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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 B.A. in history, the Department of History at the University of Maryland offers a B.A. in Central European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, a History Minor, 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 M.A. and Ph.D. in History, the Department of History offers a history and library science (HiLS) M.A., 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 and Staff
Faculty and Staff
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Anna Julia Cooper Workshop | Performance, Civil Rights, Emancipation | Julius Fleming, Jr.
Arts & Humanities Dean's Colloquium Series on Race, Equity and Justice, Featuring Christopher Bonner
European Caucus Speakers Series | Babyn Yar Massacre | Martin Dean
Alumni Publications
UPDATE Jessica Marie Johnson's (PhD, 2012, Advisor: Ira Berlin) book Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020) has been awarded the American Historical Association's 2021 Wesley-Logan Prize in African diaspora history. Johnson's book which is also one of three finalists for the 2021 Frederick Douglass Book Prize awarded by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, and the MacMillan Center at Yale University. The winner will be announced in February 2022. Johnson's book has been nominated for and won numerous other prizes:
Winner of the Lora Romero First Book Prize, granted by the American Studies Association
Winner of the 2020 Kemper and Leila Williams Prize for Louisiana History, granted by The Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Historical Association
Finalist for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History, granted by the African American Intellectual History Society
Honorable mention for the Frederick Jackson Turner Award, granted by the Organization of American Historians
Honorable Mention for the Mary Alice and Philip Boucher Book Prize, granted by the French Colonial Historical Society
Honorable Mention for the Barbara Christian Literary Prize, granted by the Caribbean Studies Association