The Historian

Over winter break, Prof. Austin Mason is looking to hire up to 5 students for his NEH-funded project developing Virtual Reality experiences around Viking Longships and how they were built, rowed, sailed, and…

How Oct. 7 changed higher ed—and how to move forward now(opens in a new tab) Amna Khalid, associate professor of history and director of Asian studies, and Jeff Snyder ’97, associate professor…

Associate Professor Amna Khalid was featured in Inside Higher Ed‘s article, asking higher education leaders and thinkers to take stock of last year’s events and offer a vision for the…

Check out what Prof. Willis has been researching while working on his next book!

Antony Adler ’06, lecturer in history, presented a paper titled, “The secret lives of giant squid: How photography, taxidermy, and unexpected encounters with deep-sea creatures shaped perceptions of the abyss”…

Bill North, professor of history, received a grant to help Carleton faculty examine the theory and practices of reflective writing and sustained dialogue as character-building practices that support student learning,…

Austin Mason, director of Digital Arts and Humanities and lecturer in History, presented a paper co-authored by Lily Haas ’24, Maddie Smith ’24, Jack Ochoa-Andersen ’24, Kritika Pandit ’26, and colleagues from Grinnell College titled,…

History professor, Serena Zabin, has been awarded the Robert C. Ritchie Distinguished Fellowship in Early American History at The Huntington Library in San Marino, California. This nine-month residential fellowship will…

Your journey begins in Birmingham, Alabama…

On Our Own Terms contextualizes recent federal education legislation against the backdrop of two hundred years of education funding and policy to explore two critical themes…