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

History honors major Kieran Coffey wins William Stanton Prize

Recognizing the outstanding honors thesis in History, the prize was generously established by Pitt alumnus David Frederick in honor of his mentor William Ragan Stanton, esteemed American historian who taught here from 1962 until 1994.

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Tony Novosel wins Chancellor's Distinguished Public Service Award

Decades of innovative research and outreach to former combatants earn Pitt History professor and undergraduate adviser flagship award.  “Your passionate engagement in Northern Ireland led you to activities which have helped heal factional divides.”

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History major Susie Pisarcik '16 wins 2017 German Chancellor Fellowship

Selected as one of only 10 fellows from the US (50 fellows worldwide), Susie will examine refugee resettlement and integration in rural Germany in a year-long research project.

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Events

Sep
11
Jay Aronson, Carnegie Mellon University

Who Owns the Dead? The Science and Politics of Death at Ground Zero 
Sep
18
Early Modern Worlds Speaker Series

Sanjay Subrahmanyan, in Humanities Center, CL 602
Sep
25
Raja Adal, Junior Faculty Manuscript Workshop

Aesthetics and the Re-Enchantment of the Modern World
Oct
10
Marcus Rediker Book Symposium

The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf who became a Revolutionary Abolitionist
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