History

“The question I was beginning to ask was: How is it that Africa is not accounted for in technology studies?” says Clapperton Mavhunga. “How is it we are only accounted for in our social history and our suffering as victims? That’s when this inquiry that took me to MIT began.”

Stealth technology

Clapperton Mavhunga’s work uncovers an Africa where technology is abundant and sophisticated.

March 2, 2016

Humans settled, set fire to Madagascar’s forests 1,000 years ago

Stalagmites reveal huge shift in ancient Madagascar’s plant life, unrelated to climate change.

February 17, 2016

Democracy and design

Architect and dean Hashim Sarkis believes good design builds a better society.

February 8, 2016

Thomas Levenson, professor of science writing and director of the MIT-SHASS Graduate Program in Science Writing

Thomas Levenson receives the 2016 Levitan Prize in the Humanities

Award will support research on the South Sea Bubble crisis as an example of connections between scientific developments and their larger social consequences.

February 2, 2016

The SHASS Research Fund supports MIT research in the humanities, arts, or social sciences that shows promise of making an important contribution to the proposed area of activity.

Ten MIT-SHASS Research Fund recipients announced for 2016

January 25, 2016

MIT Professor Wesley Harris delivered the keynote speech at a Princeton University event celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Wesley Harris delivers keynote at event honoring Martin Luther King

MIT professor’s speech at Princeton University described Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s impact on the nation and on Harris personally.

January 19, 2016

Professor Stanford Anderson dies at 81

Noted scholar and founder of the History, Theory and Criticism Program led the Department of Architecture from 1991 to 2004.

January 12, 2016

Life in the aftermath

MIT historian’s book explores life for Armenians in modern Turkey.

January 8, 2016

“I was always very interested in current events and fascinated by what was happening in the world around me,” MIT historian Tanalís Padilla says. “My parents were very political. I considered myself quite a political being. … I think [living in] Mexico and the United States and seeing the contrast to be so great, especially in rural Mexico, made me aware [of politics] early on.”

Past and present

MIT’s Tanalís Padilla brings alive the history of political struggles in Mexico.

January 4, 2016

(Left to right) Ade Samuel, Ellen Rice Staten, Rasheed Auguste, Tiera Guinn, Alberto Hernandez, and Isaiah Borne.

Black student leaders present recommendations for a more inclusive MIT

Students are working closely with senior administration; President Reif praises collaboration.

December 9, 2015

Henry Thomas Tizard (center), British physicist and head of the Tizard Mission, visits with MIT researchers. The 1940 Tizard Mission introduced to the U.S. the newly invented resonant-cavity magnetron and other British radar developments, and helped establish MIT as a major federally funded research university.

How the Tizard Mission paved the way for research at MIT

Seventy-five years ago, an international meeting of scientific minds changed forever how MIT and other research institutions develop new technologies.

November 23, 2015

Illuminating urban planning

Jennifer Light studies how Cold War military analysis and New Deal resource analysis shaped cities.

November 23, 2015

Deborah K. Fitzgerald, professor of the history of technology in the MIT Program in Science, Technology and Society

Deborah Fitzgerald receives lifetime achievement award from the Agricultural History Society

November 10, 2015

MIT Libraries explore 17th-century postal archive in "Signed, Sealed, and Undelivered"

2,600 recently rediscovered early modern letters to be analyzed in groundbreaking international digital humanities project.

November 10, 2015

Rinku Sen, president and executive director of Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation, speaks at “Whose Lives Matter?: A Community Conversation with Rinku Sen about the Black Lives Matter Movement and Beyond."

Talking about race

In MIT visit, Rinku Sen discusses Black Lives Matter, and how to have a productive conversation about race in America.

October 20, 2015

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