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history@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu
Welcome!
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
April 2009
Amy Foster won the Arthur W. Thompson Award for the most outstanding article in the Florida Historical Quarterly published in 2008. Dr. Foster's article titled "The Gendered Anniversary: The Story of America's Women Astronauts" was published in the Fall Issue of Volume 87. [Read More]
April 2009
Assistant Professor of history Peter Larson was awarded a 1-month British Academy fellowship from the Huntington Library for the 2009-2010 academic year.
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Recent Faculty Publications
Robert Cassanello, Ph.D.
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
Rosalind Beiler, Ph.D.
Immigrant and Entrepreneur: The Atlantic World of Caspar Wistar,
1650-1750 (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008).