The department is strongly committed to helping students understand the diversity of human experience. In addition to the specific courses in nonwestern areas, other history classes help students understand how differences in race, gender, ethnicity and social and economic class have affected peoples' lives. Department faculty are also active in numerous efforts to promote understanding of diversity. These include women's studies and a faculty exchange program with the tribally controlled community colleges on North Dakota's Indian reservations. Each member of NDSU's active history faculty of eight holds a doctorate from a leading university, ranging from the University of Minnesota to Stanford.
Faculty members provide a wide range of academic experience and specialties.
They have published books and articles on subjects such as agricultural history, Latin American history, environmental history and progressivism. History faculty members frequently present scholarly research papers at professional historical conferences in various centers of learning. Faculty members have won college, university, state and national awards for their research. The department also hosts regional history conferences and lectures. Back to fact sheet index History Department Affiliates The North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies is closely connected with the Department of History and maintains offices in the NDSU Library.