American University Catalog 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
History
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Administration
Chair Eric Lohr
Director of Graduate Studies Gautham Rao
Director of Undergraduate Studies Anton Fedyashin, Mary Frances Giandrea
Director of Public History Program Dan Kerr
Full-Time Faculty
Distinguished Professor A. Kraut, A. Lichtman
Distinguished Professor and Seymour and Lillian Abensohn Chair in Israel Studies M. Brenner
Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women’s and Gender History P. Nadell
Dr. James H. Billington Chair of Russian History and Culture E. Lohr
Professor L. Beers, M. Brenner, A. Demshuk, E. Findlay, M. Friedman, J. Jacobs, P. Kuznick, L. Leff, E. Lohr, P. Nadell
Associate Professor A. Fedyashin, K. Franz, K. Haulman, D. Kerr, P. Partovi, G. Rao, T. Runstedlter, M.J. Rymsza-Pawlowska, E. Stockreiter, K. Vester
Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer M. Giandrea
Emeriti Faculty
Distinguished Professor Emeritus/a B. Reagon, R. Breitman
Associate Professor Emeritus/a I. Klein, A. Shelford
Department Overview
A major in history at AU prepares students to succeed in their careers and to become lifelong learners. Our major is flexible. With few specific requirements, students are free to explore their interests and passions, taking courses that they find compelling, and building their own unique programs of study. We offer courses across a broad range of international, topical, and chronological boundaries. Our major is also rigorous, demanding high levels of writing, research, analysis, and close reading–all foundational skills for nearly any vocation. Our majors do very well in applications to professional and graduate schools.
Our faculty are nationally and internationally renowned scholars. They are also engaged in contemporary politics and social commentary to a degree that is rarely found among history professors. Our students thus not only study history, but also interact with professors who actively seek to apply understanding the past to understanding the present and future.
AU History faculty also have close, ongoing relationships with major institutions in Washington, DC, such as the National Archives, the Library of Congress, the National Museum of American History, the White House Historical Association, the National Building Museum, the State Department, embassies, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Our students find many opportunities for student internships and for engagement in the application of historical study to contemporary policy and culture. History is a classic liberal arts major that prepares our students to see the world with historical perspective, to be informed citizens, and to thrive in many professions.
Special Opportunities
- Valerie French History Education Endowment Fund; Dorothy Gondos-Beers Scholarship; Janet Oppenheim History Prize; Richard and Carol Breitman Endowed Scholarship; Roger Brown Dissertation Fellowship; Dr. Dorothy and Victor Gondos, Jr. Student Support; Patrick Clendenen Dissertation Fellowship; Robert Griffith Education Fund for Public History; History Outstanding Teaching Assistant Prize; Best Single-Semester Capstone History Prize; History Research & Conference Travel Funding
- Internships at Washington area museums, libraries and archives, historic sites, historic preservation offices, historical societies, and government agencies
Honors in History
The Honors in History program deepens the major experience of the department’s best students.
ProgramsMajor Program (UG)Minor (UG)Master’s Program (GR)Doctoral Program (GR)
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