Horan recently about her book manuscript, Insurance Era, (now published, University of Chicago Press, 2021) which explores the cultural life of insurance and the role of risk-based thinking in shaping American institutions and daily life during the second half of the 20th century.
Posted June 10, 2021
Anne begins her professorship on July 1, 2021.
Posted June 8, 2021
The Teaching with Digital Technology Awards are student-nominated awards given annually to instructors who have effectively used digital technology to improve teaching and learning at MIT.
Posted June 7, 2021
Posted March 30, 2021
MIT’s president writes to the community following the tragedies in Georgia and surging anti-Asian violence.
Posted March 25, 2021
Lerna Ekmekcioglu investigates how Armenians recovered their identity within these drastically changing political conditions.
Posted February 11, 2021
Feruza Aripova will be joining us for the Spring '21 term as a Russian History lecturer
Posted January 22, 2021
The following subjects are new to the History curriculum and are being offered for the first time this spring.
Posted December 22, 2020
Posted August 24, 2020
This is a student-nominated award for instructors who have effectively used digital technology to improve teaching and learning at MIT.
Posted August 24, 2020
Professor Clark's has been awarded for her book, Paris and the Cliché of History: The City and Photographs, 1860-1970.
Posted June 23, 2020
Kenda Mutongi, Member (2004–05) in the School of Social Science, has been named a finalist for the 2018 Elliott P. Skinner Book Award, for Matatu: A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi (University of Chicago Press, 2017).
Posted February 14, 2019
The Klein Prize is awarded annually by the American Historical Association (AHA) to honor the best book in African history.
Posted October 16, 2018
Posted April 19, 2018
Associate Professor Christopher Capozzola has been awarded a fellowship by the Carnegie Council on International Affairs (CCIA) to support his new research project, “Merchants of Death? The Politics of Defense Contracting, Then and Now.”
Posted November 10, 2017
