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Flowe co-hosts National Geographic docuseries

On season two of "Ancient China From Above," Douglas Flowe adventures through museums, archaeological sites, and mountain ranges to solve ancient Chinese mysteries. The work is part of Flowe’s wider efforts as a public historian.

4.4.24

2024-25 Faculty Fellows selected

Congratulations to the faculty members who will join us in residence during the next academic year!

12.22.23

Holiness and humanity in the Middle Ages

Mark Gregory Pegg’s new book explores love, heresy, and the individual stories of the medieval West.

10.24.23

Office of the Provost and Office of the Dean of Arts & Sciences award Bernstein and Kolk seed funding for MWMS project

9.22.23

Ramos’ 'Bedlam in the New World' wins best book award

"Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment" has won a best book award and an honorable mention.

4.4.23

Montaño wins Bolton-Johnson Prize for book "Electrifying Mexico..."

1.13.23

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Flowe co-hosts National Geographic docuseries

Flowe co-hosts National Geographic docuseries

Prof. Knapp Interviewed on KMOX on Recent Drone Strikes in Jordan

Prof. Knapp Interviewed on KMOX on Recent Drone Strikes in Jordan

2024-25 Faculty Fellows selected

2024-25 Faculty Fellows selected

Montaño’s 'Electrifying Mexico' continues to garner industry acclaim

Montaño’s 'Electrifying Mexico' continues to garner industry acclaim

Knapp interviewed on KMOX Radio on Ukraine Funding from Congress

Knapp interviewed on KMOX Radio on Ukraine Funding from Congress

Kuzuoğlu publishes first book!

Kuzuoğlu publishes first book!

Knapp interviewed on KMOX Radio on Turkey cutting ties with Israel

Knapp interviewed on KMOX Radio on Turkey cutting ties with Israel

Montaño wins article prize!

Montaño wins article prize!

Montaño wins book prize!

Montaño wins book prize!

Ramos wins book prize!

Ramos wins book prize!

Office of the Provost and Office of the Dean of Arts & Sciences award Bernstein and Kolk seed funding for MWMS project

Office of the Provost and Office of the Dean of Arts & Sciences award Bernstein and Kolk seed funding for MWMS project

Knapp interviewed on KMOX Radio on how to teach about 9/11

Knapp interviewed on KMOX Radio on how to teach about 9/11

Kastor named associate vice dean of research

Kastor named associate vice dean of research

Knapp interviewed on KMOX Radio to give insight on Russian coup

Knapp interviewed on KMOX Radio to give insight on Russian coup

Ramos’ ‘Bedlam in the New World’ recognized with third award

Ramos’ ‘Bedlam in the New World’ recognized with third award

Montaño book wins an honorable mention from Latin American Studies Association

‘The battle for memory’: Mustakeem on the intertwining histories of race and medicine

‘The battle for memory’: Mustakeem on the intertwining histories of race and medicine

Mustakeem to give a series of lectures on medicine and Black history around the country and in Europe this spring

Mustakeem to give a series of lectures on medicine and Black history around the country and in Europe this spring

Ramos’ 'Bedlam in the New World' wins best book award

Ramos’ 'Bedlam in the New World' wins best book award

Cassen published in Psyche digital magazine

Cassen published in Psyche digital magazine

Cassen published in Smithsonian Magazine

Cassen published in Smithsonian Magazine

Kastor wins grant from Taylor Geospatial Institute

Kastor wins grant from Taylor Geospatial Institute

Walke wins Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship

Walke wins Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship

Cassen named Creative Practice Workshop Fellow for Fall 2023

Cassen named Creative Practice Workshop Fellow for Fall 2023

Mustakeem wins Emerson Excellence in Teaching award

Mustakeem wins Emerson Excellence in Teaching award

How the Spanish Inquisition aided the rise of modern psychiatry

How the Spanish Inquisition aided the rise of modern psychiatry

Montaño wins collaborative seed grant from the Center for the Humanities

Montaño wins collaborative seed grant from the Center for the Humanities

Montaño wins Bolton-Johnson Prize for book "Electrifying Mexico..."

Montaño wins Bolton-Johnson Prize for book "Electrifying Mexico..."

Flowe featured in new PBS documentary

Flowe featured in new PBS documentary

Flora Cassen recounts Holocaust survivor story

Flora Cassen recounts Holocaust survivor story

A new StudioLab graduate course taught by Anika Walke with Geoff Ward explores trauma and memory in community spaces beyond campus

A new StudioLab graduate course taught by Anika Walke with Geoff Ward explores trauma and memory in community spaces beyond campus

Uluğ Kuzuoğlu, Diana Montaño, Christina Ramos, and Corinna Treitel win Transdisciplinary Futures grants

Uluğ Kuzuoğlu, Diana Montaño, Christina Ramos, and Corinna Treitel win Transdisciplinary Futures grants

Montaño receives SHOT award for best article

Montaño receives SHOT award for best article

The microhistory of an English village

The microhistory of an English village

Montaño wins book award from the Urban History Association

Montaño wins book award from the Urban History Association

Kuzuoğlu to study cybernetic theories in China and Taiwan

Kuzuoğlu to study cybernetic theories in China and Taiwan

Treitel interviewed in "Baltic Worlds" on vegetarianism

Treitel interviewed in "Baltic Worlds" on vegetarianism

Montaño wins article prize from Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Montaño wins article prize from Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Flowe interviewed on Business of Being Black with Tammi Mac: Does Black privilege exist?

Flowe interviewed on Business of Being Black with Tammi Mac: Does Black privilege exist?

Flowe interviewed about Black Lives Matter on Business of Being Black with Tammi Mac

Flowe interviewed about Black Lives Matter on Business of Being Black with Tammi Mac

Flowe interviewed on TRT news about George Floyd

Flowe interviewed on TRT news about George Floyd

Kieval awarded medal by Charles University

Kieval awarded medal by Charles University

Bernstein and Kolk interviewed on KTRS Radio to discuss "Material World of Modern Segregation" chapter

Bernstein and Kolk interviewed on KTRS Radio to discuss "Material World of Modern Segregation" chapter

Walke and Ward receive Feldman Family Education Institute grant for Studiolab course

Walke and Ward receive Feldman Family Education Institute grant for Studiolab course

Treitel to lead seminar on future of health humanities at Harvard Radcliffe Institute

Treitel to lead seminar on future of health humanities at Harvard Radcliffe Institute

Acts of love and resistance

Acts of love and resistance

Reynolds named Luce/ACLS Early Career Fellow

Reynolds named Luce/ACLS Early Career Fellow

Montaño’s

Montaño’s "Electrifying Mexico" named best book by Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies

Old and new fault lines in the wake of Russia’s assault on Ukraine

Old and new fault lines in the wake of Russia’s assault on Ukraine

WashU Expert: Putin, Russian security and the invasion of Ukraine

WashU Expert: Putin, Russian security and the invasion of Ukraine

Sowande' Mustakeem interviewed on British podcast about "Slavery at Sea"

Sowande' Mustakeem interviewed on British podcast about "Slavery at Sea"

Grounded analysis: The history of electricity in Mexico City

Grounded analysis: The history of electricity in Mexico City

Christine Johnson quoted in "The American Prospect" about how the Black Death made life better

Christine Johnson quoted in "The American Prospect" about how the Black Death made life better

How to constitute a nation

How to constitute a nation

Mustakeem to give book talk on "Slavery at Sea"

Mustakeem to give book talk on "Slavery at Sea"

Flowe wins Littleton-Griswold Prize for “Uncontrollable Blackness”

Flowe wins Littleton-Griswold Prize for “Uncontrollable Blackness”

Mustakeem joins historian lectureship program

Mustakeem joins historian lectureship program

Twenty Years After 9/11: History Repeats Itself

Twenty Years After 9/11: History Repeats Itself

WashU Expert: Did 9/11 'change everything'?

WashU Expert: Did 9/11 'change everything'?

How the Black Death made life better

How the Black Death made life better

Learning Latin American and women’s history from the source

Learning Latin American and women’s history from the source

Egypt’s Arab Spring at 10: The work of political anniversaries

Egypt’s Arab Spring at 10: The work of political anniversaries

Teaching history during COVID

Teaching history during COVID

Douglas Flowe interviewed by the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association blog

Douglas Flowe interviewed by the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association blog

Flowe writes about police brutality in the Common Reader

Flowe writes about police brutality in the Common Reader

Our post-fact reality

Our post-fact reality

Anika Walke writes about newly discovered oral histories of Jewish life erased under Soviet rule

Anika Walke writes about newly discovered oral histories of Jewish life erased under Soviet rule

Presidential transitions, new traditions

Presidential transitions, new traditions

‘Your heart is a muscle the size of your fist’: The promise of the Belarusian protest movement

‘Your heart is a muscle the size of your fist’: The promise of the Belarusian protest movement

‘Uncontrollable Blackness’

‘Uncontrollable Blackness’

Peter Kastor on KMOX: What would America's founding fathers think of today's protests?

Peter Kastor on KMOX: What would America's founding fathers think of today's protests?

Juneteenth and collective progress

Juneteenth and collective progress

Sowande' Mustakeem interviewed on BBC World Service about George Floyd and Juneteenth

Sowande' Mustakeem interviewed on BBC World Service about George Floyd and Juneteenth

Sowande' Mustakeem interviewed on NPR St. Louis about the legacy of Juneteenth

Sowande' Mustakeem interviewed on NPR St. Louis about the legacy of Juneteenth

Peter Kastor writing in the Washington Post about the challenges of remote teaching during COVID

Peter Kastor writing in the Washington Post about the challenges of remote teaching during COVID

Peter Kastor on St. Louis on the Air to discuss the removal of statue of Columbus in Tower Grove

Peter Kastor on St. Louis on the Air to discuss the removal of statue of Columbus in Tower Grove

Douglas Flowe interviewed by Don Lemon on CNN

Douglas Flowe interviewed by Don Lemon on CNN

Douglas Flowe quoted in iTV about the history of police brutality against black people in America

Douglas Flowe quoted in iTV about the history of police brutality against black people in America

Douglas Flowe quoted in Politco on what the protests are about

Douglas Flowe quoted in Politco on what the protests are about

Douglas Flowe talks with L'Opinion about the protests and COVID-19

Douglas Flowe talks with L'Opinion about the protests and COVID-19

A Statement on the Role of Humanities Research and Education in Times of Crisis

A Statement on the Role of Humanities Research and Education in Times of Crisis

Flora Cassen talks with Joe Madison about racist, anti-Semitic coronavirus conspiracy theories

Flora Cassen talks with Joe Madison about racist, anti-Semitic coronavirus conspiracy theories

Flora Cassen in Haaretz: White Supremacists’ Dangerous New Conspiracy Theory

Flora Cassen in Haaretz: White Supremacists’ Dangerous New Conspiracy Theory

The Career of a Medieval Accusation in an Age of Science

The Career of a Medieval Accusation in an Age of Science

Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment

Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment

Sowande' Mustakeem and Douglas Flowe in Vox: 6 myths about the history of Black people in America

Sowande' Mustakeem and Douglas Flowe in Vox: 6 myths about the history of Black people in America

Anika Walke on The Heat: 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz

Anika Walke on The Heat: 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz

Christine Johnson in the Washington Post: Trump’s impeachment trial is no witch hunt

Christine Johnson in the Washington Post: Trump’s impeachment trial is no witch hunt

Professor Sowande' Mustakeem receives the Dred Scott Freedom Award

Professor Sowande' Mustakeem receives the Dred Scott Freedom Award

Krister Knapp interviewed on KMOV about how tension with Iran impacts everyone

Krister Knapp interviewed on KMOV about how tension with Iran impacts everyone

Elizabeth Borgwardt in Politco on the way historians will remember the 2010s

Elizabeth Borgwardt in Politco on the way historians will remember the 2010s

The City Electric: How Mexico City’s People Shaped Its Electrified Future

The City Electric: How Mexico City’s People Shaped Its Electrified Future

The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Political Movement Overlooked by 30th Anniversary Celebrations

The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Political Movement Overlooked by 30th Anniversary Celebrations

Welcome to WashU: Flora Cassen

Welcome to WashU: Flora Cassen

Defining ‘concentration camps’

Defining ‘concentration camps’

Omitted History

Omitted History