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.

New Faces

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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Support

Support

There are several ways to give to the Department of History. Learn more about how gifts are used and to support the department.

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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

Pitt History Department conducting new searches in Asian, Islamic World, and African American history

The Department of History at the University of Pittsburgh is currently accecpting applications and CVs for a variety of faculty positions.

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History major named ODK Senior of the Year

Eleanora Kaloyeropoulou, a history major, received the Omicron Delta Kappa (ODK) Senior of the Year Award. This award annually recognizes a senior student for meritorious leadership and extracurricular activities who exhibits exemplary character, responsible leadership and service in campus or community life, scholarship, and genuine fellowship.

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William Stanton Prize Awarded by Pitt Department of History

Graduating History honors major Halak Mehta has been selected by the History Department of the University of Pittsburgh as the recipient of the William Stanton Prize for the best honors thesis in History written in the 2015-2016 academic year.

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Events

Oct
10
Rila Mukherjee, Hyderabad University

South Asia in World History: World History Teaching In India
Oct
19
James Sweet, University of Wisconsin

New Perspectives on Kongo in Revolutionary Haiti
Oct
24
Mostafa Minawi, Cornell University

Addis Ababa, Jerusalem, Istanbul
Jan
30
Katja Wezel, Book Symposium

Geschichte als Politikum. Lettland und die Aufarbeitung nach der Diktatur
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