How the US Could Really Help Haiti by Professor Malick Ghachem
Foreign involvement is inevitable, but the mistakes of the past can be avoided.
Posted July 12, 2021
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3 Questions with historian Caley Horan on innovation, risk-sharing, and cultural transformation
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 McCants awarded the Ann Fetter Friedlaender Professorship
Anne begins her professorship on July 1, 2021.
Posted June 8, 2021
Malick Ghachem has been honored with a 2021 Teaching with Digital Technology Award
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
MIT Faculty Share Learnings from Teaching Online in the Midst of a Pandemic
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States in early 2020, it was clear that higher education needed to shift how it operated in both the short and long term.
Posted June 7, 2021
Going for the Green and the Gold
The undergraduates of 21H.187, US Environmental Governance: From National Parks to the Green New Deal, took on podcast assignments to tackle pressing issues in the present with much longer histories.
Posted May 24, 2021
For the pandemic, MIT History opens a course to the public via a free, live webinar format.
Hundreds worldwide joined MIT students in the “History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics“ edition.
Posted April 14, 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
Posted March 30, 2021
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
