Career Planning
Student Activities & Awards
Department News & Events
Study Abroad in Ireland
International Education
The habits of critical thinking, intellectual flexibility and clear argumentative writing that history majors cultivate are at the core of the liberal arts tradition. They are habits that will enrich your lives and, we hope, deepen your engagement with the present as well as the past, and with the global community as well as the local and national ones. They are also skills that are in high demand in a number of rewarding professions. (For more information, please visit the History department's career page.)
History majors can go on to careers in the private sector, in public service and in the non-profit sector. We encourage you to think about and explore a variety of options, many of which require further study beyond your BA or BS. Some of these, in alphabetical order, are: business, journalism, law, library science and information technology, medicine, museum work, public administration, publishing, social work, teaching, urban and regional planning. Graduate study in history itself is another path, either at the MA or PhD levels. Here are some of the other careers that our majors and MA graduates have pursued:
Two History Faculty receive SUNY Chancellor's Awards for 2012!
Five history students have won campus-wide awards for the 2011-2012 year!
History student Judith Littlejohn interviewed about her love of history and how it led to a job as the curator for the Elba museum
Dr. Macpherson gives the keynote lecture in the Belize at 30 Conference, the final event in the celebrations of Belize's Independence
There will be no department events until the Fall term. History faculty will be present at SOAR events, however, to assist new transfers and late admits.
Best wishes for a fun and productive summer.
