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On 9/16, Professor Rebecca Kobrin spoke on a panel for the Metropolitan Opera at Temple Emanuel about the new Kavalier and Clay opera with composer Mason Bates (Columbia ’03), producer Bartlett Scher, and librettist Gene Scheer.
On 9/16, Professor Rebecca Kobrin spoke on a panel for the Metropolitan Opera at Temple Emanuel about the new Kavalier and Clay opera with composer Mason Bates (Columbia ’03), producer Bartlett Scher, and librettist Gene Scheer. See a recording of this panel here.
On 10/2, Professor Natasha Lightfoot presented at Princeton’s African American Studies Department’s Global Blackness Seminar Series, workshopping a chapter of her in-progress book project Fugitive Cosmopolitans: Mobility and Freedom Struggles in the Nineteenth Century Black Atlantic.
On 10/2, Professor Natasha Lightfoot presented at Princeton’s African American Studies Department’s Global Blackness Seminar Series, workshopping a chapter of her in-progress book project Fugitive Cosmopolitans: Mobility and Freedom Struggles in the Nineteenth Century Black Atlantic. See more about the event here.
In July, Professor James Stafford was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
In July, Professor James Stafford was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. See the full press release here.
Professor Merlin Chowkwanyun features in a new PBS: American Experience Documentary, “Clearing the Air: The War on Smog,” that premieres at 9:00 PM ET on Tuesday, August 26th.
Professor Merlin Chowkwanyun features in a new PBS: American Experience Documentary, “Clearing the Air: The War on Smog,” that premieres at 9:00 PM ET on Tuesday, August 26th. See more about the documentary here.
2025 Book Releases
Martha Howell, Making Merchants, The Cultural Construction of a Merchant Class in Early Modern Germany. October, 2025: Cambridge University Press.
Mark Mazower, On Antisemitism: A word in History. September, 2025: Penguin Press.
A. Tunç Şen, Forgotten Experts: Astrologers, Science, and Authority in the Ottoman Empire, 1450 – 1600. 2025: Stanford University Press.
Paul Thomas Chamberlin, Scorched Earth: A Global History of World War II. 2025: Basic Books.
2024 Book Releases
David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz, Building the Worlds that Kill Us: Disease, Death, and Inequality in American History. 2024: Columbia University Press
Manan Ahmed, Disrupted City: Walking the Pathways of Memory and History in Lahore. 2024: The New Press
Frank Guridy, The Stadium: An American History of Politics, Protest, and Play. 2024: Basic Books
Mae Ngai, Chee Wang Ng, and Corky Lee (eds.), Corky Lee’s Asian America: Fifty Years of Photographic Justice. 2024: Clarkson Potter
Marc Van De Mieroop, A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000 – 323 BC, 4th Edition. 2024: Wiley-Blackwell.
2023 Book Releases
Catherine Evtuhov, Julia Lajus, and David Moon (eds.), Thinking Russia’s History Environmentally. 2023: Berghahn Books
2022 Book Releases
Hilary Hallett. Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood. 2022: Liveright.
