Department of History

https://artsci.tamu.edu/history/

Head: Angela Hudson

Graduate Advisor: Katherine Unterman

Graduate study in history leads to the degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy. The mission of our program is to train graduate students to be historians who produce original research, contribute to the scholarly conversation of their chosen field, and are prepared for a career in a variety of professions in and outside of academia.

History

HIST 613 Reading Seminar in the U.S. in the World

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Reading seminar in American foreign relations from the founding to the present; domestic impact of global events and processes; connections between the United States and the wider world; methodological issues and debates related to the study of internationalized American history. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.

HIST 614 Research in U.S. in the World

Credits 3. 3 Other Hours. Research and writing seminar; topics in American foreign relations and U.S. in the world. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.

HIST 617 Latin America: The National Period

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Social, ethnic, cultural, religious, political, and economic history of Latin America. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.

HIST 618/WGST 618 Reading Seminar in Gender and Sexuality in History

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Examination of how gender and sexuality operate both as categories of identity and as analytical tools; how scholars have employed them to understand historical processes; how languages shape power relationships; how other vectors of identify (class, race and nation) intertwine with gender and sexuality. May be taken three times for credit. Prerequisite: Graduate classification. Cross Listing: WGST 618/HIST 618.

HIST 619/WGST 619 Research Seminar in Gender and Sexuality in History

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Research and writing seminar focused on topics relevant to gender and sexuality in history. May be taken three times for credit. Prerequisite: Graduate classification. Cross Listing: WGST 619/HIST 619.

HIST 623 America since World War II

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. The Cold War; wars in Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf; the Civil Rights and Women's Rights Movements; immigration; social, cultural, and gender controversies. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.

HIST 624 Readings in Race, Ethnicity, and Migration

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Selected topics and themes in the history of race, ethnicity, and migration; individual and community identity-formation; colonization, slavery, and empire; migration and immigration; social movements; borders and nation-building. May be taken three times for credit as content varies. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.

HIST 625 Research Seminar in Race, Ethnicity, and Migration

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Topics and issues in the study of race, ethnicity, and migration history. May be taken three times for credit as content varies. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.

HIST 628 Historiography

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Analysis of historical writing and philosophy of history; works of important historians from Herodotus to present; schools, theories and function of history. Prerequisite: Approval of department head.

HIST 629 Research Methods in History

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Techniques and methods of historical research and writing; disseminating and publishing historical research. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.

HIST 630 Programming for Historians

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Introduction to formal methods of analysis in historical research using computers; and applying quantitative methods to research problems. Prerequisite: Graduate classification or approval of instructor.

HIST 631 Reading Seminar in United States History to 1877

Credits 3. 3 Other Hours. Prerequisite: Approval of department head.

HIST 632 Reading Seminar in United States History after 1876

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Prerequisite: Approval of department head.

HIST 633 The American West

Credits 3. 3 Other Hours. Immigrants and settlement patterns; international conflicts; social, racial, ethnic and cultural interactions across frontiers and borders; economic developments; politics and admission of new states into the United States; women's and gender issues; environmental concerns. May be taken two times as content varies. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.

HIST 634 Maritime History and Sea Power

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Examines the maritime and naval history of the world with emphasis on the Western World since 1600; trade and communication, exploration, technology, maritime communities and naval warfare. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.

HIST 639 Readings in Asian History

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Social and cultural transformation of modern Asia; politics and government; wars and military; imperialism and foreign relations; economic development, society, and culture. May be taken three times for credit as content varies. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.

HIST 640 Readings in Atlantic World and Caribbean History

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Selected topics and themes in the history of the Atlantic World and Caribbean; revolutions, European colonialism in Africa and the Americas; transatlantic slave trade; growth of plantation societies; abolition of slavery; post-emancipation period. May be taken three times for credit as content varies. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.

HIST 641 Research Seminar in Atlantic World and Caribbean History

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Topics and issues in the history of the Atlantic World and the Caribbean. May be taken three times for credit as content varies. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.

HIST 643 Reading Seminar in European History from Renaissance to French Revolution

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Reading seminar in European history from the Renaissance to the French Revolution, classic and current themes, debates and methodologies in European history from the Renaissance to the French Revolution. Prerequisite: Approval of department head.

HIST 644 Reading Seminar in European History from French Revolution to Present

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Reading seminar in European history from the French Revolution to the present; classic and current themes, debates and methodologies in European history from the French Revolution to the present. Prerequisite: Approval of department head.

HIST 645 Research Seminar in War and Society

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Research and writing seminar focusing on issues and topics in war and society. May be taken four times for credit as content varies.

HIST 646 Readings in War and Society

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Reading seminar focusing on methodological issues related to the study of war and society; impact of organized violence and warfare on social structures; military organizations and operations; the experience of non-combatants. May be taken four times for credit as content varies. Prerequisite: Approval of instructor and director of graduate studies; graduate classification.

HIST 648 Readings on Topics in Modern European History

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Readings on topics covering the history of the political, social, cultural, intellectual, and diplomatic development of modern Europe as a whole or in part, or that of individual nations, empires, or regions. May be taken three times for credit as content varies. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.

HIST 649 Reading Seminar in American Legal History

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Major developments, debates, and doctrines in American legal history from 1865 to the present; exploration of the historical context surrounding major Supreme Court decisions, especially regarding critical issues of race, class, and gender; track broader constitutional trends such as the expansion of judicial protection of individual rights, the shifting balance of power between the states and the federal government, the tension between judicial review and democratic governance, and the rise of new methodological frameworks like originalism. Prerequisites: Graduate classification.

HIST 650 Research Seminar in American Legal History

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Familiarization with different types of legal records and legal databases used for research; sources related to American law from the colonial era to the present on both the state and the federal level; use of different legal resources and databases in order to find primary sources related to legislative debates, state and federal legislation, court transcripts, legal briefs, and court opinions; production of a publication length piece of scholarly writing, typically a chapter from an ongoing MA or PhD thesis, which includes legal research. Prerequisites: Graduate classification.

HIST 666 History of Technology

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Origins of the subfield; historiography; industrial development and labor relations; impact on the military; gender, class, and other social aspects. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.

HIST 674 Readings in Chicano-Latino History

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Selected topics and themes related to Chicano-Latino history; race/ethnicity, gender/sexuality, labor adaption and resistance movements; colonialism, transnationalism, immigration; identity, and citizenship. May be taken three times for credit as content varies. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.

HIST 675 Research Seminar in Chicano-Latino History

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Seminar focuses on researching and writing, core skills for historians; conduct primary source research in a subfield Chicano-Latino history and compose an article-length paper. May be taken three times for credit. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.

HIST 678 Readings in the Southwest and its Borders

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Reading seminar focusing on how groups in the American Southwest articulate, enforce and challenge difference; brings together disparate historiographies to consider a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches used in understanding borders; examines contact, conflict and change across various kinds of historical and cultural boundaries. May be taken two times for credit as content varies. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.

HIST 679 Research Seminar in the Southwest and its Borders

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Research and writing seminar focusing on selected topics and themes in an identified area of Southwest Border Studies. May be taken two times for credit as content varies. Prerequisite (s): Graduate classification.

HIST 684 Professional Internship

Credits 3. 3 Other Hours. Practical experience in an institution or organization that employs professional historians; application of historical knowledge, research and skills outside the classroom, in public, private and non-profit institutions. May be taken up to nine hours for credit. Prerequisites: Graduate classification; approval of instructor and director of graduate studies.

HIST 685 Directed Studies

Credits 1 to 6. 1 to 6 Other Hours. Individual problems of research or scholarly activity not pertaining to thesis or dissertation, or selected instruction not covered by other courses. Prerequisite: Approval of instructor and department head.

HIST 689 Special Topics in...

Credits 1 to 4. 1 to 4 Lecture Hours. Selected topics in an identified area of American or European history. May be repeated for credit.

HIST 691 Research

Credits 1 to 23. 1 to 23 Other Hours. Thesis research. Credit given only upon acceptance of completed thesis. Prerequisite: Approval of department head.

Alonzo, Armando C, Associate Professor
History
PHD, Indiana University, 1994

Anderson, Terry H, Professor
History
PHD, Indiana University, 1978

Bach, Damon R, Senior Lecturer
History
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2013

Bickham, Troy O, Professor
History
PHD, University of Oxford, 2001

Bouton, Cynthia A, Professor
History
PHD, State University of New York, Binghamton, 1985

Broussard, Albert S, Professor
History
PHD, Duke University, 1977

Brunson, Takkara K, Associate Professor
History
PHD, The University of Texas-Austin, 2011

Brunstedt, Jonathan Jay, Associate Professor
History
PHD, University of Oxford, 2011

Chavana, Adrian, Assistant Professor
History
PHD, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, 2023

Dror, Olga, Professor
History
PHD, Cornell University, 2003

Emre, Side, Associate Professor
History
PHD, University of Chicago, 2009

Fletcher, Ryan L., Instructional Assistant Professor
History
PHD, University of Mississippi, 2013

Foote, Lorien L, Professor
History
PHD, University of Oklahoma at Norman, 1999

Haefeli, Evan P, Professor
History
PHD, Princeton University, 2000

Hernandez, Sonia, Professor
History
PHD, University of Houston, 2006

Herzogenrath, Jessica Ray, Instructional Associate Professor
History
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2014

Howell, Kenneth W, Visiting Lecturer
History
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2005

Hudson, Angela P, Professor
History
PHD, Yale University, 2007

Hudson, David R, Instructional Professor
History
PHD, Texas A&M University, 1998

Johnson, Violet M, Professor
History
PHD, Boston College, 1992

Kamphoefner, Walter D, Professor
History
PHD, University of Missouri, 1978

Kim, Hoi-Eun, Associate Professor
History
PHD, Harvard University, 2006

Kirkendall, Andrew J, Professor
History
PHD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1996

MacNamara, Lawrence Trent, Associate Professor
History
PHD, Columbia University, 2015

McGlone, Kevin Joseph, Senior Lecturer
History
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2016

McInnis, Verity G, Instructional Associate Professor
History
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2012

McNamara, Sarah J, Associate Professor
History
PHD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016

Moran, Rachel, Professor
History
PHD, The Pennsylvania State University, 2013

Nie, Lina, Assistant Professor
History
PHD, University of Southern California, 2024

Parker, Jason C, Professor
History
PHD, University of Florida, 2002

Randolph, Justin, Assistant Professor
History
PHD, Yale University, 2020

Reese, Roger R, Professor
History
PHD, The University of Texas at Austin, 1990

Riegg, Stephen B, Associate Professor
History
PHD, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016

Rohrbaugh, Collin Michael, Visiting Lecturer
History
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2023

Rouleau, Brian J, Professor
History
PHD, University of Pennsylvania, 2010

Sachs, Miranda, Assistant Professor
History
PHD, Yale University, 2017

Schloss, Rebecca H, Associate Professor
History
PHD, Duke University, 2003

Schwartz, Daniel L, Associate Professor
History
PHD, Princeton University, 2009

Seipp, Adam R, Professor
History
PHD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005

Smith Cox, Shae Vaughn, Assistant Professor
History
PHD, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2020

Stranges, Anthony N, Associate Professor
History
PHD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1977

Unterman, Katherine R, Associate Professor
History
PHD, Yale University, 2011

Weber, Nathaniel R, Lecturer
History
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2016

Weeks, William Dale, Visiting Lecturer
History
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2020

Yeun, Che, Assistant Professor
History
PHD, Harvard University, 2024