The History Department is excited to announce two new faculty hires. Dr. Laura Nenzi, a social historian of Early Modern Japan, will be joining the Department of History as Acting Full Professor in Fall 2022. Dr. Tamar Menashe, a historian of late medieval and early modern Jewish and European history, will join the Department of History and the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in History and Jewish Studies in Fall 2022. Menashe will begin her appointment as the Jay and Leslie Cohen Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies in Fall 2023. Welcome to you both!