The Department of History offers an extensive and innovative program in Urban History. Faculty and graduate students associated with the program work on a wide variety of geographic locations and time periods and a diversity of thematic interests, which they explore through a range of methodological and theoretical approaches. Topics of faculty and graduate student research have included race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class conflict, migration, colonialism, violence, consumption, materiality, law, music, performance, sport, recreation, spatiality, emotions, and more.