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Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies (EIHS)
Recent News
Eisenberg Institute Names 2025-26 Fellows
Institute awards faculty, graduate student, and postdoctoral fellowships
Dario Gaggio Named EIHS Director
Gaggio began service as the institute's ninth director on August 1, 2025
The Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, established in 2007 by a generous gift by Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg, provides a world-class forum for historical research and teaching.
Events
Feb
26
EIHS Lecture: Historicizing Transness Otherwise: Asia Narratives and Decolonial Thought
Howard Chiang (University of California, Santa Barbara)
4:00 PM
1014
Tisch Hall
Feb
27
EIHS Workshop: Gender Unruliness, Power, and Order
Jess Hasper, Yee Ting Leong, Mel Monier, Kai Ngu, Scott Spector (moderator)
12:00 PM
1014
Tisch Hall
Mar
12
EIHS Lecture: Once Were Warriors: Colonial Mimesis, Martial Masculinity, and Imperial Nostalgia in Amazigh Morocco
Paul Silverstein (Reed College)
4:00 PM
1014
Tisch Hall
Mar
13
EIHS Workshop: Transpolitics of Postcolonial Orders
Vishesh Chander Guru, Shane Niesen, Leela Riesz, Clayton Van Woerkom, Yasmin Moll (moderator)
12:00 PM
1014
Tisch Hall
Mar
26
EIHS Lecture: Ordering the Sky: The Atmospherics of Sovereignty in the Hellenistic World
Paul Kosmin (Harvard University)
4:00 PM
1014
Tisch Hall
