Department of History

Six Receive Mascaro Faculty Program in Sustainability Awards

Pitt’s Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation (MCSI) has named the 2019 awardees in the John C. Mascaro Faculty...

Keisha Blain’s Book Named One of the Best History Books of 2018 by Smithsonian Magazine

Keisha N. Blain’s book "Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom" was named one...

Holger Hoock Awarded NEH Grant to Rethink Humanities Doctoral Education

Holger Hoock, associate dean for graduate studies and research in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and...

Historian Keisha N. Blain Appointed to Distinguished Lecturer Program

Keisha N. Blain, an assistant professor in the Department of History, has been appointed to the Organization of American...

Keisha N. Blain Receives Ford Foundation Post-doctoral Fellowship

Keisha N. Blain, assistant professor in the Department of History, has been awarded a 2018-19 Ford Foundation Post-...