Center for Early Modern History

Promoting scholarly inquiry into the interchange of peoples, goods, and ideas that marks the first era of global contacts, ca. 1300–1800.

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Transformation is in the Works

The Center for Early Modern History, the Center for Medieval Studies, and the Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World become the new Center for Premodern Studies.

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2021 Union Pacific Research Grants

Graduate students conducting dissertation or pre-dissertation research in premodern studies are encouraged to apply for a Union Pacific Research Grant. Grant resources are…

2021 Premodern Virtual Colloquium Series

Join us for our celebration of premodern scholarship with our regional collaborators.

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Join CEMH for their Fall 2020 Lecture Series: Panic and Plague in 1720 & 2020: The View from Minnesota

The Center for Early Modern History invites you to join us for our fall virtual lecture series, Panic and Plague in 1720 & 2020: The View from Minnesota. The series begins at…

CEMH supports IDFs

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January 28, 2022

McNally & Kwakkel Fellows

Summer 2021 Fellowship Presentations