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In January of this year, Professor Aditya Ramesh joined the faculty of the Department of History as a historian of South Asia and environmental history. He came to us from the University of Manchester in England where he had spent the last three years teaching as a presidential fellow in environmental history. We caught up with him recently to see how he is adjusting to Seattle and to learn a bit more about him.What have been your first impressions of Seattle? What do you like the most… Read more
The College of Arts & Sciences celebrates undergraduate and graduate students from across all four divisions, who are recognized for making the most of their time at the UW.
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A program set to launch in July will enable families affected by housing discrimination to get financial assistance for home purchases. James Gregory, professor and associate chair of history at the UW, is quoted.
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The 2024 presidential election will potentially trigger even more people to move both within and outside of the US. James Gregory, professor and associate chair of history at the UW, is mentioned.Featured
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Last week, children's book author JK Rowling tweeted some more nonsense about transgender people. In this case, she disputed the fact that Nazis destroyed early research on the community. Laurie Marhoefer, professor of history at the UW, is featured.Featured
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It is with deep sadness that the Department of History mourns the passing of Professor Emeritus George Behlmer, who died on January 4, 2024.
George earned his B.A., with highest honors, in 1970 from the University of California, Santa Barbara. During his time as an undergraduate, he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and also named a Regents’ Scholar and a President’s Undergraduate Research Fellow. What's more, George was also a… Read more
Americans are moving within the country far less often than they once did. The peak of U.S. migration followed the end of World War II and lasted through the mid-1970s. But while overall migration is down, state-to-state moves are slowly on the rise again. James Gregory, professor and associate chair of history at the UW, is quoted.Featured
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For several months between the fall of 2022 and the spring of 2023, two or three researchers at the UW headed to the Puget Sound Regional Archives in Bellevue and spent each Friday digging into Kitsap County deed books — specifically, around 300 bound volumes and 520 documents between 1921 and 1948. The purpose was to identify and map neighborhoods marked by racist deed provisions and restrictive covenants across the state before 1968. Sophia Dowling, project coordinator with the UW Racial… Read more
Historically, presidential candidates and their teams have weighed a number of factors — including public opinion and political experience — before making a decision on the number two slot sometime around the party conventions. Margaret O'Mara, professor of history at the UW, is quoted.Featured
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We recently had the chance to sit down with one of History's newest faculty, Mark Letteney to find out how he is settling in and to discuss his book, The Christianization of Knowledge in Late Antiquity. A historian of the ancient world and archaeologist, Letteney began at the UW this past fall.
What have been your first impressions of the city? What… Read more