Kathleen Lopes – MIT History

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

Russia: What is Victory Day, and why is it important? | Elizabeth Wood

“It’s hard to do a general conscription: I think that that’s when Russians would come out and protest,” said Wood, professor of history at MIT.

Story at Al Jazeera

Posted May 24, 2022

Harriet Ritvo Symposium

April 29 & 30, 2022

Posted April 27, 2022

History Lab | 21H.S04

History class led by Associate Professor Sana Aiyar delves into South Asian experience at MIT via oral histories and the Institute Archives/Distinctive Collections

Posted April 14, 2022

Q&A: Elizabeth Wood on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

MIT historian analyzes the uncertain dynamics of a global crisis.

Unintended Lessons of Revolution: Student Teachers and Political Radicalism in Twentieth-Century Mexico by Tanalís Padilla

This new book by Professor Padilla traces the history of the rural normales, showing how they became sites of radical politics.

Posted January 18, 2022

Six humanities and arts faculty receive MIT SHASS Research Fund awards for 2022

Congratulations Tristan Brown, assistant professor of history; Eric Goldberg, professor of history and Tanalís Padilla, professor of history.