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Department of History
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Department of History

Welcome to the History Department at the University of Minnesota! For well over a century, we have introduced undergraduates to the excitement and significance of historical studies. We have trained generations of graduate students who have gone on to teach and research in colleges, universities, museums, and libraries. Our faculty’s research has taken them around the world.

We see scholarship, teaching, service, and outreach to the community in Minnesota and beyond as mutually reinforcing. All members of the faculty teach at all levels from freshmen surveys through graduate seminars. Many have won awards to recognize the high quality of their scholarship, teaching, and service. They have received fellowships from the most prestigious foundations and government granting agencies. We have a lively community of graduate student scholar-teachers. Our undergraduate major prepares some of the best students in the College of Liberal Arts for a variety of careers.

Our faculty contribute to knowledge about people and places all over the globe; our students study the ways people have interacted through trade, migration, media, and conquest from the ancient world to the present. They learn that what transpires in Minnesota is related to events as far away as Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia. The work of historians in all their endeavors is international education at its best.

History Department has moved to Heller Hall

After more than 40 years in the Social Science Tower, the Department has moved to more spacious quarters in Heller Hall. Many of us have traded the views of the Mississippi outside of our windows for the dramatic skyline of downtown Minneapolis. A twelth-floor meeting space will open up new vistas and possibilities. Our new address is 1110 Heller Hall, 271 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455.

Learn more about us

Explore our website. Find out about the recent books published by our faculty and their current research projects. Look at the range and quality of the courses we offer. Read about the variety of community outreach projects we have undertaken. And contact us to learn more!

With best wishes,
Eric Weitz, Professor and Chair of History

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Kay Reyerson

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Kay Reyerson has been elected a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, a wonderful testament to her accomplishments. The Medieval Academy was founded in 1925 and is the largest and most prestigous association committed to the study of the medieval world.

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In the induction ceremony, Kay was commended for her five books and more than three dozen articles that have made her one of the "formeost historians of medieval economics and trade." Kay was also recognized for her great level of service to the profession and extensive teaching, including guest professorships in Montepellier and Paris. The Medieval Academy also recognized her critcial role in creating networks of French and American scholars.

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