History Department News and Events

The Department of History announces the publication of a new book by Ousmane Traoré, Slavery, Resistance, and Identity in Early Modern West Africa: The Ethnic-State of Gajaaga (Cambridge University Press, 2023).

The Department of History announces the publication of a new book by Angelina Chin, Unsettling Exiles: Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong and the Southern Periphery During the Cold War (Columbia University Press, 2023).

April 8–9, 2022 | A workshop sponsored by the Department of History, Department of Art History, Pacific Basin Institute, Middle Eastern Studies/Asian Studies, Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College, and Environmental Analysis.

Khazeni's new book The City and the Wilderness recounts the journeys and microhistories of Indo-Persian travelers across the Indian Ocean and their encounters with the Burmese Empire at the turn of the nineteenth century.

Her research has primarily developed around three areas: the lived experience of ‘race’ and racism; feminist theory and the interconnections between beauty, emotions and racism; visual methodologies and applied research.

History is all about researching the past, a process that usually culminates in an essay or paper.  But that’s not the only way to share the results of our research.

Ben Madley (UCLA) comes to campus this Thursday, April 6 at 4:15p.m. in Hahn 108 to speak about his new book, An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe.

Native American scholar Dr. Kiara M. Vigil (Amherst College) visits Pomona College this Thursday, March 23 at 4:15 (Hahn 108) to share her latest work, “Natives in Transit: Indian Entertainment, Urban Life, and Activism.”