Congratulations to the 2021 student recipients of History Department Scholarships! Read more to learn about why they choose history.
History’s Internship Program Featured in CAS Magazine
The Fall 2021 issue of Method, the magazine of the UTC College of Arts and Sciences, featured a story on the History Department’s internship program.
Dr. Julia Cummiskey Delivers Conference Keynote
Dr. Julia Cummiskey delivered one of the keynote addresses at the Biennial Conference of the Australia and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine.
Spring 2022 Course on American Public History
Want to know more about what historians do outside of the traditional classroom? Looking to eventually work in a museum, state/national park, archive, or a historic preservation organization? Take American Public History!
Dr. Mike Thompson’s New Article on Disease and Racial Politics in Times of COVID-19
UC Foundation Association Professor and Department Head Michael Thompson’s recent article on “The Wages of Acclimation: Presumed Black Immunity to Yellow Fever and the Racial Politics of Burial Labour in 1855 Portsmouth and Norfolk, Virginia,” was published in a special issue of the interdisciplinary journal Human Remains and Violence on “Burial and the Politics of Dead Bodies in Times of COVID-19.”