Recent News

The students, faculty, and alumni of the Department of History are active both as scholars and as public intellectuals. Explore these achievements to learn more about our community. 

  • Spring 2023 Scholarship & Award Winners
    5/22/23
    On Saturday May 20, 2023, the Department of History held its 36th Annual Graduation and Awards Ceremony in the Student Union Theater.
  • 2023 Phi Alpha Theta Inductees
    5/8/23
    On Friday May 5th, the UB Chapter of the National History Honor Society, Phi Alpha Theta, initiated 29 new members!
  • Graduate Students Win Fellowship!
    5/8/23
    Four graduate students are the recipients of the 2023 Department of History Milton Plesur Pre-Doctoral Fellowship:
  • Impossible Project Presentations
    5/1/23
    Impossible Project: End White Supremacy
  • History Students Compete in Trivia Competition
    5/1/23
    On Thursday April 27th a group of History students, PhD Candidates Ashley Morin and Jenna Labbie, and undergraduate students Fiona Serrano, Mia DeLap and Brian Murphy along with prof. Cari Casteel competed in the International Institute of Buffalo's annual, Community World Trivia competition. The team, named the History Buffs, placed 5th in the overall competition. 
  • Prof. Muller and the Impossible Project Panel
    4/13/23
    As part of the upcoming Center for Information Integrity Symposium, Misinformation in Social Media and What to do About It, Prof. Dalia Caraballo Muller will moderate a student panel discussing her Impossible Project, "The Impossible Project: Learning to think at the limits of the possible, together."
  • 2023 Yearley Award Winner
    3/13/23
    PhD Candidate, Brandon Burger is the recipient of the 2023 Yearley Award. The History Department established the award in honor of Professor Clifton Yearley. Professor Yearley taught in the History Department from 1966-1992, and served as chair from 1973-79. The award consists of a $1000 scholarship to be awarded to an advanced PhD student of exceptional academic merit and financial need. 
  • Late Professor's Book Republished
    1/25/23
    The late Prof. William Sheridan Allen's influential 1966 German language publication, Das haben wir nicht gewollt! Dienationalsozialistische Machtergreifung in einer Kleinstadt 1930 bis 1945, is being republished! (English title translation: We didn't want that! – The National Socialist seizure of power in a small town 1930-1945). Read the full article on HNA.
  • Alum Guingona Created a Curricular Module Called “Unsovereign Space”
    12/21/22
    Dr. Phillip Guingona (PhD '15) created a curricular module called “Unsovereign Space,” soon to be published by the History for the 21 Century Project.
  • Ravagnoli Publishes New Essay
    1/4/23
    Dr. Violetta Ravagnoli (PhD '15) contributed an essay on teaching about East Asia via graphic history books in the fall 2022 edition of the World History Bulletin, a publication of the World History Association.