Since earning her doctoral degree from the UNC History Department in 2007, Dr. Christina Snyder has established herself as a leading historian of North American race, colonialism, and slavery from pre-contact through the nineteenth century. She is currently the McCabe … Read more
Increasingly, Ph.D. graduates are pursuing careers outside the academy–in the federal government, at museums and public history sites, in university administration, and at higher education consulting firms. Still, Ph.D. graduates rarely become high school teachers. According to one study, only … Read more
On July 1, 2018, the UNC History Department welcomed Dr. Lisa Lindsay as its new Department Chair. Dr. Lindsay, a historian of Africa, has been a UNC-Chapel Hill faculty member since 1999 and has previously served as the Department’s Director … Read more
As the History Department’s undergraduate students prepare their schedules for the Spring 2019 semester, they will find various new course offerings. Among the new courses is an undergraduate seminar on Cold War Summits, to be taught by Dr. Michael Cotey … Read more
This fall, the Department welcomed its first graduate students who specialize in African history. They will participate in the newest Ph.D. program concentration, which trains historians to undertake cutting-edge research and teaching in that field. The three Africanist faculty members––Lisa … Read more
In 2008, Captain Lauren Merkel graduated from the University of North Carolina with a degree in Political Science. A cadet in the Reserve Officer Training Corps, she was commissioned as a junior officer in the United States Army. Merkel served … Read more
UNC students often expect to write academic papers that no one but a professor or teaching assistant will read. Yet increasingly, instructors in the History department are designing assignments that ask undergraduates to use the skills they learned in class … Read more
Congratulations to recent Carolina PhD Christina Snyder (PhD 2007) on winning this year’s Francis Parkman Prize, bestowed by the American Society of Historians on “a nonfiction work of history on an American theme published the previous year that is distinguished … Read more
People I hadn’t seen since high school started texting me, saying ‘I just heard you on my favorite podcast!’” said Matt Andrews, teaching associate professor and undergraduate adviser for the History department, after his appearance on the top-rated podcast, 99% … Read more
