Kathleen Lopes – MIT History

Honoring the scholarly legacy of historian Harriet Ritvo

Taylor Michael Bailey

Posted September 26, 2022

ADVANCED DEGREE CEREMONY | MIT SHASS Address | Marc Aidinoff PhD’22 (HASTS)

Aidinoff's address included a call to action: "Please stand up for the ability to pursue a research question for its own sake. Protect the privilege to wonder!"

Posted June 16, 2022

Historian Catherine E. Clark to head MIT Digital Humanities Program

Clark, Associate Professor of History and French Studies, will serve as Director of MIT Digital Humanities starting 1 June, 2022. She is a cultural historian of modern Europe, whose research is concerned with how the visual produces knowledge. As Director of MIT Digital Humanities, she follows Stephanie Frampton, Associate Professor of Classical Literature, who we thank for superb leadership of the program over the past two years.

Posted May 24, 2022

Historian Lerna Ekmekçioğlu to head Womens & Gender Studies

Ekmekçioğlu, the McMillan-Stewart Associate Professor of History and winner of the 2016 Levitan Teaching Award, will succeed Helen Elaine Lee, Professor of Writing, whose many contributions to MIT and MIT-WGS include co-founding the My Sister's Keeper Program. Warmest thanks Helen! Congratulations Lerna!

Posted May 24, 2022

Native mascots do not bring honor to Native Americans | David Shane Lowry

“The primary goal…is to humanize American Indian people,” said Lowry, a member of the Lumbee Tribe and a distinguished fellow in Native American studies at MIT.

Story at Boston.com

Posted May 24, 2022

In an abnormal atmosphere, ‘normal’ radioactivity at Chernobyl | Kate Brown

Brown, the Siebel Distinguished Professor in History of Science at MIT, said containment buildings at nuclear plants have not been stress-tested for heavy artillery, “certainly not for the bombs the Russians have been deploying.”

Story at The Washington Post

Posted May 24, 2022