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.
Fiona Serrano, a senior in the Department of History who is also majoring in two other subjects, has won one of two 2024 Nels Andrew Cleven Founder’s Prizes awarded by the National Office of Phi Alpha Theta (PAT) for her paper “Stalin's War on Women: Gendered Violence in the Gulag.”
PI Prof. Dalia Caraballo Muller and Co-PIs Prof. Jamie Barber, Prof. Kenneth Joseph, Prof. Matt Kenyon, Prof. Christopher Proctor, and Prof. Camilo Trumper are among Mozilla's recently announced Responsible Computing Challenge Awardees!
This September marked the 122 anniversary of the assassination of President William McKinley in Buffalo, but very few people know about this presidential assassination. Andy Paden of 2WGRZ, a local Buffalo news outlet, interviewed Prof. Carole Emberton for a story on why McKinley's assassination has been forgotten not only in the country more widely but specifically in Buffalo.
An article in The Atlantic on the history of how alcohol became “mother’s little helper” quoted David Herzberg, professor in the Department of history, College of Arts and Sciences.