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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.

Faculty-Student Research

UR Summer Fellowships: Ryan McEvoy and David Brandenberger

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

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

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.

Upcoming Events

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Faculty Highlights

  • Sackley receives funding
    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
    Kahn Awarded

    Michelle Kahn has been awarded the 2019 Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize by the German Historical Institute.
  • Brandenberger National Grant
    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
    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.
  • Drell Presentation
    Drell Presentation

    History professor Joanna Drell was invited to speak at a meeting Palermo, Sicily in early October on the topic of medieval immigration of northern Italians down to Sicily. The meeting was coordinated by the Office of Medieval Studies and the Cultural Circle of the ‘Marquises of Monferrato.’
  • Ayers elected to Colonial Williamsburg board
    Ayers elected to Colonial Williamsburg board

    Edward Ayers, Tucker-Boatwright Professor of the Humanities and president emeritus, was elected to the board of trustees for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
  • Summers Article

    History professor Carol Summers published "Scandal and Mass Politics: Buganda's 1941 Nnamasole Crisis" in the International Journal of African Historical Studies.
  • Seeley Fellowship
    Seeley Fellowship

    History professor Samantha Seeley has been awarded a Kluge Fellowship from The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress for her book project, “Race and Removal in the Early American Republic.”
  • Yellin Grant
    Yellin Grant History professor Eric Yellin received a grant from the Dirksen Congressional Center to research the political, cultural, and social meanings of Social Security after World War II.
  • Ayers receives 2018 Avery O. Craven Award
    Ayers receives 2018 Avery O. Craven Award

    Edward Ayers, Tucker Boatwright Professor of the Humanities and president emeritus, was awarded the 2018 Avery O. Craven Award for his book The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America.

Feature Stories

A&S hosts Contested Spaces event about walls and borders around the world
On February 28th in the Richmond Room, the departments of history, sociology & anthropology, and languages, literatures, and cultures hosted a scholarly conference entitled “Walls, Borders, and Partitions in Global Perspective.” The conference was held as part of this year’s Contested Spaces in which the 2019-20 focal point is “This Ground.”
New University of Richmond Mapping Project to Track Patterns and Global Impact of U.S. Philanthropy
Two University of Richmond professors, in collaboration with UR’s Digital Scholarship Lab, are developing a tool that will trace every international grant given by the Ford and Rockefeller foundations during the Cold War.
UR History Professor Awarded $18,000 to Research Mysterious Political Purge in the Soviet Union
David Brandenberger, professor of history at the University of Richmond, will travel to Moscow this summer to review newly declassified documents related to the Leningrad Affair from the former Soviet archives.
Prominent Historians Headline Lecture on Confederate History
The University of Richmond and American Civil War Museum are partnering to host a lecture focusing on The Civil War and our understanding of the Confederacy. The event is Oct. 18, 7:30 p.m., Robins School of Business, Ukrop Auditorum.
University of Richmond Junior Awarded International Gilman Scholarship for Study Abroad in Bejing
University of Richmond junior Alice Vo, of New York City, has received a Gilman scholarship to support her study abroad experience in China this fall.
To Ease the BurdenHow Charleston pediatrician Conrad Williams, '05, helps children at the end of their lives.
UR history professor to complete book on the roots of U.S. deportation through Library of Congress fellowship
Samantha Seeley, assistant professor of history at the University of Richmond, has been awarded a Kluge Fellowship from The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress for her book, “Race and Removal in the Early American Republic.”
Richmonder and recent University of Richmond graduate awarded Fulbright to teach English in Malaysia
Tim Gruber of Richmond has received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship, which he will complete in Malaysia January through November 2019.
UR history professor receives congressional research grant
Eric Yellin, associate professor of history at the University of Richmond, has received a grant from The Dirksen Congressional Center for his project, “Social Security: A Social History.”
Edward Ayers receives 2018 Avery O.Craven Award
Edward Ayers, Tucker Boatwright Professor of the Humanities and president emeritus at the University of Richmond has been awarded the 2018 Avery O. Craven Award for his book, “The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America.”
World-renowned German historian Richard J. Evans to speak at UR
Richard J. Evans, widely considered one of the world's greatest living historians of modern Germany, is giving two upcoming lectures at the University of Richmond.
University of Richmond is a Top Producer of Fulbright U.S. Scholars
Three scholars from the University of Richmond were awarded Fulbright grants for 2017-18, the top number in the Bachelor’s institutions category.
Edward Ayers will be awarded the 2018 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize
Edward Ayers, Tucker Boatwright Professor of the Humanities and president emeritus at the University of Richmond, will be awarded the 2018 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize for his work, “The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America.” 
The Great War, Modernity, and Memory
SSIR class travels to France and Belgium to witness repercussions of First World War
On that morningIn his film, Ryan Frost, ’05, tells the story of five college freshmen as they watch 9/11 unfold.
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Department Chair: Joanna Drell
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