Support

We are pleased to share a newly launched campaign that will provide an endowment for the History Department’s Institute for Historical Studies. Initiated by the History Department Visiting Committee, this campaign aims to ensure that the Institute will remain on solid footing for the future.

Located in Garrison Hall, the Institute is the intellectual heart and soul of the department—hosting talks, workshops, and conferences; promoting the work of younger scholars; bringing together colleagues from other departments and colleges around the university to discuss common interests from multidisciplinary perspectives; awarding internal and external fellowships that allow historians time to pursue their own research; and reaching out to the community by making accessible to all the results of cutting-edge research.

Audiences for Institute events include faculty, undergraduates, and graduate students; colleagues from a variety of disciplines; and non-academics who love history. Our programming reflects not only the research of our faculty and fellows, but also the commemoration of major events in the past, and compelling issues behind today’s headlines. The Institute is a model of public engagement as well as scholarly enterprise.