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Welcome to the Department of History at the University of Maryland.
The Department of History at the University of Maryland embraces the diversity of the human past with a global vision and a variety of methods of inquiry. Our fifty faculty form a community of accomplished scholars whose specialties examine cultures across the Americas, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Europe, and whose chronologies stretch from antiquity to the late modern. Maryland’s professors also explore the history of the natural sciences, the environment, and the economy. Both our undergraduate and graduate students consequently benefit from a curriculum enriched by the many questions our faculty pose of the past.
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Undergraduate
Interested in our undergraduate programs?
In addition to a BA in History, the Department of History at the University of Maryland offers a BA in Central European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies; a History Minor; a Middle East Studies Minor; an East Asian Studies Certificate; and an Immigration and Migration Studies Transcript Notation. Get information on advising, major requirements, and more through the links below.
Graduate
Graduate Studies in History at UMD
In addition to the MA and PhD in History, the Department of History offers a history and library science (HiLS) MA and certificates in historic preservation and museum scholarship and material culture. Learn more about these programs, or find information relevant to current students through the links below.
Faculty
Department of History Faculty
The Department of History at the University of Maryland has more than fifty faculty who research, publish, and teach in a wide range of geographic, cultural, and thematic fields of historical study.
Search the Department of History directory in the links below to learn about faculty.
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In Memoriam
The Department of History is deeply saddened by the passing of our colleague, James Z. Gao, Associate Professor of History, on October 26, 2021. In his career, James also taught at Peking University and Newport News University and was a Research Associate at the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of three monographs, numerous articles, and the recipient of several research fellowships, including from the National Endowment for the Humanities. During his illness, James was as engaged as ever in the scholarship of modern Chinese history His important contributions to that field will endure. James as a scholar and as a person always acted with integrity and great courage. His death is a terrible loss to the profession and the Department.