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The Department of History at LSU is an integral part of the College of Arts
and Sciences, with a history that goes back as far as the founding of the
University in 1860. The department's administrative staff,
based at 224 Himes Hall on LSU's central campus, supports the work of 27
tenured or tenure-track professors and a varying number of instructors. In addition to
teaching graduate and undergraduate classes, faculty members serve in a large
number of campus and community outreach capacities, and do original research
and writing on topics ranging from the American Civil War to Chinese
Confucianism and far beyond (see Fields of Study).
LSU is one of the nation’s premier sites for
research in southern history, but it also has excellent faculty members and
graduate students working in a host of other fields. In addition to
southern and United States history, it has particular strengths in British
history, the Middle Ages and Renaissance studies, and modern European
history. It also has faculty members publishing on and teaching the history
of the Ancient world, Latin America, Africa, as well as South and East Asia.
There are currently about 60 graduate
students enrolled in doctoral and master's-degree programs in the
department, and 452 undergraduate majoring in History in Fall 2007; total enrollment in History courses was
over 4,500 students.
The department also hosts and/or contributes to
a continuing round of lectures, seminars, and
colloquia, including the prestigious annual Fleming Lecture Series on Southern
history, the Modern History Colloquium series, the periodic Works in Progress
seminars (WIPS) and the Medieval and Renaissance Interdisciplinary Studies
program (MARIS).
Chair:
Prof. Victor Stater,
stater@lsu.edu
Administrative Coordinator: Darlene Albritton, dalbri1@lsu.edu
Administrative Coordinator: Sandra Kirby, srkirby@lsu.edu
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