The graduate program rounds out the 2022-2023 academic year with a list of impressive scholarship and awards. Even more significant are our students’ accomplishments in the classroom: as Teaching Fellows and Teaching Assistants, graduate students in the department taught hundreds … Read more
Our undergraduate program has thrived this Spring, and we are delighted to support our students’ endeavors and honor their achievements. In the coming months, many of our majors will study abroad and travel for research with History Department funding. Five … Read more
Dear Friends, Alumni, and Fellow Historians, Greetings from the UNC History Department! I am delighted to share with you some updates about the activities of our faculty, graduate students, alumni, and off-campus colleagues. For me, this is a bittersweet moment: … Read more
Dear Friends, Alumni, and Fellow Historians, Greetings from the UNC History Department! I am delighted to share with you some updates about the activities of our faculty, graduate students, alumni, and off-campus colleagues. As these indicate, the teaching, scholarship, and … Read more
This past summer, third year Ph.D student Alma Huselja was given the opportunity to conduct research at one of the most significant institutions for Holocaust research, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington, D.C. From June to August, … Read more
In 2005, amidst calls for more globalization on US campuses, faculty and administration at UNC began imagining how to expand and deepen our school’s intellectual partnerships abroad. Our own History Department, unsurprisingly, has been at the fore of such initiatives, … Read more
Each year, UNC-Chapel Hill history students publish Traces: The UNC Journal of History. First created in 2011 by UNC students G. Lawson Kuehnert and Mark W. Hornburg and supported by the UNC-Chapel Hill Parents Council, the journal features the work …
As one of the top graduate history programs in the world, UNC attracts a highly selective group of cutting-edge historians. Our graduate students are brilliant, creative, hard-working, and, unsurprisingly, eclectic. Yusuf Sezgin is a doctoral candidate conducting research for an … Read more On Thursday night once a month, the Carolina Russia Seminar is one of the highlights of the calendar for the UNC History Department. Started by Drs. Donald J. Raleigh and Louise McReynolds, its leadership was handed to Eren Tasar in … Read more
Yusuf Sezgin: Historian of Liberation Theology, Rock Music Enthusiast
December 14, 2022
The Carolina Russia Seminar
December 14, 2022
