This Fall, the Department of History welcomed Dr. Antwain K. Hunter to its faculty. Professor Hunter is a historian of freedom and slavery, with a focus on North Carolina. In the midst of a busy teaching schedule in his first … Read more

I’m pleased to have this opportunity to introduce myself to our readers as the new Director of Graduate Studies. My predecessor as DGS, Professor Sarah Shields, steered our graduate program through the unprecedented challenges imposed by the pandemic. I thank … Read more

I am delighted to step into the role of Director of Undergraduate Studies, taking over from Brett Whalen. Thank you, Brett, for your excellent work in this capacity over the past several years. The History Department has been humming along … Read more

Our graduate students are remarkably resilient! After a year of challenges just getting to the libraries and archives they need for their work, almost 20 were off campus doing research on a variety of grants and fellowships. See the whole … Read more

Luke Jeske is a fourth-year PhD candidate in Russian history. He received the 2021 Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Fellowship from the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. In January of this year, he left for a year-long research trip in … Read more

Beyond their research, publication activity, grant proposal writing, and the challenge of staying on top of an ever-burgeoning historiography, graduate students in UNC’s history department are, first and foremost, training to become educators. Thus, it is significant that Cristian Walk … Read more

During the Spring semester, the Department celebrated a number of prizes and other accomplishments. Allison Holbrooks was the winner of this year’s Cazel prize, which recognizes an outstanding graduating senior who has excelled in the study of history, contributed to … Read more

Donald J. Raleigh is the Jay Richard Judson Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History. He taught the history of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe at UNC-Chapel Hill for thirty-two years and advised twenty-six graduate students before his … Read more

On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Eastern Ukraine and catalyzed a war. Individuals and communities internationally mobilized to support Ukraine and its people in any way they could, including at UNC. For the academics and educators at UNC who specialize … Read more

After navigating almost three years of a global pandemic, two graduate students of the History Department, Laura Cox and Abby Warchol, received the Fulbright-Hays fellowship and are finally able to resume their research in Africa. Both scholars recognized the reception … Read more