NDAH focuses on themes and topics in North American history, serving as the primary home for the University of Chicago’s Americanists. We also welcome participation from outside students and faculty and are inclusive of projects that bring interdisciplinary methods and theoretical frameworks to bear on diverse historical questions and problems while remaining mindful of their legal and sociocultural resonances in the present day.

The Religions in America Workshop explores the role of religion in American culture from the colonial period to the present. Our goal is to better understand the complex ways in which religious traditions, practices, and concerns shape and respond to the American experience. To that end, this interdisciplinary workshop will consider American religion’s relevance and relation to other categories such as race, gender, economics, politics, and literature. We will consider work from a variety of methodological and theoretical perspectives, in keeping with the most current trends in the study of religion in America.

Gradual Abolition, Black Legal Culture, and the Making of National Freedom

Check out the latest alumni publication from Sarah L.H. Gronningsater

12-14 March 2026 – Hong Kong

The American Revolution is often told as a national story. Yet it was also part of a series of world events which culminated in a global age of imperial crisis lasting from the 1760s through the 1820s. That crisis was simultaneously intellectual, cultural, political, social, and economic. In some places, established empires lost power. In others, new empires took shape. In the Americas, Asia, Europe, and elsewhere local forces demanded change. Was the American Revolution paradigmatic? Did the age of global imperial crisis have a center?

The centre of reference in France and in Europe on the histories and legacies of the American Revolution.

Based in France, AMERICA2026 is a collaborative program of scholarly events, publications and resources centred on the histories and legacies of the American Revolution in comparative European and transatlantic perspective. It brings together senior and junior researchers from France, Europe, the United States, Japan and Mexico contributing collaboratively and in a global and decentred perspective to the debates and the academic and cultural productions surrounding the commemorations of the 250th anniversary of the independence of the United States in 2026.

Lauren Berlant 3CT Graduate Student Conference

Power and Personality in Contemporary Capitalism

Deadline for paper proposals: Friday, June 13, 2025

Conference dates: November 7–8, 2025

We invite contributions from graduate students from a wide range of disciplines, including, but not limited to, history, anthropology, political theory, philosophy, sociology, and economics.

To apply, submit an abstract (max. 300 words) and a CV by Friday, June 13, at 11:59 pm CT. 

This conference is organized by Kaya Colakoglu, Max Hancock, Alec Israeli, and Olivia Jenkins.