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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

Dr. Johnathan JeVon White Receives "Men of Excellence" Award

Congratulations to our former doctoral student, Dr. Johnathan JeVon White, recipient of the Pittsburgh Courier's "Men of Excellence" Award

New Book by Dr. Jesse Olsavsky

Congratulations to Dr. Jesse Olsavsky whose book The Most Absolute Abolition is now out with LSU Press.

Dr. Alaina Roberts Wins 2022 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize

Congratulations to Dr. Alaina Roberts whose I’ve Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021) wins 2022 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize

Events

Oct

07

Grand Narratives Reading Group

Discussion of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Oct

07

Trajectories: Our Lives, Our Worlds, Our Works.

Reid Andrews

Oct

14

CLAS Working Group on Comparative Slavery

CLAS hosts Working Group on Comparative Slavery in partnership with the Afro Latin American Research Institute at Harvard

Oct

14

Trajectories: Our Lives, Our Worlds, Our Works.

Gregor Thum

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.

Featured

Publications

Creek Internationalism in an Age of Revolution, 1763–1818
- James Hill
A Brief History of Now: The Past and Present of Global Power
- Diego Holstein
A Black Jurist in a Slave Society: Antonio Pereira Rebouças and the Trials of Brazilian Citizenship
- Keila Grinberg
The Boundaries of Freedom: Slavery, Abolition, and the Making of Modern Brazil
- Keila Grinberg
Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
An Intimate Economy: Enslaved Women, Work, and America's Domestic Slave Trade
- Alexandra Finley
Free and Unfree Labor in Atlantic and Indian Ocean Port Cities (1700–1850)
- Niklas Frykman
- Pernille Røge
The Bloody Flag: Mutiny in the Age of Atlantic Revolution
- Niklas Frykman
With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism
- Laura L. Lovett
Uninvited: Talking Back to Plato
- Carla Nappi
Translating Early Modern China: Illegible Cities
- Carla Nappi
Polymaths of Islam: Power and Networks of Knowledge in Central Asia
- James Pickett
I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land
- Alaina E. Roberts
The Politics of Disease Control: Sleeping Sickness in Eastern Africa, 1890–1920
- Mari Webel
Economistes and the Reinvention of Empire: France in the Americas and Africa, c.1750–1802
- Pernille Røge
Beauty in the Age of Empire: Japan, Egypt, and the Global History of Aesthetic Education
- Raja Adal
The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History
- Ruth Mostern
The Monkey and the Inkpot: Natural History and Its Transformations in Early Modern China
- Carla Nappi
‘Dividing the Realm in Order to Govern’ The Spatial Organization of the Song State
- Ruth Mostern
Conceiving the Future: Pronatalism, Reproduction, and the Family in the United States, 1890-1938
- Laura L. Lovett
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
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
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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