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.

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Dept. of History Spring 2011 Newsletter

The Cornell Historical Society

Dept. of History seeks an historian of Colonial Latin America (see more...)

Dept. of History seeks an historian of the Muslim World/Middle East (see more...)

Dept. of History seeks applications for doctoral/postdoctoral diversity fellowships (see more...)

Upcoming events...

Monday, February 13, David Blome, "The Aetolian Rout of the Athenians (426 BC): An Articulation of Complexity," 4:30pm, AD White, room 110.

Thursday, February 16, Ryan Edwards, "An Ecology of Exile: Earth and Elsewhere in the Ushuaia Penal Colony," 4:30pm, McGraw Hall 366.

News (see all news...)

Ezra's Archives: This year saw the creation of two new initiatives on the part of undergraduate History majors (see more...).

Daniel Baugh published The Global Seven Years War 1754-1763...

Peter Dear will hold the Carnegie Trust Centenary Professorship...

Mary Beth Norton has won the 2011 Cincinnati History Prize...

Vic Koschmann has published the Japanese translation of Revolution and Subjectivity in Postwar Japan...

Will Provine has won the first David L. Hull Prize...

Barry Strauss's Spartacus War has been published in Korean...

Eric Tagliacozzo is co-editor of Chinese Circulations: Capital, Commodities, and Networks in Southeast Asia...

Student Awards and Job Announcements