History

Overview

• Our scholarly reputation rests on the intellectual achievements of our faculty, which includes numerous historians who have won book and article prizes, appeared in documentaries, been featured on television and radio programs, and contributed articles to journals, newspapers, and magazines across the nation and around the world.
• Our scholarship and teaching interests range from medieval Europe to early modern Central and South Asia to modern Europe and the United States to the Indigenous Americas. We have long excelled in such areas as the American West, Latin America, Iberia and medieval Europe, and have developed more recent specializations in women and gender, science and medicine, and borderlands and transnationalism. 
• View our Annual Departmental NewslettersInnovative undergraduate and graduate teaching is at the heart of the department's work.  Our faculty teach incoming freshmen in core curriculum courses, mentor history majors in seminars and our honors program, and prepare MA students and PhD candidates to bring their original research to fruition.
• Graduate students from the History program at The University of New Mexico have become professors, publishers, civil servants, and public historians.
• The Department of History is an anchor of humanities and interdisciplinary research at UNM, and maintains close affiliations with various programs and organizations representing a wide range of interests across campus. For example, the New Mexico Historical Review publishes a quarterly academic journal focused on the peoples and cultures of the state and its region.