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College of Arts and Sciences Shared Services
What is Shared Services?
At the start of the year, the College of Arts and Sciences re-structured administrative support for all departments and programs within CAS. These new groupings, called ...
History Undergraduate Lunch
All history undergraduates are invited to attend our lunch on Tuesday, January 10th from 12:30–1:30 p.m. in McKenzie Hall room 375. Join us for an informal chat and hang out with fellow history ...
New Orleans & Ghana: Building Connections through Empathy
Written by Olivia Wilkinson
During June and part of July 2022, I studied through one of the UO’s GEO study away programs, African Diaspora Studies in New Orleans & Ghana. The program was led by ...
New History Department Seminar Series
The Department of History is excited to present our new departmental seminar series. The schedule of speakers is listed below.
November 1, 2022
Royal Purple and Indigo
“Royal Purple and Indigo: the ...
Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling
Written by April Winz • September 30, 2022
Ryan Tucker Jones, professor of History, published a new book titled Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling (University of Chicago Press, ...
New Book by Goodman: The Suicide of Miss Xi
Written by April Winz • August 12, 2022
Bryna Goodman, professor of History, recently published a new book, The Suicide of Miss Xi: Democracy and Disenchantment in the Chinese Republic ...
Queer Life in Russia: A Historical Primer
History is recorded and recounted in many ways, even in the classroom.
Duncan Baumgarten, a comics and cartoon studies minor, used a creative approach to a recent course on the USSR and Contemporary ...
When the Archives Don’t Speak Easily
The Department of History is pleased to welcome Amrita Chakrabarti Myers, professor of history at Indiana University, as the 2022 Pierson Lecture speaker.
“When the Archives Don’t Easily Speak: ...
The Nuclear Exceptionalists
The History Guild presents
“The Nuclear Exceptionalists: Planning for a Post-Carbon Age in France, 1955–1974”
with professor Joseph Bohling, Department of History, Portland State ...
Perspectives on Russia and Ukraine
A panel on the Russia/Ukraine crisis, sponsored by the European Studies Program.
Monday, March 7, 2022
4:00–5:15 p.m.
LLC Performance Hall South (view on map)
With brief remarks from panelists ...
Pflug Wins Prestigious Fellowship
Congratulations go out to Michele Pflug, who won the Gwin J. and Ruth Kolb Research Travel Fellowship from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
The ASECS seeks to advance the study of ...
Public Event: Colonial Books
“Colonial Books: The Fenton Collection at UO from a Critical History of the Book Perspective”
Wednesday, March 2, 2022
12:20 p.m.–1:20 p.m.
Knight Library, DREAM Lab (1st floor) ...
History Faculty Grant Projects
The College of Arts and Sciences published a report of externally funded research projects that UO faculty have been engaged in during the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 academic years. This recognition ...
Spencer Abbe Gets Firsthand Experience Researching Earthquake History
On July 29, 2021, Alaska experienced a magnitude 8.2 earthquake, deemed the largest earthquake to hit the state since 1965. In a stroke of strange luck, University of Oregon doctoral student Spencer ...
Summer 2021 Courses
Summer sessions are a great way to earn credits quickly and knock out some of those course requirements. History courses are offered during all three sessions, in a variety of intriguing topics. Check ...
Crossing Borders: International and Transnational Histories
HIST 407/507 Virtual Conference
Wednesday, May 19, 2021 A series of virtual presentations on undergraduate and graduate student research. All are welcome to attend. Join for either the entire ...The Age of Megafires
The Eugene History Pub talks presents “Oregon and the American West: The Age of Megafires.” Presented by William Robbins, emeritus professor of history, Oregon State University.
Monday, ...
New Book on the History of Mahjong
Page updated May 21, 2021
Assistant professor Annelise Heinz has published a new book, Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture (Oxford University Press, 2021). This book ...
Odalis Aguilar-Aguilar Speaks for Farmworkers’ Rights
History major Odalis Aguilar-Aguilar met with the Oregon House Committee on Business and Labor on March 29, 2021 to give a historically informed testimony in support of a new farmworkers’ ...
Survivance Alliance with Holly Guise
Guest speaker Holly Guise, assistant professor in history at the university of New Mexico, presents “Survivance Alliance: Alaska Native Mutual Aid and Sovereignty 1942–1945.”
Tuesday, ...
Bulldozer in the Playground
Eugene History Pub presents Jeff Sanders at this upcoming talk “Bulldozer in the Playground.”
Monday, April 12, 2021
7:00–8:30 p.m. PDT
live via Zoom (RSVP required)
This event is ...
Caste in Translation?
Join the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics for this research talk:
“Caste in Translation? Community, Genotyping, and Risk in Postgenomic India and Its Diasporas”
Arafaat Valiani, ...
Daniel Pope on Failed Nuclear Aspirations
Daniel Pope discusses the failed aspirations of nuclear power in Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective. The article, “The Unkept Promise of Nuclear Power,” looks at the renewed ...
Brown Awarded Grant for Academic Excellence
Congratulations go out to Madelyn Brown, graduate student in the Department of History, who has been awarded the Incentive Grant under the Nisga’a Post Secondary Education Assistance Program. ...
Glowark Awarded WHA Dissertation Prize
Congratulations to history graduate student Erik Glowark for winning the 2020 World History Association Dissertation Prize with his research, “The Christianization of Kyushu: A World-Historical ...
RESCHEDULED: Jesse Applegate and the Modoc War
The Eugene History Pub talks presents “Jesse Applegate and the Modoc Wars” with R. Gregory Nokes, author and historian:
Monday, March 8, 2021 (rescheduled from February 8)
7:00–9:00 p.m. PST ...
We Are the Land
The Department of History hosts guest speaker William Bauer, presenting “We Are the Land: New Perspectives on the History of California’s Native Peoples.”
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 ...
Group of Professors Makes Statement: The Capitol Insurrection Was Not ‘Unprecedented’ #everythinghasahistory
January 15, 2021
We, the undersigned faculty and staff of the University of Oregon’s History Department, stand with activists, politicians, concerned citizens, and the larger community of ...
Jewish Women, A Chinese Game, and the Paradoxes of Postwar Domesticity
The Eugene History Pub talks presents “Jewish Women, A Chinese Game, and the Paradoxes of Postwar Domesticity” with Annelise Heinz, assistant professor of history
Monday, January 11, ...
Injustice and Resistance
Diversity Course Offerings for Winter 2021
The fights for inclusion and equality we see in protests around the world today are rooted in historical injustices. To understand the bigger picture, take ...Fulton v. City of Philadelphia
History professor Ellen Herman provides crucial historical information to a Supreme Court case on religious freedom, at the request of the ACLU.
Herman worked with Michael Grossberg, Indiana ...
Woman Suffrage, Racism, and Civil Rights
View recording of this event on YouTube: Lane County History Museum
History Pub presents “Woman Suffrage, Racism, and Civil Rights: An Oregon Overview”
With Eliza Canty-Jones, Editor of ...
New Book on Peruvian History
Carlos Aguirre, University of Oregon Department of History, has just published the book Alberto Flores Galindo. Utopía, historia y revolución (Lima, La Siniestra Ensayos, 2020), coauthored with ...
I, Too, Am Eugene
View recording of this event on YouTube: Lane County History Museum
History Pub presents “I, Too, Am Eugene” featuring Mark Harris:
Monday, November 9
7:00–9:00 PM
Live via Zoom (RSVP Only) ...
Bohemians West
View recording of this event on YouTube: Lane County History Museum
History Pub presents “Bohemians West: Free Love, Family and Radicals in Twentieth Century America” featuring Sherry ...
Should Lane County Change Its Name?
View recording of this talk on YouTube: Lane County History Museum
History Pub returns this month with a panel discussion event, cosponsored by Lane County History Museum, University of ...
Revolution and Republicanism in Venezuela
Don’t miss this new article by Reuben Zahler, associate professor of history, in the recent edition of the Journal of World History.
“How Civic Virtue Became Republican Honor: Revolution ...
Congratulations, Bob Haskett!
Join us in offering congratulations and profound thanks to our colleague and friend, Bob Haskett, who became Professor Emeritus of History earlier this month. An internationally renowned scholar, an ...
Marc Carpenter Speaks on Statue Removal
As Native students and people of color have argued and historical records confirm, the 1919 Pioneer (toppled on June 13, 2020 by parties unknown) was meant from its creation as a celebration of ...
Group of Professors Makes Statement on Racism and Violence
A group of history professors at the University of Oregon have signed the following statement condemning racist police and vigilante violence.
June 5, 2020
Dear Community Members:
The ...
Allison Madar Awarded Kluge Fellowship
Allison Madar, assistant professor of History at the University of Oregon, has been recently been awarded the 2020 Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress.
The John W. Kluge Center was established ...
History Grad Students Awarded Fellowships
The Department of History congratulates two graduate students, Tara Keegan and Hayley Brazier, for winning prestigious and competitive fellowships to help support their dissertation research.
Tara ...
History Faculty Awarded Fellowships in Humanistic Study
Professor Carlos Aguirre and Associate Professor Julie Weise have both been awarded a 2020–21 Presidential Fellowship in Humanistic Study.
The Presidential Fellowship awards provide funding support ...
Goodman Named National Humanities Center Fellow
Bryna Goodman, professor of history and affiliated with Asian studies, was selected as one of the 2020–21 National Humanities Center Fellows.
The National Humanities Center is the world’s only ...
UO Historian Receives Guggenheim Fellowship
Vera Keller has been awarded a year-long fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation for her research project “Curating the German Enlightenment: Johann Daniel Major (1634–1693) and ...
Canceled Events
To increase social distancing to limit the spread of COVID-19 on campus and protect students, faculty, staff, and the broader community, the following events have been canceled:
“From Lewis and ...
Troubling Monuments with Erika Doss
History Workshop presents “Troubling Monuments: Cultural Vandalism and Creative Practices of Dissent and Destruction” with Erika Doss, Chair of American Studies at the University of Notre ...
Humans and the Coast
This interdisciplinary speakers series celebrates Oregon’s Year of Water, a statewide theme of events hosted by various University of Oregon programs.
Co-organized by the Department of Earth ...
History Alumnus Receives International Award
Zach Bigalke is a UO alumnus who earned his bachelor of arts and master of arts degrees in the Department of History. Now a PhD student at Penn State University, Bigalke has just received the 2020 ...
The Ethical Choices of Whales
All are invited to a free book talk presented by Bathsheba Demuth:
“The Ethical Choices of Whales: Bowheads, Hunters, and the Nature of History”
Thursday, November 21, 2019
3:30–5:00 ...
White Women and the Slave Marketplace
History Workshop is back for the new academic year, with Dr. Stephanie Jones-Rogers presenting:
“That ‘oman took delight in sellin’ slaves”: White Women and the Slave Marketplace
Tuesday, ...
Congratulations to Jeff Ostler
Jeff Ostler is Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History. Along with associate professor Vera Keller, he is a recipient of the 2019 Presidential Fellow in Humanistic Studies award.
This new ...
A New Fellowship for Vera Keller
Congratulations go out to associate professor Vera Keller, who has been named a 2019 Presidential Fellow in Humanistic Studies, along with fellow History faculty member Jeff Ostler.
Earlier this ...
Myth and Memory in Oregon’s Pioneer Monuments
History Pub presents:
“Myth and Memory in Oregon’s Pioneer Monuments” with Cynthia Culver Prescott
Monday, July 15, 2019
7:30–9:00 p.m.
Viking Braggot Southtowne Pub
2490 ...
History Showcase
Celebrate undergraduate research and accomplishment at the 2019 History Showcase event!
Thursday, June 6
3:30 p.m.
Erb Memorial Union, Cedar + Spruce Rooms
(EMU 231 & 232)
Refreshments will be ...
UO Today with Lindsey Mazurek
Catch the latest episode of UO Today, featuring assistant professor Lindsey Mazurek. Here she discusses material culture and the cult of Isis in ancient Greece during Roman occupation. She also ...
History Career Happy Hour
Discover what you can do with your degree–come to this History Career Happy Hour event. Meet UO alumni who used the skill sets from their history majors to launch careers in a variety of fields. ...
Guest Speaker on Early Christian Communities
Please join the History community for this guest speaker event:
“Dionysius of Corinth’s Travels in Early Christian Communities of the Eastern Mediterranean”
presented by Professor Cavan ...
Career Workshop for Prospective and Current History Majors
Are you a history major, or considering becoming a history major? Do you have questions about your future and what your career opportunities are? Don’t miss this free workshop, open to all all ...
Event Cancellations
Due to inclement weather, the UO campus is closed today, February 27. Unfortunately, this means the events we had scheduled today with Sophie White and Lidia Gómez García are cancelled. Our regrets ...
Launch of Red Thread
Celebrate the launch of the Red Thread digital project and traveling scriptorium with an open reception:
Thursday, March 7, 2019
4:00–5:30 p.m.
Knight Library DREAM Lab
March 7, Knight Library ...
Filming Screen and QA with Mae Ngai
The Department of History invites you to this special film screening event with Mae Ngai:
Thursday, March 7, 2019
6:00–9:00 p.m.
Lillis Complex, Room 182
We will be screening the The Chinese ...
Digital Humanities on Visualizing the Mediterranean
Hayley Brazier interviews Lindsey Mazurek, assistant professor of ancient history, about the Mediterranean Connectivity Initiative—a project focused on globalization around the Mediterranean Sea. ...
Rejuvenating Nahuatl Scholarship in the 21st Century
Rejuvenating Nahuatl Scholarship in the 21st Century
presented by Lidia E. Gómez García
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
4:00–6:00 p.m.
375 McKenzie Hall
Mexican Ethnohistorian linguist Lidia E. ...
The Autism History Project
The Autism History Project is a new website that provides an extensive exploration of autism and a multitude of information sources together within one archive.
The website was created by Ellen ...
History Workshop: Allies and Adversaries with Gabe Paquette
Join us for the next History Workshop event:
Allies and Adversaries: Anglo-Portuguese Relations in the Nineteenth Century
presented by Gabe Paquette, Dean of the Robert D. Clark Honors College ...
UO Today: Annelise Heinz and Mahjong in American Culture
Learn about mahjong and the role this popular Chinese game plays in American culture, with Annelise Heinz on UO Today.
Annelise Heinz is an assistant professor of History here at the University ...
Nation of Immigrants: A Short History of An Idea
The history community is invited to attend this free public talk presented by the 2018-19 Wayne Morse Chair, Mae Ngai:
“Nation of Immigrants: A Short History of An Idea”
6:30–8:00 p.m. ...
History Pub: The History of Innovation
What is New is Old Again!
History Pub presents Vera Keller and “The History of Innovation”:
Monday, January 14, 2019
7:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:00 p.m.)
WOW Hall, 291 W. 8th Avenue
Drinks ...
Establishing Latin American Studies in the United Kingdom
Gabe Paquette, professor of history and Dean of the Robert D. Clark Honors College, has a new article with the prestigious Historical Journal (UK), “The “Parry Report’ (1965) and the ...
Wings: History of the Black Panther Party
In November 2018, the Department of History’s own Professor Curtis Austin presented one of four talks in the 2018 Wings: UO Presidential Speaker Series in Portland.
Hosted by University of ...
French Translation on the Plains Sioux
Jeffrey Ostler is the Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History. He specializes in the history of the American West, with a particular focus on American Indian history. His book, The Plains ...
Vera Keller on the History of Curiosity
Catch Vera Keller on Jefferson Public Radio today, December 17, as she discusses the history of science and the history of curiosity itself. Listen live on the Jefferson Exchange at 8:00 a.m., or ...
OHC Work-in-Progress Series, “Creating Confidentiality”
Miles Wilkinson, PhD candidate, History, and 2018-19 Oregon Humanities Center Dissertation Fellow will give a Work-in-Progress talk:
“Creating Confidentiality: Physician-Patient Privilege and ...
History Pub talk: “Red Spouts: How the Soviet Union Nearly Destroyed the World’s Whales”
Monday, December 3, 2018
The talk starts at 7:00 p.m. with doors opening at 6:00 p.m.
Located at the WOW Hall (291 W. 8th Avenue)
The History Pub speaker series presents “Red Spouts: How the ...
History Pub talk: “Five Million Secrets: The Hidden History of Native American Slavery”
This hard-hitting topic comes from Dr. Brett Rushforth, a scholar of the early modern Atlantic world whose research focuses on comparative slavery, Native North America, and French colonialism and ...
UO Today: History Professor Steven Beda on Labor Movements and Environmentalism
Steven Beda, assistant professor of History at the University of Oregon, discusses his research on labor movements in the timber industry and environmentalism in the Pacific Northwest during the 20th ...
History Pub talk: “Bully! Teddy Roosevelt Rides Again!”
Joe Wiegand,
Wednesday, October 17.
Doors at 6:00 pm, talk at 7:00 pm.
Ninkasi Administration Building, 155 Blair Blvd., Eugene, OR 97402.
Lecture: “Environmental Change and Migration in Historical Perspective.”
Uwe Lübken, LMU Munich,
Friday, September 28, 4:00 pm,
McKenzie Hall, Room 375.
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We are seeking a fabulous Accounting & Communications Coordinator. Click here to apply.
History Pub talk: “Old Poop and the Peopling of the Americas”
Dr. Dennis Jenkins,
Senior Research Archaeologist,
UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History.
Monday, September 24.
Doors at 6:00 pm, talk at 7:00 pm.
WOW Hall, 291 W 8th Ave, Eugene, OR 97401.
“Oregon Abroad: Staying Home to Investigate the Cultural and Natural History of Our Own Backyard”
Our colleague Matthew Dennis has authored a piece on his experience teaching an exciting experimental curriculum, “Oregon Abroad.” Click here to read the full essay, published in the ...
New book released: Bibliotecas y cultura letrada en América Latina. Siglos XIX y XX
UO History Professor Carlos Aguirre is the co-editor of Bibliotecas y cultura letrada en América Latina. Siglos XIX y XX (Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica, 2018).
History Workshop: “Justice and Fair Play for the American Indian: Harry Lane, Robert Hamilton, and a Vision of Native American Modernity.”
Marc Carpenter, UO History,
Thursday, June 7, 3:30 – 5:00 pm,
McKenzie Hall, Room 375.
Lecture: “Embracing the ‘Killers’: The Origins of our Love Affair with Orcas.”
Jason Colby, University of Victoria,
Friday, June 8, 12:00 pm,
McKenzie Hall, Room 375.
History Workshop: “The Compilers: The Production and Presentation of Knowledge in African Colonial Contexts, 1830–1900.”
Dr. Lindsay Frederick Braun, UO History,
Friday, May 25, 10:00-11:30 am,
McKenzie Hall, Room 375.
Pierson Lecture 2018: Dr. Geoff Eley, “Fascism and Antifascism, 1920-2020: Slogan, Impulse, Theory, Strategy.”
Dr. Geoff Eley,
Professor of History, University of Michigan.
Thursday, May 10.
3:30-5:00 pm, Gerlinger Lounge.
Lecture: “Making Religious Peace: A Historical Interpretation.”
Dr. Wayne P. Te Brake,
Professor Emeritus of History, SUNY Purchase College.
Wednesday, May 2.
3:30-5:00 pm, EMU 230, Swindells Room.
History Workshop: “Please Do Clean this Town: U.S. West Mining Town Environments and Postwar Urban Development, 1940 – 1970.”
Nichelle Frank, UO History,
Friday, April 27, 10:00-12:00 pm,
McKenzie Hall, Room 375.
Lecture: “Memory As Medicine: Reflections on History.”
Dr. Brett Walker,
Regents Professor of History, Montana State University, Bozeman.
Thursday, April 19.
3:30-5:00 pm, Jaqua Center Auditorium.
History Pub talk: “Why are there so many Mexican immigrants in the United States?”
Dr. Julie Weise,
Associate Professor, UO Department of History.
Tuesday, March 20.
Doors at 6:00 pm, talk at 7:00 pm.
Sprout Regional Food Hub,
418 A Street, Springfield, Oregon 97477.
Why are there ...
Major Collection of Historic, Rare Books Donated to UO Libraries
Gift from Eugene residents Gordon and Sherry Paine will significantly enrich UO’s holdings of rare books.
Congratulations Marsha Weisiger!
The American Council of Learned Societies has awarded a $141,000 Collaborative Research Grant to Marsha Weisiger, of the History Department, and Stephanie LeMenager, of the English Department; ...
UO Today: History Professor Leslie Alexander discusses antebellum New York
Our colleague Leslie Alexander discusses the challenges of identity and politics emancipated Blacks faced in antebellum New York with UO Today: ...
History Pub talk: “The Greatest Threat: The Black Panther Party and Revolution in America.”
Dr. Curtis Austin,
Associate Professor, UO Department of History.
Tuesday, February 27.
Doors at 6:00 pm, talk at 7:00 pm.
Sprout Regional Food Hub,
418 A Street, Springfield, Oregon 97477.
UO Today: History Professor Curtis Austin on the Black Panther Party
Our colleague Curtis Austin discusses his book Up Against the Wall: Violence in the Making and Unmaking of the Black Panther Party with UO Today:
History Pub talk: “Kalapuya Archaeology: The Cultural Record of the Willamette Valley before 1850.”
Dr. Tom Connolly,
Director of Archaeological Research, UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History.
Tuesday, January 30, 6:00 pm,
Ninkasi Administration Building, 155 Blair Blvd., Eugene, OR 97402.
Congratulations Lisa Wolverton!
History Professor Lisa Wolverton has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship for 2018-2019, in support of her project titled “Henry and Vratislav: Medieval Central Europe ...
Oregon Humanities Center 2018-19 Fellowships
Please join us in congratulating our colleagues!
History Pub talk: “Spotted Owls Won’t Feed My Family: Loggers, Environmentalists, and the Battle for Oregon Timber Country”
Dr. Steve Beda,
Associate Professor of History, University of Oregon,
Tuesday, December 5, 6:00 pm,
Noble Estate Urban Tasting Room,
560 Commercial Street, Eugene, OR 97402.
Talk: “So You Want to Publish in a History Journal…”
Dr. Joshua Piker,
Editor, William and Mary Quarterly,
Monday, November 27, 12:00-1:30 pm,
McKenzie 375
History Pub talk: “The Question of Genocide in American History”
Dr. Jeff Ostler,
Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History,
Tuesday, November 7, 6:00 pm,
Hop Valley Brewing,
990 W. 1st Avenue, Eugene, OR 97401
History Workshop: “Why did you kill your baby?”
Dr. Reuben Zahler, UO History,
Friday, October 27, 10:00-11:30 am,
McKenzie Hall 375
Workshop on African American Intellectual History
In connection with the new program in Black Studies, the Departments of Ethnic Studies, History, Political Science, and Women’s and Gender Studies are collaborating with the College of Arts and ...
History Pub talk: “A Global History of the Cascade Hop”
Dr. Peter A. Kopp,
University of New Mexico,
Tuesday, October 24, 6:00 pm,
Ninkasi Administration Building,
155 Blair Blvd., Eugene, OR 97402
Lecture: “Makah Voices and the Sea”
Dr. Joshua Reid,
University of Washington,
Monday, October 16,
1:30-3:00 pm,
McKenzie Hall 375
Lecture: “The East is Red”
Artist Hung Liu from Oakland, CA,
Saturday, October 7, 2:00 pm,
Ford Lecture Hall,
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
Lecture: “The Lawful Empire: Legal Change and Cultural Diversity in Late Imperial Russia”
Dr. Stefan Kirmse,
Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO),
Humboldt University of Berlin,
Tuesday, October 3, 4:00 pm,
Erb Memorial Union, Room 023
Lecture: “The Place and Process of Public Lands”
Dr. Kevin Marsh,
Professor of History at Idaho State University,
Thursday, October 5, 3:30 pm,
McKenzie Hall 375
History Workshop: “Rethinking the U.S. Policy of Indian Removal”
Dr. Jeffrey Ostler, UO History,
Friday, October 6, 10:00-11:30 am,
McKenzie Hall 375
Congratulations Josh Fitzgerald!
History Ph.D. candidate Josh Fitzgerald has received a 2017-18 Julie and Rocky Dixon Graduate Innovation Award!
History Informing Public Policy
Jim Mohr, College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History and Knight Professor of Social Science, has been appointed to the Editorial Committee of the Federation of State Medical ...
New book released: The Peculiar Revolution
UO History Professor Carlos Aguirre is the co-editor of The Peculiar Revolution: Rethinking the Peruvian Experiment Under Military Rule (University of Texas Press, 2017).
Congratulations Augustine Beard!
History major Augustine Beard has been selected as a Udall Scholar!
New book released: Deportation: The Origins of U.S. Policy
Alumna Torrie Hester (History, 2008) has released a new book, Deportation: The Origins of U.S. Policy (Penn Press, 2017).
History Workshop: “The Other Juan and the Cult of Castillanxochitl: Rose Rituals, Our Lady of Guadalupe, and How to Die in Sixteenth-Century New Spain”
Josh Fitzgerald, History
Friday, May 19, 10:00-11:30 am,
McKenzie 375
Light refreshments will be served.
Abstract:
What can a barebones list of the dead from the sixteenth century tell us about ...
New book released: The Lima Reader
UO History Professor Carlos Aguirre is the co-editor of The Lima Reader (Duke University Press, 2017).
Congratulations Lacey Guest!
History MA student Lacey Guest has received a 2017-18 CSWS Research Grant Award for her project “Magic and Power: Educating African-American College Students in the Science of Marriage, ...
Oregon Humanities Center 2017-18 Fellowships
Please join us in congratulating our colleagues!