UCF | History Department

The History Department at the University of Central Florida offers students an excellent opportunity to cultivate analytical, reading, and writing skills while enhancing their knowledge of history and its role in today's society. Students interested in the professions of law, education, library sciences, public history, international affairs, and public policy will find in history a valuable and rewarding learning experience. The UCF History Department is also home to the Florida Historical Quarterly.

Public History

The Department of History is expanding its Public History program to focus on new media and cultural heritage management—areas that build on the strength of UCF's location in the greater Orlando metropolitan area. Our first priority is to bring new energy to our M.A. program by turning our public history track into a stand-alone master's degree. In addition, we are infusing our undergraduate program with hands-on, publicly engaged research opportunities. [Read More]

Highlights

April 2012

photoHistory usually speaks for itself, but sometimes it can use a little help. Connie Lester (pictured with Jim Leach, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities), a University of Central Florida associate professor of history, gave the subject a boost Monday at the annual meeting of the National Humanities Alliance in Washington, D. [Read More]

February 2012

The History Department would like to congratulate the following award-winning graduate students: Michael McConville received the 2011-2012 College of Arts & Humanities Award for Excellence as a Graduate Teaching Assistant. [Read More]

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Recent Faculty Publications

Amy Foster, Ph.D.

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Integrating Women into the Astronaut Corps: Politics and Logistics at NASA, 1972-2004. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.

James Clark, Ph.D.

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Red Pepper and Gorgeous George: Claude Pepper's Epic Defeat in the 1950 Democratic Primary, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011.

Hakan Özoğlu, Ph.D.

From Caliphate to Secular State. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC Clio/Praeger, 2011

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History Department • College of Arts & Humanities at the University of Central Florida
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