Abbas Amanat, newly appointed as the William Graham Sumner Professor of History, is a historian of the modern Middle East, early modern and modern Iran, and Shi’ism and the...
Denise Y. Ho, assistant professor of twentieth-century Chinese history, speaks to The China File’s Jonathan Landreth about her new book, Curating Revolution: Politics on...
When Justin Randolph transferred from an Alabama community college to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he thought he knew exactly what he would do with his...
In 1981, the playwright Zdena Tominová, on an extended visit to the West from her home in communist Czechoslovakia, traveled to Dublin to give a lecture. A critic of her...
Now that China’s National People’s Congress has voted – 2,958 to two – to abolish presidential term limits, Xi Jinping could rule China indefinitely, rather than completing a...
Sara Silverstein (PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in History, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs) has been awarded the World History Association Prize for her...
“New Orleans in the American Imaginary” is the topic for the spring Franke Lectures in the Humanities sponsored by the Whitney Humanities Center.
This semester’s series has...
