Historical Studies

Rosanna Dent is an historian of science, a Member in the School of Historical Studies, and Assistant Professor, Federated History at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. She pursues research at the intersection of medicine, Latin American history...

“I think an unaccompanied scholar, particularly a male, probably has the best of all possible worlds at the Institute.” 
—Social Science Member in the 1970s, male, age 50 at the moment of the questionnaire in 1976

Founded in 1930, the Institute for...

How do we teach something we don’t yet know? In today’s Scholar Spotlight, Historical Studies Member Anna Bokov discusses her research on architecture and design pedagogy, the pursuit of truth and beauty, and breaking the rules (and making your own). 

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...

Franz Steiner Verlag has published Unveiling Emotions, Vol. 3: Arousal, Display, and Performance of Emotions in the Greek World (2020), edited by Angelos Chaniotis, Professor in the School of Historical Studies.

From the publisher: “The study of...

Scribal Habits in Near Eastern Manuscript Traditions, edited by Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, and George Kiraz past Member and current Research Associate in the School of Historical Studies, has been published by...

War and Citizenship: Enemy Aliens and National Belonging from the French Revolution to the First World War by Daniela Caglioti, past Member in the School of Historical Studies, was published by Cambridge University Press on November 19, 2020: 

What...

Dissimilar Similitudes: Devotional Objects in Late Medieval Europe by Caroline Bynum, Professor Emerita in the School of Historical Studies, has been published by Princeton University Press on September 29, 2020:

"Between the twelfth and the...

In 2020–21, Carissa M. Harris, Member in the School of Historical Studies and Associate Professor at Temple University, is exploring how anger became feminized in the late medieval English popular imagination, focusing particularly on the figure of...

Jewish-Muslim Intellectual History Entangled: Textual Materials from the Firkovitch Collection, Saint Petersburg, edited by Camilla Adang, Bruno Chiesa, Omar Hamdan, Wilferd Madelung, Sabine Schmidtke, and Jan Thiele, has been published by the...