Department of History
Head: Carlos Blanton
Graduate Advisor: Walter D. Kamphoefner
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.
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 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.
Prerequisite: Graduate classification.
HIST 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.
Prerequisite: Graduate classification.
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 Digital Methods in Historical Research
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 and 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 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, Lecturer
History
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2013
Bickham, Troy, Professor
History
PHD, University of Oxford, 2001
Blanton, Carlos K, Professor
History
PHD, Rice University, 1999
Bouton, Cynthia A, Professor
History
PHD, SUNY Binghamton, 1985
Brooks, Charles E, Associate Professor
History
PHD, University of Buffalo, 1988
Broussard, Albert S, Professor
History
PHD, Duke University, 1977
Brunstedt, Jonathan, Assistant Professor
History
PHD, University of Oxford, 2011
Cobbs, Elizabeth A, Professor
History
PHD, Stanford University, 1988
Collopy, William F, Lecturer
History
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2011
MLA, University of St. Thomas, 2006
Coopersmith, Jonathan, Professor
History
PHD, University of Oxford, 1985
Dror, Olga, Professor
History
PHD, Cornell University, 2003
Emre, Side, Associate Professor
History
PHD, University of Chicago, 2009
Foote, Lorien L, Professor
History
PHD, University of Oklahoma - Norman, 1999
Haefeli, Evan P, Associate Professor
History
PHD, Princeton University, 2000
Hatfield, April L, Associate Professor
History
PHD, Johns Hopkins University, 1997
Hernandez, Sonia, Associate Professor
History
PHD, University of Houston, 2006
Hinojosa, Felipe, Associate Professor
History
PHD, University of Houston, 2009
Hudson, Angela P, Professor
History
PHD, Yale University, 2007
Hudson, David R, Instructional Professor
History
PHD, Texas A&M University, 1998
Johnson, Violet, 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
Lenihan, John H, Associate Professor
History
PHD, University of Maryland, 1976
Linn, Brian M, Professor
History
PHD, Ohio State University, 1985
MacNamara, Lawrence T, Assistant Professor
History
PHD, Columbia University, 2015
McInnis, Verity G, Senior Lecturer
History
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2012
McNamara, Sarah J, Assistant Professor
History
PHD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016
Parker, Jason C, Professor
History
PHD, University of Florida, 2002
Reese, Roger R, Professor
History
PHD, The University of Texas, 1990
Resch, Robert P, Associate Professor
History
PHD, University of California Davis, 1985
Riegg, Stephen B, Assistant Professor
History
PHD, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016
Rouleau, Brian J, Associate Professor
History
PHD, University of Pennsylvania, 2010
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
Stranges, Anthony N, Associate Professor
History
PHD, University of Wisconsin - madison, 1977
Unterman, Katherine R, Associate Professor
History
PHD, Yale University, 2011
Vaught, David J, Professor
History
PHD, University of California, Davis, 1997
Weber, Nathaniel R, Lecturer
History
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2016
Wood, Julia E, Assistant Professor
History
PHD, Yale University, 2011
Wright, George C, Professor
History
PHD, Duke University, 1977