Faculty and students in the Department of Historical Studies rigorously explore a wide range of historical periods and world regions, with particular focus on the large-scale transformations of the modern era.
Recent Faculty Books
A Brief History of Fascist Lies
Federico Finchelstein, Professor of History
University of California Press, 2020
Egypt's Occupation: Colonial Economism and the Crises of Capitalism
Aaron Jakes, Assistant Professor of History
Stanford University Press, 2020
Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy
Claire Potter, Professor of History
Basic Books, 2020
Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America's Past
Claire Potter, Professor of History (co-editor)
Rutgers University Press, 2018
From Fascism to Populism in History
Federico Finchelstein, Professor of History
University of California Press, 2017
El Mito del Fascismo: De Freud a Borges
Federico Finchelstein, Professor of History
Capital Intelectual, 2015
Political Freud: A History
Eli Zaretsky, Professor of History
Columbia University Press, 2015
The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War: Fascism, Populism, and Dictatorship in Twentieth-century Argentina
Federico Finchelstein, Professor of History
Oxford University Press, 2014
The New Life: The Jewish Students of Postwar Germany
Jeremy Varon, Professor of History
Wayne State University Press, 2014
Doing Recent History: On Privacy, Copyright, Video Games, Institutional Review Boards, Activist Scholarship, and History That Talks Back
Claire Potter, Professor of History (co-editor)
University of Georgia Press, 2012
Why America Needs a Left: An Historical Argument
Eli Zaretsky, Professor of History
Polity Press, 2012
When Wall Street Met Main Street: The Quest for an Investors’ Democracy
Julia Ott, Associate Professor of History
Harvard University Press, 2011