The History Majors’ Committee
The History Majors’ Committee (HMC), headed by the department’s Academic Intern, plays an important role in creating a community connecting students and faculty, which goes beyond the classroom. They have organized events such as our annual Pizza Party, Faculty/Student jeopardy, senior thesis presentations as well as conversations about positionality and methodology within History. Working closely with faculty supervisors, the HMC also publishes fall and spring issues of Gulliver, the departmental newsletter, along with annual volumes of the Vassar History Review featuring student research papers.
Committee Members
- Peter Adams
- Julian Balsley
- Helena D. Bekele
- Natalie Buzzell
- Rosila Elebyjian
- Sabina Hawks
- Bekir Hodzic
- Jackson Hrebin
- Jane Hurley
- Willa Jewitt
- Sirui (Mia) Lyu
- Benjamin Masur
- Sofia Mattos Brito
- Ella Maurice
- Bodie Morein
- Grace Mounday
- Ava Salvati
- Benjamin Savel
- Sara Shepherd
- Jazmine Williams
Areas of Interest
Nation, Colony, Borderland, and Frontier
- Colonialism, imperialism, post-colonialism, frontiers and conquests
- Nation Building, Nationalism
- Migration, Immigration, Frontiers, Borderlands
- Cultural exchange
Gender, Race, Class, and Family
- Women, gender, sexuality
- Family, childhood, youth
- Class and Social Rank, oligarchies, social reform
- Race, Ethnicity, anti-semitism, race relations, genocide
Conflict, Resolution, Rights, and Revolution
- War, militarization, conflict and society
- Human Rights, Social Rights, citizenship
- Revolution, Rebellion, Resistance Movements
Power, Politics, Labor, and Capital
- Politics, Political Thought and Culture
- Foreign Relations, diplomacy
- Economic History, capitalist development, industrialization
- Slavery, Bonded Labor
Ideas, Religion, Culture, and Education
- Technology, Medicine and Science
- Religion and Society
- Intellectual History, Ideas, Education history and Literature
- Cultural History
City, Region, Environment, and the Transnational
- Environmental History
- Urban History, cities
- Transnational History
- Transnational social movements
Memory, Survey, and Historical Method
- Historical Method, Memory and Public Memory
- Survey Course—No one or two dominant themes
Header image: Artist Unknown, Untitled [Four Women in Parade Attire Step Forward with Hands on Hips], 1946, Gelatin silver print, Gift of Peter J. Cohen, Photo credit: The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
