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.
Recent News
Somers Lecture Announcement
Ari Joskowicz of Vanderbilt will deliver the 2023 Somers Lecture on March 31 at 10:00 am in Room 2150 of 25 Park Place. His talk will be titled, “On the Use and Abuse of History for Marginalized Lives: Lessons from Holocaust Studies and Romani History.” We hope...read more ❯
Hot-Button Issues Surrounding Gender to Highlight Lecture
Perimeter College associate professor of history Dana Wiggins, Ph.D., is the featured presenter at the Sarah Larson Lecture Series on Georgia State University's Dunwoody Campus. The title of her talk is "Questioning Gender: Everything You Want to Know but Are Afraid to Ask."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