Kevin Matthews earned a Ph.D. in History at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2000. Earlier, he received a B.A. in History at Northern Kentucky University, and master’s degrees from the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce at the University of Kentucky and th...
This course will consider core historical concepts like patriotism, citizenship, sacrifice, American exceptionalism, and constructions of race and gender as they have been depicted, debated, and reflected upon, on film, in the last 120 years. Specifically, we will examine military history through the...
Jessica Dauterive is a PhD Candidate in the History Department at George Mason University. She focuses on 20th century U.S. History with concentrations in cultural, digital, and public history. Her dissertation project will explore the development of Cajun identity in the 20th century through tools o...
Dr. Jacquelyn Williamson is an Egyptologist, with a special focus on gender and religious power. Her book, Nefertiti’s Sun Temple: A New Cult Complex at Tell el-Amarna, part of Brill’s Harvard Egyptology Series, was published in September 2016. She is involved in the ongoing investigation of Kom el-N...
Suzanne E. Smith received her Ph.D. from Yale University. She specializes in African American history with a particular interest in exploring how the history of African American entrepreneurship can transform our understanding of African American culture. Her current research agenda focuses on the h...
Rosemarie Zagarri received her Ph.D. from Yale University and specializes in Early American history. She has published four books, the most recent of which is Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007; paperback, 2008). Her artic...
My doctoral training at Boston University was in African studies, and my research focus is modern Egyptian art. This combination might sound strange, but my exploration of the peasant figure in Egyptian art probes the broader meaning of “Africa” to artists living and working on the continent in the e...
As a department at a public university in the D.C. area, one of our missions is to engage the public in a conversation about the past. This effort starts with the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. The center’s founding purpose was to use digital media to broaden access to historical ma...
CHR interviewed Steve Barnes in advance of the launch of his online speaker series "Russia's War on Ukraine in Historical Perspective." CHR was very glad to hear you were organizing this wonderful series on the war in Ukraine and bringing such a great line-up of experts on the topic to our commun...
