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03/20/2023
Excited to share the latest updates from the RIT Department of History:
RIT History March Newsletter The March 2023 Newsletter March 2023 University archivist Elizabeth Call (center in right photo) shows students in Dr. Tamar Carroll’s class examples of assistive technologies from the Lee Brody Colle
02/17/2023
Congratulations, Dr. Scales!
Congratulations to Dr. Rebecca Scales, Department of History, who was recently awarded a Miller Fellowship for her book “Polio and its Afterlives: Disability and Epidemic Disease in Twentieth Century France” — the first book-length scholarly study of polio and its survivors in France.
Her book brings histories of epidemic disease, public health, and medicine into sustained conversation with the social and cultural history of disability; uncovers how polio shaped France’s welfare policies and institutions, spurred vaccine and biomedical research, and mediated France’s geopolitical status in an era of decolonization and rising American predominance; and demonstrates how polio survivors—speaking as patients, activists, and professionals—played a critical role in shaping health care policies, the provision of medical and social services, and popular perceptions of disease and disability.
Earning the Miller Fellowship will allow her to complete much of the book manuscript and send a proposal sample chapters to publishers in the summer of 2024.
11/10/2022
Happy to share the November 2022 RIT History Newsletter, featuring a great profile of our pre-med double major Sabrina:
RIT History November Newsletter The November 2022 Newsletter ft. History Major Sabrina Torbit November 2022 Museum Studies majors and students in U.S. Women’s and Gender History on a field trip to Auburn, New York in September, wher
09/19/2022
Stop by our open house this Friday at 1 for refreshments, conversation, and an exciting talk on the history of piracy by Visiting Lecturer Jim Rankine!
03/16/2022
Happy to share the March History Department Newsletter, with lots of exciting coming events for this spring!
RIT History March Newsletter The March 2022 Newsletter ft. Dr. Juilee Decker March 2022 Museum Studies majors Emma Nastro and Kristen Walker help install the satellite exhibition of HIV/AIDS Education Posters, “Up Against the Wal
02/21/2022
RIT History February Newsletter The February 2021 Newsletter ft. Rich Newman & Corinna Schlombs February 2022 RIT’s Infinity Quad in the Snow. Photo Credit: T. Carroll As we approach the two year anniversary of RIT closing campus du
01/25/2022
Join us this Thursday either in person or via Zoom to learn about Rochester's Black Freedom Struggle:
12/20/2021
Happy to share our inaugural RIT History Department Newsletter:
RIT History December Newsletter The December 2021 Newsletter ft. Michael Brown & Siyin Zhao December 2021 Stunning November leaves outside the Carlson Center for Imagining Science at RIT. Photo: T. Carroll It was a beautiful fall he
10/07/2021
Great article about Professor Juilee Decker's collaborative research in imaging historical artifacts:
09/28/2021
Free admission to Genesee Country Village and Museum's fall agricultural fair this Saturday with a RIT ID!
09/27/2021
Department of History Open House, 3:30-5:00pm, Thursday, September 30, McKenzie Commons (LBR 1251)
o Drop in at any time for free coffee, tea, and cookies.
o Learn about the new History major and the Museum Studies major, as well as double-majors, minors, and immersions.
o Meet other History and Museum Studies students.
o Chat with faculty and staff.
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