Northwestern’s History PhD trains scholars to illuminate power, identity, and environment across centuries. Doctoral candidates analyze Ottoman tax registers with OCR, map railroad apartheid using GIS, and curate oral-history podcasts on climate migration. Fellowships at the Newberry Library and internships with Smithsonian Digital allow students to pair monograph-quality research with public-facing impact.
Digitize and annotate Great Migration letters for a crowdsourced archive
Map cholera outbreaks in 19th-c. port cities linking shipping logs and weather data
Analyze wartime food-riot networks via social-graph reconstruction
Produce a VR reconstruction of a 15th-c. Ottoman caravanserai marketplace
Study environmental justice roots in 1970s urban freeway revolts
Quantify plantation debt networks using ledgers and network analysis
Create a bilingual exhibit on trans-Pacific labor migrations 1850-1940
Evaluate radio propaganda reach with geospatial signal-strength modeling
Track indigenous land dispossession through cadastral map overlays
Publish a podcast series on disability activism and policy change, 1945-present
Use machine-learning topic models on feminist periodicals, 1880-1920
Investigate Cold-War climate science diplomacy via declassified cables
Build a database of slave ship insurance underwriting and lawsuit outcomes
Curate a traveling exhibit on culinary globalization of the spice trade
Write a policy white paper on reparations informed by comparative historical cases
Turn archives into insight and public dialogue with Northwestern’s History PhD.
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