Welcome to the History Department's homepage. We offer degrees at the undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral levels, and our students enjoy many opportunities for research and travel. Our faculty members are committed teachers and scholars, with substantial records of publication and national and international reputations. The faculty's particular areas of strength are the U.S.-Mexico border region and Latin America. We invite you to explore this page, and to contact us with any questions you might have.    

Bienvenidos al Departamento de Historia. Nosotros ofrecemos grados de licenciatura, maestría y doctorado, y nuestros estudiantes disfrutan de muchas oportunidades de investigación y de viajes académicos. Nuestros profesores son reconocidos en la enseñanza y en investigación, quienes tienen un extenso número de publicaciones y poseen prestigio nacional e internacional. Las especialidades con más fortalezas de los profesores son la región fronteriza de los Estados Unidos de América y México, y Latinoamérica. Te invitamos a explorar esta página y a contactarnos con cualquiera de las preguntas que tú pudieras tener. Información sobre el programa doctoral en el español.

History Department Seminar Series

Fall 2009

Selected Friday Afternoons at 3:00 pm in LA 322

 

The goal of the seminar is to provide an opportunity for presentation and discussion of research of interest to historians and others with an interest in history.  The seminar is interdisciplinary and will include UTEP faculty and graduate students as well as scholars from other universities.  A formal paper or presentation will be followed by discussion and an opportunity for informal socializing.  The seminar is open to all faculty and graduate students and others who may be interested.

 

Friday, Sept. 11: Roundtable: From Notecards to Endnote: How to Organize Research in the Digital Age. Dana Lightfoot, UTEP History Department; John Paul Nuño, PhD Candidate in History, UTEP; and Joshua Fan, UTEP History Department

 

Friday, Sept.18: “Only people with too much brain could come up with a story like that”: Masking and Maroon Historiography in Marie-Elena John’s Unburnable. Marion Rorhleitner, UTEP English Department

 

Tuesday, Sept. 22: The Illusion of Conservatism in the Age of Culture War. David Courtwright, Professor of History, University of North Florida. Prof. Courtwright will also present at the Global Public Policy Forum on the 40th Anniversary of the US “War on Drugs,” UTEP, Sept. 21-22.  Note special date

 

Friday, Oct. 23: Roundtable:  Borderlands and Other Lands:  An Exploration of the Connections between Borderlands History and Other History Fields. Jeff Shepherd, UTEP History Department, convenor

 

Friday, Oct. 30th: After the Underground Railroad: African Americans Returning from Canada and the Forgotten History of Transnational Reconstruction. Adam Arenson, UTEP History Department

 
Friday, Nov. 6th: Taking Native American Truths Seriously. Marsha Weisiger, Associate Professor of History, NMSU

 

For further information contact Chuck Ambler at cambler@utep.edu or 747-8039. 

El Paso History Day

 

El Paso History Day is an annual event sponsored by the Department of History and the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at El Paso.  It serves as the regional qualifying contest for Texas History Day in Austin, which in turn sends its winners to National History Day in Washington D.C.  History Day is an educational program devoted to improving the teaching and learning of history in American middle schools and high schools.  It is designed to provide a meaningful and exciting process whereby students can study historical ideas, issues, people, and events by engaging in project based learning and research.

 

The categories which students may enter as an individual or a group are:

                  

       Exhibits—individual and group entries

       Documentaries—individual and group entries

       Performances—individual and group entries

       Interpretive Web Sites—one combined individual and group competition

       Papers—individual entries only

 

The thirteenth annual El Paso History Day will be held on Saturday, February 20, 2010, on the UTEP campus.   The theme for the 2010 contest is “Innovation in History:  Impact and Change.”  In 2009 there were a record number of 146 entries from 276 students.  Information and photos from previous years’ contests is available on the UTEP Department of History’s web page under “History Day.” 

 

For further information about History Day, contact the local director, Dr. Charles H. Martin, at mcharles@utep.edu or visit the web sites for Texas History Day and National History Day or use the above links to those sites.