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Welcome to the
American History concentration at FIU!
Among our
strengths
are African-American history, slavery, and the African New World.
We also have strengths in women's and
gender history, cultural history, and modern economic history.
Like our colleagues in the other subject areas of the FIU History
Department, we provide careful training for independent research and
university-level teaching. We also work with the Teaching
American History
Masters Degree Program, funded by the U.S. Department of Education.
FIU's
master's and doctoral programs in History both offer a concentration on
American history. The master's degree
provides a strong foundation for professional or further academic work,
while the doctoral program's
emphasis on the Atlantic world affords American concentrators the
opportunities to pursue cross-cultural research.
The American component of the doctoral program affords students breadth of coverage across time and
space in general courses, while offering thematic focus in
seminars. Requirements for the Master's and Ph.D. programs, along
with graduate courses and seminars in the areas of Latin America,
Europe, United States, and Africa, are available from the Department's on-line catalog.
Students concentrating on
American History in the graduate program in History at FIU are trained
by some of the most highly respected scholars in the nation, including
Ken Lipartito and Howard Rock.
In the American concentration,
students explore some of the most exciting developments in the
field. Slavery and colonial archaeology, Civil War
biography, the politics of 19th century taverns, race and group
identities, are among the topics currently being
explored by Americanist faculty.
| Faculty Expertise: Regions, Periods, Themes |
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Major
Grants & Fellowships, Honors
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Alexandra
Cornelius-Diallo,Washington University, St Louis, 2006
(African American History; Race, Gender, and Science.
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Library Company of Philadelphia
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Alex
Lichtenstein, University of Pennsylvania, 1990 (US,
labor, African
American)
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NEH, Fulbright, American
Philosophical Society
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| Kenneth
Lipartito, The Johns Hopkins University, 1986 (US,
business, technology) |
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Abbott Payson
Usher Prize, Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation Research Grant, Harold F. Williamson Prize, ACLS, Allan
Nevins Prize |
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Shaw Peterson, University of Wisconsin, 1976 (US, women,
social) |
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| Darden
Asbury Pyron,University of Virginia, 1975 (US South,
cultural) |
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| Howard Rock,
New York
University, 1974 (Jeffersonian US, labor) |
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Chantalle
Verna, Michigan State University, 2005 (US, Haiti,
inter-American relations, African diaspora, immigration and ethnicity)
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Rockefeller Archives Center, SSRC
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Kirsten
Wood, University of Pennsylvania, 1998 (US, early
national, southern, women's, and gender history)
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Francis B. Simkins Prize, Gilder Lehrman
Institute, American Philosophical Society, James Madison Prize
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Financial Aid
Graduate Assistantships are
available from the Department of History on a competitive basis. Every
assistantship offers both a stipend and tuition waivers covering the
academic year. In addition, history graduate students in the Latin
American concentration have been successful in competing for
fellowships offered through the Latin American & Caribbean Center
from various sources, including the Mellon Foundation, the Foreign
Language and Areas Studies program of the Department of Education, and
the Organization of American States, among others. For additional
information regarding costs and financial support for graduate studies
at FIU, check the College of Arts and Sciences' Graduate Support page.
Environment
The Miami area provides a stimulating backdrop for historical study,
from the "Miami Circle," attributed to Tequesta Indians, to the 2007
commissioning of the U.S.S. Gridley. Resources like the
Wolfsonian Museum, the Historical Museum of South Florida, and the
growing resources of our Green Library support original research in a
wide range of topics.
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