Whereas research centers are initiated and organized by members of the faculty, many of our research groups, conferences, and study-enhancing activities are student-led initiatives. With the involvement of faculty and staff, the students of the Department of Historical Studies have become both organizers and active participants of departmental or university-wide research groups. These include:
- Approaches to Pre-Modern Politics Reading Group
- Central Eurasia Research Group
- Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Graduate Student Colloquium
- Material Culture Research Group
- Medieval Radio
- Political Thought Research Group
- Science Studies Research Group
- South Asia Research Group
- Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies Research Group
- Theory of History and Humanities
- Yugo-Region Research Group