Commencement Weekend took place May 16-18, 2025 for all departments. Congratulations to all of our History graduate and undergraduate degree recipients!

Dr. Dana Bradley (BA '83), has been featured in the Rochester Business Journal discussing aging and senior living.

Kai Jia (Mark) Liu (BA '24), was featured in the May 15, 2025 @Rochester for receiving the Yenching Academy of Peking University Scholar award for 2025. 

Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild (PhD '76), is an executive producer of the film LEFT ON PEARL, documenting the surprise ending of the 1971 International Women's Day march in Boston. This march which led to the creation of the Cambridge Women's Center, the longest continuously operating community women's center in the US. The film is now available free on YouTube. Ruthchild participated in the actions described in the film.

Ronald Satta (PhD '05), has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor of History in the College of Arts and Sciences at Liberty University.  Additionally, Satta was named the subject matter expert (SME) of the graduate course on American colonial history.

Susan O. Shapiro's (BA '74), second-year Latin review text, Latin Redux, published in 2024 by the University of Oklahoma Press, won the 2025 Ladislaus J. Bolchazy Pedagogy Book Award from the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.

Assistant professor of history Molly Ball's most recent publication, Latin American Economic History: An Introduction to Daily Life, Debt, and Development, guides readers through Latin American economic development and the connections between culture, economics, and politics spanning the era of independence through the early 2020s.  Professor Ball's book was chosen for the History Department's 2025 Dexter Perkin's Book Prize for local high school seniors. 

Professor Mike Jarvis has been featured in an interview discussing Bermuda for an Apple Podcast called History Unplugged Podcast.

Professor Mical Raz, along with Professor Josh Gupta-Kagan, co-hosted a webinar and workshop in April to discuss The End TPR Initiative. [The American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law is leading a new initiative to challenge the concept of terminating parental rights (TPR) under law.] 

Gifts to the Department of History help sustain a challenging academic program and promote learning opportunities. Your gifts allow our department to provide the education and experiences that attract the best students and faculty. Your contributions make our department ever better!