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May 21, 2025

Tunç Şen‘s book, Forgotten Experts: Astrologers, Science, and Authority in the Ottoman Empire, 1450-1600, has been published with Stanford University Press. See more about the book here.





Julia Burke, a doctoral candidate in the History Department, has been named one of this year’s Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellows. Read more about the award here.



May 20, 2025

Karl Jacoby was interviewed for Kevin Costner’s The West, where he provides historical background on Joaquin Murrieta, Cynthia Anne Parker, and other subjects. The series will premier on May 26th, 2025.




May 15, 2025

Rashid Khalidi has been awarded the 2025 Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award by the Caribbean Philosophical Association for his “crucial role as a public figure and his commitment to the proverbial Damned of the Earth and the importance of shifting the geography of reason in the quest for dignity, liberation, and freedom.” 




May 5, 2025

Paul Thomas Chamberlin‘s newest book, Scorched Earth: A Global History of World War II, was reviewed by Brendan Simms in The Wall Street Journal. Read the full review here.




April 30, 2025

Mae Ngai was quoted in The Huffington Post on the cruelty shown by the Trump Administration in its attacks on immigrant communities. Read the full article here.



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