History at the University of Missouri

Introducing the Department of History

The University of Missouri department of History has a reputation for excellence, both on the MU campus and beyond. The stellar teaching record of its faculty has been recognized numerous times by awards such as the campus-wide William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence–nine past and present History faculty members have received this prestigious teaching award. History faculty have also been recognized for outstanding teaching by winning over twenty-three different teaching awards, including the College of Arts and Science Purple Chalk Award which is student-generated.

The department averages between 350-450 undergraduate history majors. We nurture these aspiring young historians by, first of all, providing them with expert advising, delivered by a professional, full-time, advisor. Our majors are given a wide range of courses in American, European, and Developing World history. Required capstone and writing intensive courses provide the opportunity for our students to interact closely with faculty members and to develop their research and writing skills. Beyond the classroom, the department offers its majors the opportunity to gain hands-on experience by working as interns in any one of our nine internship programs that range from the University of Missouri Archives to the Supreme Court of the State of Missouri Library.

Our graduate students come to us from a broad cross-section of colleges and universities. They are attracted to our MA and PhD programs by the reputation of our faculty, many of whom have been the recipients of prestigious research grant awards from, among others, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, The National Science Foundation, the National Library of Medicine, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research/Study Program. In addition, our faculty members have published an impressive array of books and articles, a number of which have won prestigious awards from the American Historical Association and other professional organizations. Our graduate students work closely with their faculty advisors as they develop and write theses and dissertations on a wide range of topics. One significant measure of the success of our graduate program is our placement record. In recent years, over fifty of our PhD recipients have found teaching position in colleges and universities throughout the country.

By using the resources provided by this web site, potential undergraduate students can browse our course offerings; view the requirements for a major in history and explore the scholarship opportunities. Those interested in pursuing a graduate degree (MA or PhD), might wish to start with the home pages of individual faculty to learn about their respective teaching and research interests. There is also a listing of the various fields in which the department offers graduate degrees. One can also generate a description of degree requirements and application forms for graduate study in history.

As a Land Grant institution, the University of Missouri offers the citizens of the state a valuable source of information, in this case, pertaining to history. The faculty home pages and research field pages can be used to identify and contact individual faculty members

We especially welcome our alumni/ae and friends of the department and ask that you explore our web site further. There you will find news of fellow alums as well as past issues of the department newsletter. If you wish, you can be included on our e-mail list to receive the newsletter as it appears in approximately three-month intervals.

Pease contact us and let us know what you think. We look forward to hearing from you.

Russ Zguta, Chair
Department of History

department news:

View the program from our annual Student Recognition Ceremony.

Lois Huneycutt has been awarded the 2012 Bonnie Wheeler Summer Research Fellowship, which is a national award for female medievalists designed to free them from teaching and administrative responsibilities in order to devote to a research project that will maximize their chances of being promoted to full professor. Huneycutt is also chairing a session at the annual conference of the MidAmerica Medieval Association at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas, on Saturday, February 25th.

Daniel Domingues

We are very pleased to welcome our newest colleague, Daniel Domingues:

Daniel B. Domingues da Silva is a historian of the transatlantic slave trade between Angola and Brazil. He graduated in 2004 with a B.A. in History from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and received his Ph.D. in 2011 from Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, with a dissertation entitled Crossroads: Slaving Frontiers of Angola, c.1780-1867.

Daniel’s research interests cover the history of the transatlantic slave trade in addition to the history of Africa and the African Diaspora. He conducted research on both sides of the Atlantic, in archives in Angola, Brazil and Portugal, with support from important funding institutions, such as theAndrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, and the Luso-American Foundation.

Daniel has published articles in peer-reviewed journals in English and Portuguese, such asSlavery and Abolition and Revista Afro-Ásia, and presented papers at several conferences, including the annual meetings of the AfricanStudies Association and the American Historical Association.

Currently, Daniel is working as a post-doctoral fellow on two projects in Digital History,Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, www.slavevoyages.org, and The African Origins Portal, www.african-origins.org, both funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Daniel has taught courses on comparative slavery and the history ofAfrica and the African Diaspora at Emory University and, as an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, at Dillard University, a historically black institution in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Daniel looks forward to moving to Columbia and is excited about joining the History Department at the University of Missouri as Assistant Professor of African History.

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Recent Publications:

Occupied Women: Gender, Military, Occupation, and the American Civil War – LeeAnn Whites

American Saint: Francis Asbury & the Methodists – John Wigger

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The Primacy of the Postils: Catholics, Protestants and the Dissemination of Ideas in early Modern Germany
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