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Spring 2013 walk in advising hours for new majors: Tuesday 1:00pm-3:00pm, Thursday 1:00pm-3:00pm.  Current majors, please make an appointment with your advisor using Niner Advisor https://nineradvisor.uncc.edu.

 

Welcome to the Department of History at UNC Charlotte.  Historians are analysts of time, place, and circumstance.  Regardless if you plan to teach History/Social Studies in high school, work in archives or museums, or plan a career in government, law, international organizations, the military, business, or other affiliated fields, the skills you learn as a historian find widespread application in many professions.  Studying history is varied and fun. Our department offers students a range of programs and courses that explore the fascinating and complex history of human society while helping them develop the crucial analytic and communications skills needed for success in a wide range of careers.

The undergraduate major and minor in History seek to broaden and deepen a student’s understanding of the past and present from a multi-cultural perspective.  Besides gaining a thorough background in the major fields of history, students may elect to take a wide variety of European, American, and non-Western surveys and specialized topics courses.  Many of our majors also pursue teacher licensure certification and take advantage of specialized courses designed for future classroom teachers.  The department encourages student efforts to study abroad and has an internship program for those interested in developing their practical skills or working as a research assistant for faculty members.  History also has an active departmental honors program and a chapter of the national Phi Alpha Theta honor society, and it annually awards several Davenport academic scholarships and the Patterson prize for best student papers.

 

The graduate program offers training of the highest quality as students work closely with recognized experts in many different fields.  Graduate students can obtain an M.A. in History or an M.A. in History with a Public History concentration.  The Public History concentration has a New Media focus, preparing students for careers in a wide range of applied history fields.  Graduate stipends are available to qualified candidates on a competitive basis.  There is an active Graduate History Association which hosts an annual Graduate History Forum, an academic conference for graduate students.

We invite you to visit.  For more information about the department and its curricular and extracurricular offerings, please call 704-687-5125 or send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or meet us on Facebook

 

 

Calendar of Events

Spring 2013 walk in advising hours for new majors: Tuesday 1:00pm-3:00pm, Wednesday 9:00am-11:00am, Thursday 1:00pm-3:00pm.  Current majors, please make an appointment with your advisor using Niner Advisor https://nineradvisor.uncc.edu.

Please join us for the Graduate Association Forum on Friday April 19, 2013 and Saturday April 20, 2013 at the Center City Campus.  For more information please contact Alicyn Wiedrich, the GHA President, at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . 

 

 

Department News

Spring 2013 walk in hours for new majors: Tuesday 1:00pm-3:00pm, Wednesday 9:00am-11:00am, Thursday 1:00pm-3:00pm.  Current majors, please make an appointment with your advisor using Niner Advisor https://nineradvisor.uncc.edu.

 The UNC Charlotte Area French Studies Workshop, organized by Professor Christine Haynes at UNC Charlotte and Professor Patricia Tilburg at Davidson College, announces its schedule for the 2012-2013 school year.  All meetings are held from 3:00pm to 5:00pm and are open to the public.  The pre-circulated papers may be obtained from Professor Haynes at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Friday, February 22, 2013, in the Baxter-Davidson room of the Chambers building at Davidson College: Michèle Bissière, Languages and Culture Studies, UNCC, "La banlieue dans l'œuvre de Yamina Benguigui."

 

 Congratulations to Dr. Mark Wilson.  Dr. Wilson is the recipient of a prestigious NEH grant.

 

Additional kudos go to Dr. Cheryl Hicks for her book, Talk With You Like a Woman: African American Women, Justice, and Reform in New York 1890-1935.  The book has garnered an Honorable Mention from the ASA John Hope Franklin Prize Committee.

 

Congratulations to Dr. Karen Cox for being one of the authors selected to attend dinner at the Governer's mansion.  Read more about this exciting event at http://campusnews.uncc.edu/history-professor-attends-governor%E2%80%99s-dinner-authors

 

The History Department is pleased to announce that Dr. Cheryl Hicks' book, Talk With You Like a Woman: African American Women, Justice, and Reform in New York, 1890-1935, won the prestigious 2011 Letitia Woods Brown Book Award.  Congratulations to Dr. Hicks!

 

Kudos to Dr. Karen Cox and Dr. David Goldfield.  Both professors were interviewed by C-Span.  Please go to the following and then scroll down to find Dr. Cox and Dr. Goldfied to view these insightful interviews.  http://www.c-span.org/LocalContent/Charlotte/

 

Congratulations to Dr. Karen Cox, whose book Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture  received a wonderful review by Samuel L. Schaffer of the online forum, H-SHGAPE.  The review may be read by following this link: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=33149.

 

Congratulations to Dr. Carol Higham-Alexander who along with her co-director, Dr. William Katerberg, of Calvin College is the recipient of an NEH Summer Seminar Grant.  The seminar entitled, "The American Frontier in Global Perspective," will be held in the summer of 2012 at Calvin College.

Congratulations to Dr. Karen Cox whose op ed piece, "The South Ain't Just Whistlin' Dixie" was published in the September 18, 2011 edition of The New York Times.  To see the article in its entirity please use the following link:  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/opinion/sunday/the-south-aint-just-whistlin-dixie.html

 

Congratulations to Lyman Johnson on the publication of his book Workshop of Revolution: Plebeian Buenos Aires and the Atlantic World, 1776-1810 (Duke University Press).  For more information please see Dr. Johnson's