Department of History

Become part of the EKU History Department Community 

We are a community of 247 history and history teaching majors and 18 full-time faculty members.  We offer classes in everything from Ancient Egypt to the Worlds of Christopher Columbus to the Rise of Consumer America.  In our classes we give you hands-on experience in being historians.  No graduate assistants here.  All our classes are taught by full time faculty in classes capped at no more than 30 students.  We know our students’ names.  We love to teach, and our office doors are always open to our students. 

Many of our faculty are also our majors’ academic advisors, and each of them has no  more than 30 students and remains a student’s advisor throughout their time at EKU.  You are not a number to our advisors; they will help you with more than just class registration and career advice.

We have a History Club and History Honors Society which sponsor field trips at no cost to you and offer you opportunities to present your work at regional and national conferences.  We have a number of opportunities for our students to study abroad – be it for a summer or for a semester. 

We believe in helping you explore the past while preparing you for your future.  You’ll find our graduates teaching in such area high schools as Lexington and Winchester, pursuing doctorates at such institutions as Auburn, Notre Dame, and the University of Chicago, and attending law school at institutions ranging from University of Kentucky to the University of Michigan.  They are librarians and archivists for the state of Kentucky and EKU.  They work in management for firms such as Chase, UPS, and Amazon.

Contact us with your questions or better yet, come visit us for a day.

Christiane Taylor