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Montaño wins book prize!

10.27.23

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

Faculty

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

9.22.23

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Kastor named associate vice dean of research

In his new role, Peter Kastor will help faculty members in the arts, humanities, and social sciences seek out and apply for external funding.

8.15.23

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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

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

1.13.23

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

12.2.22

Undergraduate

Living History initiative seeks undergraduate applications for 2022–23

10.10.22

Faculty

Kieval awarded medal by Charles University

Hillel Kieval was recognized for his contributions to Jewish studies in the Czech Republic.

5.23.22

Medieval superstition in the age of science

A new book uncovers the surprising relationship between scientific discourse and “blood libel” trials of Jewish men in turn-of-the-century Europe.

3.22.22

Faculty

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

2.11.22

Faculty

Grounded analysis: The history of electricity in Mexico City

In a new book, Diana Montaño explores the everyday uses and adaptations of technology from the ground up.

1.5.22

In the Media

William Greenleaf Eliot was not an abolitionist | STLPR

1.4.22

Faculty

Flowe wins Littleton-Griswold Prize for “Uncontrollable Blackness”

The prize is awarded annually to recognize the best book on the history of American law and society.

10.25.21

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Mustakeem joins historian lectureship program

9.21.21

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

4.21.23

Alum wins Organization of American Historians' Civil War and Reconstruction book prize, 2023

4.17.23

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

4.4.23

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

4.10.23

Highlighting a new class of Living History Scholars

4.5.23

Cassen published in Psyche digital magazine

4.5.23

Cassen published in Smithsonian Magazine

3.31.23

Kastor wins grant from Taylor Geospatial Institute

3.28.23

WashU & Slavery Project Partners with St. Louis County Parks to Interpret Slavery at General Daniel Bissell House

Knapp interviewed on KMOX Radio to give insight on Russian coup

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

Alum wins Organization of American Historians' Civil War and Reconstruction book prize, 2023

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

Highlighting a new class of Living History Scholars

Cassen published in Psyche digital magazine

Cassen published in Smithsonian Magazine

Kastor wins grant from Taylor Geospatial Institute

WashU & Slavery Project Partners with St. Louis County Parks to Interpret Slavery at General Daniel Bissell House