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

Dr. Molly Warsh Takes Over as New Editor of the Journal of Early Modern History

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Molly A. Warsh, Associate Professor of History and Associate Director of Pitt's World History Center, has taken over as the editor of Journal of Early Modern History (JEMH), published by Brill.

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Context and Chronicling: History Professor Keisha Blain Follows Black America

This year, in collaboration with fellow historian Ibram X. Kendi, she released the book "Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019," a massive community history that covers 400 years of Black America.

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Van Beck Hall Graduate Teaching Award

Aura S. Jirau has been honored with the Van Beck Hall Graduate Teaching Award for 2021. 

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Events

Oct
15
Book Symposium

Virtual Book Symposium celebrating Dr. Ruth Mostern's The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History (Yale University Press, 2021) and Dr. Carla Nappi's Translating Early Modern China: Illegible Cities (Oxford University Press, 2021). With commentary by Dr. Angela Zito, New York University.
Nov
09
Book Symposium

Virtual Book Symposium celebrating Keisha Blain's Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America (Beacon Press, 2021). With commentary by Dr. Hasan Jeffries, University of Ohio State and Dr. Laura Lovett, University of Pittsburgh.
Apr
04
Manuscript Workshop

Book Manuscript Workshop on Dr. Eddie Bonilla's Homegrown Communists in the Age of Reagan: Multi-Racial Politics and Socialist Revolution. With comments by Dr. Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, University of California, Irvine.
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Best Grad School 2022

Best Grad School - U.S. News & World Report

The Dietrich School educates 15 percent of the University’s graduate and graduate professional students, making it the largest graduate program in Pittsburgh. U.S. News and World Report recently recognized the Department of History for the excellence of its graduate programs.

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