The History Department offers four degree programs - the M.A., Ph.D., HiLS (dual degree with Library Science) and HiHP (dual degree with Historic Preservation)
College Park, MD
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Alums in the News: Dr. Katarina Keane was awarded the 2026 Kirwan Undergraduate Education Award. The award recognizes faculty or staff who have made exceptional contributions to the quality of undergraduate education at the University of Maryland.
Congratulations to James Schruefer for successfully defending his dissertation titled “‘What I Saw There Is Burned in My Memory’: Hard War in the Civil War Shenandoah Valley and Its Legacies”.
Congratulations to Dylan Bails for successfully defending his thesis titled “Laboring Lunatics: Labor Exploitation and Moral Care in the Early American Asylum (1750-1860)”.
Congratulations to Hannah Nolan for successfully defending her dissertation titled “Who Fears to Speak of Ninety-Eight?”: The United Irishmen and the Legacy of Revolution in Irish America.
Congratulations to Chloe Kauffman (PhD Candidate), she was awarded the following research fellowships for next year: the American Antiquarian Society Fellowship, the Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s History, and the Helen L. Bing Fellowship. @chloejk7
Congratulations to Angelina Lincoln (PhD Candidate), she was awarded the following research fellowships for next year: the American Antiquarian Society, the Huntington Library, the Gilder Lehrman Institute, and the Virginia Museum of History and Culture.
Congratulations to Andrea Gutmann Fuentes (PhD Student), she was awarded a Fulbright US Student Program grant to Chile for the 2026-27 academic year.
Congratulations to Jamie Myre for successfully defending their thesis titled “(Trans)Formations: Religion and the Making of Trans* Identities”.
Alums in the News: Dr. Lane Windham was appointed Co-Director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University.
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Alums in the News: Dr. Jordan Sly was awarded a Charles A. Caramello Distinguished Dissertation Award, for his dissertation "Protector of the Reformed: Oliver Cromwell's Religio-Political Motives and the Development of Protectorate Ideology".
Grads in the News: Congratulations to Conor MCadden (Ph.D. Student), he was awarded a Graduate School Summer Research Fellowship for Summer 2026!
Congratulations to Emma Lyons for successfully defending her thesis titled “‘So Comprehensive a Field’: Home Economics in the Department of Agriculture, 1915-1968”.
Congratulations to Marjorie Justine Cruz Antonio for successfully defending their thesis titled “Artists Under Watch, Guerilla Poets Dead: Transnational Filipino Arts Activism and Martial Law Memory, from Marcos Sr. to Marcos Jr.”.
Remember to stop by and grab some snacks and coffee, in honor of Graduate Student Appreciation Week, like Kaya did!
Congratulations to JP Fetherston for successfully defending his dissertation titled “‘Daring to Call for Liquor’: African Americans, Alcohol, and the Making of Urban Undergrounds in North America, 1740-1850”
