Posted March 31, 2020
News
Three Questions with historian Kenda Mutongi
On Africa, women, power — and human decency
Posted January 15, 2020
How to Stage a Revolution
MIT History class explores the roots and complexities of revolutions across the globe.
Posted January 6, 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
Kenda Mutongi Named Finalist for Elliott P. Skinner Award
Kenda Mutongi, Member (2004–05) in the School of Social Science, has been named a finalist for the 2018 Elliott P. Skinner Book Award, for Matatu: A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi (University of Chicago Press, 2017).
Posted February 14, 2019
When Japan met the world: Hiromu Nagahara
Inspired by a family background with extensive U.S-Japan ties, historian Hiromu Nagahara explores Japan’s cultural links to other societies.
Posted December 7, 2018
Kenda Mutongi is awarded the AHA 2018 Martin A. Klein Prize
The Klein Prize is awarded annually by the American Historical Association (AHA) to honor the best book in African history.
Posted October 16, 2018
An interview with Caley Horan
Horan is a U.S. historian who focuses on research interests in the cultural and intellectual transformations of the post-WWII era.
Posted April 19, 2018
Posted April 19, 2018
MIT and the legacy of slavery
MIT class reveals, explores Institute’s connections to slavery
Posted March 12, 2018
Chris Capozzola named a 2018 MacVicar Fellow
Four professors named 2018 MacVicar Fellows Autor, Capozzola, Raman, and Smith receive MIT's most prestigious undergraduate teaching award.
Posted March 5, 2018
Hiromu Nagahara on BBC Radio
Professor Hiromu Nagahara was recently on BBC radio show on the history of jazz in Japan dicussing two of the songs that are featured in his book Tokyo March" and "Tokyo Boogie-Woogie".
Posted March 2, 2018
Chris Capozzola awarded Carnegie Council on International Affairs fellowship
Associate Professor Christopher Capozzola has been awarded a fellowship by the Carnegie Council on International Affairs (CCIA) to support his new research project, “Merchants of Death? The Politics of Defense Contracting, Then and Now.”
Posted November 10, 2017
