Department of History, Johns Hopkins University
20th-Century Europe, Cold War and Sports History, History of Ideas and Intellectuals
I am an associate teaching professor in the Department of History at Johns Hopkins University. I came to Johns Hopkins in 2018 as a DAAD visiting assistant professor and was hired as a full-time faculty member in 2023. I am beyond excited to continue working with such wonderful students, supportive staff, and brilliant colleagues.
In June 2025, I accepted the invitation to join Dr. Zsuzsanna Török, Dr. Katalin Cseh Varga, and Dr. Jessica Storey Nagy as well as Managing Director Maya Jean Lo Bello as associate editor of the Hungarian Studies Review. It’s an absolute honor and I am thrilled to join this dynamic, competent, and expert team!
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In fall 2024, Transform Mid-Atlantic generously awarded me the Alan G. Penczek Community Service-learning Faculty Award at a four-year-institution. I share the honor with many, many institutions and individuals, first and foremost our co-educators in Baltimore, the Maryland Center for History and Culture, the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, the Hopkins Retrospective Team , and the Center for Social Concern, the elders and eyewitnesses who have shared their wisdom with us as well as my colleague and friend Professor Stuart Schrader, Dr. Shawntay Stocks, and the students in my successive 1968 seminars.
The Center for Social Concerns, where I have been a recurrent faculty fellow since 2019, has opened up entirely new perspectives on and approaches to teaching, enriching my classes, partnering with organizations, institutions, and eyewitnesses in the city, and allowing me to feel at home in Baltimore. I thank Dr. Shawntay Stocks for enlightening me about the potential of community-engaged teaching as well as Dr. Jasmine Blanks-Jones and Luisa de Guzman for continuing that journey with me.
VICTORIA HARMS 