Professor Manisha Sinha is doing a lecture tour in China and the Chinese book launch of The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition (2016) in Beijing. She will be lecturing in Wuhan University, Peking University, Shanghai Normal University, and East China Normal University.
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Professor Manisha Sinha will deliver the Richard Greener Lecture at the University of South Carolina, Columbia on October 15, 2025 on her new book on Reconstruction. Previous speakers have included Professor Randall Kennedy of Harvard Law School and Representative James Clyburn of South Carolina.
“WHY CONCORD? The geological origins of the American Revolution” by Robert A. Gross and Robert M. Thorson recently appeared in The Atlantic. They were also interviewed about their work and featured in a UConn today article entitled “Place Matters. History Is the Result” by Elaina Hancock which can be found here.
New York Times opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie recently recommended Professor Andy Horowitz’s Katrina: A History, 1915–2015. “It’s just a wonderful history,” he asserted. “A great perspective on…thinking through America in the 20th century from the perspective of this singular event that was Hurricane Katrina.”
You can read the full article here.
Prof. Manisha Sinha was recently interviewed by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Topics of discussion include President Trump and Project 2025. Open post to listen.
Professor Rozwadowski’s research on Arthur C. Clark and ocean exploration in the second half of the 20th century has been featured in the September 26, 2025 blog post of JSTOR Daily.
Blog post:
Arthur C. Clarke’s Scuba Adventures and Ocean Frontiers – JSTOR Daily
Article:
Arthur C. Clarke and the Limitations of the Ocean as a Frontier on JSTOR
Helen Rozwadowski is Professor of History and Maritime Studies at UConn’s Avery Point campus. The talk, titled “Fathoming: How History Can Help Save the Oceans” will be delivered at 12:30 p.m. in Leonard Hall on UNE’s Biddeford, ME campus. Further details can be found here.
She will be presented with the medallion by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History at their 110th meeting in Atlanta later this month.
Professor Sinha appeared on the podcast to discuss her recent book The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic.
On August 8th, Katharine Beene successfully defended her dissertation, “Women’s Acquisition and Transmission of Knowledge in Early Modern Ireland, 1600-1750”.
From the abstract:
This dissertation expands understandings of scientific and political advancement in Ireland from 1600-1750 by examining the often-overlooked informal learning networks of early modern Irish women, focusing on their correspondence and kinship relationships. It reveals how these women were not merely passive recipients, but active contributors to the formation and distribution of foundational knowledge in fields like medicine, science, mathematics, and politics across Western Europe. Early modern Ireland’s experience as a colony offers valuable insights into how colonial systems shape the transmission of knowledge. This dissertation argues that despite the limitations imposed by formal colonial controls on access to education, women’s informal networks played a unique role in the transfer of knowledge… Investigating women in Ireland knowledge acquisition in a kingdom-colony context provides a methodological approach to investigate informal networks and the circulation of knowledge among marginalized communities.
Congratulations to Katharine Beene on this impressive achievement!