About Us

UNT History Office

Location: Wooten Hall 225
Phone: 940-565-2288
Email: History@unt.edu

The UNT Department of History houses a community of 34 full-time faculty and staff, 450 undergraduate history majors, and nearly 100 M.A. and Ph.D. students. We pride ourselves on innovative research, professional service, and stellar teaching and mentorship. Our department has been long recognized in the fields of oral history and the histories of Texas and the American South. In recent decades, we have also emerged as a leader for interdisciplinary research in food studies, military history, the medical humanities, and in digital scholarship. Our students and faculty conduct research around the world using a wide variety of historical methods, including archaeological fieldwork, computer modeling, and the analysis of archival manuscripts. In addition to scholarly books and articles, members of our department also write for broader audiences to engage the public through a variety of other multidisciplinary projects such as podcasts, museum exhibits, and even the creation of historical gardens. Our common concerns are the past and its multitude of meanings and interpretations.

Our curriculum emphasizes research and writing skills together with training that cultivates students as the co-creators of historical knowledge. Rather than simply teaching “historical content” in the classroom, our faculty members work to empower students to become historians themselves through thematic coursework that provides them with opportunities to conduct their own scholarship and “learn by doing.”

In addition to this emphasis on research and empowerment, our M.A. and Ph.D. programs are distinguished by a focus on professional development and career readiness. We offer our graduate students pedagogical training and opportunities for teaching experience, and many move on to careers in higher education. We also provide curricular support for students heading down other professional pathways outside of academia. Among other occupations, alumni have applied their graduate training to careers in law, secondary education, politics, and archives and libraries.

Our department offers a Bachelor of Arts in History, a Master of Arts in History, and a Doctor of Philosophy in History. We also have three interdisciplinary minors at UNT, including Africana Studies, Classical Studies, and Mexican-American Studies, as well as UNT's Food Studies and Medical Humanities certificate programs.