History Department News and Events

As the standard-bearers of Afghan traditional music, rubab master Homayoun Sakhi and tabla virtuoso Salar Nader carry the rich and varied legacy of classical compositions and folk melodies of South and Central Asia.

February 28 - March 2, 2025 @ 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Hahn Hall 101

An Evening with Ned Blackhawk Thursday, January 30, 2025 at 7 - 9 p.m. Rose Hills Theater, Pomona College

Tuesday, September 17 @ 4:15 p.m. 101 Hahn Hall

The Department of History announces the publication of a new book by Char Miller, Burn Scars: A Documentary History of Fire Suppression, from Colonial Origins to the Resurgence of Cultural Burning (Oregon State University Press, 2024).

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).

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).

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.