History

The Department of History has been one of the strongest departments at New Mexico State University for many years.   We offer a Bachelor of Arts that provides unusual breadth for students with course work in the history of the United States, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia.  Our Master of Arts program includes both a thesis track and a Public History track.

Undergraduate majors take a research methods course that strengthens their abilities as historians, and at the graduate level we provide History 590, The Craft of History; a series of interdisciplinary readings seminars, and History 587, the Public History seminar.  Our faculty members are excellent instructors and we have received five prestigious individual research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities during the last three years.  Our Web page provides a link to information about our highly praised NEH grant to infuse an understanding of Islam into many New Mexico State University courses. 

We bring a number of excellent speakers to campus each year.  In addition to eight graduate assistantships and an endowed graduate student award provided by the family of the late Steele Jones, we have recently received $280,000 from the estate of Edward and Lydie Thierry Hull to provide graduate student stipends and fellowships.  Our department sponsors a very active chapter in the national history scholastic honorary society, Phi Alpha Theta.   

Please contact our head, Dr. Jeffrey Brown, at (505) 646-4601 or at jbrown@nmsu.edu for more information about our department.