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

FALL 2008 CHS SPEAKERS will include:

Glenda Gilmore (Yale)
Thursday, October 2, 2008

Peter Brown (Princeton)
Thursday, October 9

David Levering Lewis (NYU)
Thursday, October 30

Patricia Limerick (Colorado)
Thursday, November 6

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WINTER 2009 CHS events:

Walter Woodward

(University of Connnecticut and State Historian)

Tuesday, January 20

Joint University Library/CHS public lecture series

on the history of the book
Robert Darnton (Harvard)
Monday, March 2 at 4:30 p.m.

Hardin Hall (Rebecca Crown Center)
--FREE and OPEN to the public--

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SPRING 2009 CHS SPEAKERS will include:

Karen Wigen (Stanford)
Thursday, April 9

John Morrill (Cambridge)
CHS Distinguished Resident Scholar
Thursday, April 16

Tuesday, April 21

Thursday, April 23

Jorge Flores (Brown)
Thursday, May 7

Sarah Maza (History, NU)

Thursday, May 21