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Welcome
Located in the heart of Washington, D.C., The George Washington University History
department is an intellectual community of faculty,
graduate students, undergraduates, and many associates and
friends.
With more than 30 full-time faculty, varied
both in specialization and research methods, The George
Washington University is an ideal place to study fields as
diverse as modern Africa, early modern Europe, the history of
colonialism and imperialism, modern America, and the Cold War.
Home to some of the most important research repositories and
archives in the world, Washington is a unique and exciting
place to study history. Studying History at GW provides
students with the knowledge and analytical tools necessary for
success in a wide range of careers and professions.
Departmental News
The History Department welcomes six new full-time faculty members.
Prof. Eric Arnesen (PhD Yale) comes from the University of Illinois-Chicago. He specializes in American labor and African-American history and is the author of Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class, and Politics, 1863-1923 and Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality.
Erin D. Chapman (PhD Yale) will join us in Fall 2010 as an Assistant Professor specializing in African-American History. She formerly taught at the University of Mississippi and is completing a book manuscript entitled “Prove It On Me: Gender, Popular Culture, and Politics in the New Negro Era.” In 2009-10 she will have a Ford Foundation Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Princeton Center for African-American Studies.
Ben Hopkins (PhD Cambridge) will be our new world historian beginning in January 2010. He has been a research fellow at both Cambridge and the London School of Economics, and is the author of The Making of Modern Afghanistan.
Jenna Weissman Joselit (PhD Columbia) is the new Charles E. Smith Professor of Jewish Studies. She had been teaching at Princeton and is the author of several books, including The Wonders of America: Reinventing Jewish Culture, 1880-1950, New York's Jewish Jews: The Orthodox Community in the Interwar Years, and A Perfect Fit: Clothes, Character, and the Promise of America.
Jisoo Kim will be the Korea Foundation Assistant Professor of Korean history. She will be receiving her PhD from Columbia University this fall for her dissertation "Voices Heard: Women's Right to Petition in Late Choson Korea." She will join us at GW in Fall 2010 after serving this academic year as a Visiting Scholar at the Kyujanggak Institute of Seoul National University.
Katrin Schultheiss (PhD Harvard), who previously taught at Illinois-Chicago, is an Associate Professor of French History. She is the author of Bodies and Souls: Politics and the Professionalization of Nursing in France, 1880-1922. She is currently writing a book on the Charcot family, whose members were some of the most famous scientists and explorers in early twentieth-century France..
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