The Department of History caught up with Guta to learn more about her research interests and PhD work at Brown.

In January 2022, Morgan De Lancy '22, a history concentrator with a focus on human rights and displacement, traveled to London to conduct archival research for her thesis on the Black Supplementary School Movement. In this spotlight interview, Morgan tells the History Department what it was like to transition from conducting research remotely to studying archival material first-hand at the George Padmore Institute.

My dissertation, "Imagining the Loss: Maps and State-Building in Modern China, 1910s-1940s."

Winning this award not only validates the importance of Atlantic world studies, slavery studies and studies centered on women and children, but also the need for an interdisciplinary methodology with other fields, like Africana Studies, Religious Studies, Islamic Studies and Trauma Studies.

Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society, Bathsheba Demuth is currently on leave in the Arctic.

Professor Wulf joined the History Department and the John Carter Brown Library as Director and Librarian in October 2021. She previously taught and directed at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture at William & Mary.

February 2022 marked the two-year anniversary of merging the historic Sharpe and Peter Green houses. The 19th-century buildings are unified by two modern glass bridges and boast renovated interiors, more classroom space and full accessibility to individuals with physical disabilities. The BDH reported exclusively on the expansion in 2020. PC: Nick Dentamaro

Many rich stories about the complex history of New England remain hidden, oftentimes erased in the conventional dominant narrative histories which are told. A new project aims to foreground the silenced stories of Indigenous and African American experiences of New England. In collaboration with the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice (CSSJ) at Brown.

Christopher Grasso joined the History Department in January 2022 as a historian of American culture, religion, and politics. Continue reading to learn more about his past work and what he's looking forward to as a new faculty member at Brown University.

Seth Rockman recently published, "Der alte und der neue Materialismus in der Geschichte der Sklaverei" (in German), a volume derived from his previous talk which considers the implications of 'new materialism' for the history of slavery and the field of general labor history.

In 2021, Cynthia Brokaw delivered three talks as part of the Panizzi Lectures at the British Library in London, England. Her first talk titled, "Spreading Culture Throughout the Land: Woodblock Publishing and Chinese Book Culture in the Early Modern Era" explored why woodblock printing or xylography, remained, throughout China’s pre-modern history, the major print technology.

Danny Loss completed his PhD in the Brown University History Department in 2013, specializing in the history Modern Britain and its empire.

Tom Devaney completed his PhD in history at Brown University in 2011, specializing in the history of medieval and early modern Europe. He is currently working as an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Rochester, and he has previously taught at the University of Indiana South-Bend, and the University of Puget Sound.