HASTS PhD student Rodrigo Ochigame
PhD student Rodrigo Ochigame designs alternative search engines and seeks to disrupt cultural assumptions in their teaching and research.
Posted August 23, 2021
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Emma Teng on anti-Asian American violence in the US
A leading scholar of cross-cultural identity, social assimilation, and exclusion, MIT historian Emma Teng recently spoke with MIT News about the current crisis of violence against Asian-Americans.
Posted April 5, 2021
Mark Aidinoff, PhD Candidate: The history of using computers to distribute relief checks
Aidinoff writes, "Since the New Deal, policymakers have maintained faith in the federal government’s technical ability to sort out who is and is not deserving of public support."
Posted March 18, 2021
Posted November 19, 2020
Anne McCants wins the Hughes Prize for Excellence in Teaching Economic History
The annual Jonathan Hughes Prize recognizes excellence in teaching economic history both at the undergraduate and graduate level.
Posted October 23, 2020
Driving While Black…Race, Space and Mobility in America
Watch MIT Historian Craig Wilder and others in the new PBS Documentary that examines African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights. Streaming now on PBS.
Posted October 19, 2020
History Professor, Anne McCants, joins Plague discussion on NPR Podcast
Planet Money Podcast hosts, Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi and Keith Romer, discuss the silver lining associated with the plague.
Posted September 21, 2020
Lerna Ekmekçioğlu’s Twelve Faces of Armenian Feminism
As a CAST Mellon Faculty Fellow, McMillan-Stewart Associate Professor of History Lerna Ekmekçioğlu is creating a virtual exhibition and digital archive.
Posted September 10, 2020
The Meanings of Masks
History faculty, and other MIT SHASS Professors, share the Meaning of Masks in their fields of study.
Posted September 10, 2020
Pouya Alimagham’s book, Contesting the Iranian Revolution: The Green Uprisings
Pouya Alimagham re-examines the Green Uprisings of 2009 as a "failed revolution".
Posted August 24, 2020
