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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.

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

History Major Krithika Pennathur nominated for University of Pittsburgh Senior of the Year

Krithika Pennathur will graduate with majors in History, English Writing and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies (GSWS) along with minors in Chemistry and Applied Statistics and a certificate in Transatlantic Studies.

Van Beck Hall Graduate Teaching Award

Alexandra Mountain has been awarded the Van Beck Hall Graduate Teaching Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2018-2019

Recent Alums Report Back on Doors History Has Opened for Them

Julia Strickland-Gilliard, Desireé Vaughn, Bill Schlachter, and Connor Harbison will share experiences with current students over lunch on Thursday, March 28 at the University Club, Conference Room A from 11:30 am - 1:30 pm.

Featured

Publications

Conceiving the Future: Pronatalism, Reproduction, and the Family in the United States, 1890-1938
- Laura L. Lovett
The Monkey and the Inkpot: Natural History and Its Transformations in Early Modern China
- Carla Nappi
Afro-Latin American Studies: An Introduction
- George Reid Andrews
The Tropic of Football
- Rob Ruck
Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom
- Keisha N. Blain
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
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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