EXPLORING PAST AND PRESENT
The Department of History provides all students an opportunity to learn about the diversity of the human experience across time and space. Students learn to understand how historical context shapes the lives and choices of people in the past and today.
Our department has been recognized with the Regents' Teaching Excellence Award for a Department or Program.
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Why Study History?
Historians appreciate that study of the past is an ongoing, deliberative project consisting of research, interpretation and debate. As a student in the History Department, you will become familiar with a large body of historical knowledge and through this understand current society all the better. You will also gain valuable skills as a reader, discussant, writer and researcher.
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‘Congratulations Graduating History Minors!’
‘Congratulations Graduating History Minors!’
Kennedy Davis
Ryan Carlstrom
Christian Hopley
Tamara Diaz Chavez
Gabriel Tsismanakis
Alyssa Dejesus
Meagan Rodriguez
Mia Sabogal
Dillon Pathiranage
Griffin Totty
Eugene...read more ❯
‘Congratulations Graduating History Majors!’
‘Congratulations Graduating History Majors!’
Kristin Brown
Owen Brown
Colin Fitzgerald
India Johnson
Jasmine Johnson
Kate Kastelic
Raymond Lourigan
Jakob Mercer
Eric Minter
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Georgia State University Receives Mellon Grant to Create Innovative Gullah/Geechee Heritage Research and Preservation Program
Georgia State University has received a $500,000 grant to develop research to preserve and protect Gullah/Geechee heritage and sacred land in Georgia and South Carolina. read more ❯
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Department of History
Office Hours:
Monday - Friday
8:30 a.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Department Chair
Dr. Jared Poley
Associate Chair
Dr. Nick Wilding
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Dr. Robin Conner
Director of Graduate Studies
Dr. Greg Moore
Director of Master of Heritage Preservation Program
Chad Keller
Department Specialist
Cristianna Mitchell
Office / Delivery Address
History Department
Georgia State University
25 Park Place, Suite 2000
Atlanta, GA 30303
USPS Mailing Address
History Department
Georgia State University
P.O. Box 4117
Atlanta, GA 30302-4117