Historical Studies

Jonathan Israel, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, will a give a public lecture, “Contesting American Values: The Bumpy Rise of Democracy in the West (1776-1850),” on Friday, October 28...

On Friday, October 14, the Institute for Advanced Study will host a pair of public lectures—one on the history of night in the Greek world and the other on memory projects about World War II and the Cold War. Kristen Ghodsee, Professor and Director...

Russian spies held a morbid fascination in the minds of Americans dating back to the Red Scare in 1919, following the Bolshevik Revolution and the creation of the Communist International, of which the Communist Party of the USA became a constituent...

The School of Historical Studies has received a three-year, $500,000 grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York to explore and elevate the understanding of Shii studies. The grant will support two research positions in the School of Historical Studies and create a themed annual conference and workshop aimed at leading scholars in the field, which will be led by Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School.

Elisheva Baumgarten, Member in the School of Historical Studies, has been awarded the Michael Bruno Memorial Prize of the Yad-Hanadiv Foundation and the Israeli Institute for Advanced Study. 

David Pietz, Member (2011–12) in the School Historical Studies, has been awarded the 2016 Cecil B. Currey Book Award from the Association of Global South Studies for his book, The Yellow River: The Problem of Water in Modern China (Harvard...

Jonathan Haslam, George F. Kennan Professor in the School of Historical Studies, explores the unpredictable nature of international relations between Russia and the United States. Read more http://ow.ly/9d0R302ES4z.

Morton White, a philosopher and historian of ideas whose innovative theory of “holistic pragmatism” showed the way toward a more socially engaged, interdisciplinary role for philosophy, died on May 27 in Skillman, N.J. He was 99. To learn more read...

Glen Bowersock, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies, examines Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World, an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in the most recent issue of The New York Review of Books...

Morton White, one of America’s most distinguished philosophers and historians of ideas, died at the age of 99 on May 27 at Stonebridge at Montgomery in Skillman, New Jersey. He was Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies at the...