Departmental

All instructors who will be teaching HIST 0500, World History, at Pitt in AY 2019-20 will come together for an afternoon of mutual learning. For more information contact Molly Warsh warsh@pitt.edu .

Please join us on Wednesday April 18, at 4:30 p.m. in the History Department Faculty Lounge for our second annual event to celebrate all the students who have engaged in independent research, internships, and honors theses over the course of this year. We will have brief descriptions of the students and projects work they’ve done, closing refreshments, and a lovely opportunity to mix, mingle, and celebrate student achievements.

Please join us for the launch of Keisha Blain's new book, Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom (University of Pennsylvania Press, February 2018).  Invited commentators will be Robert Trent Vinson, Frances L. and Edwin L. Cummings Associate Professor History and Africana Studies, The College of William and Mary; Lisa Tetrault, Associate Professor of History, Carnegie Mellon University.  Event co-hosted by the program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies.