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Account of the History Department of the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences at Baruch College. We're committed to both excellence in undergraduate teaching & cutting-edge research.
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Baruch History Department @baruchhistory.bsky.social · Aug 21
🚨TENURE TRACK JOB OPENING🚨 South Asian History

We are looking to hire an assistant professor who specializes in the history of South Asia to join our department at @baruch.cuny.edu. Information and link to apply here: cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
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On November 13, @baruch.cuny.edu @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social history professor, Anna Boozer, will be presenting at the prestigious E. Adelaide Hahn Memorial Lecture at @huntercollege.bsky.social.
Discovering Daily Life in Roman Egypt. Thursday, 13 November 2025. 5pm-7pm. Hunter College at 68th Street and Lexington Avenue. Hemmerdinger Screening Room. 706 East Building (Library). Please bring photo ID to visitors Center in the Lobby of the Hunter West Building.
November 7, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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🚨Tenure track job. Final alert🚨
The @cuny.edu @baruch.cuny.edu history department is accepting applications for the position of assistant professor of the history of South Asia. Deadline is NOVEMBER 15.
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November 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Our catalog of electives for the @baruch.cuny.edu spring 2026 semester is published! From ancient Rome to the US in the 1990s, everything has a history - and we're covering it next semester!
History Department. Spring 2026 Electives. In Spring 2026, history is revolutionary. In addition to our innovative electives. Look out for events related to our ongoing 250: An Independent History Series. As we mark 250 years of United States independence, the History Department is organizing workshops, events, and talks about this important event. Join us, and the entire Baruch community, in understanding the context and ideas that led to independence, and what they mean to us today. HIS 3012 – The Ancient World: Rome Class: 26420 Section: EMA Days & Times: Mo 2:30-3:45pm Instructor: Charlotte Fiehn Instruction Mode: Hybrid asynchronous Prerequisites: One 1000-level history course or instructor permission 3 hours, 3 credits This course will survey the history of Rome from its beginnings to the fourth century CE. It will consider the political, economic, religious, social, and cultural developments of the Romans in the context of Rome's growth from a small settlement in central Italy to the dominant power in the Mediterranean world. Special attention will be given to such topics as urbanism, imperialism, the development of Roman law, and the influence of Greek culture. The course will introduce different types of sources: literary, epigraphically, archaeological, etc. and students will learn how to use them as historical documents. HIS 3363 – Topics in European History – Atlantic Revolutions Class: 26772 Section: ETA Days & Times: Tu 2:30-3:45 Instructor: Elizabeth Heath Instruction Mode: Hybrid Asynchronous Prerequisites: One 1000-level history course or instructor permission 3 hours, 3 credits 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence. This class will explore this pivotal event, situating it within a much larger context of Atlantic revolutions that includes the French and Haitian Revolutions. We will explore the economic, political, cultural, social, and intellectual context out of which these three revolutions arose as well as the competing definitions of liberty, equality, fraternity, and property they generated. HIS 3430 – World War II: A Global History Class: 27483 Section: DMWA Days & Times: MoWe 12:50-2:05 Instructor: Thomas Heinrich Instruction Mode: In person Prerequisites: One 1000-level history course or instructor permission 3 hours, 3 credits This course examines the military, political, and social history of World War II, a global conflict that cost more than 55 million lives and fundamentally transformed world affairs. Topics include: the war’s origins in Europe and Asia; military strategies; major battles in key war theatres; industrial mobilization; and genocide. HIS 3460 – Topics in American History – America in the 1990s Class: 46918 Section: EMWA Days & Times: MoWe 2:30-3:45 Instructor: Katharine Uva Instruction Mode: In person Prerequisites: One 1000-level history course or instructor permission 3 hours, 3 credits This course examines the major political, social, and cultural trends shaping American life in the 1990s. Topics include: changing geopolitical relationships after the end of the Cold War, domestic terrorism, the rise of personal computers and the internet, neoliberalism, culture wars and pop culture trends. We will also consider the legacy of the 1990s and how the decade has been remembered since it ended. HIS 3860 – Special Topics in African, Asian, and Latin America – Oral History and Ethnographic Methods in Africana History Class: 27835 Section: NETA Days & Times: N/a Instructor: T.J. Desch-Obi Instruction Mode: Online asynchronous Prerequisites: One 1000-level history course or instructor permission 3 hours, 3 credits Many pre-colonial African societies did not have a writing tradition, therefore since the advent of African history as a discipline, it has focused on very distinct methodologies from other historians. These are not merely last-resort recourse for those who lack access to more traditional archival sources, but rather constitute archives themselves that irrevocably adjust our perspective on the past and its relationship to our present. This course covers three topics: (1) learning about the range of ethnographic methods of African historians, (2) a focus on the benefits and challenges of oral history in the reconstruction of the Africana past (3) learning how to conduct and use oral history. The overriding emphasis will be on the production of a professionally conducted, transcribed, and contextualized oral history project. This course requires a willingness to learn digital methods of submitting course projects to archival preservation.
October 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Congrats to @baruch.cuny.edu history department's Gabriel Tennen on his recent and timely article in @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social on what history can tell us about the New York mayoral election. www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/mam...
Vital City | Bringing the Fun Back to Fun City: Mamdani, Mailer and Breslin
What the mayoral frontrunner seems to have learned from the insurgents of a half-century ago
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October 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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LARR 60.3 is out now! My article on Sor Juana and her transoceanic enigmas:
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Was Sor Juana a Sphinx? Monstrosity and the Poetics of Dedication in Her Transoceanic Enigmas | Latin American Research Review | Cambridge Core
Was Sor Juana a Sphinx? Monstrosity and the Poetics of Dedication in Her Transoceanic Enigmas - Volume 60 Issue 3
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October 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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🚨Upcoming faculty publication! Congrats to @baruch.cuny.edu history prof. @zoegriffith.bsky.social on the upcoming publication of her new book, Egypt's Mediterranean, with @ucpress.bsky.social. www.ucpress.edu/books/egypts...
Cover of the book, Egypt's Mediterranean: Muslim Merchants and the Business of Empire in the Eighteenth Century by Zoe Griffith
October 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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The @baruch.cuny.edu community is invited to our kick-off event for the series, 250: An Independent History. We're marking 250 years of US Independence in 2025-26 and we're kicking off the event with our very own distinguished historian, Carol Berkin. See you on October 23!
The Declaration of Independence at 250: New Perspectives. Featuring Presidential Professor of History, Emerita, Carol Berkin. Thursday, October 23, 12:30, NVC 14-250
October 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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This First Friday @baruch.cuny.edu Weissman School of Arts and Sciences Newsletter features our department! Check out the recent exciting news, events, and accomplishments: myemail.constantcontact.com/HISTORY-EDIT...
HISTORY EDITION - Baruch College Ranks No. 1
Email from Weissman School of Arts and Sciences The Weissman Newsletter No Images Displaying? View as Webpage. NEWS AND UPDATES October 3, 2025 Announcing the New Department Spotlight Rotation Start
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October 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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🚨Tenure-track job🚨
Applications close on November 15, 2025 for an assistant professor position specializing on the history of South Asia at @cuny.edu @baruch.cuny.edu. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37877043...
Baruch College - Assistant Professor - History of South Asia - New York City, New York (US) job with Baruch College | 37877043
Job Title: Baruch College - Assistant Professor - History of South Asia  Job Description: “At Baruch College we believe that student success is eve...
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October 1, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Congrats to @baruch.cuny.edu history prof. @profbrooks.bsky.social for your new book from @ucpress.bsky.social.
profbrooks.bsky.social Charlotte Brooks🏳️‍🌈/夏黎 (夏洛特布魯克斯) @profbrooks.bsky.social · Sep 21
In between everything else in the world, I have a book coming out with @ucpress.bsky.social. Preorder is available now for The Moys of New York and Shanghai: One Family’s Extraordinary Journey Through War and Revolution, a family saga of six Chinese American siblings and their spouses.
The Moys of New York and Shanghai by Charlotte Brooks - Hardcover
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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September 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Today @baruch.cuny.edu history professor @markricehistory.bsky.social was interviewed by @cnnipr.bsky.social about controversies surrounding #MachuPicchu.
markricehistory.bsky.social Mark Rice @markricehistory.bsky.social · Sep 19
Thanks to @cnnipr.bsky.social @kimbrunhuber.bsky.social for hosting me to talk about recent conflicts over tourism and preservation at #MachuPicchu x.com/kimbrunhuber...
Screenshot of tweet of an interview between Kim Brunhuber and Mark Rice with the text: The designation of Machu Picchu as a world wonder is at risk after protests and overcrowding. Many fear Peru's government is "uninterested" in the "preservation of the site and the lives of the people that depend on tourism" says Mark Rice at Baruch College.
September 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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We're excited to once again host the New York City Latin American History Workshop at @baruch.cuny.edu. Check out the presenters, our schedule, and registration info:
New York City Latin American History Workshop. Pre-registration required. Fridays 11am-1pm. Baruch College, Room 8-210. Presenters: September 26: Rafael Cesar (Princeton University) "Factionalism: The Cuban-Angolan Politics of Racelessness at the Dawn of Angolan Independence (1975-1979) October 31: Pablo Pryluka (City College of New York) "Advertising: Does This Business Kill? Consuming Development in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile" November 21: T.J. Desch-Obi (Baruch College) "With the Flat of a Machete: The History of Afro-Colombian Martial Arts." February 6: Emmanuel Velayos (Hostos Community College) "The Provisional State: Simón Rodriguez and the Layout of Hybrid Republics." March 6: Melissa Teixeira (University of Pennsylvania) "The Price of Democracy: The Plano Cruzado and the Limits of Economic Reform in 1980s Brazil." April 17: Nicolas Allen (Stony Brook University) "Noisy Neighbors and Intimate Sounds: The Phonograph in Early 20th-Century Brazil." To register and receive the workshop paper, please contact Stephanie Luciano, stephanie.lucianoperez@baruch.cuny.edu
September 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Congrats to Prof. Anna Boozer. Her book, At Home in Roman Egypt: A Social Archaeology, is now available in paperback: www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
Faculty Authors. Congratulations to Prof. Anna Boozer on her new book - At Home in Roman Egypt: A Social Archaeology.
September 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Congrats to Baruch history prof. Martina Nguyen on the opening of her new co-curated exhibition, The Vietnamese Áo Dài in a Time of War.
September 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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And a new semester dawns on Baruch. We're looking forward to starting a new academic year with returning students and new members of the Baruch community at @cuny.edu
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August 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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***Job Opportunity***

Assistant Professor - History of South Asia, Baruch College ( @baruchhistory.bsky.social )

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August 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Hi, @nellstra.bsky.social! Can you do us a favor and add our job to your list? We're excited to add a new colleague to our department.
baruchhistory.bsky.social Baruch History Department @baruchhistory.bsky.social · Aug 21
🚨TENURE TRACK JOB OPENING🚨 South Asian History

We are looking to hire an assistant professor who specializes in the history of South Asia to join our department at @baruch.cuny.edu. Information and link to apply here: cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
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August 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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🚨TENURE TRACK JOB OPENING🚨 South Asian History

We are looking to hire an assistant professor who specializes in the history of South Asia to join our department at @baruch.cuny.edu. Information and link to apply here: cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
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August 21, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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FYI!
May 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Yesterday, students from our History of Tourism class taught by @markricehistory.bsky.social organized a historical walking tour of Madison Sq. Park. Students researched and presented about various sites in and around the park - part of our department's commitment to experiential learning.
April 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Congrats to Baruch history prof. @markricehistory.bsky.social. His work is published in the new series, Perú Global from the Fondo Editorial de la Universidad del Pacífico in Lima.
markricehistory.bsky.social Mark Rice @markricehistory.bsky.social · Apr 1
Fue un placer participar en el proyecto (ahora libro!) "Perú global: Explicar el Perú con el mundo."

Aquí portada y contratapa del primer volumen!
Portada del libro Perú global Contraportada del libro Perú global
April 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Women's History Month spotlight: students in "Women and Gender during the Cold War" conduct research on relevant topics of their choice, focusing on methodologies of gender history. Learn about their research at Baruch's Reseach and Creative Inquiry Expo in May! blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/history/?p=336
Truck supervisor Bernard Levey with his family in front of their home in the new Levittown, Pa., housing development in 1950. (Bernard Hoffman/Time Life/Getty Images)
March 31, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Students in our Women and Gender in the Middle East course use @wikieducation.bsky.social to improve Wikipedia articles on relevant topics. Today's student profile is history major William Alex Wong, expanding an article on Women in Palestine. blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/history/?p=327 #WomensHistoryMonth
Map titled, "Palestine, with the Hauran, and the adjacent districts," published by Charles Knight & Co in 1843.
March 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Thank you, Parsons School of Design prof. Dr. Jonathan Michael Square for presenting at the history department's Friedman Lecture on Tuesday. Dr. Square presented on how curators document and curate Black visual culture and later met with history students.
Dr. Brown giving a lecture on Black visual culture. Dr. Brown meeting with Baruch history students
March 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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For Women's History Month, we're recognizing the excellent work of students in @zoegriffith.bsky.social's course Women & Gender in the Middle East, in which students edit Wikipedia pages on relevant topics. History major Amalia Parrish researchs Islamic clothing: blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/history/?p=323
March 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM