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

Why History at Pitt

Why History at Pitt

Here's how we make history speak to the world of today.

History at Pitt

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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

Michel Gobat's Empire by Invitation wins the Friedrich Katz Prize

Michel Gobat's Empire by Invitation: William Walker and Manifest Destiny in Central America (Harvard University Press, 2019) has won the Friedrich Katz Prize in Latin American and Caribbean History.

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Evelyn Rawski wins Award for Scholarly Distinction

Evelyn Rawski, Distinguished University Professor Emerita of History, wins Award for Scholarly Distinction given to senior historians for lifetime achievement.

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Tropic of Football: The Long and Perilous Journey of Samoans to the NFL by Rob Ruck

How a tiny Pacific archipelago is producing more players—from Troy Polamalu to Marcus Mariota—for the NFL than anywhere else in the world, by an award-winning sports historian

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Events

Feb
06
Matthew Lincoln

Matthew Lincoln
Digital Humanities Developer, Carnegie Mellon University
Feb
06
Mellon Professor Carla Nappi

Provost Inaugural Lecture
Feb
10
Prof. Neil Kodesh, University of Wisconsin

Doctors, Termites, and Princesses: Landscapes of Health and Medicine in East Africa
Feb
20
Eduoard Machery

Why are good data so hard to get? Lessons from the replication crisis.
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