Program Highlights

• Nearly all graduates of the program since 1990 have obtained jobs related to their course of study or admission into further graduate study

• Faculty have won awards for excellence in teaching, research and service, produced a host of scholarly publications – many of which have attracted an international readership – and held important offices in professional organizations

• The department is closely affiliated with the Center for Southeast Louisiana Studies and the Florida Parishes Social Science Research Center

• The department sponsors the Constitution Day Lecture (September), the "Then and Now" Fanfare History and Politics Lecture Series (October), the Veterans Day Lecture (November), the Black History and Politics Lecture Series (February), the Women's History Month Lecture Series (March), the Yom Hashoah Holocaust Remembrance Day Lecture (April) and the Deep Delta Civil War Symposium (June)

• The department hosts the Region VIII Social Studies Fair (March)