• History Undergraduate Program

    History is the study of human experience of all kinds, considered in relation to particular times and places.

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  • History Graduate Admissions

    The Department of History actively seeks scholars with a wide variety of backgrounds, ideas, and interests to join our student body.

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  • Meet our Faculty

    Our faculty study history throughout the world.

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Department of History

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History Spotlight

Our department houses an extraordinary collection of faculty, students, and staff. Their research, teaching, and service has been recognized both locally and nationally. Here is just a sample of some of their most recent accomplishments.

Kevin Kenny
Kevin Kenny

Kevin Kenny’s book has won the OAH's James A. Rawley Prize and the Immigration and Ethnic History Society's Theodore Saloutos Book Award.

Robyn d'Avignon
Robyn d'Avignon

A Ritual Geology (Duke, 2022) has won the HSS's Pfizer Award, the SSHA's President’s Book Award, and the AAA's Julian Steward Award.

Nicole Eustace
Nicole Eustace

Nicole Eustace's Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America (Liveright, 2021) has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

Martha Hodes
Martha Hodes

Martha Hodes has been elected Vice President and President-Elect of the Society of American Historians.

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