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2025 Annual Lecture of the Yan P. Lin Centre - ‘Constantinople 1453: The Fate of the Conquered and the Passage to Modernity’ by Anthony Kaldellis

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The Lin Centre’s 2025 Annual Lecture, ‘Constantinople 1453: The Fate of the Conquered and the Passage to Modernity’, was delivered by Professor Anthony Kaldellis, Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago, on March 26.

Published: 20 May 2025

2025 Global Pasts Works-in-Progress Workshop and Awards Program

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Global Pasts Works-in-Progress Workshop

Published: 24 April 2025

Prof. Gwyn Campbell named a Distinguished James 51�Թ��Professor

webfull — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 18:34:21 +0000

Congratulations to Professor Gwyn Campbell on recently being named as a Distinguished James 51�Թ��Professor.

This award recognizes a late-career scholar's sustained scholarship of world-class caliber and international leadership.

We are delighted at this much-deserved recognition for all Prof. Campbell's achievements over many years!

Published: 24 March 2025

The Yan P. Lin Centre’s Research Group on Global Pasts Releases Book on Place and Performance in Antiquity

webfull — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 16:34:23 +0000

We enthusiastically announce the publication of Place and Performance in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China with Cambridge University Press in December 2024. It is the first volume in Cambridge’s new series Antiquity in Global Context. Profs. Griet Vankeerberghen and Hans Beck have edited this volume, and their long-standing collaboration was the foundation of the Global Antiquities cluster of the Yan P. Lin Centre, evolved and expanded into our Global Pasts Research Group.

Published: 3 February 2025

Research Group on Global Pasts Announces Works-in-Progress Workshop

webfull — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 14:12:02 +0000

As a means of enhancing our scholarly community on campus, the Lin Centre’s Research Group on Global Pasts will organize an annual workshop to showcase ongoing research aligned with the core agenda of our research group. The workshop will consist of a series of short presentations on individual case studies (texts, events, objects, monuments, etc.) followed by group discussion. We are especially eager to involve graduate students in this workshop and to that end the RGGP will offer a series of Global Pasts student stipends to support graduate research.

Published: 24 April 2024

ISID congratulates Professor Jacob Blanc on his new book, "The Prestes Column"

webfull — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 15:42:54 +0000

Professor Jacob Blanc of the Institute for the Study of International Development and the Department of History has had a new book published with Duke University Press. In The Prestes Column, Jacob Blanc offers a new interpretation of the legendary rebellion, in which a band of rebel officers and soldiers marched fifteen thousand miles through the vast interior regions of Brazil between 1924 and 1927.

Published: 15 February 2024

Professor Dunsworth co-edits series on historians and the climate emergency

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Professor Edward Dunsworth is co-editing a blog series, Historians Confront the Climate Emergency, with Prof. Daniel Macfarlane of Western Michigan University. Hosted by ActiveHistory.ca and NiCHE (Network in Canadian History & Environment), posts in the ten-part series will appear on Tuesdays and Thursdays through mid-October. Dr. Philip Gooding, postdoctoral fellow at McGill’s Indian Ocean World Centre (IOWC), is one of the series’ contributors.

Published: 14 September 2021

Professor Judith Szapor wins prestigious fellowship at the United States Holocaust Museum

webfull — Mon, 31 May 2021 12:35:28 +0000

Prof. Judith Szapor will be the Judith B. and Burton P. Resnick Invitational Scholar at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies. She will spend the winter semester 2022 in Washington, D.C., to work on her research project “Antisemitism, Gender, Mobility: The Impact of the Numerus Clausus in Hungary, 1920-1948”.

Congratulations!

Published: 31 May 2021

Professor Heidi Wendt wins University Research Award

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Prof. Heidi Wendt won the 2021 Arts Distinction in Research Award. The prize is awarded annually by the Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Studies) to a 51�Թ��faculty member who has made outstanding research contributions to her/his field. In 2016, Prof. Wendt published At the Temple Gates: The Religion of Freelance Experts in the Roman Empire with Oxford University Press. In her book, she examines evidence for the rise of self-authorized experts in specialized religious skills, rites, and wisdom under the Roman Empire.

Congratulations!

Published: 25 May 2021

Geoffrey Wallace (Ph.D. 2020) wins Dissertation Prize

webfull — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 16:13:56 +0000

Geoffrey Wallace has won the 2020 Rachel Carson Dissertation Prize of the American Society for Environmental History. He defended his dissertation “History and Geography of Beeswax Extraction in the Northern Maya Lowlands, 1540-1700” in 2020.

Congratulations!

Published: 9 March 2021

51�Թ��� News - Dept. of History

2025 Annual Lecture of the Yan P. Lin Centre - ‘Constantinople 1453: The Fate of the Conquered and the Passage to Modernity’ by Anthony Kaldellis

2025 Global Pasts Works-in-Progress Workshop and Awards Program

Global Pasts Works-in-Progress Workshop

Prof. Gwyn Campbell named a Distinguished James 51�Թ���Professor

The Yan P. Lin Centre’s Research Group on Global Pasts Releases Book on Place and Performance in Antiquity

Research Group on Global Pasts Announces Works-in-Progress Workshop

ISID congratulates Professor Jacob Blanc on his new book, "The Prestes Column"

Professor Dunsworth co-edits series on historians and the climate emergency

Professor Judith Szapor wins prestigious fellowship at the United States Holocaust Museum

Professor Heidi Wendt wins University Research Award

Geoffrey Wallace (Ph.D. 2020) wins Dissertation Prize

51�Թ�� News - Dept. of History

Prof. Gwyn Campbell named a Distinguished James 51�Թ��Professor