Welcome to the history department at Cornell. The department is committed to pursuing excellence in historical scholarship and teaching across many different time-periods and research interests. Our outstanding faculty and students also specialize in a wide array of historical issues and themes that transcend particular regions and periods. Courses connect students with the excitement of historical discovery, and provide a rigorous training in researching and analyzing the human past.

The history department joins with diverse historians from other Cornell departments to form the graduate field of history, providing expert training for graduate students. Our department thrives on its close relationship with many other departments, centers and area-studies programs in the humanities and social sciences at Cornell.

Upcoming events

 

News...

A festschrift has been published in honor of John Najemy.....(see Faculy news)

Derek Chang receives the Robert Paul Advising Award in the Arts and Sciences College.... (see Faculty news)

Michael Kammen receives AHA Award for Scholarly Distinction (see Faculty News).

Mary Beth Norton receives the 2008 Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowship (see Faculty News).

See Publications and Awards.... for recent faculty publications and awards.