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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 two-person administrative staff,
based at 224 Himes Hall on LSU's central campus, supports the work of 26
tenured or tenure-track professors and a varying number of instructors
(currently five). 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, and a
department faculty member is founder and former director of LSU's African and
African-American Studies Program.
There are currently about 55 graduate students enrolled in doctoral and
master's-degree programs in the department, and 363 undergraduates were
majoring in History in Fall 2005; total enrollment in History courses was
approximately 5,700.
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). LSU historians frequently play host to visiting
scholars in the Chancellors Distinguished Lecture and other campus-wide
lecture series. See Calendar for more
details.
Chair:
Prof. Gaines Foster, hyfost@lsu.edu
Administrative Coordinator: Darlene Albritton, dalbri1@lsu.edu
Administrative Coordinator: Sandra Kirby, srkirby@lsu.edu
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