Notre Dame’s Department of History offers a graduate Ph.D. program in the fields Latin American, medieval, modern European, and United States history, as well as undergraduate majors and courses spanning antiquity to the present.| Department of History
Notre Dame’s Department of History offers a graduate Ph.D. program in the fields Latin American, medieval, modern European, and United States history, as well as undergraduate majors and courses spanning antiquity to the present.| Department of History
Notre Dame’s Department of History offers a graduate Ph.D. program in the fields Latin American, medieval, modern European, and United States history, as well as undergraduate majors and courses spanning antiquity to the present.| Department of History
Notre Dame’s Department of History offers a graduate Ph.D. program in the fields Latin American, medieval, modern European, and United States history, as well as undergraduate majors and courses spanning antiquity to the present.| Department of History
Notre Dame’s Department of History offers a graduate Ph.D. program in the fields Latin American, medieval, modern European, and United States history, as well as undergraduate majors and courses spanning antiquity to the present.| Department of History
The History Department has awarded its two prizes for outstanding written work in 2023–24 by a graduate student. Below are the winners and the justification given by the prize committees. (Past Winners) (1) The John Highbarger Memorial Award for…| Department of History | News
"I wrote this book because I was curious about how representative democracy came to be and how that initial process continues to shape the way it operates today (in the U.S., and abroad). What does it really mean for a government to be by and for the people? This fundamental question piqued my interest."| Department of History | News
“The time separating us from Rosenstrauch is basically two long lifetimes," said Alexander Martin, professor of history. "How does that time relate to ours, and how long can memories survive? This was a really interesting chance to think about that.”| Department of History | News
When University of Notre Dame historian J. Philip Gleason received the Distinguished Scholarship Award from the American Catholic Historical Association (ACHA) in 2019, he was cited “for the breadth and depth of his contribution to the study of the American past, for his prominence in the field of…| Department of History | News
"A small project for the Whiteley Museum turned into a passion project that acted as a catalyst for what I hope to do in the future with anthropology and film,” Miulli said. “Interviews and ethnographic films are the most valuable resources to produce in order to represent subcultures that may be overlooked in our rapidly changing world.”| Department of History | News
The History Department has awarded its three prizes for outstanding written work in 2022–23 by a graduate student. Below are the winners and the justification given by the prize committees. (Past Winners) (1) The John Highbarger Memorial Award for the…| Department of History | News
“Patrick Griffin is the rare scholar who combines impressive erudition, command of the modern histories of three North Atlantic countries, profound insight into contemporary Irish politics, and the ability to influence a wide array of publics through his eloquence and openness to dialogue,” said R. Scott Appleby, the Marilyn Keough Dean of the Keough School of Global Affairs.| Department of History | News
University provost John T. McGreevy, who advised De Stradis, said she's a rising star in the field. “Few U.S. scholars have her linguistic capacity and intellectual drive. Virtually no one is as well positioned to deepen our understanding of both global history and global religion. Eventually, everyone at Notre Dame and the Graduate School will bask a bit in her reflected glory.”| Department of History | News
Grace Song SwihartThis Q&A is part of an ongoing series with Arts and Letters graduate students. Read…| Department of History | News
Sophomore history and political science major Michael Donelan considers Moby-Dick & 19th-Century America with Jake Lundberg to be one of the most exciting courses he has taken while at Notre Dame. In this Q&A, he discusses the appeal of the small, seminar-style class in which students explore Herman Melville’s 1851 masterpiece as a gateway into learning about life in 19th-century America as a whole.| Department of History | News
Notre Dame historian Margaret Meserve’s book Papal Bull: Print, Politics, and Propaganda in Renaissance Rome has won the American Catholic Historical Association’s Helen & Howard Marraro Prize in Italian History for being the most distinguished work in the field published in 2021. Papal Bull explores how Renaissance popes used the printing press in its early years to promote traditions, pursue alliances, excommunicate enemies, and lure pilgrims to Rome.| Department of History | News
In his newest book, historian and Notre Dame Provost John McGreevy examines the Church’s complex role in modern history as it both shaped and followed the politics of nation-states. Through a series of compelling vignettes and detailed analyses, McGreevy traces the events and trends that gave rise to the modern-day Catholic Church, one marked by an unwavering concern for social justice, unprecedented vibrancy in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia and increasing global connections — and o...| Department of History | News
Notre Dame historian Sarah Shortall’s debut book, Soldiers of God in a Secular World: Catholic Theology and Twentieth-Century French Politics, which chronicles an influential French theological movement that reimagined the Church’s role in the public sphere, has now earned four awards in the 10 months since it was published. The assistant professor of history has received the Giuseppe Alberigo Junior Scholar Award from the European Academy of Religion, the Best Book Award from the College...| Department of History | News
White’s book juxtaposes cultural history with genomic discoveries to analyze how redheads — who carry the genetic variant MC1R — have been alternately abused, glorified and discriminated against through a wide range of times and locations, from ancient Egypt to the present-day United States. Betz will co-direct a project to create a critical edition of F.W.J. von Schelling’s original 1831-32 Munich lectures on the philosophy of revelation, which represent a profound attempt to wrest...| Department of History | News
During the summer and fall of 2022, students in the History Department will be conducting a series of oral history interviews on the COVID-19 pandemic at Notre Dame. The effort is part of a University-sponsored project to document the campus community’s experience of this historic event, and interviews…| Department of History | News
What do studio art, German, history, fairy tales, and subverting gender tropes have in common? Notre Dame undergraduate Naya Tadavarthy has used all of them in creating her senior thesis project. Tadavarthy’s wide range of academic interests have now culminated in a perfect ending — she’s writing and illustrating a children’s book about German author Gisela von Arnim, who was creating protofeminist fairytales as a teenager in the 1840s, at a time when the world lacked female-focuse...| Department of History | News
John T. McGreevy, a distinguished historian and former dean of the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame, has been elected the Charles and Jill Fischer Provost of the University by its Board of Trustees, acting on the recommendation of Notre Dame President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., and informed by a search committee of elected and appointed faculty and students. “The Notre Dame community is fortunate to have in John a provost who is ideally suited for a position th...| Department of History | News
After a week in London, Eoghan Fay had a suitcase full of souvenirs, a legal pad full of notes, and a head full of memories. Next semester, he'll work on his capstone project using the research from his trip, which was made possible by a Spring Break 2022 Research Grant from the Nanovic Institute for European Studies.| Department of History | News
Notre Dame’s Department of History offers a graduate Ph.D. program in the fields Latin American, medieval, modern European, and United States history, as well as undergraduate majors and courses spanning antiquity to the present.| Department of History
Notre Dame’s Department of History offers a graduate Ph.D. program in the fields Latin American, medieval, modern European, and United States history, as well as undergraduate majors and courses spanning antiquity to the present.| Department of History