Federated Department of History at Rutgers University-Newark and NJIT

10/19/2026

Interested in exploring what a Master’s degree in History can do for you? Join us for a virtual open house on Tuesday, November 17, 6-7pm. This online event will provide prospective students an opportunity to learn about the program’s curricula, faculty expertise and funding opportunities.

The Virtual Open House will include:
An overview of the Master of Arts and Master of Arts for Teachers degree options;
Introduction to our department’s areas of specialization in U.S. history, World/Comparative history, and History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine/Health;
Guidance on the application process, deadlines, and financial aid possibilities for qualified candidates; and,
Alumni success stories and career paths for those pursuing a Master’s degree.

🔗Register: go.rutgers.edu/historyopenhouse

10/16/2026

Join us next Friday, October 23 from 11:30AM-1:00PM at NJIT: “The City of Tomorrow: The Spatial Evolution of a City’s Social Spaces” with Myles Zhang

Drawing on century-old maps, phone books, and historical documents, this presentation will use cartography to visualize the social fabric that once existed in Downtown Newark. Churches, clubs, neighborhood associations, union halls, bars, cafés, recreational leagues, and other institutions served as this city’s social spaces. However, state policy, land use laws, mass production, and new technologies reshaped this city’s immigrant neighborhoods.

Older forms of social infrastructure vanished from some neighborhoods: corner stores, social clubs, and labor unions. Newer social spaces emerged in the city: university campuses, sports stadiums, and the offices of multinational corporations.

By charting century-long economic shifts and by mapping the decline of family-owned corner stores in Newark, this visual presentation asks: How can the benefits of technological progress be more evenly distributed? Past technologies
benefited suburbs, but harmed our cities and our society’s civic spaces. Creating a more egalitarian metropolis in the future requires us to wrestle with the transformative social impacts of the new technologies we celebrate.

Myles Zhang is a lifelong Newark resident and now urban historian at the University of Michigan. His research examines how
political power, new technologies, and state policies influence urban design.

10/04/2026

Join us on Wednesday, October 7 from 2:30-3:50p in the HLLC Courtyard at Rutgers-Newark for a special celebration hosted by Clement A. Price Institute!

09/26/2026

We are looking forward to seeing you at today’s Open House at ! Stop by the History table to chat with our Undergraduate Director Prof. Lance Thurner about how a major in History and/or one of our interdisciplinary minors — Ancient and Medieval Civilizations, Asian Studies, Film Studies, Legal Studies, or Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies - can fit with your academic and career plans.

09/15/2026

Congratulations to Prof. Sandy Plácido on the release of the two-volume bilingual special issue of CENTRO (Center for Puerto Rican Studies) on “The Puerto Rican Radical Tradition” that she co-edited! 

You can watch a livestream of the community presentation of the journal at the Puerto Rican Studies Conference The Center for Puerto Rican Studies.

For copies of these issues visit: 
🔗https://centropr-store.com/centro-journal-vol-###viii-no-1-spring-2026

🔗https://centropr-store.com/centro-journal-vol-###viii-no-2-summer-2026

09/14/2026

Congratulations to Prof. Mary Mitchell on her latest achievement! Her work is featured in the online edition of Physics Today and will appear as the cover story in the magazine’s October print issue.

The feature, “The 80-Year Nuclear Legacy in the Marshall Islands,” offers a compelling look at research that also serves as an exciting preview of her forthcoming book, Unsettling Sovereignty.

📖 Read the feature: Physics Today Featurehttps://physicstoday.aip.org/features/the-80-year-nuclear-legacy-in-the-marshall-islands

09/11/2026

25 Years later, how do students learn about 9/11?

In Rutgers–Newark’s course 9/11 and U.S. History, Prof. Timothy Stewart-Winter challenges students to look beyond the events of September 11, 2001, and explore the broader historical forces that shaped the nation before and after the attacks. Through oral history projects, critical discussions, and personal storytelling, students examine how the attacks continue to influence politics, culture, identity, and everyday life.

As Professor Stewart-Winter reminds his students, history is about asking deeper questions, not just learning what happened, but understanding why it matters.

Read the Rutgers News feature at sasn.rutgers.edu
Rutgers-Newark SASN

08/31/2026

We were delighted to meet many of our new graduate students last week and look forward to meeting our undergraduate students at Convocation today!

Looking forward to seeing you around campus ❤️🖤

07/23/2026

The Rutgers University Archaeological Field School in Italy now operates in Fara in Sabina at the site of Cures Sabini! Please follow us on Instagram at "Cures Sabini Excavations"!

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07/21/2026

Check out Prof. Whit Strub’s interview “Perpetual Dislocation” with Screen Slate, NYC’s leading film site:
www.screenslate.com/articles/perpetual-dislocation-conversation-about-robert-kramer-whitney-strub