Historical Studies

About

Activities in this cluster explore historical questions across interdisciplinary contexts and also engage with history as a discipline. Working groups cross temporal, regional, cultural, and national boundaries, draw on comparative, transnational, and global perspectives and use thematic approaches to historical questions, and address various theoretical, methodological, and political debates in historical inquiry. Activities include, but are not limited to, collaborations in (and across): social history; labor studies and economic history; early modern studies; race, gender, sexuality, and disability studies; social movement history; political history/political thought; history of science and medicine; intellectual history; and histories of empire, colonialism, and settler colonialism.

Topics

Activities

A Den of Thieves: ‘Indian Rings’ and the Reservation Plunder System, 1851-1887

April 13, 2023, 5 p.m.

Discussion of Georgia Frank, Unfinished Christians: Ritual Objects and Silent Subjects in Late Antiquity

April 21, 2023, 4 p.m.

Spring 2023 Presentations - Works in Progress

May 8, 2023, 10 a.m.

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Groups

HS1: Scientific Norms and the Concept of the Normal
Active since: 2018
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
HS3: Urban Humanities
Open to New People Active since: 2018
  • Syracuse University
  • University of Rochester
  • Cornell University
  • Hamilton College
HS9: HIV/AIDS Activism and Public Health
Open to New People Active since: 2019
  • University of Rochester
  • Cornell University
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
HS10: Labor and American Political Development
Inactive since: 2021
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
HS11: The Central New York Early Americas Consortium
Active since: 2020 Open to New People
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
HS12: Legitimating the State: International Orders and Political Imaginations of China, 1300-present
Open to New People Active since: 2021
  • Cornell University
  • Colgate University
  • Skidmore College
HS13: Research and Narrative in Modern European History
Active since: 2021 Open to New People
  • Syracuse University
  • University of Rochester
HS2 Slow Historical Studies
Inactive since: 2019
HS4 Late Antiquity
Active since: 2013 Closed Group of Collaborators
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
  • Le Moyne College
  • Colgate University
HS5: Environmental Humanities
Active since: 2019 Open to New People
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
HS6 History and Technology of the Book
Inactive since: 2019
HS7 Apostolic Legends: Imagining Early Christianity from the Local to the Global
Inactive since: 2020
HS8 Mediterranean Seminar
Inactive since: 2020
HS14: Womanist Genealogies: Community Building through Education and Religious Embodiment
Active since: 2021 Closed Group of Collaborators
  • University of Rochester
  • Union College
  • St. Lawrence University
HS15: Urban Natures
Active since: 2022 Open to New People
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
HS16: Early Modern Connected Histories
Active since: 2022 Open to New People
  • Syracuse University
  • Hamilton College