Letter from the Chair

  Welcome!   As of this July 2022, the USC Van Hunnick History Department has truly entered a new era. Thanks to the extraordinary… Read More

Admire Mseba releases “Society, Land, and Power in Northeastern Zimbabwe”

  Admire Mseba’s book, Society, Land, and Power in Northeastern Zimbabwe, 1560-1960 has just been published with Ohio University Press:… Read More

Joan Flore-Villalobos receives Wesley-Logan Prize in African Diaspora

  “Joan Flores-Villalobos, assistant professor of history, was awarded the Wesley-Logan Prize in African Diaspora History for her book, The Silver Women:… Read More

Wolf Gruner receives the 2024 Grimme Online Award

  “Wolf Gruner, Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies, professor of history and director of the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research,… Read More

Christina Davidson releases “Dominican Crossroads”

    Christina Davidson’s Dominican Crossroads: H. C. C. Astwood and the Moral Politics of Race-Making in the Age of Emancipation just appeared with… Read More

Sarah Gualtieri receives the Mary C. Turpie Prize

  Sarah Gualtieri has received the Mary C. Turpie Prize from the American Studies Association. The prize is given… Read More