Honoring the scholarship of historian Harriet Ritvo
by Taylor Michael Bailey
Posted September 26, 2022
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MIT History Professor shares expertise as advisor to new PBS Documentary Series with Ken Burns.
Professor Craig S. Wilder has been sharing his expertise as an advisor to the new PBS documentary series, that will air on PBS stations Sunday evening, September 18th.
Posted September 14, 2022
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
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
Charlotte Minsky ’20
Studying science has made her a better historian, Minsky says, and studying history has made her a better scientist.
Posted April 17, 2020
Reflections: Anne McCants
Notes from a historian, and director of the MIT Concourse Program, for her students and others
Posted April 17, 2020
Posted March 31, 2020
Three Questions with historian Kenda Mutongi
On Africa, women, power — and human decency
Posted January 15, 2020
Lerna Ekmekçioğlu
Armenian Genocide Descendants Face Another Turkish Onslaught, One Century Later
Posted December 11, 2019
Bringing figures in anticolonial politics out of the shadows
MIT historian Sana Aiyar sheds new light on the complexities of independence movements and global migration.
Posted December 11, 2019
Catherine Clark
Interview with Catherine Clark, the author of Paris and the Cliché of History: The City in Photographs, 1860-1970 (Oxford University Press, 2018).
Posted October 21, 2019
Three Questions for Historian Elizabeth Wood on election interference
How do we understand Russia’s multi-layered interference in the 2016 elections? A Russia expert and professor of history analyzes Russia’s motives.
Posted October 17, 2019
