FIU History Department

Dr. Mansilla will be giving a great talk at the Madrid Institute for Advanced Study next week titled "Entre cuentas y vínculos: la Caja Real de Lima y las tramas sociales del poder fiscal en el siglo XVI." The talk will be live-streamed, so if you are interested, check out the details below!

✨Seminario MIAS-EHEHI

📣Lunes 22/06: seminario impartido por Judith Mansilla (Fellow MIAS - François Chevalier)

🟩 “Entre cuentas y vínculos: la Caja Real de Lima y las tramas sociales del poder fiscal en el siglo XVII”

📌Casa de Velázquez

🗓️ 22/06/26 11:30 - 13:30

🟧Toda la información y enlace para retransmisión online, disponibles en la web del MIAS: https://www.madrid-ias.eu/es/agenda/actividades-cientificas/novedad/seminario-mias-ehehi-6

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Casa de Velázquez

Looking for a class for fall? Love film? Dr. Wood has you covered!

Major congratulations to FIU History PhD Christine Ardalan, who just published her book, Nurses Among the Florida Seminole and Miccosukee, 1934–1971, with University Press of Florida!

In this intersectional history, Christine Ardalan tells the stories of nurses who worked among the Seminole and Miccosukee people in Florida during the mid-twentieth century. Ardalan profiles three US government field nurses, several public health nurses, and the Seminole practical nurse Betty Mae Tiger Jumper. Ardalan's analysis offers insights into the tensions between the white nurses and their supervisors, cultural differences between them and the communities they served, and the ways they often reinforced settler-colonial ideologies.

Hey, students: check out this great upcoming fall course from Dr. Silva. HIS 4930: Baseball and Modern American Culture!

Broward College has named history doctoral candidate Noel Hernandez as one of its Professors of the Year! Hernandez, who works as an Assistant Professor of History at Broward College, is completing his Ph.D. in History at FIU, researching the intersections of Latino identity and the U.S. music industry in the first half of the 20th century. We as a department could not be prouder!

For more details, see: https://news.broward.edu/2026/04/poy2026-winners.html

Congratulations to 2018 FIU PhD Dr. Sven Kube, who this month won won his college's Distinguished Teaching Award. Kube is currently Assistant Professor of Contemporary History at Coastal Carolina University, and the prize recognizes his outstanding contributions to pedagogy and instruction. Kube is a testament to the FIU Department of History graduate, where he also began his teaching career as a postdoctoral fellow. Congratulations, Dr. Kube!

Did you miss the Green FIU Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs Update? You can still catch this super feature article on our grad-student run journal, The Millenium:

A new generation of FIU historians reimagines student research journal for today’s scholars A new generation of FIU historians reimagines student research journal for today’s scholars November 25, 2025 After nearly a decade of dormancy, a group of graduate students from FIU’s Department of History at the Steven J. Green School of International & Public Affairs has brought new lif...

Congratulations to Dr. Judith Mansilla, who was awarded a Francois Chevalier Residential Fellowship at the Madrid Institute for Advanced Study! She will spend the summer as a resident fellow at the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid.

https://www.madrid-ias.eu/es/investigadores/residentes-mias-1/details/judith-mansilla

Continuing FIU History’s work as the higher education partner for Broward County Public School’s Department of Education-funded HERO grant, Dr. Kirsten Wood offered a workshop for BCPS teachers on early US history. Here’s to a dynamic year of collaboration and enrichment with talented and committed BCPS administrators and educators!

Commencement is always our favorite time of year! We welcome the opportunity to celebrate our graduating BA and MA students, and to recognize the winners of our departmental awards at our commencement reception. Dean Dinar stopped by as well to honor our students' accomplishments. Congratulations to our graduates and our award winners!