History Department

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The History Department offers a major in history (with optional concentrations in prelaw studies and in secondary education with certification in history or social studies). The department also offers minors in history and historic preservation. History is human life recreated from the traces left by our ancestors. In its modern form, the study of history equips students with analytical skills and research techniques of immense practical and vocational value. The history program not only acquaints students with different ages, societies, and cultures, but also develops powers of writing, speaking, and thinking. The curriculum is organized to provide students with general knowledge, as well as technical competencies essential in such fields as business, law, government, teaching, publishing, and museum and archival work. Practice and theory are linked through internships in local historical societies, museums, and government agencies, as well as through courses in applied history that explicitly foster these connections.

Department Faculty

Professors

Sanford J. Ungar

Associate Professors

Matthew Rainbow Hale, chair (early America, Atlantic world, print culture)

Assistant Professors

John Corcoran (Russia and Eastern Europe), James Dator (early modern Carribean, comparative slavery and slave resistance, creolization and ethnogenesis in the African Disapora), Evan Dawley (East Asian history, China and Taiwan, Asian colonialism), Tina H. Sheller (historic preservation, early America, public history)

Visiting Lecturer

          Chelsea Schields

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