The Department of History explores the past, seeking to understand how people have made the world, live in it, and seek change. We also examine what people do with memories and stories of the past, examining ideas of heritage, values and identities in our complex and diverse social, political, economic and cultural worlds.
- New History Faculty, Courses & Course Numbers
- Additional History courses for FSHT credit
- Revised History Major Requirements (starting Fall 2022)
History Honors Class of 2021; from left to right: Chris Barry, Maggie Castelli, Rowan Cai, Spencer Yacos.
Faculty-Student Research
UR Summer Fellowships: Ryan McEvoy and David Brandenberger
University of Richmond students discuss summer research opportunities that give them a chance to explore their passions through hands-on projects, all while making a difference in the wider world.
UR Summer Fellowships: Kelsey Ensign and Dr. Eric Yellin
University of Richmond students discuss summer research opportunities that give them a chance to explore their passions through hands-on projects, all while making a difference in the wider world.
2016 Student Symposium, School of Arts and Sciences
The School of Arts & Sciences hosts an annual Student Symposium every April, which showcases hundreds of student research projects from across the disciplines.
Faculty Highlights
- Seeley Receives Distinguished Book Prize
Samantha Seeley, associate professor of history, received the 2022 Merle Curti Social History Award from the Organization of American Historians for her book Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States. This award is given annually by OAH for the best book in American social history.
- Drell published
Joanna Drell, professor of history, co-edited Rethinking Norman Italy: Studies in Honour of Graham A. Loud (Manchester University Press).
- Sackley Receives NEH Grant
Nicole Sackley, associate professor of history and American Studies, has received $6,000 in summer funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to advance her book project, which explores the history of cooperatives in the United States. Read more: http://bit.ly/Sackley-NEH-Grant
- Sackley Awarded
Nicole Sackley, associate professor of history and american studies, was awarded a $2,000 VFIC Mednick Memorial Fellowship for her project, Co-op Capitalism: Cooperatives, International Development, and American Visions of Capitalism in the Twentieth Century.
- Sackley Awarded
Nicole Sackley, associate professor of history and american studies, has been awarded a $50,000 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship for her project, Co-op Capitalism: Cooperatives, International Development, and American Visions of Capitalism in the Twentieth Century.
- Sackley receives funding
Nicole Sackley, associate professor of history and American Studies, received a $2,000 grant from the Friends of University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries for her new project, Co-op Capitalism: Cooperatives, International Development, and American Visions of Capitalism in the Twentieth Century.
- Kahn Awarded
Michelle Kahn has been awarded the 2019 Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize by the German Historical Institute.
- Sackley Receive Rockefeller FundingDr. Nicole Sackley has received a grant from the Rockefeller Archive Center for Mapping the Foundations: US Philanthropy in a Cold War World, 1947-1991, in partnership with Dr. Timothy Barney. This project also recently received $10,000 in start up funds from the Provost's CIE initiative.
- Brandenberger National Grant
Dr. David Brandenberger, Professor of History and Global Studies, has been awarded a $18,000 Title VIII National Research Competition Grant from the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research for "The Leningrad Affair: The Purge of Stalin’s Would-Be Successors, 1949-1952."
- Ayers named to Leadership Council
Dr. Edward L. Ayers, Tucker-Boatwright Professor of Humanities and President Emeritus, was named a charter member of the St. John's Church Foundation Leadership Council.
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Mailing address:
History Department
Humanities Building
106 UR Drive
University of Richmond, VA 23173
Phone: (804) 289-8332
Fax: (804) 287-1992
Department Chair: Joanna Drell
Academic Administrative Specialist: Liza Carpenter