Among the exceptional people in the department is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the winners of six Faculty Recognition Awards for Excellence, and two Fulbright Lecturers. The faculty have written more than three dozen books published by scholarly presses including titles by Harvard and Princeton. The American Historical Review, Traditio, Zeitshrift f r Assyriologie, Journal of American History , and the English Historical Review , are among the scholarly periodicals in which history faculty have published. The faculty have studied all over the world, from Shanghai to Jerusalem, Berlin to Paris, California to New York. They bring to the classroom a depth of understanding and a breadth of knowledge that matches their concern for students and for the process of learning.
Class size tends to be small, allowing interaction between students and professors.
Graduate courses average 7 students per class. Classroom facilities are superb. Nearly all of our classes are held in the new Public Affairs Classroom Building . The department also participates in the Master of Science in Education program. 158 of SMSU's 279 history majors are candidates for the B.S.Ed. degree.