Recent Undergraduate News in History
WashU History undergraduates are finding new ways to deepen their research and share their work with the wider community.
Undergrad Francisco Perez Organizes Lecture at the Missouri Historical Society
Francisco Perez, an undergraduate in history, organized a lecture at the Missouri Historical Society
Q&A with Living History Scholars
We interviewed the 2026 living history scholars, Calvin Crossland and Jennifer Ong.
Ben Wexler Receives Hamburg Stipendium for Summer 2027 Research
Graduate student Ben Wexler has been awarded the Hamburg Stipendium – Writing in Residence 2027.
How I chose my major: Calvin Crossland
Senior Calvin Crossland found a balance between passion and practicality by pursuing majors in economics and history, two disciplines that help him understand how the world works and how it came to be.
Knapp interviewed on KMOX Radio to give insight on Russian coup
Ramos’ ‘Bedlam in the New World’ recognized with third award
Montaño book wins an honorable mention from Latin American Studies Association
‘The battle for memory’: Mustakeem on the intertwining histories of race and medicine
Alum wins Organization of American Historians' Civil War and Reconstruction book prize, 2023
Mustakeem to give a series of lectures on medicine and Black history around the country and in Europe this spring
Kastor wins grant to remap the founding of the U.S.
Highlighting a new class of Living History Scholars
Cassen published in Psyche digital magazine
Cassen published in Smithsonian Magazine
Kastor wins grant from Taylor Geospatial Institute
