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 (more...).

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		Major Grants & Fellowships, Honors
Alexandra Cornelius-Diallo,Washington University, St Louis, 2006 (African American History; Race, Gender, and Science.		Library Company of Philadelphia
Alex Lichtenstein,  University of Pennsylvania, 1990 (US, labor, African American)		NEH, Fulbright, American Philosophical Society
Kenneth Lipartito, The Johns Hopkins University, 1986 (US, business, technology)		Abbott Payson Usher Prize, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Grant, Harold F. Williamson Prize, ACLS, Allan Nevins Prize
Joyce Shaw Peterson, University of Wisconsin, 1976 (US, women, social)
Darden Asbury Pyron,University of Virginia, 1975 (US South, cultural)
Howard Rock, New York University, 1974 (Jeffersonian US, labor)
Chantalle Verna, Michigan State University, 2005 (US, Haiti, inter-American relations, African diaspora, immigration and ethnicity)		Rockefeller Archives Center, SSRC
Kirsten Wood, University of Pennsylvania, 1998 (US, early national, southern, women's, and gender history)		Francis B. Simkins Prize, Gilder Lehrman Institute, American Philosophical Society, James Madison Prize

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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