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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.

Highlights

November 2009

Luis Martínez-Fernández was installed as Trustee of the College Board on October 23 at the annual meeting of members of the College Board in New York City. He was also elected Chair of the Academic Advisory Board of the College Board. [Read More]

October 2009

Orlando Business Journal names Robert Thompson among its "10 Businessmen to Watch." Thompson graduated from UCF in 2004 with a Bachelor of Arts in History and went on to become a founding partner at local marketing and public relations firm Thompson Wesley Wolfe. [Read More]

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Recent Faculty Publications

Robert Cassanello, Ph.D.

Publication Image Migration and the Transformation of the Southern Workplace since 1945 with Colin J. Davis, eds Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010

Vladimir Solonari, Ph.D.

Publication Image Purifying the Nation: Population Exchange and Ethnic Cleansing in Nazi Allied Romania Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009

Robert Cassanello, Ph.D.

Publication Image Florida's Working-Class Past: Current Perspectives on Labor, Race, and Gender from Spanish Florida to the New Immigration with Melanie Shell-Weiss, eds. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009

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