Posted March 30, 2021
News
A Letter from President Reif: Supporting our Asian community in a difficult time
MIT’s president writes to the community following the tragedies in Georgia and surging anti-Asian violence.
Posted March 25, 2021
Lerna Ekmekçioğlu's book Recovering Armenia is out in Turkish translation
Lerna Ekmekcioglu investigates how Armenians recovered their identity within these drastically changing political conditions.
Posted February 11, 2021
History at MIT Welcomes Feruza Aripova
Feruza Aripova will be joining us for the Spring '21 term as a Russian History lecturer
Posted January 22, 2021
Brand New History Subjects Offered in Spring 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
Professor Malick Ghachem receives Digital Technology Award
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 Catherine E. Clark awarded Laurence Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies
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 Named Finalist for Elliott P. Skinner Award
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
Kenda Mutongi is awarded the AHA 2018 Martin A. Klein Prize
The Klein Prize is awarded annually by the American Historical Association (AHA) to honor the best book in African history.
Posted October 16, 2018
Now Accepting Entries for the 2018 History Undergraduate Writing Prize
Eligibility: MIT and non-MIT undergraduate students who have taken a 21H subject in 2017-18, taught by an MIT History Faculty member, may submit entries.
Posted May 2, 2018
Posted April 19, 2018
Chris Capozzola awarded Carnegie Council on International Affairs fellowship
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