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Thumb through the history department’s 2024 Magazine to read about cutting-edge student and faculty research, highlights from the classroom, and engaging public programs that put history to work in the world.

Join us in celebrating historian Jennifer Heuer’s newest book, ‘The Soldier’s Reward,’ out now with Princeton University Press! 

Department alumni Michael J. Nicholson ‘16 ‘17 MPP received the Outstanding Young Alumni Award and Kenneth R. Feinberg ‘67, ‘02 Hon received the Distinguished Leader Award at the UMass Alumni Honors Event on October 10th, 2024.

Assistant Professor of History Elizabeth Jacob and collaborator Ananias Léki Dago recently won a project grant from UCLA’s Modern Endangered Archives Program (MEAP) to digitize the personal archive of Paul Kodjo.

UMass Amherst Historian and Assistant Professor Asheesh Kapur Siddique’s first book, The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World, is out now with Yale University Press.

The UMass Amherst History Department announces the 2024-25 Feinberg Series. Organized around the theme “What Are Universities For? Struggles for the Soul of Higher Education,” the series’s 11 events will bring together students, scholars, and community organizers to trace the historical roots of the political, economic, and ethical crises in higher education and propose solutions for debt-saddled students, resource-starved communities, and others whose lives and futures depend on this bedrock social institution.

Elizabeth A. Sharrow, associate professor of history and public policy, has won the 2024 American Political Science Association (APSA) Kammerer Award for their book Equality Unfulfilled: How Title IX's Policy Design Undermines Change to College Sports.

Our esteemed and highly respected colleague, Alon Confino, director of the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies (IHGMS) and professor of history and Judaic and Near Eastern studies, died June 27 after a long illness. A funeral was held at the Congregation B’Nai Israel cemetery in Northampton on July 2

The history department warmly congratulates the 2024 BA, MA, PhD and Public History graduates on your truly remarkable accomplishments! We wish you joy and luck in all your future endeavors.