Welcome

The Michigan State University History Department showcases some of the most exciting trends in research and publication in the discipline. Fundamentally international in focus, the department brings together scholars working on states and politics, gender and the family, labor, migration, religion, race and ethnicity, and popular culture.

Regional areas of strength make our department one of the central pillars in MSU's Area Studies programs in Africa, Asia, Europe and Russia, and Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as programs in African and African American Studies, Chicano/Latino Studies, Native American Studies, Jewish Studies, American Studies, and Gender in Global Context.

Our faculty members actively publish in a wide range of venues; monographs published with high-profile university presses; works aimed at a broader public interested in history, including reference works and textbooks, and articles in leading scholarly journals. The Department is recognized on campus and nationally for excellence in both graduate and undergraduate teaching. Faculty members are also deeply engaged in partnerships with the public schools in Michigan to prepare future social studies teachers and strengthen History teaching across the state.

In addition, through our department's connection with MATRIX and H-Net, we are playing a central role in leading the historical profession into the increasing use of on-line publishing, teaching, and the creation of on-line archives of text, sound, image, and video.