Xiaofei Gao, Assistant Professor of History, has been awarded a 2023 Luce/ACLS Early Career Fellowship in China Studies . This program is made possible by a major grant from the Henry Luce Foundation , and is administered by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the leading representative of American...

Xiaofei Gao, an Assistant Profession in History, was on the panel, " Labor and Knowledge Production in Modern Northeast Asia ," which won the Hilary Conroy Award at the Association of Asian Studies (AAS) annual conference in Boston, March 16-19, 2023. This award recognizes academic excellence in AAS Annual Conference...

The Denver Public Library is honoring History alum David Duffield with the Eleanor Gehers Award for his outstanding work with the Western History and Genealogy Department for collecting archives as part of the Colorado LGBTQ project for The Center on Colfax. This partnership has added 28 collections to the Western...

Associate Professor of History Gabriel Finkelstein’s essay "Paris or Berlin? Claude Bernard’s rivalry with Emil du Bois-Reymond" has been published in a special issue of History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences devoted to re-appraising Claude Bernard’s legacy. Finkelstein says, “I am honored to be the sole American scholar contributing...

Last Month Michelle Rich, Graduate student in History and Social Studies Teacher at East High School, had the opportunity to participate in the National Humanities Center’s More than a Slogan: Understanding the Historical Context of Black Lives Matter . This weeklong institute situated the Black Lives Matter movement in the...

Assistant Professor of History Rachel Gross, Clinical Associate Professor of History Cameron Blevins and Associate Professor of English Michelle Comstock all recently won a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant to pursue a digital walking tour and curriculum project related to Auraria's history. Recovering Auraria’s Past: Building a Digital...

Cameron Blevins, Associate Professor Clinical Teaching Track in History, and Professor John Tinnell of English, are part of an inter-campus team that received the CU Next Award for their project, Data Advocacy for All. The $300,000 grant, received in May, will soon provide students with the opportunity to learn how...

Gabriel Finkelstein, Associate Professor of History, was recently interviewed about his motives for engaging with science and society by Ilja Bohnet for his blog Spannungsfeld . Bohnet (a particle physicist who works as a Chief Research Manager at the largest scientific organization in Germany, Helmholtz Association) became interested in Finkelstein’s...

Marjorie Levine-Clark, Professor of History and Associate Dean for Diversity, Outreach, and Initiatives, recently published a four-volume collection of British primary sources on Work and Unemployment, 1834-1911 (New York: Routledge, 2022), with extensive editorial commentary. The volumes explore the interdependent meanings attached to work and unemployment, working-class men’s and women’s...

Gabriel Finkelstein, Associate Professor of History, now on sabbatical as a visiting fellow, published an interview with Bordeaux Neurocampus , the neuroscience Department of Bordeaux University. Finkelstein is working with the Neuroscience, Humanities and Society team of the Institute of Neurodegenerative Diseases.