Suzanne Conklin
Akbari, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, with
Chris Piuma, hosts The Spouter-Inn, a MegaphonicFM podcast that
explores major works of literature from antiquity to modern times.
Akbari and Piuma—avid readers with a...
Francesca Trivellato, Andrew W. Mellon
Professor in the School of Historical Studies, has been
awarded the 2020 Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History
for The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten
Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us...
Since March, the world resembles a disaster movie. For their
plot, screenwriters follow a proven model: scientists warn about a
threat—an earthquake, a volcano, a virus, a meteor, or a terrorist
attack; politicians ignore the warning because of...
By Roland Betancourt, Member
(2016–17) in the School of Historical Studies:
Ultimately, it is hard for me to explain from where this book
began. Over the years, it becomes clear to me that I could not have
not written this book, even if I had tried...
Alice was a small, sweet, chubby woman with a 'dumpling
figure,'" her granddaughter Karina
Urbach told DW. The historian just
published The Book Alice: How the Nazis Stole My
Grandmother's Cookbook. She remembers her...
Peter Paret, Professor Emeritus in
the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced
Study, passed away peacefully at age 96 at his Salt Lake City home
on September 11, 2020. A German-born American and acclaimed
cultural and...
Khaled Fahmy, incoming
Member in the School of Historical Studies, and Kathleen Coleman, Member
(2017–18) in the School, have been elected to the British Academy
as Corresponding Fellows.
The British Academy is
a fellowship of approximately 1,400...
The French verb essayer means “to try,” “to attempt”; even “to
try out.” Like the “Try-Works” of Melville’s Moby Dick, where clear
pure sperm oil is melted down from the...
“The lesson of Anderson’s time in Europe is stunning in its
simplicity and, for that reason, has been easy to dismiss. She
showed up. Even under the threat of violence. Even with the shadow
of Nazism looming over her like a dark cloud, she showed up...
