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- Edmund Abaka and Stephen Halsey have received 2012-13 Faculty Fellowships from the University of Miami Center for the Humanities. Megan Hatfield and Carolyn Zimmerman have received 2012-13 Dissertation Fellowships from the Center
- Erin Purdy ('14) has received a 2012 Beyond the Book Research Grant from the College of Arts and Sciences
- Michael Bernath has been awarded a 2012 Filson Fellowship from the Filson Historical Society, Louisville, KY.
- Richard Godbeer has been awarded a Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellowship at the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania for 2012-13.
- Dominique Reill has been awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the ACLS Committee on East European Studies for 2012-2013. Professor Reill has also been awarded a 2012-13 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome.
- Ashli White has received an NEH Summer Fellowship for research on her new project, "Object Lessons of the Revolutionary Atlantic." Professor White has also received a Winterthur Research Fellowship from the Winterthur Institute.
- Amelia Hintzen and Valerie Samet have received Summer Graduate Awards from the College of Arts and Sciences.
- Jacqueline Grant (PhD '12) has accepted a position as Administrative/Executive Assistant to the Dean of Libraries, University of Nevada, Knowledge Center.
- Dr. Cecile Houry (PhD '11) has been appointed Assistant Vice President in the Office of Engagement at Florida International University. Dr. Houry also received the FIU Community Award in October 2011.
Nationalists Who Feared the Nation: Adriatic Multi-Nationalism in Habsburg Dalmatia, Trieste, and Venice
Stanford University Press, 2012
Dominique Kirchner Reill
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Dignifying Argentina: Peronism, Citizenship, and Mass Consumption
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011
Eduardo Elena
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The Salem Witch Hunt: A Brief History with Documents
Bedford/St. Martin's, 2011
Richard Godbeer
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Forgotten Franciscans: Works from an Inquisitorial Theorist, a Heretic, and an Inquisitorial Deputy
Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011
Martin Austin Nesvig
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The Spirits and the Law: Vodou and Power in Haiti
University of Chicago Press, 2011
Kate Ramsey
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House of Slaves and "Door of No Return": Gold Coast/Ghana Slave Forts, Castles & Dungeons and the Atlantic Slave Trade
Africa World Press, 2012
Edmund Abaka
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W. E. B. Du Bois on Africa
Left Coast Press, 2012
Edmund Abaka and Eugune F. Provenzo, Jr. (eds)
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"If You Were Only White": The Life of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
University of Missouri Press, 2012
Donald Spivey
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2012-13 Center for the Humanities Dissertation Fellows
Carolyn Zimmerman and
Megan Hatfield
2012-13 Center for the Humanities Faculty Fellows
Stephen Halsey and
Edmund Abaka
Welcome to the Department of History, University of Miami. Our Department is committed to pursuing excellence in historical and interdisciplinary scholarship, teaching, and service to the profession, the University, and the wider community. Our fine faculty of some twenty-four professors does research and teaches in historical areas, often crossing chronological, geographic, and disciplinary boundaries. Our courses combine innovative subjects and methods with more traditional subjects and presentations. In their classes, students have the opportunity to experience the latest and best historical research and writing, to explore special topics in depth, and to receive rigorous training in researching, analyzing, and writing history. Lectures, small classes, and seminars all allow students contact with full-time professors who are always experts, and often leaders and innovators, in their fields. The undergraduate program currently has about 180 majors and the graduate program generally enrolls five to six new students each year.
Our graduate program provides first-rate professional training for graduate students. We enjoy excellent relationships with many other departments and programs in the college and university. We maintain close ties with, for example, the Center for Latin American Studies, the Center for the Humanities, and various other interdisciplinary programs, such as Women's and Gender Studies, Urban Studies, Africana Studies, American Studies, and more. In addition, we often work closely with Florida International University, also in Miami. Collaborative ventures with other university programs and with Florida International have included the staging of major conferences. Both graduate and undergraduate students benefit from our distinguished speakers' program which invites several scholars to campus each year to give lectures and direct seminars. Numerous opportunities exist for students to obtain fellowships within the university, including the University Fellowships, the College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Writing Year Fellowship, the Dissertation Fellowships of the Center for the Humanities, and, for qualified minority students, McKnight Fellowships. Several of our graduate students have won external grants, including ones from the Fulbright Foundation, the Conference on Latin American History, the Council on Library and Information Resources/Mellon, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and more. Over the course of the last several years, our Ph.D. students have taken academic positions at, for example, Iowa State University, Michigan State University, Rowan State University, and Connecticut College.
The University Library system, and in particular, Richter Library, holds a wealth of secondary materials, an impressive and extensive collection of electronic resources, and houses several Special Collections. One of the most important of these last is the Cuban Heritage Collection, containing a wide range of materials for studying both the history of Cuba and the Americas more broadly. But Special Collections also boasts a much greater range of scholarly resources, including rare books, manuscripts, photographs, maps, architectural drawings, posters, audio-visual materials; all in all over 10,500 linear feet of manuscripts and other archival materials, 100,000 photographs, and 5000 maps.
We invite you to browse our website to sample the richness of the opportunities that we can offer!
