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Faculty Spotlight: Meet Aparajita Majumdar

The department welcomes new faculty member, Aparajita Majumdar to Brown! She will serve as an Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society (IBES).
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Faculty Spotlight: Bathsheba Demuth

Bathsheba Demuth is a writer and environmental historian specializing in the lands and seas of the Russian and North American Arctic. In this summer spotlight, she delves into her recent explorations along the Yukon/Alaska border.
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Student Spotlight: Deven Kamlani '25

History and East Asian Studies concentrator Deven Kamlani '25 spent six weeks completing a summer internship at global law firm DLA Piper as a Raja Gaddipati Fellow. The competitive fellowship serves as an in-house pipeline initiative offering undergraduate students insight into a large law firm environment. In this spotlight, Deven reflects on his experience.
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Staff Spotlight: Meet Emily Greenberg!

In her new role as Graduate Student Affairs Manager, Emily is committed to supporting the department’s graduate students throughout their academic careers at Brown and beyond.
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Graduate Student Spotlight: Ola Morehead

In this spotlight, Ph.D. Candidate in History Ola Morehead shares two exciting updates about her research and upcoming travels.
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The Gleason Fund

A generous gift leads to lasting impact for the Department of History.
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Student Spotlight: Roni Wine '24

In this spotlight, Roni Wine '24 delves into his work with Professor of Modern Latin American History James Green, which has spanned over the course of Wine's four years as an undergraduate at Brown.
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Q&A with Lenny Ballesteros

When he's not out patrolling College Hill, Brown University Public Safety Officer Leonard "Lenny" Ballesteros can be found taking notes in class. As an enrolled student in HIST 1501: The American Revolution, Ballesteros has learned how to successfully balance his role as an officer and dedicated pupil.
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As part of an enduring scholarly focus, Nancy Jacobs celebrates the exceptional characteristics of the grey parrot and examines complex ties between trade of the species and historical eras including the transatlantic slave trade.
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Alumni Spotlight: Madeleine Rosenberg '10

Madeleine Rosenberg '10 is the Pomeroy Foundation Semiquincentennial Manager at the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH). In this spotlight, she shares details about her personal career trajectory and offers advice to students interested in pursuing a career connected to their history degree.
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JCB Staff Spotlight: Meet Katherine Goldman!

In her new role as Communications Manager at the John Carter Brown Library, Katherine Goldman looks forward to enhancing library outreach and engagement as well as continuing her work with JCB Director and Professor of History Karin Wulf.
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Fulbright Spotlight: Phoebe Labat

Last spring, Ph.D. Candidate Phoebe Labat received a Fulbright Award for France 2023-2024. Since her arrival in October, she has been working on a dissertation around natural disasters in the French Atlantic world. In this spotlight, Phoebe offers an update on her research, travels, and what she's looking forward to for the remainder of her Fulbright experience.
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Department Gathers in Memory of Natalie Zemon Davis

On Thursday, November 2nd, members of the history department gathered in the Chair’s Office to honor the life and work of renowned historian of the early modern world and marginalized people, Natalie Zemon Davis.
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“Making” as a Means for Learning

On Wednesday, October 18, students in Professor Seth Rockman's first-year seminar "A Textile History of Atlantic Slavery” undertook an experiential research project with wax-resist fabric dyeing.
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William G. McLoughlin Terrace Dedication

On Thursday, October 12th the Department of History was joined by the family of William G. McLoughlin, a professor in history from 1958-1992, for a dedication ceremony in his honor.
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Graduate Student Spotlight: Ebru Erginbas

In this spotlight interview, the Department of History caught up with Ph.D. Candidate Ebru Erginbas to learn more about her dissertation research in the U.S. and Europe and paper presentations on hydrotherapy.
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Meet the 2023-24 First-Year Graduate Cohort

The Department of History is thrilled to welcome a new graduate cohort to Brown! Get acquainted with each new member and learn more about their research interests.
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Connecting with Community Through Education: An Interview with Dr. Kerry Dunne

In mid-July, the Choices Program, affiliated with the Department of History, hosted a Summer Institute for K-12 educators from across the U.S. called "American Soldiers in American Wars: History and Memory." In this interview, Dr. Kerry Dunne, History and Social Studies Department Head at Lexington High School in Massachusetts, discusses her experience as a participant in the Institute.
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Alumni Spotlight: Selina Mills B.A. '93

Imagine living without sight. In this alumni spotlight, Selina (St Clair) Mills B.A. '93 tells the personal story of how her education at Brown fostered her ability, and desire, to report on the history of blindness.
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Celebrating Howard Chudacoff's 53 Years at Brown

On Saturday, April 29th, friends, family, and colleagues of Professor Howard P. Chudacoff gathered at Brown’s Faculty Club in Providence, RI to celebrate his retirement after 53 years of teaching.
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'Transformative' Class Trip to John Hay Library's Special Collections

On April 19th, HIST 0286 A: History of Medicine I: Medical Traditions in the Old World Before 1700, taught by Professor Harold J. Cook, visited the special collections at John Hay Library. The archive contains more than 3,000,000 items, over half the library’s total resources.
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The Choices Program, affiliated with the Department of History, will be hosting a one-week Institute for K-12 educators taking place in summer 2023 called "American Soldiers in American Wars: History and Memory."
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Graduate Student Spotlight: René Cordero

René Cordero was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic but raised in the heart of Spanish Harlem. His research chronicles the unexplored history of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) in the Dominican Republic and how it offers exciting analytical and empirical terrain to scholarship on Afro-Latin American studies.
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Linford Fisher recently co-authored a paper published by Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies titled, "The Persistence of Indigenous Unfreedom in Early American Newspaper Advertisements, 1704–1804."
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Phoebe Labat Awarded 2023-24 Fulbright

Phoebe Labat is a 3rd-year Ph.D. Candidate currently working on a dissertation around natural disasters in the French Atlantic world. She recently received a Fulbright Award for France 2023-2024. In this spotlight, Phoebe delves into what she looks forward to gaining from the experience.
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New Book by Françoise N. Hamlin: "The Struggle of Struggles"

Congratulations to Françoise N. Hamlin on the publication of "The Struggle of Struggles" — a new edition of an autobiography chronicling the everyday conflicts, losses, and triumphs of the civil rights struggle.
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New Book by Omer Bartov: "The Butterfly and the Axe"

Omer Bartov, Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, discusses his new novel, "The Butterfly and the Axe," which was inspired by his own tragic family history.
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Student Spotlight: Amienne Spencer-Blume '23

Over the course of Summer 2022, Amienne Spencer-Blume '23, an International and Public Affairs Concentrator, conducted research for Omer Bartov's upcoming publication "Remaking the Past: Israel, Palestine, a Personal Political History." In this spotlight, she discusses her experience and what she learned from documenting stories of the past.
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