The Workshop in Modern U.S. History meets once per month to discuss works in progress by leading scholars in 20th-century U.S. history. The workshop is open to all graduate students and faculty. Sponsored by professors Beverly Gage and Elizabeth Hinton.
Attention: current graduate students with special interest in U.S. History: Apply to become a 2023-2024 graduate fellow of the Workshop in Modern U.S. History. All graduate students are welcome to attend workshop sessions. Those selected as graduate fellows make an additional commitment to attend all seven workshop sessions and take a leading role in interchange with the visiting scholars (attending dinners, serving as interlocutors, etc.). Students interested in participating as graduate fellows should send a brief paragraph outlining relevant background and interest in the workshop to beverly.gage@yale.edu and elizabeth.hinton@yale.edu no later than Tuesday, September 5. Students who have already participated as graduate fellows are welcome to reapply, though preference will be given to first-time applicants.
2023-2024 Schedule
all events take place from 4:00-5:30 in HQ 276 unless otherwise noted
September 28: Destin Jenkins, Stanford University (public lecture and reception): “Who Runs This Town? Debt, Privatization, and the Abdication of the American City”
November 30: Alvita Akiboh, Yale University
January 25: Jaime Sanchez, Harvard Society of Fellows
February 8: Lauren Hirshberg, Regis University
February 29: William Sturkey, University of Pennsylvania
March 28: Julian Zelizer, Princeton University
April 25: Kim Phillips-Fein, Columbia University