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Department of History

Regional Fields

Regional Fields

Our diverse international faculty offer a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses in five world regions.

Regional Fields

Transnational Themes

Transnational Themes

Transnational themes highlight linkages across time and space, and foster comparative, connective, and interdisciplinary analysis.

Transnational Themes

Research Clusters

Research Clusters

Clusters of faculty expertise drive research advances and facilitate collaborative mentoring and international network-building.

Research Clusters

New Faces

New Faces

New faculty and postdoctoral fellows expand the Department of History's global reach and methodological expertise.

Alumni Profiles

Alumni Profiles

Our graduates are located all over the world, employed in careers as diverse as their locales. Learn more about a few of our alumni.

Alumni Profiles

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Early Modern Worlds

Early Modern Worlds

Interdisciplinary group of faculty and students exploring early modernity across the globe

Early Modern Worlds

World History Center

World History Center

Supporting research, teaching, and international collaboration on the global past with attention to the global future

World History Center

News

Exciting New Books from Pitt History Profs

Keisha Blain, Molly Warsh, and Michel Gobat range from 16th c. Caribbean pearl fisheries to 19th c. Nicaragua to the Depression-era Mississippi Delta to reveal new dimensions of our world's interconnected pasts.

Pitt Alum, Naval Academy Professor Interviewed

Dr Sharika Crawford discusses her training at Pitt, her teaching of future naval officers, and her research on maritime labor and conservation in the Caribbean

Pitt History research and teaching profiled in new video series

Watch our faculty discuss their interdisciplinary and international research and teaching and innovative public outreach

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Publications

Empire by Invitation: William Walker and Manifest Destiny in Central America
- Michel Gobat
American Baroque: Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492-1700
- Molly Warsh
The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist
- Marcus Rediker
Scars of Independence: America's Violent Birth
- Holger Hoock
Geschichte als Politikum: Lettland und die Aufarbeitung nach der Diktatur (History as Politics: Coming to Terms with the Past in Post-Soviet Latvia)
- Katja Wezel
Cultural Politics in Greater Romania
- Irina Livezeanu
Early North America in Global Perspective
- Molly Warsh
‘Dividing the Realm in Order to Govern’ The Spatial Organization of the Song State
- Ruth Mostern
Thinking History Globally
- Diego Holstein
Outlaws of the Atlantic: Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail
- Marcus Rediker
Stille Revolutionen. Die Neuformierung der Welt seit 1989
- Gregor Thum
Uprooted: How Breslau Became Wroclaw during the Century of Expulsions
- Gregor Thum
Afro-Latin America: Black Lives, 1600-2000
- George Reid Andrews
Helpless Imperialists: Imperial Failure, Fear, and Radicalization
- Gregor Thum
The Political Economy of Empire in the Early Modern World
- Pernille Røge
The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom
- Marcus Rediker
Radical Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age
- Lara Putnam
Empires of the Imagination: Politics, War, and the Arts in the British World, 1750-1850
- Holger Hoock
Histories of Race and Racism: The Andes and Mesoamerica from Colonial Times to the Present
- Laura Gotkowitz
August Wilson: Pittsburgh Places in His Life and Plays
- Laurence Glasco
Blackness in the White Nation: A History of Afro-Uruguay
- George Reid Andrews

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