni to discuss what led them to UChicago, their experiences as grad students in the social sciences, and the career paths they've been on since graduating.

Listen here (also available wherever you listen to podcasts!):
https://dialogo-uchicago-social-sciences.simplecast.com/episodes/sarah-jones-weicksel-am09-phd17-history-and-julia-brookins-am03-phd13-history

04/27/2026

Associate Professor Amy Dru Stanley was interviewed by Gulan Magazine of Iraq on the global state of democracy and human rights. Read her interview here. https://gulanmedia.com/en/story/358470/dr.-amy-dru-stanley-to-gulan:-democracy-is-threatened-worldwide-and-human-rights-grow-ever-more-precarious?fbclid=IwY2xjawRHix1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeLynFaVY5hBVdCT4Olh2TucAPLPiVQqJeF50MZ1lTGqlx2rJm_FbDLoA8i_Y_aem_xyx7S5anNrQdKRtgqICD3w

Amy Dru Stanley is a historian of the United States, with particular interest in law, capitalism, freedom and unfreedom, human rights, the relationship between the household and economic life, and the historical experience of moral problems. Her work has appeared in scholarly books and journals, as....

04/27/2026

Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College, was named a CORE Academy Fellow in 2026. One of just 23 elected fellows, Dr. Chakrabarty was recognized for his "outstanding and sustained contributions to research, scholarship, academic leadership, and the advancement of knowledge across the sciences and humanities." Congratulations!
https://www.coreacad.org

04/16/2026

On Monday, April 13, the Division of the Social Sciences and the Department of History hosted the inaugural Imberman Lecture. Joel Mokyr, Nobel Laureate and Robert H. Strotz Professor at Northwestern University, delivered the lecture, “The Market of Ideas: Then and Now.” The event was immensely successful, attracting over 200 in-person attendees and more online. We are grateful to the Imberman family who made this possible with their generous donation in memory of Eli Woodruff Imberman, PhD’73 (History).

The talk is now available on the Division's YouTube Chanel: https://youtu.be/Xz1_N7p6mEw

04/14/2026

Faith Hillis, Professor of Russian History and the College, was awarded a 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship in Intellectual & Cultural History for her project, "Forging The Protocols: How Swindlers, Opportunists, and a Host of Historical Accidents Created the Most Notorious Conspiracy of All Time," forthcoming with Yale University Press. Please join us as we congratulate her on this extraordinary achievement!

04/06/2026

REMINDER: The Department of History is pleased to host The Shapiro Initiative on Environment and Society Lecture. Sunil Amrith (Yale) will present "The Air as Archive" this Wednesday, April 8, in the John Hope Franklin Room (SSRB 224) at 5PM. The talk explores how technology has shaped environmental perception and knowledge by considering the air as an archive. We hope to see you there!

03/31/2026

Emily Osborn discusses UChicago's African Civ Study Abroad Program https://news.uchicago.edu/story/senegal-students-navigate-homestays-and-urban-wolof-uchicago-rigor?utm_medium=03.31email&utm_source=UChicagoNews&mkt_tok=MjUwLUNRSC05MzYAAAGg49OvTk-evNl-p5GN6kRYt5-fyXEXguiVQdChRRGXZHHfLMxtXYm9nGD85a2u8sPbiPXAKpHb96eP06ibGBLFs-66VLyBii9dG6sjvvfLHxYIaZc