History
Introduction & Overview
“History teaches everything, including the future” – Lamartine.
Historical awareness grows from the study of the past, a study based on the realization that the present world is a product of the past. Studying History deepens your social and cultural understanding and sharpens your analytical skills required for success in any future endeavor you choose.
The History Department at Manhattanville provides a general framework through which all human life may be sharply understood. Our major program will also prepare you for careers in virtually all fields. Manhattanville’s History majors have gone on to graduate programs as well as careers in business, journalism, teaching, law, historic preservation, local government, archival research, museum work, librarianship, documentary film-making and non-profit management.
The faculty in the History department have professional interest in and offer courses from all geographical areas across the globe including Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, the Caribbean, and North America.
Degree
Bachelor of Arts in History.
Social Studies concentration for students whose career goal is to teach social studies and who are enrolled in the Five-Year B.A./Masters Plan through the School of Education.
Minor
History
Career Ideas
Archivist, Foreign Service Officer, Government Service Executive, History Professor, Historic Site Administrator, Historian, Librarian, Lobbyist, Museum Curator, Newspaper Editor, Public Relations Specialist, Social Welfare Administrator, Sociologist, Writer/Author
Program Director
Irene Whelan, department chair, Irene.Whelan@mville.edu
Faculty and Staff
Full-Time Faculty
Lawson Bowling – United States 20th-century, sports history, Italy, economic history
David Gutman – Modern Middle East, Ottoman Empire, North Africa
Mohamed Mbodj – African and African American Studies, Islam
Colin Morris – Early America; intellectual, political, history of place
Gregory Swedberg – Latin American, the Caribbean, women and gender
Irene Whelan – Britain, Ireland, modern Europe, nationalism