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.

Spring 2010 History Department Seminar Series

Please join us on selected Friday afternoons at 3:00 in Liberal Arts, room tba.

 

The goal of the interdisciplinary seminar is to provide an opportunity for presentation and discussion of research that is of interest to historians and others drawn to history.  The seminar is interdisciplinary and includes UTEP faculty and graduate students and scholars from other universities.  A formal paper or presentation is followed by discussion and an opportunity for informal socializing.  The seminar is open to all faculty and graduate students and other community members who might be interested.

Fri., Jan. 29: “Their Lives Can Be Open Books: A Roundtable on New Approaches to Biography.” Maceo Dailey, UTEP History Department; Ernesto Chávez, UTEP History Department; Will Guzmán, Florida A&M University History and African American Studies Department and Ph.D. Candidate in History, UTEP; and Susie Aquilina, Ph.D. Program in History, UTEP

Mon., Mar. 8: “The Last Immigration Crisis: A History of the Dillingham Commission of 1907 - 1911.” Katherine Benton-Cohen, Georgetown University History Department.  Note special date.  Benton-Cohen will also give a lecture on Borderline Americans: Racial Division and Labor War in the Arizona Borderlands (Harvard, 2009) on Sun. Mar. 7 at 2:00 pm at the El Paso Museum of History. Note change.  More information to follow.

Fri., Mar. 26: Book lecture and celebration: Drug War Zone: Frontline Dispatches from the Streets of El Paso and Juárez (University of Texas, 2009). Howard B. Campbell, UTEP Sociology and Anthropology Department

Mon., Apr. 5: “Matrimonio y el ‘Buen Morir’: Marriage and Death in Nineteenth-Century Paso del Norte.” James Starling, Ph.D. Candidate in History, UTEP

Fri., Apr. 16: Book lecture and celebration: We Are an Indian Nation: A History of the Hualapai People (University of Arizona, 2010). Jeffrey P. Shepherd, UTEP History Department

The seminars are open to all UTEP faculty and graduate students and others who may be interested.  Receptions will follow.  Please mark your calendars!

 

For further information contact Julia Schiavone Camacho at julias@utep.edu or 747-7054.

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.