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.
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.
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.
Slate's history writer Rebecca Onion recently interviewed Professor Manisha Sinha about what gun control advocates can learn from abolitionists who helped end slavery.
We, the Department of History, condemn the inflammatory police action and mass arrest of over 135 members of our UMass Amherst community on May 7 and 8. The arrestees included three of our own faculty and multiple history graduate students, who were exercising their constitutionally protected right to freedom of speech and assembly. We protest the damaging treatment of the arrestees, including our department members, who were present to support peaceful protest by UMass Amherst undergraduates, graduate students and other faculty. We condemn the recourse to law enforcement, not dialogue, at
In “Abolishing Fossil Fuels: Lessons from Movements That Won” (PM Press, April 2024), Young argues that climate destruction is a problem of political power and that activists should draw on the lessons of successful movements in U.S. history.