History

ASU’s Department of History, after 50 years as a separate unit, was reborn on 1 July 2009 as the Faculty of History in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies. While the name and association with the Faculty of Philosophy and the Faculty of Religous Studies is new, the current Faculty of History is mostly the same as its predecessor.

• The forty-plus historians who make up the Faculty of History continues to preside over one of the largest and strongest undergraduate history programs in the country, serving around 1000 majors and covering the full range of topics, periods, and regions in world history.
• It continues to operate a vibrant graduate program, with its traditional area strengths in North American, Europe, Asia, and Latin America, as well as offering preparation in topical areas such as Western, Women’s, Urban, Slavic, Political, and Public History.
  
• Maintaining the tradition of faculty involvement with professional journals, the Faculty of History has just begun hosting two major journals, The Journal of Policy History as well as French Historical Studies, it is completing its term of operating Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, and it continues to manage the on-line discussion list H-Amindian and its associated web pages.  
  
• The Faculty of History also maintains connections with numerous units across the university, including the Melikian Center: Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies, the Center for Jewish Studies, the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, the School of Transborder Studies, the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. In addition, many faculty are affiliated with a wide range of units across the university.
  

Thus, the Faculty of History maintains the former Department’s commitment to excellence in history education and scholarship.  Besides the administrative and name change, this new configuration provides additional opportunities to enhance History’s strikingly broad connections to other units, involving numerous topics and various methodologies.  The creation of the School of Historical, Philosohical, and Religious Studies gives History new partners with whom to develop areas of cooperation.