Department of History

Regional History Day

The fifth annual Stephen F. Austin State University Regional History Day will be held March 9, 2012. http://www.sfasu.edu/historyday/

History Graduate Program Brochure

The History Department, a community of scholars and teachers, serves a diverse undergraduate and graduate student body by offering a wide variety of courses, seminars, and independent studies and by pursuing and publishing historical research.

News and Events

New Report Finds U.S. History Majors Highest Earners in Humanities - AHA Today
SFA's Eta Sigma chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, the international history honor society, received the 2010 Best Chapter Award in our enrollment division (Division IV: 10,001 to 15,000 students). Only six “Best Chapter” awards are distributed each year across the entire country. The History Department is very proud of all the local chapter members and especially the chapter’s officers for the hard work that made this award possible. Officers for the 2009-2010 academic year were Cassandra Bennett, president; Adam Grimes, vice president; Meredith May, secretary; Kaitlin Wieseman, treasurer; Spence Gaskin, historian; and Emily Curry and Greg Marshall, event coordinators. Dr. Dana Cooper, Assistant Professor of History, was the faculty sponsor of the chapter in 2009-2010.
Blog of students traveling with the history department for our summer in the mountain west trip http://sfahistorytravel.blogspot.com
The SFA Story: An Online History of Stephen F. Austin State University http://www.sfasu.edu/story

Student Achievements

The History Department congratulates alumna Sarah Sampietro, the 2011-12 recipient of the S. A. and Frankie Zou Kerr Award, which is given each year to SFA’s outstanding Liberal Arts graduate. After graduating Summa Cum Laude (with a perfect 4.0 GPA) in December 2011, Sarah got married, and is living in Lubbock with her husband Justin, who is completing his undergraduate degree at Texas Tech University. Sarah is currently working as a teacher's assistant at a Montesorri early childhood development center. She is also tutoring in Spanish. She will be moving this summer to Madison, Wisconsin, where Justin will begin work on a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Wisconsin. Sarah is interested in becoming a middle or high school history and/or Spanish teacher, preferably at a private school. She may also seek certification to teach English as a Second Language to adults.
Autumn Pendergras is the 2011-12 winner of the History Department’s Tommie Jan Lowery Award, which honors the year’s outstanding graduate in history. After graduating Summa Cum Laude this May, Autumn will be undergoing a year of missionary training here in the United States, after which she will be spending two years doing mission work in Prague, in the Czech Republic.

Dr. John Dahmus, Autumn Pendergrass and Dr. Troy Davis
Dr. John Dahmus and Dr. Troy Davis, professors of history,
present the Lowery Award to Ms. Pendergras at the College
of Liberal and Applied Arts Honors Banquet, 3 May 2012.

Jake McAdams, senior SFA history major, was recently awarded the Ben H. Procter Research Paper Award by the Phi Alpha Theta international history honor society. The award recognized Jake’s paper, “The Devil’s Wire: The Texas Fence Cutter’s War of 1883,” which he presented at the Southwestern Social Science Association’s annual conference in San Diego, California. Upon receiving his B.A. degree this May, Jake will be joining SFA’s graduate program in history, where the department expects him to continue his fine work.

Department Chair
Dr. Troy Davis
tdavis@sfasu.edu
936.468.2229

Office
Contact numbers:
Telephone: 936.468.3802
Fax: 936.468.2478

Mailing Address:
Department of History
Stephen F. Austin State University
PO Box 13013, SFA Station
Nacogdoches TX 75962

Office Location:
Suite 303, Vera Dugas Liberal Arts North

Department Staff
Michelle Dorsett, Administrative Assistant
mdorsett@sfasu.edu
936.468.3802

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