Department of History

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History

History Building

(307) 766-5101

Website: www.uwyo.edu/history

E-mail: uwhistory@uwyo.edu

Department Chair: Jeffrey Means

Professor:

RENEE LAEGREID, B.A. Washington State University 1982; M.A.L.S. Wesleyan University 1994; Ph.D. University of Nebraska 2002; Professor of History 2015, 2012.

Associate Professor:

ISADORA A. HELFGOTT, B.A. Swarthmore College 1994; A.M. Harvard University 1997; Ph.D. 2006; Associate Professor of History 2015, 2009.

ALEXANDRA KELLY, B.A. University of Chicago 2004; M.A. 2005; Ph.D. Stanford University 2014; Assistant Professor of History and Anthropology 2014.

JEFFREY D. MEANS, B.A. Grand Canyon University 1995; M.A. University of Montana 2001; Ph.D. University of Oklahoma 2007; Associate Professor of History 2013, 2007.

Assistant Professor:

ADAM BLACKLER, B.A. Carroll College 2006; M.A. University of Wyoming 2009; Ph.D. University of Minnesota - Twin Cities 2017; Assistant Professor of History 2018.

BARBARA E. LOGAN, B.A. Queens College, CUNY 1986; Ph.D. University of California-Santa Cruz 2002; Assistant Professor of History 2018, 2011.

MELISSA MORRIS, B.A. Miami University 2004; M.A. Miami University 2010; Ph.D. Columbia University 2017; Assistant Professor of History 2018.

PETER WALKER, B. A. University of Oxford 2008; M. Phil. University of Oxford 2010; Ph. D. Columbia University 2016; Visiting Assistant Professor of History 2019.

Adjunct Faculty:

MICHAEL J. DEVINE, B.A. Loras College 1967; M.A. Ohio State University 1968; Ph.D. 1974; Adjunct Professor of History, 2014, 1991.

Professors Emeriti:

Eric D. Kohler, William H. Moore, Phil Roberts

History Program

History is a foundational discipline that blends the methodologies and perspective of the humanities and social sciences in order to engage with the history of human culture on a global scale. UW’s History degree program emphasizes interdisciplinary teaching and research and provides course work, research experiences, and internships on both American and international topics. The History program offers a Bachelor of Arts degree major, minor, Public History Concentration, and a Master of Arts degree.

The study of History at the University of Wyoming provides students with the tools to comprehend the present in order to prepare for the future. Challenging courses are designed to facilitate critical thinking and the development of analytical skills. Each of our courses features the discussion of complex issues, the development of writing and reading skills, and is generally oriented toward promoting individual enrichment. The professional skills that the History program instills transcend our field and allow students to work toward a variety of career choices such as business, law, government service, public history, archives and museum work, education, management, writing, and graduate studies. The ability to develop perspective, render informed judgments, and function as productive citizens of the global community stand as hallmarks of our program.

Learning Outcomes

It is the goal of the History department that our graduates have the following skills and knowledge:

• Students shall be able to demonstrate thinking skills by analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating historical information from multiple sources.
• Students will develop the ability to distinguish between fact and fiction while understanding that there is no one historical truth.
• Students will produce well-researched written work that engages with both primary sources and the secondary literature.
• Students will develop an informed familiarity with multiple cultures.
• Students will employ a full range of techniques and methods used to gain historical knowledge.
• Students will develop an ability to convey verbally their historical knowledge.
• Students will demonstrate their understanding of cause and effect along with their knowledge of the general chronology of human experience.

Programs

• History, B.A.
• History, Public History Concentration, B.A.

• History Minor

• History, M.A.

Courses

• HIST 1101 - FYS: Hamilton’s America: Beyond the Musical
• HIST 1110 - Western Civilization I
• HIST 1120 - Western Civilization II
• HIST 1211 - U.S. to 1865
• HIST 1221 - U.S. From 1865
• HIST 1251 - Wyoming History
• HIST 1290 - History of the U.S. West
• HIST 1320 - World History to 1500
• HIST 1330 - World History since 1500
• HIST 2020 - American Military History
• HIST 2030 - History and Environmental Science
• HIST 2040 - Imperial China
• HIST 2041 - Modern China
• HIST 2050 - Introduction to Public History
• HIST 2060 - Topics in History
• HIST 2070 - Introduction to Museology
• HIST 2075 - Museology II
• HIST 2080 - Holocaust
• HIST 2105 - Medieval Europe in Film
• HIST 2110 - Forgotten Africa: Intro to African Civilizations
• HIST 2130 - Ancient Rome
• HIST 2225 - History of Christianity
• HIST 2230 - The History of Russia to 1855
• HIST 2240 - The History of Russia Since 1855
• HIST 2250 - American Religious History I (To 1865)
• HIST 2252 - American Religious History II (1865 to 1945)
• HIST 2280 - Introduction to European Studies
• HIST 2290 - History of North American Indians
• HIST 2315 - History of Non-Western Religions
• HIST 2320 - History of Islam
• HIST 2335 - Buddhism
• HIST 2360 - African-American History
• HIST 2370 - Chicano History: Origins to 1900
• HIST 2380 - Latin American History 1500 to 2000
• HIST 2385 - Chicano History : 1900 to Present
• HIST 2389 - History of Women in the American West
• HIST 2390 - US West Between the World Wars
• HIST 2440 - The Impact of the Union Pacific on Wyoming History
• HIST 2460 - Traditional Japan
• HIST 2461 - Modern Japan
• HIST 2470 - Civilization of India
• HIST 3000 - Plains Culture and History
• HIST 3020 - Historical Methods
• HIST 3050 - Athenian Democracy
• HIST 3110 - Modern Germany
• HIST 3160 - “What Killed Socrates?”
• HIST 3220 - History of the Modern Middle East
• HIST 3230 - Early Christianity
• HIST 3240 - Reformation and Enlightenment Christianity
• HIST 3250 - Tibetan Buddhism
• HIST 3280 - Tibetan Buddhism
• HIST 3300 - Secret History of Science
• HIST 3400 - Mongol Empire
• HIST 3500 - Colonial America
• HIST 3670 - African Diaspora
• HIST 4000 - Indians of Wyoming
• HIST 4030 - Senior Capstone Seminar
• HIST 4060 - Independent Study
• HIST 4077 - Book History: Topics
• HIST 4078 - Museum Studies Minor Internship
• HIST 4100 - Early Medieval Europe
• HIST 4110 - The High Middle Ages
• HIST 4112 - History of the Medieval City
• HIST 4150 - Europe During the Age of the Enlightenment
• HIST 4170 - Europe in the Nineteenth Century
• HIST 4270 - France: Old Regime and Revolution
• HIST 4290 - History of the Soviet Union
• HIST 4310 - World War II in Europe
• HIST 4340 - The Social History of American Women
• HIST 4380 - International History of Human Rights
• HIST 4400 - Internship
• HIST 4406 - American Encounters from 1850
• HIST 4410 - America in an Early Modern World
• HIST 4412 - Global Environment History
• HIST 4425 - Britain’s Global Empires: 1558 to the Present
• HIST 4450 - The Civil War and Reconstruction
• HIST 4462 - American Indian History to 1783
• HIST 4463 - American Indian History 1783 to 1890
• HIST 4464 - American Indians in the Twentieth Century
• HIST 4466 - American Indian Ethnohistory
• HIST 4468 - American Indians in the North American West
• HIST 4470 - The Birth of Modern America, 1890 to 1929
• HIST 4475 - American Environmental History
• HIST 4480 - Growth of Modern America, 1929 to 1960
• HIST 4485 - U.S. Latino Diaspora
• HIST 4490 - Modern America, 1960 to Present
• HIST 4494 - The U.S. in Latin America
• HIST 4495 - Borderlands in Latin America
• HIST 4505 - The Old South, 1820 to 1861
• HIST 4510 - Modern East Asia
• HIST 4515 - American Legal History
• HIST 4530 - 19th Century American West
• HIST 4535 - History of Oil
• HIST 4540 - 20th Century American West
• HIST 4545 - The Multicultural West
• HIST 4560 - American Social History in the 20th Century
• HIST 4565 - Historical Archaeology
• HIST 4990 - Topics in _____
• HIST 5000 - Indians of Wyoming
• HIST 5077 - Book History: Topics
• HIST 5110 - The High Middle Ages

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