Our faculty cultivates understanding and the liberal art of critical assessment of the past rather than memorization. The history student becomes immersed in the study of a region or a topic and develops the skill and ability to read thoughtfully and critically and write elegantly. The faculty welcomes budding historians who love history, as well as students from other disciplines seeking a broad view of the world, and students who might simply be curious about a specific time, country, region, topic, or issue.
Our faculty has wide-ranging expertise and publishes about a range of topics: utopias in the United States; women movements in the US; the oil industry in Mexico; Medieval European monasteries; the history of nursing in Europe; panda bears and conservation in China; the United States in world history; the American Civil War; and environmental history, just to name a few.
The history faculty understands the impotance of living in a globalized world and a diverse state and country and the demands for cultural competency and historical knowledge that places on our students. To that end, our professors have developed a curriculum that prepares History majors to engage a rich and diverse global community.
Our department also offers courses in interdisciplinary majors, including Women's and Gender Studies, Ethnic Studies, Environmental Studies, and International Area Studies.
To find out more about our professors, please see their profiles. To see what courses you might want to take, please see course descriptions below. For questions, contact the department chair.
