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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.

DID YOU KNOW?

Our department has been recognized with the Regents' Teaching Excellence Award for a Department or Program.

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Chief of Staff, City of Atlanta

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Undergraduate Programs

The department offers a B.A. in History, a B.I.S. Minor in Human Rights, a B.I.S. in Asian Studies, a B.I.S. in Middle East Studies and two dual degrees, a B.A./M.A. in History and a B.A. in History/Master of Historic Preservation.

Graduate Programs

The department offers an M.A. in History, a Masters of Heritage Preservation (M.H.P.), a Ph.D. in History and a Heritage Preservation Graduate Certificate.

History by the Numbers

31+

Full-time faculty members in the history department supervise 55 doctoral students, 32 M.A. students, 31 M.H.P. students and nearly 200 history majors.

$1M+

Secured by History faculty in external funding in the past 5 years.

10k +

Georgia State students take a class in the History Department each year.

Heritage Preservation

The History Department hosts the World Heritage Initiative, a public history and heritage preservation program dedicated to including US Civil Rights Movement sites on UNESCO's World Heritage List.

HERITAGE PRESERVATION

80+

Students have embarked on nearly 15 study abroad programs taught by history faculty and nearly 40 history majors have taken advantage of study abroad opportunities since 2018.

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.

Recent News

Nick Wilding in his Georgia State office.

The Document Detective

Published September 6, 2022 in Georgia State News Hub

Georgia State History Professor Nick Wilding, a super sleuth who uncovers forgeries of rare manuscripts, proved that a prized Galileo text is a fake.read more ❯

A Watermark, and ‘Spidey Sense,’ Unmask a Forged Galileo Treasure

Published August 22, 2022 in History

One of the University of Michigan Library’s most prized possessions, which appeared to be a Galileo manuscript, is now thought to be the work of a 20th-century forger.read more ❯

Georgia State Faculty in Applied Linguistics, History, Named Fulbright U.S. Scholars for 2022-23

Published June 15, 2022 in Georgia State News Hub

Viviana Cortes, associate professor of Applied Linguistics and English as a Second Language, and Allen Fromherz, professor of Middle Eastern, Gulf, and Mediterranean History, have received prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program awards in applied linguistics and in history, respectively.read more ❯

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Department of History

Office Hours:
Monday - Friday
8:30 a.m. - 5:15 p.m.

404-413-6385

404-413-6384 (Fax)

history@gsu.edu

FACULTY & STAFF DIRECTORY

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Department Chair

Dr. Jared Poley

jpoley@gsu.edu

Associate Chair

Dr. Nick Wilding

nwilding@gsu.edu

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Dr. Robin Conner

rconner@gsu.edu

Director of Graduate Studies

Dr. Greg Moore

gmoore19@gsu.edu

Director of Master of Heritage Preservation Program

Chad Keller

ckeller@gsu.edu

Department Specialist

Cristianna Mitchell

cmitchell57@gsu.edu

Office / Delivery Address

History Department
Georgia State University
25 Park Place, Suite 2000
Atlanta, GA 30303

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History Department
Georgia State University
P.O. Box 4117
Atlanta, GA 30302-4117