Interview with Robby Turner (CAS ’24): Kalorama Summer Research Fellowship Scholar
March 13th, 2024
Robby Turner (CAS ’24) discusses his paper, “Images of an Illusory Past: The Role of History in the Changing American Far-Right” By Lindsey Gradowski (CAS ’24) Historical research does not…
Interview with Pace Schwarz (CAS ’23): Kalorama Summer Research Fellowship Scholar
March 13th, 2024
Pace Schwarz (CAS ’23) discusses his paper, “Reviving Class Discourse in the Language of Occupy Wall Street” By Lindsey Gradowski (CAS ’24) Pace Schwarz did not plan on majoring in…
Interview with Angela Nguyen (CAS ’24): Kalorama Summer Research Fellowship Scholar
March 13th, 2024
Angela Nguyen (CAS ’24) discusses her paper, “Redefining War Crimes: The Bertrand Russell Tribunal’s Expansion of the Definition of War Crimes” By Lindsey Gradowski (CAS ’24) Angela…
History Alumnus wins Rhodes Scholarship
November 17th, 2023
Thomas Batterman (C’22), a researcher who investigates war crimes at the Department of Justice and who made new discoveries about a medieval plague while at Georgetown, has won the 2024 Rhodes Scholarship…
Cosmic Luck: NASA’s Apollo 11 Moon Quarantine Broke Down
June 9th, 2023
Low-likelihood and high-consequence risks really matter… mitigating them is one of the most important things that governments can do.…
Finding the Latinx City with Mike Amezcua and Pedro A. Regalado
June 7th, 2023
One of the questions that guided me early on concerned the role of Latinx people as custodians of that space. What innovations did they mobilize to survive?…
In Conversation with Prof. Mike Amezcua
May 4th, 2023
We look at urban space and ask “how did this come about?” The city and all that’s associated with it – from people, to buildings, to pigeons, to toxins, becomes the site of engagement for us…
Spotlight on Xin Zheng: Phillips Collection
January 19th, 2023
“Xin Zheng is the Makeba Clay Diversity Fellow, and will support The Phillip Collection’s Institutional History Project.”…
Prof. Dagomar Degroot Contributes to UN Human Development Report
September 8th, 2022
Today’s climate crisis has no precedent in Earth’s history, owing to the combination of its speed, eventual magnitude, global scale and human cause.…
The Frederick Douglass Anthology
August 30th, 2022
History Major Dami Kim (COL ’24) has assembled a collection of the abolitionist, writer, and orator’s most prominent works.…
Analyzing Ceramics Sheds Light on Xenophobia, 1300 Years Too Late
June 9th, 2022
“How do you know what people in the 7th century thought about outsiders? According to Xin Zheng (C’23), you should examine their pottery.”…
Which Witch: Two Professors Use Historical Research to Teach Class on Different Forms of Witchcraft from Around the World
November 3rd, 2021
“The ‘study of witchcraft is an entry point into everything that makes us human.'”…
