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John Higginson Receives 2020 ADVANCE Faculty Mentoring Award and Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award
Friday, April 24, 2020
John Higginson from the Department of History is one of seven inaugural winners of the prestigious UMass ADVANCE Faculty Mentoring Award, and one of three winners of the university-wide of the 2020...
History Faculty Win 2020 Distinguished Teaching Award and HFA College Outstanding Teaching Award
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
History Department professor Anne Broadbridge has been awarded the 2020 Distinguished Teaching Award (DTA), an extremely competitive university-wide award honoring exemplary teaching at the highest...
UMass Amherst Names Barbara Krauthamer as Dean of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Barbara Krauthamer, professor of history, dean of the graduate school and senior vice provost for interdisciplinary programs and innovation at UMass Amherst, has been appointed as dean of the...
Coronavirus Update
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
UMass Amherst has suspended all in-person classes, including laboratory, studio, capstone and graduate courses, until the end of the semester. All classes are now being delivered remotely....
Erika Lee to Deliver Distinguished Annual Lecture on Xenophobia in America
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
On March 11 at 6:00pm, renowned historian and author Erika Lee will deliver the history department’s 2020 Distinguished Annual Lecture. The lecture, titled “Xenophobia in America: How We Got Here...
