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
“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.
Posted May 24, 2022
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.”
Posted May 24, 2022
“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.
Posted May 24, 2022
April 29 & 30, 2022
Posted April 27, 2022
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
MIT historian analyzes the uncertain dynamics of a global crisis.
Posted March 4, 2022
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
Congratulations Tristan Brown, assistant professor of history; Eric Goldberg, professor of history and Tanalís Padilla, professor of history.
Posted December 20, 2021
HASTS PhD student Rijul Kochhar tracks changing medical and microbial realities, and examines what they portend for society.
Posted December 20, 2021
Join Professor Sana Aiyar, Associate Professor of History, in a History Lab – a unique class that documents the remarkable story of South Asia and MIT.
Posted November 30, 2021
A Conversation with David Shane Lowry, '03 ('07) Distinguished Fellow in Native American Studies at MIT
Posted November 18, 2021
Military training has existed at MIT since 1865, with more than 12,000 officers commissioned from the Institute. Today, MIT offers U.S. Air Force, Army, and Naval ROTC programs. In honor of Veterans Day, cadets from all three branches present the flag.
Posted November 10, 2021
Prof. Craig Wilder invites the MIT community to consider the progress and challenges of sustaining the acclaimed MIT & Slavery curricular project.
Posted October 25, 2021
Professor Sana Aiyar, Associate Professor of History and MIT students dig deep into the longstanding connection between the Institute and South Asia.
Posted October 21, 2021
David Shane Lowry, distinguished fellow in Native American studies at History at MIT, provides a new campus space for Native American student groups.
Posted October 20, 2021
Wilder, the Barton L. Weller Professor of History at MIT, joins other leading experts, historians, and writers to provide input on the script and film for the new documentary about Muhammad Ali.
Posted September 23, 2021
PhD student Rodrigo Ochigame designs alternative search engines and seeks to disrupt cultural assumptions in their teaching and research.
Posted August 23, 2021
Professor Christopher Capozzola author of “Bound by War: How the United States and the Philippines Built America’s First Pacific Century” featured in the Washington Post.
Posted August 6, 2021
Back in 1964, there was “a sense of Japan in motion and a sense of a country with a future,” said Nagahara, MIT professor of history. Now, it’s “a country that has lost confidence and a country whose political elites feel very intensely that loss of confidence.”
Posted August 6, 2021
