Strong clusters of faculty expertise drive research advances and facilitate collaborative mentoring and international network-building. See more information about the various research clusters below:
Pitt is home to leading specialists in Afro-Latin American, Afro-Caribbean, and Afro-American history, with emphases on issues of race, politics, labor, and migration. Read More »
Atlantic History is a dynamic field of historical scholarship and teaching focused on the common, interactive history of Europe, Africa, and the Americas, especially the Caribbean, from the late fifteenth century to the present. Read more »
Building on Pitt's traditional strength and international studies resources, our faculty boasts leading specialists in 19th and 20th century Central and Eastern Europe. Read More »
Pitt’s Department of History offers a rare cluster of dynamic junior and senior faculty specializing in the early modern British, North American, French, Iberian, Dutch, Baltic, and Scandinavian worlds. Read More »
Empires have played a formative role in history. Pitt's History Department is a privileged place for the study of empire from a comparative and global perspective. Read More »
Human societies shape their environment as much as they are shaped by their environment. Read More »
Historians at Pitt have studied the changing politics and practice of gender and sexuality in the modern world, in places ranging from Bolivia to Barbados to Bucharest to Pittsburgh, Pa. Read More »
Societies across the globe have been shaped by Islam in vital ways; the Pitt History Department is engaging in a new initiative to explore these societies from a trans-regional and world-historical perspective. Read More »
The movement of people across borders is an urgent political and humanitarian issue in the world today: one for which historical context offers crucial perspective. Read More »
Power and Inequality studies different forms of human inequality across time and space, and the social mobilizations that have challenged them. Read More »
Texts and Contexts studies objects and ideas, their circulation and transmission. Combining approaches in cultural, political, and intellectual history, this field is concerned with the meaning of things. Read More »
World History has arisen as a logical yet exciting expansion of historical studies into wider relations in space, time, topics, and scale. Read More »