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In commemoration of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we (virtually) convened on January 28th, 2021, at the Chabraja Center for Historical Studies to discuss the politics of collective memory. We were joined by Northwestern professors Ștefan Ionescu, who discussed current developments in Romania's memory culture, Sarah M. Cushman, who shared her research on the Auschwitz-Birkenau Mem...

The Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University (HEFNU), in partnership with the Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies: Claude Lanzmann's Shoah and Its Outtakes: The Ethics of Perpetrator Representation” by Erin McGlothlin. This lecture took place (virtually) on November 20th, 2020. In her lecture, McGlothlin offeed new insights into Lanzmann’s monumental film Shoah...

On our third Historians at Home meeting for the quarter we (virtually) met on November 10th, 2020 at the Chabraja Center for Historical Studies to discuss policing and justice from a global perspective. Our speakers - Northwestern historians Sean Hanretta, Lina Britto and Peter Carroll - discussed the ongoing legacies of the Force Publique in the DRC Congo, public protest and the use of Mano Du...

How to historicize a pandemic, and why it matters? On our second Historians at Home event for the quarter, we (virtually) met on October 29th, 2020, at the Chabraja Center for Historical Studies to discuss pandemics, past and present. Joined by Northwestern historians Edward Muir, Joel Mokyr and Helen Tilley, the conversation moved from the Black Death, through the Spanish Flu, to our own prese...

On October 22nd, we (virtually) convened at the Chabraja Center for Historical Studies for a Chinese history roundtable. Discussing exciting work-in-progress by Georgetown University's James Millward, we were joined by Northwestern historians Melissa Macauley and Haydon Cherry. For further background, here is Millward's short and topical piece about Mulan: www.asianstudies.org/more-hun-than-han...

On October 23rd, 2020, we (virtually) convened at the Chabraja Center for Historical Studies for a fascinating conversation between James Millward (Georgetown University, History), Peter Carroll (Northwestern University, History) and William Hurst (Northwestern University, Political Science) about the longer history of the crisis in the Uyghur Autonomous Region.

On October 2nd, 2020, we (virtually) convened at the Chabraja Center for Historical Studies for a fascinating conversation between Lara Putnam (University of Pittsburgh) and Peter Slevin (Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism) about growing grassroots organizing and the 2020 Campaign. The event was co-sponsored by the Medill School of Journalism.

On October 1st, 2020, we (virtually) convened at the Chabraja Center for Historical Studies to discuss the impact of the rapidly changing digital landscape on historians' craft, method and thinking. Our special guests historian Lara Putnam (University of Pittsburgh) and independent researcher and former president of the Center for Research Libraries, Bernard Reilly, were joined by Northwestern'...

Kicking off our Historians at Home Series, we (virtually) met on September 10th, 2020, at the Chabraja Center for Historical Studies to discuss Zoom teaching. Three of our top graduate teachers -Caitlin Monroe, Mikala Stokes, and Robin Pokorski- shared their tips and hard-earned lessons about increasing student participation, creating inclusive discussion spaces, and motivating students. Drawin...

CCHS Postdoctoral Fellow Alex Hobson

Postdoctoral Fellow Alex Thomas

Prasenjit Duara on Rescuing History from the Nation

Prasenjit Duara on the Historians who Inspired Him

Prasenjit Duara on Theories of History

Prasenjit Duara on Broadening Chinese History

Lynn Thomas on Becoming a Historian

Lynn Thomas on Skin Lighteners and Institutional Racism

Lynn Thomas on the Politics of the Womb

Lynn Thomas on Using Medical History

Anne Hyde on Reaching Out to Modern Descendants

Anne Hyde on Writing the History of the American West

Anne Hyde on Writing Family History

Anne Hyde on Empires, Nations and Families

Jane Kamensky on the transformation of Interdisciplinary work

Jane Kamensky on Representational Power vs Real Power

Jane Kamensky on recovering the provincialism of colonial life

Jane Kamensky on history

Lynn Hunt on Imagining Equality

Lynn Hunt on the New Cultural History