Professor Fleming’s Making History Public class spent some time digging through archeological finds from the 19th century Endicott Street Privy at the City of Boston Archeology Lab. Students even reco...
Mark your calendars! The Gasson Lecture for Spring 2026 is on Tuesday, March 24th at 4-5:30 PM in Gasson 305. Fr. Sean Dempsey, S.J., will be presenting “Back to the Future: How the Catholic 1980s Sha...
The Graduate History Alliance is hosting its annual Grad Student Voices conference on March 28th from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. in Connolly House. All are invited with no registration required (though any not...
Last Friday, the History Department was packed with visitors for DH Fest. Faculty, staff, and students gathered to celebrate their research in Digital Humanities. Thanks to all who presented and tho...
Join us on Friday 1/23 at noon for DH Fest, a celebration of research in digital humanities! The event will take place in the History Department, on the 3rd floor of Stokes Hall South and will featur...
PhD candidate Jacob Saliba just published Thinking God Otherwise (a translation of Penser Dieu autrement) with Wipf & Stock Press, originally written by Alain Saudan, a student of Paul Ricœur. The tex...
In November, Laura Clerx gave a well-received paper at the 2025 History of Science Society Annual Meeting in New Orleans. She spoke on how university science, mechanics institutes, and agricultural so...
Congratulations to Daniel Ruiz who recently defended his dissertation! The dissertation is titled:
“Answering the Labor Question: Labor, Capital, and the Administrative State, 1877-1935.” Daniel was...
Abduction in the Archives: The Algerian War and the Politics of Method
Elise Franklin (University of Louisville)
Thursday, October 23, 5:00 p.m.
Higgins 300
On Christmas Eve 1958, French settler Arm...
The Lowell Humanities Series and History Department are delighted to welcome historian Tiya Miles, whose work, increasingly ecological in its questions, focuses on the intersections of African America...
Congratulations to Daniel Crown on a successful dissertation defense! Daniel’s dissertation is titled The Immigrant Revolution: Rhenish and Scots-Irish Colonists, Western Expansion, and the Remaking ...
Congratulations to Will Stratford! Will recently defended his dissertation: Pursuing Contradiction: Dialectics of German Social Democratic Marxism, 1890–1914. Julian Bourg served as Will’s advisor wi...
Congratulations to Alexander D’Alisera who defended his dissertation on June 20th. The title is Real and Imagined Caves in Early Medieval Britain, c. 400-1000 CE. Alexander’s committee included Profes...
Congratulations to Dom Ferrara! Dom successfully defended his dissertation “The German Nation in Captivity: Germany’s Prisoners of War in a Reordered International System, 1914-1939.” Dom was advised ...
We are thrilled to announce that Meadow Vrtis (right) was the winner of the McCarthy prize! Her Scholar of the College project is titled “‘She Threw a Crucifix into a Latrine’ and Other Life-Changing ...