History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we can better face the future. – Robert Penn Warren
NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS:
"Michael Caldwell, taking a question from the audience, at the U.S. Embassy in Harare, Zimbabwe"
Michael Caldwell (B.A. Xavier History, ‘11), currently a law student at Loyola University in New Orleans served as a summer intern at the United States Embassy in Harare, Zimbabwe. He presented a talk and hosted a discussion on youth and political involvement at the U.S. Embassy in Harare on July 6, 2012. More information on this event can be found at http://harare.usembassy.gov/other_news_2012/u.s.-zim-youth-debate-participation-in-politics
Dr. Elizabeth Manley, Asst. Professor, Dept. of History, published an article, “Intimate Violations: Women and the Ajusticiamiento of Dictator Rafael Trujillo, 1944-1961,” in the journal, The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History, Vol. 69: 1, July 2012.
Dr. Steven J. Salm, chair, Dept. of History, published a, co-edited book with Dr. Emmanuel M. Mbah, Globalization and the African Experience (Carolina Academic Press, 2012). Salm also co-authored the Introduction to the book and authored the chapter, “Africanizing the West: Changing Expressions of Popular Culture among Urban Youth,” 213-235.
The Department of History is dedicated to the humanistic study of the past for a better understanding of the present. This discipline requires the ability to analyze complex issues, events and ideas. The history major also requires skill in written expression.
In addition to satisfying the goals of the Core Curriculum, the program in history equips students with a broad historical background and intellectual skills needed in a wide variety of professions, including those in government service, law, business, museum and archival careers, college teaching and professional research.
An undergraduate focus in history – either minor or major – prepares students to take on a wide variety of pursuits. In addition to graduate school in history, the major also provides a solid foundation for law school, museum and historic preservation studies, and education programs. History majors make excellent educators, politicians, foreign service officers, editors and journalists, just to name a few of the fields history majors can enter.
The History Department at Xavier University is a diverse group of professors and dedicated students set within an intimate atmosphere. Our areas of expertise range from the United States to the Ancient Mediterranean, from modern Latin America to Nineteenth-Century France, and from Twentieth-Century Africa to colonial and post-colonial African Diaspora Studies. In addition to the required core course, faculty members offer classes that include such diverse themes as “Gandhi and King: Nonviolent Philosophy of Conflict Resolution,” “The Black Atlantic World,” “Women in Latin America” and “The History of Louisiana.”
If you have questions about a major or minor in history or Social Studies Education, feel free to stop by the Department of History in the Administration Building, #212.
"History has thrust something upon me from which I cannot turn away." – Martin Luther King Jr.
