Welcome from the Chair, John Marino

Welcome to the Department of History at the University of California, San Diego.  Comprised of a full-time faculty of more than 40 scholars, our department has achieved national and international recognition both for the quality of its members' publications and for its graduate program.  Among our faculty are to be found a number of prize-winning classroom teachers.  At the undergraduate level we stress the traditional humanistic skills of critical reading, good writing, and analysis of historical texts.  At the graduate level we train scores of students each year in how to do research, write a major piece of work, and develop a professional identity as an historian.  Our doctoral students consistently find employment at some of the best institutions of higher education in this country and abroad, as well as in government, NGOs, and the private sector.  Major teaching and research fields include the history of the United States, Europe, East Asia, Latin America, the Ancient World (particularly within the area of Judaic Studies), and the History of Science, as well as of the Near East and Africa.  Across the traditional geographical and temporal fields we offer teaching and research strengths in thematic areas like the history of women, gender, and sexuality, cultural history, economic history, urban history, African-American history, and the history of the U.S. West, among others.  Our lively departmental culture includes lectures from outside scholars, departmental seminars and reading groups, and other forms of intellectual sociability.  We invite you to browse our Web-site and to contact us for further information about course offerings, degree programs, or areas of scholarly interest.

The Department of History is currently recruiting for four faculty positions. To learn more about our current openings, please visit our News & Events page at http://historyweb.ucsd.edu//pages/deptnews.html or contact the the department office at (858) 534-1996.