Carnegie Mellon University's Department of History is internationally known for innovative historical and anthropological approaches to the study of social, cultural, and policy change.
News
Dr. Edda Fields-Black won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History for Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War, a revelatory account of Harriet Tubman's command in the military expedition and rebellion that brought 756 enslaved people to freedom in a single day.
Dr. Erin Dean named as a Provost's Inclusive Teaching Fellow at the Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence and Educational Innovation for 2025-2026.
Dr. Christopher Phillips will be the next head of the Department of History in Carnegie Mellon University’s Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
University-wide article Social Justice Is Core to Sustainability Efforts at Carnegie Mellon features Dr. John Soluri's discussion on coffee and sustainability, Dr. Ezelle Sanford's Grand Challenge Course on health care disparities and recent Global Studies graduate Eric Moreno's Community Engagement Fellowship.
Courses
79280: Coffee and Capitalism
Taught by: Professor John Soluri
What role has coffee played in connecting people and places to capitalist markets and consumer cultures? What are the economic, social, and environmental consequences of these connections? How did espresso change from an "ethnic drink" to something served at McDonalds? This course answers these questions and more by using coffee to learn about the history of capitalism, and capitalism to understand the history of coffee.
