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Historical Studies

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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.

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Activities

Urban Natures Meeting

May 6, 2025, 1 p.m.

The Plant at the End of the World: Perspectives on Invasives from the Plant Humanities

April 28, 2025, 4:30 p.m.

Early Modern Connected Histories Writing Retreat

April 13, 2025, 8:30 a.m.

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Groups

HS1: Scientific Norms and the Concept of the Normal
Inactive since: 2021
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
HS3: Urban Humanities
Open to New People Inactive since: 2023
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
  • University of Rochester
  • Hamilton College
HS9: HIV/AIDS Activism and Public Health
Open to New People Inactive since: 2022
  • Cornell University
  • University of Rochester
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
HS10: Labor and American Political Development
Active since: 2020 Closed Group of Collaborators
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
HS11: The Central New York Early Americas Consortium
Open to New People Active since: 2020
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
HS12: China in the World, Past and Present
Open to New People Active since: 2021
  • Cornell University
  • Skidmore College
  • St. Lawrence University
HS13: Research and Narrative in Modern European History
Open to New People Active since: 2021
  • Syracuse University
  • University of Rochester
HS2: Slow Historical Studies
HS4: Late Antiquity
Closed Group of Collaborators Inactive since: 2023
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
  • Colgate University
  • Le Moyne College
HS5: Environmental Humanities
Open to New People
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
HS6: History and Technology of the Book
HS7: Apostolic Legends: Imagining Early Christianity from the Local to the Global
HS8: Mediterranean Seminar
HS14: Womanist Genealogies: Community Building through Education and Religious Embodiment
Closed Group of Collaborators Inactive since: 2022
  • University of Rochester
  • St. Lawrence University
  • Union College
HS15: Urban Natures
Open to New People Active since: 2022
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
HS16: Early Modern Connected Histories
Open to New People Active since: 2022
  • Syracuse University
  • Hamilton College
HS17: Modern Latin American History
Open to New People Active since: 2025
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
HS18: Workshop for Monographs Using Historical Methods
Active since: 2025 Closed Group of Collaborators
  • Syracuse University
  • Hamilton College
  • Union College