Elijah Ferrante is a PhD student in Modern European History. His research interests focus on the histories of psychiatry, medicine, care, and religion in Western Europe. He is developing a thesis project on the history of cultural psychiatry and therapeutic encounters...
Mylkah Djacko is a PhD candidate in African history. She is interested in histories of medicine, psychiatry, religion, gender, and photography. Her dissertation project explores the relationship between African healing practices of mental illness and Western...
Hazel Richards (she/her) is a PhD student in Atlantic history. Her research focuses on twentieth-century French Guiana and departmentalization, particularly the case of the Territory of Inini. She is interested in questions of decolonization, citizenship, sovereignty,...
Pamela Smith was named the 2023-2024 Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor at the Center for Advanced Study of the Visual Arts at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. Additionally, she was awarded the Inaugural Herzog August Bilbiothek Research Award (Eckensberger...
Professors Mae Ngai and Nara Milanich (Barnard) spoke at a Congressional briefing on the US-Mexico border sponsored by the American Historical Association on Capitol Hill on July 28. Also speaking was Professor Gerry Cadava of Northwestern....