History

Remarks and awards for seniors and their families in the Abernethy room (221) with a joint reception in the Axinn Center Winter Garden at 4:30 p.m.

Come join the History Department faculty and other students for an informal brown bag lunch and casual conversation. All are welcome: department majors and minors, students taking a History class, faculty, anyone who wants to talk about the Smoot-Hawley Tariff…. We don’t judge.

Come join the History Department faculty and other students for an informal brown bag lunch and casual conversation. All are welcome: department majors and minors, students taking a History class, faculty, anyone who wants to talk about the Smoot-Hawley Tariff…. We don’t judge.

Come join the History Department faculty and other students for an informal brown bag lunch and casual conversation. All are welcome: department majors and minors, students taking a History class, faculty, anyone who wants to talk about the Smoot-Hawley Tariff…. We don’t judge.

Abstract: Two big earthquakes hit Turkey and Syria on February 6. Thousands of buildings collapsed, and hundreds of thousands became trapped under the rubble. So far more than 21,000 lost their lives, and many more are injured. The death toll is estimated to reach 200,000 as more bodies are recovered. Entire cities and villages have been destroyed. With more than 10 million people left homeless, some doubly by war and now natural disaster, the earthquake stands as one of the biggest humanitarian crises of this century.

Benjamin Madley is an historian of Native America, the United States, and colonialism in world history. Educated at Yale and Oxford, he is Associate Professor of History and a member of the American Indian Studies Program at UCLA. He has authored or co-authored twenty journal articles and book chapters. His essays have appeared in journals ranging from The American Historical Review, California History, European History Quarterly, and the Journal of British Studies to the Journal of Genocide Research, Pacific Historical Review, and The Western Historical Quarterly.

Midd.Data welcomes historian Dan Bouk, Associate Professor and Chair of History, Colgate. to speak on Democracy’s Data: The Hidden Stories of the U.S. Census and How to Read Them (Macmillan, 2022).

 Dr. Jeremy Greene, MD, PhD, will discuss his latest book The Doctor who Wasn’t There: Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth (University of Chicago Press, 2022) which traces the long arc of enthusiasm for—and skepticism of—electronic media in health and medicine. This lecture also celebrates the launch of the new History of Science, Medicine, and Technology (HSMT) major at Middlebury.

Dr. Jeremy Greene, MD, PhD, will discuss how Humanities majors provide a critical and much-needed pathway to those seeking careers in the healthcare profession and/or in attending medical school. Lunch will be served at 12:15 PM.