Front End Login

Alert

ALERT: You have logged out of Joomla!; however, you can still access it without re-login because you have an active Central Authentication Services "Single sign-on" session.  Security Options: Fully end "Single sign-on" - Close your web browser. Partially end "Single sign-on" - Click here, to require re-login for applications you have logged-off or timed-out in this web browser session. A re-login will not be required for applications you are still logged into. Lock Computer Screen - Invoke a password protected screen saver before leaving your computer unattended. (example : In windows press simultaneously the keys Ctrl+Alt+Delete and click on "Lock This Computer". Alternatively, pressing the Windows+L key will lock the computer.)

Repairing the Past 2023-2024 Seminar Schedule

“Repairing the Past”RCHA seminar schedule 2023-24 Fall 2023 September 5: Open Discussion September 12: Chie Ikeya (RCHA faculty fellow): “Restless Remains: Reburying and Redressing Empire, Migration, and War in the Japanese Cemetery in Burma” September 19: Suzy Kim (RCHA faculty fellow): “The Korean War through Women’s Eyes: Beyond Positivist History toward Historical Reconciliation” September 26: Sebastian Raj Pender (RCHA postdoctoral fellow): “What Does It Mean to Remember Empire in Britain Today?” October 3: Mary-Alice Daniel (Mary Routt Chair of Writing, Scripps College): “A Curious Nation in Constant Motion: Untold Stories of Nigerian Experience” October 10: Katie Sinclair (RCHA graduate fellow): "Conserving an Empire: Nature Protection and Colonial Power on the French Kerguelen Islands" October 17: Erica Fugger (RCHA graduate fellow): “Transnational Peace Movements and Radical Solidarities during the Vietnam-American War” October 24: Yulia Cherniavskaya (RCHA graduate fellow): “Recovering Humanistic Knowledge Production in the Postwar USSR” October 31: Patrick Harris (Rhodes College): “The Dream of Columbus: The Uses of History in the Colonial Republic of Letters, 1790-1824” November 7: Serhy Yekelchyk (University of Victoria): TBD November 14: Saddia Abbas (RCHA faculty fellow): “Ruins, Monuments and Epistemic Repair” November 28: Jesse Siegel (RCHA graduate fellow): “After German-Czechoslovak Businessmen: New Identities and Memories in the Postwar Transatlantic World, 1945-1975” December 5: Conspiratorial Memory Working Group (University of Amsterdam): “Memory and Conspiracy Narratives in Post-communist Eastern Europe” December 12: Open Discussion Spring 2024 January 23 Ashley Ferrell (RCHA postdoctoral fellow): “Family Legacies and University Lineages: U.S. Universities, Slavery, and Feminist Rhetorics of Redress” January 30 Jesse Bayker (Digital Archivist / Research Project Manager, RU Scarlet and Black Research Center): “Rutgers, Slavery, and Dispossession” February 6: Anna Nath (RCHA graduate fellow): “Recovering Russia’s European Horizons: the Pre-History of the 1825 Decembrist Uprising” February 13: Elazar Barkan (Director, Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University): TBD February 20: Jeff Friedman (RCHA faculty fellow): “How do the Intangible Heritage Principles of Orality and Embodied Practices Contribute to Repairing the Past February 27: Alison Hight (RCHA graduate fellow): “‘Home Rule’ as a Reparative Discourse in British Politics” March 5: Toby Jones (RCHA faculty fellow): “The Misshapen Hand: History and Beauty in a Broken World” March 19: Sarah Roth (RCHA graduate fellow): “Aliens of Extraordinary Abilities: The Cultural Diplomacy of U.S. Immigration Policy in the Early Cold War” March 26: Aries Li (RCHA graduate fellow): “From Enemies to Friends: Narrating the U.S. WWII Military Presence in Post-1949 China” April 2: Kendra Boyd (RCHA faculty fellow): “Black Camden: A Reparative Oral History Project” April 9: Joint event with the New Jersey Historical Commission, held at the East Jersey Olde Towne Village April 16: Emily Marker (RCHA faculty fellow): “Leo & Gerti: Broken Lives and the Search for Repair in the 20th and 21st Centuries” April 23: TBD

"Repairing the Past" 2023-2024 Seminar Schedule

“Repairing the Past”RCHA seminar schedule 2023-24 Fall 2023 September 5: Open Discussion September 12: Chie Ikeya (RCHA faculty fellow): “Restless Remains: Reburying and Redressing Empire, Migration, and War in the Japanese Cemetery in Burma” September 19: Suzy Kim (RCHA faculty fellow): “The Korean War through Women’s Eyes: Beyond Positivist History toward Historical Reconciliation” September 26: Sebastian Raj Pender (RCHA postdoctoral fellow): “What Does It Mean to Remember Empire in Britain Today?” October 3: Mary-Alice Daniel (Mary Routt Chair of Writing, Scripps College): “A Curious Nation in Constant Motion: Untold Stories of Nigerian Experience” October 10: Katie Sinclair (RCHA graduate fellow): "Conserving an Empire: Nature Protection and Colonial Power on the French Kerguelen Islands" October 17: Erica Fugger (RCHA graduate fellow): “Transnational Peace Movements and Radical Solidarities during the Vietnam-American War” October 24: Yulia Cherniavskaya (RCHA graduate fellow): “Recovering Humanistic Knowledge Production in the Postwar USSR” October 31: Patrick Harris (Rhodes College): “The Dream of Columbus: The Uses of History in the Colonial Republic of Letters, 1790-1824” November 7: Serhy Yekelchyk (University of Victoria): TBD November 14: Saddia Abbas (RCHA faculty fellow): “Ruins, Monuments and Epistemic Repair” November 28: Jesse Siegel (RCHA graduate fellow): “After German-Czechoslovak Businessmen: New Identities and Memories in the Postwar Transatlantic World, 1945-1975” December 5: Conspiratorial Memory Working Group (University of Amsterdam): “Memory and Conspiracy Narratives in Post-communist Eastern Europe” December 12: Open Discussion Spring 2024 January 23 Ashley Ferrell (RCHA postdoctoral fellow): “Family Legacies and University Lineages: U.S. Universities, Slavery, and Feminist Rhetorics of Redress” January 30 Jesse Bayker (Digital Archivist / Research Project Manager, RU Scarlet and Black Research Center): “Rutgers, Slavery, and Dispossession” February 6: Anna Nath (RCHA graduate fellow): “Recovering Russia’s European Horizons: the Pre-History of the 1825 Decembrist Uprising” February 13: Elazar Barkan (Director, Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University): TBD February 20: Jeff Friedman (RCHA faculty fellow): “How do the Intangible Heritage Principles of Orality and Embodied Practices Contribute to Repairing the Past February 27: Alison Hight (RCHA graduate fellow): “‘Home Rule’ as a Reparative Discourse in British Politics” March 5: Toby Jones (RCHA faculty fellow): “The Misshapen Hand: History and Beauty in a Broken World” March 19: Sarah Roth (RCHA graduate fellow): “Aliens of Extraordinary Abilities: The Cultural Diplomacy of U.S. Immigration Policy in the Early Cold War” March 26: Aries Li (RCHA graduate fellow): “From Enemies to Friends: Narrating the U.S. WWII Military Presence in Post-1949 China” April 2: Kendra Boyd (RCHA faculty fellow): “Black Camden: A Reparative Oral History Project” April 9: Joint event with the New Jersey Historical Commission, held at the East Jersey Olde Towne Village April 16: Emily Marker (RCHA faculty fellow): “Leo & Gerti: Broken Lives and the Search for Repair in the 20th and 21st Centuries” April 23: TBD

2023-2024 Seminar Schedule

“Repairing the Past”RCHA seminar schedule 2023-24 Fall 2023 September 5: Open Discussion September 12: Chie Ikeya (RCHA faculty fellow): “Restless Remains: Reburying and Redressing Empire, Migration, and War in the Japanese Cemetery in Burma” September 19: Suzy Kim (RCHA faculty fellow): “The Korean War through Women’s Eyes: Beyond Positivist History toward Historical Reconciliation” September 26: Sebastian Raj Pender (RCHA postdoctoral fellow): “What Does It Mean to Remember Empire in Britain Today?” October 3: Mary-Alice Daniel (Mary Routt Chair of Writing, Scripps College): “A Curious Nation in Constant Motion: Untold Stories of Nigerian Experience” October 10: Katie Sinclair (RCHA graduate fellow): "Conserving an Empire: Nature Protection and Colonial Power on the French Kerguelen Islands" October 17: Erica Fugger (RCHA graduate fellow): “Transnational Peace Movements and Radical Solidarities during the Vietnam-American War” October 24: Yulia Cherniavskaya (RCHA graduate fellow): “Recovering Humanistic Knowledge Production in the Postwar USSR” October 31: Patrick Harris (Rhodes College): “The Dream of Columbus: The Uses of History in the Colonial Republic of Letters, 1790-1824” November 7: Serhy Yekelchyk (University of Victoria): TBD November 14: Saddia Abbas (RCHA faculty fellow): “Ruins, Monuments and Epistemic Repair” November 28: Jesse Siegel (RCHA graduate fellow): “After German-Czechoslovak Businessmen: New Identities and Memories in the Postwar Transatlantic World, 1945-1975” December 5: Conspiratorial Memory Working Group (University of Amsterdam): “Memory and Conspiracy Narratives in Post-communist Eastern Europe” December 12: Open Discussion Spring 2024 January 23 Ashley Ferrell (RCHA postdoctoral fellow): “Family Legacies and University Lineages: U.S. Universities, Slavery, and Feminist Rhetorics of Redress” January 30 Jesse Bayker (Digital Archivist / Research Project Manager, RU Scarlet and Black Research Center): “Rutgers, Slavery, and Dispossession” February 6: Anna Nath (RCHA graduate fellow): “Recovering Russia’s European Horizons: the Pre-History of the 1825 Decembrist Uprising” February 13: Elazar Barkan (Director, Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University): TBD February 20: Jeff Friedman (RCHA faculty fellow): “How do the Intangible Heritage Principles of Orality and Embodied Practices Contribute to Repairing the Past February 27: Alison Hight (RCHA graduate fellow): “‘Home Rule’ as a Reparative Discourse in British Politics” March 5: Toby Jones (RCHA faculty fellow): “The Misshapen Hand: History and Beauty in a Broken World” March 19: Sarah Roth (RCHA graduate fellow): “Aliens of Extraordinary Abilities: The Cultural Diplomacy of U.S. Immigration Policy in the Early Cold War” March 26: Aries Li (RCHA graduate fellow): “From Enemies to Friends: Narrating the U.S. WWII Military Presence in Post-1949 China” April 2: Kendra Boyd (RCHA faculty fellow): “Black Camden: A Reparative Oral History Project” April 9: Joint event with the New Jersey Historical Commission, held at the East Jersey Olde Towne Village April 16: Emily Marker (RCHA faculty fellow): “Leo & Gerti: Broken Lives and the Search for Repair in the 20th and 21st Centuries” April 23: TBD

RCHA 2023-2024 Seminar Schedule

“Repairing the Past”RCHA seminar schedule 2023-24 Fall 2023 September 5: Open Discussion September 12: Chie Ikeya (RCHA faculty fellow): “Restless Remains: Reburying and Redressing Empire, Migration, and War in the Japanese Cemetery in Burma” September 19: Suzy Kim (RCHA faculty fellow): “The Korean War through Women’s Eyes: Beyond Positivist History toward Historical Reconciliation” September 26: Sebastian Raj Pender (RCHA postdoctoral fellow): “What Does It Mean to Remember Empire in Britain Today?” October 3: Mary-Alice Daniel (Mary Routt Chair of Writing, Scripps College): “A Curious Nation in Constant Motion: Untold Stories of Nigerian Experience” October 10: Katie Sinclair (RCHA graduate fellow): "Conserving an Empire: Nature Protection and Colonial Power on the French Kerguelen Islands" October 17: Erica Fugger (RCHA graduate fellow): “Transnational Peace Movements and Radical Solidarities during the Vietnam-American War” October 24: Yulia Cherniavskaya (RCHA graduate fellow): “Recovering Humanistic Knowledge Production in the Postwar USSR” October 31: Patrick Harris (Rhodes College): “The Dream of Columbus: The Uses of History in the Colonial Republic of Letters, 1790-1824” November 7: Serhy Yekelchyk (University of Victoria): TBD November 14: Saddia Abbas (RCHA faculty fellow): “Ruins, Monuments and Epistemic Repair” November 28: Jesse Siegel (RCHA graduate fellow): “After German-Czechoslovak Businessmen: New Identities and Memories in the Postwar Transatlantic World, 1945-1975” December 5: Conspiratorial Memory Working Group (University of Amsterdam): “Memory and Conspiracy Narratives in Post-communist Eastern Europe” December 12: Open Discussion Spring 2024 January 23 Ashley Ferrell (RCHA postdoctoral fellow): “Family Legacies and University Lineages: U.S. Universities, Slavery, and Feminist Rhetorics of Redress” January 30 Jesse Bayker (Digital Archivist / Research Project Manager, RU Scarlet and Black Research Center): “Rutgers, Slavery, and Dispossession” February 6: Anna Nath (RCHA graduate fellow): “Recovering Russia’s European Horizons: the Pre-History of the 1825 Decembrist Uprising” February 13: Elazar Barkan (Director, Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University): TBD February 20: Jeff Friedman (RCHA faculty fellow): “How do the Intangible Heritage Principles of Orality and Embodied Practices Contribute to Repairing the Past February 27: Alison Hight (RCHA graduate fellow): “‘Home Rule’ as a Reparative Discourse in British Politics” March 5: Toby Jones (RCHA faculty fellow): “The Misshapen Hand: History and Beauty in a Broken World” March 19: Sarah Roth (RCHA graduate fellow): “Aliens of Extraordinary Abilities: The Cultural Diplomacy of U.S. Immigration Policy in the Early Cold War” March 26: Aries Li (RCHA graduate fellow): “From Enemies to Friends: Narrating the U.S. WWII Military Presence in Post-1949 China” April 2: Kendra Boyd (RCHA faculty fellow): “Black Camden: A Reparative Oral History Project” April 9: Joint event with the New Jersey Historical Commission, held at the East Jersey Olde Towne Village April 16: Emily Marker (RCHA faculty fellow): “Leo & Gerti: Broken Lives and the Search for Repair in the 20th and 21st Centuries” April 23: TBD

Test

“Repairing the Past”RCHA seminar schedule 2023-24 Fall 2023 September 5: Open Discussion September 12: Chie Ikeya (RCHA faculty fellow): “Restless Remains: Reburying and Redressing Empire, Migration, and War in the Japanese Cemetery in Burma” September 19: Suzy Kim (RCHA faculty fellow): “The Korean War through Women’s Eyes: Beyond Positivist History toward Historical Reconciliation” September 26: Sebastian Raj Pender (RCHA postdoctoral fellow): “What Does It Mean to Remember Empire in Britain Today?” October 3: Mary-Alice Daniel (Mary Routt Chair of Writing, Scripps College): “A Curious Nation in Constant Motion: Untold Stories of Nigerian Experience” October 10: Katie Sinclair (RCHA graduate fellow): "Conserving an Empire: Nature Protection and Colonial Power on the French Kerguelen Islands" October 17: Erica Fugger (RCHA graduate fellow): “Transnational Peace Movements and Radical Solidarities during the Vietnam-American War” October 24: Yulia Cherniavskaya (RCHA graduate fellow): “Recovering Humanistic Knowledge Production in the Postwar USSR” October 31: Patrick Harris (Rhodes College): “The Dream of Columbus: The Uses of History in the Colonial Republic of Letters, 1790-1824” November 7: Serhy Yekelchyk (University of Victoria): TBD November 14: Saddia Abbas (RCHA faculty fellow): “Ruins, Monuments and Epistemic Repair” November 28: Jesse Siegel (RCHA graduate fellow): “After German-Czechoslovak Businessmen: New Identities and Memories in the Postwar Transatlantic World, 1945-1975” December 5: Conspiratorial Memory Working Group (University of Amsterdam): “Memory and Conspiracy Narratives in Post-communist Eastern Europe” December 12: Open Discussion Spring 2024 January 23 Ashley Ferrell (RCHA postdoctoral fellow): “Family Legacies and University Lineages: U.S. Universities, Slavery, and Feminist Rhetorics of Redress” January 30 Jesse Bayker (Digital Archivist / Research Project Manager, RU Scarlet and Black Research Center): “Rutgers, Slavery, and Dispossession” February 6: Anna Nath (RCHA graduate fellow): “Recovering Russia’s European Horizons: the Pre-History of the 1825 Decembrist Uprising” February 13: Elazar Barkan (Director, Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University): TBD February 20: Jeff Friedman (RCHA faculty fellow): “How do the Intangible Heritage Principles of Orality and Embodied Practices Contribute to Repairing the Past February 27: Alison Hight (RCHA graduate fellow): “‘Home Rule’ as a Reparative Discourse in British Politics” March 5: Toby Jones (RCHA faculty fellow): “The Misshapen Hand: History and Beauty in a Broken World” March 19: Sarah Roth (RCHA graduate fellow): “Aliens of Extraordinary Abilities: The Cultural Diplomacy of U.S. Immigration Policy in the Early Cold War” March 26: Aries Li (RCHA graduate fellow): “From Enemies to Friends: Narrating the U.S. WWII Military Presence in Post-1949 China” April 2: Kendra Boyd (RCHA faculty fellow): “Black Camden: A Reparative Oral History Project” April 9: Joint event with the New Jersey Historical Commission, held at the East Jersey Olde Towne Village April 16: Emily Marker (RCHA faculty fellow): “Leo & Gerti: Broken Lives and the Search for Repair in the 20th and 21st Centuries” April 23: TBD

Other RCHA Projects

2008-2010 Vernacular Epistemologies Project Directors: Indrani Chatterjee and Julie Livingston This two-year interdisciplinary project sought to get beyond the implicit homogenization of thought, performance and subjectivities implied by the contemporary ethos of development and globalization. It refocused attention on practices and forms of knowledge that diverge from, challenge, entangle with, and complicate fundamental categories or apparatuses identifiable with Enlightenment. In thinking of and with ‘vernacular’ practices and epistemes, this seminar remained mindful of the processes by which particular categories and performances were rendered ‘parochial’ or ‘local’ by taxonomic projects of others. Implicated in contest, incorporation, translation, vernacular categories also shifted shape. This project considered as broadly as possible the ways in which the vernaculars were formed, change, shift and inform other practices and concerns, and remain visible, even discordant, thereafter. The intent was to foreground histories that bring such discrepant, ‘narrow’, secreted categories to bear on an interrogation of current disciplinary norms and debates. The first year (2008-2009) engaged discussions around vernacular categories of Time and Value. The seminar studied these pluralities in their specific articulations – as art, music, in narrations of ritual and social import, in economic transactions and calculations. Participants explored processes through which such categories co-constituted each other, or structured relationships between ethics and economics, political and social exchanges and distribution, between facticity, numeracy and regimes of truth. The second year (2009-2010) discussed Body and Soul/Mind. Taking the cue from experiential and analytic categories from the global south as well as early modern European scholarship that tracks the emergence and gap between intellectual modeling and daily experience of bodily and spiritual life, the project sought to better understand these overdetermined rubrics and the binaries in which they are posited. 2008/2009 Senior Fellows: Leslie Witz (University of the Western Cape, Capetown) (Spring 2009) Postdoctoral Fellows: Moses Chikowero (Ph.D.: Dalhousie University, Halifax, 2008) Prista Ratanapruck (Ph.D.: Harvard, 2008) 2009/2010 Senior Fellow: Lila Ellen Gray (Department of Music, Columbia University) Postdoctoral Fellows: Karen Lisa Greene (Ph.D.: Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley) Perundevi Srinivasan (Ph.D.: Human Sciences Program, The George Washington University) 2006-2008 The Question of the West Project Directors: Ann Fabian and T.J. Jackson Lears The idea of "the West" animates contemporary public discourse. Politicians and journalists deploy it for polemical purposes, calling up a "clash of civilizations" occurring along an East-West divide. The purpose of this seminar was to restore critical consciousness to current debates by exploring the epistemological status of "the West" from a variety of perspectives. We recognize that from many historical, geographical, and cultural vantages, "the West" may not exist at all as a meaningful referent, or it may exist as a popular fantasy or ideological construction. Yet however evanescent "the West" may be as a geographical location, however spurious its claims to constitute "civilization" or to be the source of "universal" values, the consequences of the idea of the West have been profound and lasting. Imperial fictions demand sustained critical attention, especially when their impact is more than merely fictional. In 2006-2007, the seminar addressed historical issues—the origins of an East-West divide in early modern thought, ideological uses of universalist claims, relationships between narratives of civilization and imperial policies, non-Western alternatives to Western metaphorical mapping, and related topics. In 2007-2008, the seminar considered contemporary questions. Seminar participants worked through the related terms that characterize writings on the subject: rise and fall; tradition and modernity; civilization and barbarism; the local and the global, the secular and the sacred, Orientalism and Occidentalism; consumption, corruption, empire and globalization. They entertained challenges to the history of the East/West divide, took up the still puzzling mix of hope, promise and mechanistic excess tangled inside the heart of the West, and offered insights into the nature of the stakes of a divided world. 2006/2007 Senior Fellows: Bethel Saler, Department of History, Haverford College Kathleen Wilson, Department of History, SUNY, Stony Brook Postdoctoral Fellows: Carla Nappi, PhD: Department of History, Princeton University Nancy Khalek, PhD: Department of History, Princeton University 2007/2008 Senior Fellows: Alastair Bonnett, Department of Geography, University of New Castle, UK Steven Stoll, Department of History, Fordham University Postdoctoral Fellows: Naomi Davidson, PhD: Department of History, University of Chicago Dejan Lukic, PhD: Department of Anthroplogy, Columbia University 2005-2006 Planetary Perspectives: Approaching World History in an Era of Globalization Project Director: Michael Adas In recent decades world history emerged as one of the most visible and dynamic subfields of historical inquiry, and demonstrated a strong appeal to a broader educated public in societies across the globe. The current prominence of this subfield generated wide-ranging debates over methodologies, periodization, and ways of conceptualizing global perspectives. Scholars critiqued established modes of geographical representation as well as highly charged core concepts of historical discourse, such as civilization, primitive, native, progressive, and modern. Even concepts key to the subfield, such as world, global, globalization, and globalism, proved sources of considerable contention. But however contested the terrain of world history has been, it is clear that most practitioners of this approach to disciplinary inquiry share the conviction that it is essential for the education of an informed, cosmopolitan, and engaged citizenry in an age when the processes of globalization are forging a world community with a depth and intensity never before achieved in the human experience. This project focused on ways of conceiving, researching, writing, and teaching global history. Distinguished Visiting Fellows: Jerry H. Bentley, Department of History, University of Hawaii; Editor, Journal of World History Juan Cole, Department of History, University of Michigan Ross Dunn, Department of History, San Diego State University Mrinalini Sinha, Departments of History and Women’s Studies, Penn State University Howard Spodek, Departments of History and Geography/Urban Studies, Temple University 2003-2005 Gendered Passages in Historical Perspective Project Directors: Rudolph M. Bell and Virginia Yans The first year of this project focused on the experiences of single women — past and present, American and global, rich and poor, educated and illiterate – with the goal of developing educational tools to encourage future policymakers to make the lives of these women more productive, safe, and personally satisfying. The larger concept of this project was the idea of “gendered passages.” Much of people’s lives are dependent on certain socially accepted/constructed markers in life – marriage, parenthood, perhaps educational degree, career. These passages are gendered, occurring at different times and holding different meanings for women than for men. One of the major goals of the project was to complicate these passages within the context of specific biological and social events with particular emphasis on the material culture and historical context surrounding them. Another goal of the RCHA project participants was be to construct an inclusive category of “singleness,” one defined positively to incorporate the diverse situations of women never married, and those once married but then divorced or widowed, yet one that goes beyond defining singleness as “not” married. Singleness was recognized, for many women at least, as a status of choice, not as a marginal or liminal moment of transition from one to another socially approved, politically supported, male-connected designation: daughter, wife, mother, and eventually in good circumstances, desexualized grandmother. In its second year, this project encouraged interdisciplinary research, conversation, and theoretical synthesis of two fields – the study of children and the study of gender. The juxtaposition of the two fields created a fertile site for developing new approaches to gender, childhood, and the gendering of children. We wished to understand how various analytic levels of gender analysis – the personal, individual, social, and symbolic – relate in the varied historical, geographical, ethnic and racial contexts within which children live. 2003/2004 Senior Fellows: Anne Byrne, Dept. of Political Science and Sociology, National University of Ireland Amy Froide, Dept. of History. Clark University Jochen Hellbeck, Dept. of History, Rutgers University Allyson Poska, Dept. of History, Mary Washington College 2004/2005 Senior Fellow: Michelle A. Massé, Dept. of English, Louisiana State University Postdoctoral Fellows: Chantal Tetreault, Ph.D: Dept. of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin Erica M. Windler, Ph.D: Dept. of History, University of Miami, Coral Gables 2001-2003 Industrial Environments: Creativity and Consequences Project Directors: Susan R. Schrepfer and Philip Scranton Starting with the assumption that the industrial environment is to a remarkable the same as the national environment and encompasses essential characteristics of modern American life, this project has been exploring the relevance of the term "industrial environments" to familiar contexts, as well as to contexts further removed in time and space, beyond factory walls and outside the boundaries of early industrializing Western nations into post-colonial societies. The project had two central objectives: first, to open dialogues among scholars working in the fields of the history of technology, environment, and medicine, and secondly, to carry the dialogues across international boundaries, allowing scholars studying any geography implicated in industrialization an opportunity to contribute. 2001/2002 Senior Fellow: Greg Hise, University of Southern California Postdoctoral Fellows: Susan Smith-Peter, PhD University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Sandra M. Sufian, PhD New York University; Lynn Swartley, PhD University of Pittsburgh 2002/2003 Senior Fellow: Kavita Philip, Georgia Institute of Technology Postdoctoral Fellows: Erin Elizabeth Clune, PhD New York University; Jacob Eyferth, PhD Leiden University, the Netherlands; Lynn Swartley, PhD University of Pittsburgh 1999-2001 Utopia, Violence, Resistance: Remaking and Unmaking Humanity Project Directors: Omer Bartov and Matt Matsuda This project explored how different periods and cultures have used utopian visions to advance social and political programs, dedicated to creating “new” humanities, with a focus on the particular links between utopia, violence, and resistance. The purpose of the project was to discover why some utopians employ violence to serve political practice and to examine the cultural and historical roots to such practices. Specific themes included how and why utopias engender boundaries, construct plans, relate to memory and seek total solutions. 1999/2000 Senior Fellows: Michael Burleigh, University of Wales (Wallenberg); Scott Spector, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Postdoctoral Fellows: Frank Biess, PhD Brown University; Jeremy Varon, PhD Cornell University 2000/2001 Senior Fellows: Glennys Young University of Washington; Alastair Davidson, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia (Wallenberg) Postdoctoral Fellows: Zvi Ben-Dor, PhD University of California, Los Angeles; Irina Carlota Silber, PhD New York University 1997-1999 The Black Atlantic: Race, Nation, and Gender Project Directors: Deborah Gray White and Mia Bay This project traced the globalization of African culture and the formation of the Black Atlantic since the beginning of the modern slave trade. It aimed to chart a new comparative history of the modern black experience. In mapping the distinctive cultural and political traditions that have shaped the Black Atlantic world, this project put particular emphasis on three broad themes that criss-cross through the history of the Black Atlantic: race, nation, and gender. 1997/1998 Senior Fellow: David Brown, Emory University Postdoctoral Fellows: Michele Mitchell, PhD Northwestern University; Anne Bailey, PhD University of Pennsylvania 1998/1999 Senior Fellow: Clair Cone Robertson, Ohio State University Postdoctoral Fellows: Christopher Brown, PhD Oxford University, England; Jason McGill, PhD Loyola University 1995-1997 Varieties of Religious Experience Project Director: Phyllis Mack This project aimed to chart a new, comparative history of the varieties of spiritual experience. Specifically, the project sought to address the relation between self-expression and self-transcendence, and the relation between religion as a doctrine of universal love and redemption and as the basis of exclusivity and aggression. 1995/1996 Senior Fellow: James Gilbert, University of Maryland Postdoctoral Fellows: Elizabeth McAlister, PhD Yale University; Jacob Meskin, PhD Princeton University 1996/1997 Senior Fellow: Marcia K. Hermansen, San Diego State University Postdoctoral Fellow: Elizabeth Castelli, PhD Barnard College, Columbia University 1993-1995 War, Peace, and Society in Historical Perspective Project Director: John W. Chambers This project encouraged comparative studies of socio-cultural relationships between war and society, more particularly the impact of war, preparation for war, and preparation for peace upon various aspects of society and culture including cultural attitudes, conditions of class, race, ethnicity, and gender, and the process of state-building. 1993/1994 Senior Fellows: Stephen Ambrose, Univ. of New Orleans; Ronald Spector, George Washington Univ. Postdoctoral Fellow: Pamela S. Haag, PhD Yale University 1994/1995 Senior Fellows: Carole Fink, Ohio State University; Barbara Engel, University of Colorado; Jay M. Winter, Cambridge University, England Postdoctoral Fellow: Heide Fehrenbach, PhD Colgate University 1991-1993 Consumer Cultures in Historical Perspectives Project Director: Victoria de Grazia This project moved beyond the conventional debates about mass consumption as a site alternatively of domination or resistance, manipulation or opposition. This project was concerned with how the differing nature of consumption under diverse regimes – whether private or public, individualistic or collectively planned – affects people’s expectations about what they are entitled to, the means they use to organize, and the ways political elites cast their appeal. 1991/1992 Senior Fellows: Avner Offer, University of York; Kathy Peiss, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Postdoctoral Fellows: David Kuchta, PhD University of California, Berkeley; Richard Smith, PhD East-West Center, Honolulu 1992/1993 Senior Fellows: Rachel Bowlby, Sussex University, England; Ellen Furlough, Kenyon College Postdoctoral Fellows: Timothy Burke,PhD Johns Hopkins University; Belinda Davis, PhD University of Michigan 1989-1991 The Historical Constructions of Identities Project Director: John Gillis The purpose of this project was to explore the way identity formation is shaped by the peculiarities of particular cultures, situations, and historical dynamics. The aim was to create an understanding of the way historically constructed individual and collective identities shape the current discussions of domestic and international issues. The ultimate goal of this project was to provide new approaches to the study of identities, and demonstrate how history and other disciplines can benefit by incorporating a cross-disciplinary approach to the study of identities. 1989/1990 Senior Fellows: Roger Bartra, Mexico’s Institute of Social Research; Tamás Hofer, Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Robert Nye, Professor of History at Oklahoma University, E.P. Thompson Postdoctoral Fellows: George Chauncey, PhD Yale University; Jacqueline Urla, PhD University of California, Berkeley 1990/1991 Senior Fellows: Rhys Isaac, Professor of History, La Trobe University, Australia; Robert Thornton, Professor of Anthropology, University of Cape Town, South Africa; Philip Nord, Princeton University Postdoctoral Fellows: Marjorie Beale, PhD University of California, Berkeley; John Burdick, PhD CUNY Graduate Center

Institute for High School Teachers Seminar Photos

Under Construction...

2023-2024 Seminar Schedule

Fall Semester 2023   “Antebellum Black Political and Intellectual Thought” September 22, 2023 Leslie Alexander, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor, Department of History, Rutgers University The early nineteenth century was a time of tremendous turmoil, as the newly independent United States struggled to forge a new nation. Political leaders, seeking to chart a new path forward, found themselves embroiled in endless ideological conflict. At the heart of much of this political strife was the explosive topic of slavery; particularly as the North abandoned their attachment to the international trade in humans and embraced an industrial economy, while the South became even more firmly committed to the expanding system of slavery. In this session, we’ll explore how newly emancipated Black northerners articulated their own political agenda—often also becoming deeply divided over political strategy as they fought for abolition, citizenship, and equality in a country that remained profoundly hostile to their presence. We discuss, in particular, how various Black activists imagined freedom, articulated the need for abolition, pleaded for citizenship, and even considered abandoning the United States entirely.   “Muslims, Christians, and Jews: Interactions Past and Present” October 6, 2023 Paola Tartakoff, Chair and Professor, Department of History and Jewish Studies, Rutgers University This seminar will explore the intertwined histories of Muslims, Christians, and Jews, with a focus on links between the past and the present. We will consider the earliest encounters between Muslims, Christians, and Jews; key developments during the medieval and early modern periods; and the modern legacies of this history. Examining dynamics ranging from peaceful coexistence and cultural cross-influence to persecution, Islamophobia, and antisemitism, we will grapple with a complex subject that is of urgent importance today.    “Gender, Sexuality, and Colonialisms” November 17, 2023 Chie Ikeya, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University Gender and sexuality were imperative for colonial governance. European, American, and Japanese colonial regimes all deployed gender and sexuality in creating and sustaining the kind of political and social orders that yielded the labor and resources on which they depended. Across different colonial empires across the globe, gender and sexuality, together with religion, race, and other intersecting categories of difference, served to rationalize and legitimize oppression and exploitation. These scholarly insights will guide our exploration of both shared and divergent historical experiences of colonialism. Focusing on select case studies, we will seek to understand the various and specific ways that gender and sexuality shaped the goals, strategies, and achievements of modern colonial powers and the marks they left on their respective colonies.    “The World of Henry VIII: Understanding the Tudors” December 8, 2023 Anthony di Battista, Lecturer, Department of History, Rutgers University The history of Henry VIII’s search for an heir continues to fascinate students, artists, and writers nearly 400 years after his death.  This seminar will focus on understanding the larger Tudor world and the forces that shaped Henry and his children’s actions as they sought to remake the English Church and the English State. The seminar will also focus on the clash between Thomas More and Thomas Cromwell and the ways in which that clash has been portrayed in literature and film.   Spring Semester 2024   “Freedom Summer” January 26, 2024 Nicole Burrowes, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Rutgers University In 1964, civil rights organizations, citizens of Mississippi, and student volunteers from across the country came together to challenge segregation in one of the nation’s most racially oppressive states.  In the face of extraordinary violence and economic deprivation, Black Mississippians waged one of the most powerful movements in civil rights history, widely known as “Freedom Summer.” During this campaign, organizers registered African American voters who had been denied the right to vote, organized Freedom Votes, and established Freedom Schools. They created the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, an alternative political party dedicated to unseating the whites-only Mississippi delegation for the Democratic National Convention of 1964. It was a strategic experiment rocked the nation and fundamentally challenged white supremacy in the South. This workshop will draw on film, music and primary sources to examine the history of Freedom Summer, its impact, contradictions, and legacy. We will also situate Freedom Summer in the larger context of the Black Freedom Movement in the United States, the Cold War, independence, and human rights struggles.    “Did the Cold War End? The United States and Russia since the 1980s” February 9, 2024 David Foglesong, Professor, Department of History, Rutgers University  This seminar will examine whether, and if so how, the American-Soviet Cold War ended. We will begin by critically analyzing interpretations that concentrate on the roles of “great men,” particularly Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, in the termination of superpower conflict. Then we will consider arguments about how “citizen diplomats” helped to overcome hostility between the two countries by challenging negative stereotypes, altering popular attitudes, and influencing media depictions. Finally, we will discuss the impact of different ideas about how the Cold War ended – particularly the notions that the United States won the Cold War and that the Cold War ended with the collapse of the USSR in December 1991 – on American-Russian relations from the “new cold war” to the war in Ukraine. The seminar will be led by David Foglesong, a historian of American-Russian relations. His lectures will draw on his books, The American Mission and the “Evil Empire” (2007) and From Distant Friends to Intimate Enemies (forthcoming), as well as on his current research about citizen activism and the end of the Cold War.   “New Histories of the American Soldier during WWII” March 1, 2024 Jennifer Mittlestadt, Professor, Department of History, Rutgers University Perhaps no American war has had more history written about it than WWII.  And yet new sources and new approaches to the study of war continue to yield new stories.  This seminar will use the recent release of a massive, never-before-available collection of World War II-era Army surveys, The American Solider in WWII, combined with new scholarship on the meaning and impact of the wartime experience, to offer three new lessons about the war.  The seminar will touch on new evidence concerning:  the ethnic and racial politics and experiences of soldiers; the attitudes of service personnel toward enemies, allies, the goals the war, and the homefront; and the role played by social science expertise in guiding the US war effort.  It will offer primary and secondary sources for classroom use.   "The Historical Roots of Islamophobia" April 12, 2024 Sandy Russell Jones, Associate Teaching Professor, Department of History and Religion, Rutgers University The term "Islamophobia" is a relatively new one that has only been widely used in the last few decades. The phenomenon it refers to - fear of and hostility toward Islam and/or Muslims - is often assumed to begin with the terrorists attacks of 9/11. While regrettable when directed at innocent Muslims not responsible for the attacks, these negative sentiments are sometimes considered understandable and in extreme cases, perfectly justifiable, as in: "they brought it on themselves." This seminar will explore how not only did Islamophobia not begin with 9/11, but that fear of and hostility toward Islam and Muslims on the part of "the West" has existed as long as Islam itself has existed. What began as a hatred of religious difference that also included anti-Semitism shifted during the Reconquista to the biological concept of blood purity (limpieza de sangre), which became a precursor to the modern concept of race. Scholars of Islamophobia have thus argued that Islamophobia might better be understood as anti-Muslim racism, an argument we will consider and discuss. Additionally, we will examine the ways in which Islamophobia is not only a sort of popular or cultural sentiment, but also a well-financed industry that undergirds US political, military, and economic policies both at home and abroad, helping to ensure the maintenance of global capitalism and the US interest in dominating it   "The Other Italian Renaissance"  April 26, 2024 Samantha Kelly, Professor, Department of History, Rutgers University Renaissance Italy is famous for many things: humanist philosophy, glorious art, and splendid princely courts; political experimentation, intellectual innovation and a vibrant commercial culture. Most of the Renaissance individuals associated with these achievements were Italian Christian men. Yet behind them lay a much more diverse society, one that included enslaved people, non-Christians, non-Europeans, and of course women. They were an integral part of Renaissance society – as the exploited and marginalized who permitted others to prosper, but also individuals who carved out places of opportunity for themselves, and contributed to Renaissance Italy’s economic, intellectual, and political vitality. In this seminar we’ll consider women in relation to the household and the economy, especially in the occupation of prostitution; the enslaved men and women from eastern Europe, central Asia, the Muslim-controlled Mediterranean and sub-Saharan Africa, and their prospects if and when emancipated; and the place in Renaissance society of free minority groups, including Jews and African Christians.   “Teaching the American Revolution during the 250th Anniversary of the War and Independence” May 3, 2024 Paul Clemens, Professor, Department of History, Rutgers University The purpose of this seminar is to discuss recent work that is fundamentally changing the way scholars understand the American Revolution. It is also to explore whether these new understanding should and can replace older narratives, shared by the public and taught in schools and colleges. The 1976 bicentennial did its part in challenging past interpretations of the Revolution, but when the dust settled, the public celebration of the Revolution had been conducted much along the same lines as could have been expected beforehand; historians, for their part, having enthroned some traditional understandings, largely lost interest in the topic. Whatever happens in 2025-6, it will be different. New scholarship makes a much more dramatic break with earlier work; the state teaching standards have already incorporated some of this work; and the political pushback to recent interpretations, if not in New Jersey, then in other states, will become part of the culture wars. In this context, we will start off with a dialogue about an article by Jane Kamensky asking whether historians have gone too far in replacing traditional understandings without offering in their place something that gives students hope that the past can inform the present in positive ways. We will next move to a collective reading of the Declaration of Independence (Jefferson’s draft) and a discussion of how scholars are now interpreting the document. I will then discuss with you some of the best new work on the Revolution: Maya Jasanoff’s Liberty Exiles (2011) – the loyalist diaspora; Kathleen DuVal’s Independence Lost (2016) – on the little remembered, outside of Florida, revolution along the Gulf Coast; Marla Miller’s Betsy Ross (2010); my colleague, Erica Armstrong Dunbar’s Never Caught – on a woman who George Washington had enslaved and who successfully evaded re-enslavement despite Washington’s efforts; and Holger Hoock’s Scars of Independence (2017) – that dramatically dispels any notion that the war itself was anything but brutal, deadly, and bloody. Planning to participate? - I urge you to read Dunbar’s or DuVal’s book this summer.        

Test Video

Project Description

Black Atlantic Atlantic Lecture Series With its name taken from the ground-breaking Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis (RCHA) seminar in the late 1990s sponsored by Deborah Gray White and Mia Bay, this annual lecture series in the Rutgers University Department of History brings speakers to campus to present new scholarship on race, African American and African Diaspora history. The Black Atlantic is intended as a collaborative forum to encourage research, publishing and scholarly community. In addition to offering lectures and symposia, it also sponsors a writing group for graduate students to foster research, publication and support.

Black Atlantic Schedule 2019-20

"Proofs Might Be Multiplied': Calculating Black Worthiness for Citizenship in Antebellum Philadelphia" Meagan Wierda November 13, 2019 12:15-3:00pm Van Dyck Hall 308   Joseph Williams December 21, 2020 12:00-2:30pm Van Dyck Hall 308   Tracey Johnson March 6, 2020 12:00-2:30pm Van Dyck 308  

2012-2015 Project Description

Networks of Exchange: Mobilities of Knowledge in a Globalized World Project Directors: James Delbourgo and Toby Jones How have science, technology and medicine been made by global movement, and how has global movement been shaped by science, technology and medicine? This two-year seminar explores the relationship between varieties of knowledge and practice and the formation of networks that transcend single cultures, nations or regions. If we include Western Europe and North America but deny them the status of “centers,” and suspend judgment about what forms of knowledge should count as modern, western or scientific, what new stories about knowledge and power emerge? The concept of the network helps ground global histories as a series of connected, local interactions across distance, while exchange helps us understand such interactions through attention to differential power relations, unpredictable reciprocities, and multi-directional outcomes that are also political, economic and cultural in character. The program engages with a set of linked questions. Who are the actors in technoscientific networks and how do they function? Recent analyses draw attention to the authority yet instability of the status of intermediaries, brokers, and go-betweens, and their negotiation of sometimes radically different cultural scenes. What identities do such intermediaries assume, what roles do they perform in translating and coordinating between different groups, and how do they establish trust and credibility? How do networks emerge from material environments, and how do they modify those environments? We propose exploration of the non-human elements that sustain networks through which humans come to intervene in the natural world. Attention will be paid to the movement of specific forms of technique and dexterity; technologies and machinery; live entities (animals and plants) treated as resources and specimens; and the collection and circulation of objects. How can we think through the co-agency of humans and things better to understand the relationship between networks and environments? Finally, it seems crucial to ask how even the most far-flung networks (whether those of multinational corporations or early modern trading companies) forge local relationships with specific polities and institutions. The promotional aspect of such networks seems no less important. How have they produced aesthetic projections of a globalized world and their place in it, legitimizing them in the eyes of their publics as authoritative brokers of knowledge and resource across distance? Intellectual and collegial exchanges will be oriented around weekly seminars, in which postdoctoral fellows from outside the university and Rutgers faculty and graduate fellows will be the core participants. Please click here for the 2014-2015 seminar schedule.    

2012-2015 Project Directors

  JAMES DELBOURGO Associate Professor: History of Scienceand Atlantic World Ph.D., Columbia, 2003 M.Phil., Cambridge, 1997 At Rutgers since 2008104 Van Dyck Halljdelbourgo@history.rutgers.edu       Research Interests James Delbourgo is associate professor in the department of history at Rutgers and a historian of early modern science and the colonial Atlantic world. His interests range from physical science and experiment to natural history and travel, and the intersections between them in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, including such topics as history of the body; experimental apparatus; collecting, ethnography, and race; and the movement of objects, specimens and techniques through colonial networks. He has written on the histories of electrical experiments, underwater exploration, race and science, and chemistry and dyeing. He is currently completing a book about early modern collecting centered on Hans Sloane, whose collections the British Museum was created to house in 1753, to be published by Penguin UK and Harvard University Press. This project involves extensive work with museum objects relating to Sloane’s voyage to Jamaica as well as his subsequent collections from around the world. It seeks to address a fundamental historical question: what does it mean to collect in any given time and place? TOBY JONES Associate Professor of History Ph.D., Stanford University, 2006 M.A., Auburn University, 1998 B.A., Auburn University, 1994 At Rutgers since 2007 002B Van Dyck Halltobycjones@yahoo.com     Research Interests Toby Jones is an historian of the modern Middle East. His interests are varied. His scholarship focuses primarily on the political intersections between science, technology, the environment, knowledge production, and the state formation, war, and Islamism. Before joining the history department at Rutgers University, he taught at Swarthmore College. During  2008-2009, he was a fellow at Princeton University’s Oil, Energy and the Middle East project. From 2004 to early 2006, he worked as the political analyst of the Persian Gulf for the International Crisis Group where he wrote about political reform and sectarianism. Professor Jones is author of Desert Kingdom: How Oil and Water Forged Modern Saudi Arabia, published in the fall 2010 with Harvard University Press. He is currently working on a new book project, America’s Oil Wars, also to be published by Harvard University Press. Professor Jones has published articles in The International Journal of Middle East Studies, Middle East Report, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy’s online magazine, the Arab Reform Bulletin, Strategic Insights, and the CTC Sentinel. He has presented his work at the annual meetings of the Middle East Studies Association, the American Historical Association, the Society for the History of Technology, the International Studies Association, and the American Political Science Association. He also presented his research and political analysis at Cornell University, Georgetown University, Harvard University, the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, New York University, Princeton University, Syracuse University, The College of New Jersey, and Yale University.At Rutgers, Professor Jones teaches courses on the Arab-Israeli Conflict, the modern Middle East, oil, the environment in the Middle East, and war and revolution in Iran and Iraq.

2012-2013 "Networks of Exchange" Events

Additional information regarding events will be made available as the dates near.  Please contact rcha@rci.rutgers.edu with questions. Evening Film Screening "The Island President"* Date: Tuesday, October 2 Time: 6:00pm Location: Teleconference Lecture Hall, 4th Floor, Alexander Library *This inspiring documentary is the story of  Mohamed Nasheed, former president of the Maldives, confronting the survival of his country and everyone in it against rising water levels caused by climate change. The film follows Nasheed's first year in office as he seeks to convince the world of the dangers of global warming and get an international agreement to reduce carbon emissions. This event is free.  No registration required.  All are welcome to attend. Click here for a downloadable flyer! Q&A session with the film's producer, Bonni Cohen, and a short reception to follow. *Sponsored by the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis *Co-sponsored by the Centers for Global Advancement and International Affairs and the Rutgers Initiative on Climate and Society Public Lecture Miles Ogborn (Queen Mary, University of London) "The Freedom of Speech: Talk and Slavery in Jamaica and Barbados" Date: Thursday, November 8th Time: 4:30pm Location: Teleconference Lecture Hall, 4th Floor, Alexander Library *Sponsored by the Rutgers British Studies Center *Co-sponsored by the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis and the Black Atlantic Seminar Series

"The Island President" Film Screening

Film Screening Photo Gallery Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012  

"Networks of Exchange" Spring 2015 Seminar Schedule

Project Directors: James Delbourgo and Toby Jones All seminars take place from 11:00 am - 12:30 pm on Tuesdsay in the RCHA's Seminar Room at 88 College Avenue unless noted otherwise.  They are followed by a catered lunch.  Papers for these meetings are available to be picked up at the RCHA one week prior to the seminar date.  Copies of the papers may also be obtained by contacting the RCHA at (848) 932-8701 or rcha@rci.rutgers.edu. February 10: Melissa Aronczyk (RCHA Faculty Fellow, Department of Journalism and Media Studies): “Raw Materials: Natural Resources, Technological Discourse, and the Making of a National Identity"   February 24: Stephen Milder (RCHA Postdoctoral Fellow): "Greening Democracy:  The Movement against Nuclear Energy and the Emergence of Political Environmentalism in Western Europe, 1968 – 1983”   March 10: Andrew Cavin (RCHA Postdoctoral Fellow): “Liminal Anxieties: Race and Culture in Imperial German Ethnology and Society”   March 31: David Singerman (RCHA Postdoctoral Fellow): "Secret Agents of the Gilded Age"   April 14: Donna Murch (Department of History, Rutgers): "Crack in Los Angeles: Policing the Crisis and the War on Drugs"   April 28: Cameron Blevins (RCHA Associate Fellow): “The U.S. Postal Network and the Integration of the American West”  

History of the RCHA

Founded in 1988 as a part of the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis’ outreach program, the Institute for High School Teachers represents a collaboration between New Jersey's secondary teachers and the faculty of Rutgers University. It is one of the Rutgers’s oldest and largest outreach programs for public and private school teachers. Each year we offer a series of new and varied seminars focusing on classroom usable topics in the social sciences and humanities. Participants explore the latest scholarship as well as the use of primary documents and teaching aids (such as videos, images, and electronic resources). The seminars are presented by Rutgers faculty and feature the latest academic research on the seminar topics. We help educators meet state-mandated teaching standards, keep current on changing historical interpretation, and provide certificates for professional development credit. It has been a privilege to partner with New Jersey's teachers for the past 30 years. Thank you to all past participants and welcome to new ones! You can view our current schedule here. Professor Susan R. Schrepfer served as the founding Director of the Rutgers Institute for High School Teachers from 1988 until she passed away in 2014. The Institute's current director is Professor Anthony di Battista. Quiyana Butler joined the institute in 2017 and serves as co-director.
Results 1 - 20 of 111