A Message From the Department Chair

Welcome to the Northwestern History Department. Our department is large and varied with some thirty-five faculty specializing in fields that range from East Africa to Renaissance Italy, from Colonial America to Modern Japan. Faculty in the department enjoy international reputations and are the recipients of many distinguished fellowships and awards.

Our major and minor are among the most popular in Northwestern's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences because of the diversity of our offerings, the quality of our advising, and especially the distinction of our teaching. We are proud of the fact that we have won more teaching awards and prizes than any other department in the college.

Our graduate program is highly selective and trains students principally in U.S., European, and African History. Recently we have begun accepting applications from highly qualified students in Latin American and East Asian history.

We have a strong base in traditional fields such as Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Twentieth-Century U.S., Africa, Modern Asia, and Latin America. In addition, many of our faculty have interests and specializations that bridge areas or disciplines to create exciting clusters of interest. Some examples are gender and sexuality, African diaspora and African American history, political culture, economic and business history, and the history of migrations and diasporas.

Undergraduates will find in our department a wide variety of stimulating and challenging courses. Graduate students will find in our PhD program a high level of personal attention and an unusually strong record of job placement.

Please go ahead and browse our website, and if you have further questions do not hesitate to contact me, my staff, or my colleagues.

Nancy MacLean
Department Chair

Visit the new Center for Historical Studies web site:
http://www.historicalstudies.northwestern.edu/

Events

Friday, January 25
4:30 to 6:00 P.M.
Harris 108

Center for Historical Studies Celebration

and book-signing of the new Leopold biography, Steven J. Harper's Straddling Two Worlds:

The Jewish-American Journey

of Professor Richard W. Leopold

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Thursday, February 28
12:15 to 2:00 P.M.
Harris 108
Center for Historical Studies Panel
Laura Hein, Josef Barton, and Peter Hayes
"What responsibilities do historians have

as scholars to address the pressing

concerns of contemporary society?"

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SPRING 2008 CHS SPEAKERS will include:

Dylan Penningroth (History, NU)
Thursday, April 10, 2008

Christof Mauch (Munich)
Tuesday, April 22

Christopher Bayly (Cambridge)
Thursday, May 1

Laura de Mello e Souza (Sao Paulo)
Thursday, May 8

Edward Ayers (Virginia)
Thursday, May 22

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Saturday, April 5
10:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.
Harris 108
CHS Graduate Fellows Workshop

on Environmental History
with keynote speaker
Richard White

Margaret Byrne Professor of American History Stanford University
Convener: Strother Roberts

Saturday, May 17
10:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.
Hagstrum Room

University Hall 201

CHS Graduate Fellows Workshop

on Reconstructing Social History

in a Post-Structural World
with keynote speaker
Keith Wrightson

Randolph W. Townsend Jr. Professor of History

Yale University
Convener: Lonnie Robbins