University of Maryland History Graduate Program

06/17/2026

Congratulations to Dylan Bails for successfully defending his thesis titled “Laboring Lunatics: Labor Exploitation and Moral Care in the Early American Asylum (1750-1860)”.

05/22/2026

Congrats to all the History MA graduates!

05/22/2026

Congrats to all the History PhD graduates!

05/22/2026

Congratulations to all the graduates!

05/22/2026

Congratulations to ​Hannah Nolan for successfully defending h​e​r dissertation titled “Who Fears to Speak of Ninety-Eight?”: The United Irishmen and the Legacy of Revolution in Irish America​.

04/24/2026

Congratulations to Chloe Kauffman (PhD Candidate), she was awarded the following research fellowships for next year: the American Antiquarian Society​ Fellowship, the Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s History, and the Helen L. Bing Fellowship.

04/23/2026

Congratulations to Angelina Lincoln (PhD Candidate), she was awarded the following research fellowships for next year: the American Antiquarian Society, the Huntington Library, the Gilder Lehrman Institute, and the Virginia Museum of History and Culture!

04/23/2026

Congratulations to Andrea Gutmann Fuentes (PhD Student), she was awarded a Fulbright US Student Program grant to Chile for the 2026-27 academic year.

04/15/2026

Congratulations to Jamie Myre for successfully defending their thesis titled​ “(Trans)Formations: Religion and​ the Making of Trans* Identities”​.

04/15/2026

Alums in the News: Dr. Lane Windham was appointed Co-Director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University.

Our Mission Georgetown University’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor empowers working people to build an equitable, sustainable, and democratic economy through envisioning and creating new resources and strategies. As a labor center in the nation’s capital, we convene, resea...