Majors, Minors, Graduate Programs & Certificates
Majors, Minors, Graduate Programs & Certificates
History
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Faculty and Staff
Faculty and Staff
Department of History
University of California Santa Barbara
History, Ph.D., 2010
Books:
, Latifeh Yarshater Book Award Honorable Mention by Association for Iranian Studies and Persian Heritage Foundation
, Best First Book Award 2016 by the National History Honor Society, Phi Alpha Theta.
Articles:
“Akhund Khurasani: A Historical Model for Iranian Constitutionalism,” Digest of Middle East Studies (forthcoming)
“Gum shudih-yi dar safihati tarikh,” Sharq, (2012); a Persian language journal published in Iran
“Interregional Rivalry Cloaked in Iraqi Arab Nationalism and Iranian Secular Nationalism and Shi‘ite Ideology,” International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies (2009)
“Shi‘i Ideology, Iranian Secular Nationalism, and the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88),” Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism (2007)
“Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) and the Migration of Iranian Youth to California,” Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration in the American West (2005)
An Iranian native, Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh attended high school and college in southern California. After spending seven years in nursing and health care industries, his curiosity led him to pursue a higher education in history. He is quadrilingual, speaking Persian, English, Spanish and Arabic. Recipient of a number of prestigious awards and fellowships, he taught world and Middle Eastern history at Santa Barbara City College and California State Fullerton before joining NEIU’s History faculty in 2010.
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University of Illinois at Chicago
History, Ph.D., 2008
Book:
“Liquid Capital: Making the Chicago Waterfront” (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).
Winner of 2018 Superior Achievement Award, Illinois State Historical Society
Honorable Mention in 2019 Jon Gjerde Prize competition, Midwest History Association
Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters:
“Blood on the Tracks: Accidental Death and the Built Environment,” in City of Lake and Prairie: Chicago’s Environmental History, eds. William C. Barnett, Kathleen A. Brosnan, and Ann Durkin Keating (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020).
“Bionic Ballplayers: Risk, Profit, and the Body as Commodity, 1964-2007,” (co-authored with Sarah Rose) LABOR: Studies in the Working-Class History of the Americas 11 (Spring 2014): 47-75.
Winner of 2016 biennial “Best Article Prize,” Labor and Working Class History Association
“The Creative Destruction of the Chicago River Harbor: Spatial and Environmental Dimensions of Industrial Capitalism, 1881-1909,” Enterprise and Society: The International Journal of Business History 13 (June 2012): 235-275.
“The Lakefront’s Last Frontier: The Turnerian Mythology of Streeterville, 1886-1961,” The Journal of Illinois History 9 (Fall 2006): 201-214.
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Columbia University
History, Ph.D., 1998
"A Nation of Descendants: Politics and the Practice of Genealogy in U.S. History (book). Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2021."
"'My Furthest-Back Person': Roots and the History of Black Genealogy.” In Reconsidering Roots: Race, Politics, and Memory, edited by Erica L. Ball and Kellie Carter Jackson, 63-79. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2017.
“A Noble Pursuit?: Bourgeois America’s Uses of Lineage.” In The American Bourgeoisie: Distinction and Identity in the Nineteenth Century, eds. Sven Beckert and Julia Rosenbaum, 135-152. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
“Lineage as Capital: Genealogy in Antebellum New England.” New England Quarterly 83, no. 1 (June 2010): 250-282.
Women and Patriotism in Jim Crow America (book). Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
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Northwestern University
History, Ph.D., 1997
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Duke University
History, Ph.D.
“‘Moral Madness’: Representations of Prodigality, Disability, and Competence in German History,” in Disability in German-Speaking Europe: History, Memory, and Culture, ed., Linda Leskau, Tanja Nusser, and Katherine Sorrels (under contract with Camden House, 2022).
“Denouncing the Spendthrift: Debating Social Identity in the Court of Law and Public Opinion,” in Names and Naming in Early Modern Germany, edited by Beth Plummer and Joel Harrington. Berghahn Publishers (Oxford, UK), May 2019.
Awards & Honors:
- National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Institute “Global Histories of Disability,” 2018
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation & Council for European Studies, Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2016-2017
- German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Research Scholarship, 2013-2014
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University of Wisconsin-Madison
Medieval and Byzantine History, Ph.D., 2013
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University of California, Davis
Latin American History, Ph.D.
Book:
"The Pursuit of Ruins: Archaeology, History, and the Making of Modern Mexico" (University of New Mexico Press, 2016.)
Winner of:
- Michael C. Meyer Prize for Best Book on Mexican History in a Five-Year Period, 2017
- Alfred B. Thomas Award 2016, Honorable Mention
- Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, 2017 Book Prize, Honorable Mention
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Columbia University
History, Ph.D., 1999
Threads of Empire: Loyalty and Tsarist Authority in Bashkiria, 1552-1917 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016).
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University of Chicago
History, Ph.D., 1996
Dr. Grossman specializes in modern Central American History and US Foreign Relations. His recent publications include "The Hero Never Dies: Augusto Sandino of Nicaragua" in Samuel Brunk and Ben Fallaw, eds. Heroes and Hero Cults in Latin America (University of Texas Press. 2006) and "The Blood of the People: The Guardia Nacional de Nicaragua's Fifty Year War Against the People of Nicaragua, 1927-1979" in Cecilia Menjivar and Nestor Rodriguez, eds. When States Kill: Latin America, the U.S., and Technologies of Terror (University of Texas Press, 2005).
University of Washingtion
History, Ph.D., 1991
" Emperor Gaozong and the Rise of Wu Zetian," Tang Studies 30: 2012, 45-69.
Kingship in Early Medieval China, Brill Press, 2008.
Loyola University Chicago
History, M.A.
University of California, Berkeley
History, Ph.D., 1987
Sport and the Color Line: Black Athletes and Race Relations in Twentieth-Century America (Co-edited with David K. Wiggins) Routledge, 2004.
The Unlevel Playing Field: A Documentary History of the African American Experience in Sport, (with David K Wiggins), University of Illinois Press, 2003. Runner-up for the 2003 Book Prize awarded by the North American Society for Sport History.
The Sporting World of the Modern South (Edited), University of Illinois Press, 2002.
The Civil Rights Movement Revisited: Critical Perspectives on the Struggle for Racial Equality in the United States (Co-edited with Elisabeth Schäfer-Wünsche and Therese Frey Steffen), LIT Verlag (Hamburg and Münster, Germany and London, UK; Transaction Press, USA, 2001).
(The Playing Fields of American Culture: Athletics and Higher Education, 1850 1945, under contract with Oxford University Press)
“Holding Center Stage: Race Pride and the Extracurriculum at Historically Black Colleges and Universities during the First Half of the Twentieth Century” in Susan Ditto, David Libby, and Paul Spickard, eds., Affect and Power: Essays on Sex, Slavery, Race, and Religion (University of Mississippi Press, 2005)
“Muscular Assimilationism: Sport and the Paradoxes of Racial Reform,” in Race and Sport: The Struggle for Equality On and Off the Field, Charles K. Ross, ed. (University of Mississippi Press, 2004).
“Sport as ‘Interracial Education’: Popular Culture and Civil Rights Strategies in the 1930s and Beyond,” in The Civil Rights Movement Revisited; and as "Before Jackie Robinson: Sport and the Civil Rights Campaign of the 1930s," in Sport and Politics: Proceedings of the International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport, ISHPES, Budapest, 2002.
“Slouching Toward a New Expediency: College Football and the Color Line during the Great Depression,” American Studies, 40 (Fall 1999)
“The Anatomy of Scientific Racism: Racialist Responses to Black Athletic Achievement,” Journal of Sport History, 25 (Spring 1998), reprinted (abridged) in We Are A People: Narrative and Multiplicity in the Construction of Ethnic Identity, Paul R. Spickard and W. Jeffrey Burroughs, eds. (Temple University Press, 2000); reprinted in Sport and the Color Line; reprinted in David Karen and Robert E. Washington, eds, The Sport and Society Reader (Routledge 2010).
“The Manly, the Moral, and the Proficient: College Sport in the New South,” Journal of Sport History, 24 (Fall 1997); reprinted in The Sporting World of the Modern South
“To ‘Bring the Race Along Rapidly’: Sport, Student Culture, and Educational Mission at Historically Black Colleges during the Interwar Years,” History of Education Quarterly, 35 (Summer 1995); reprinted in The Sporting World of the Modern South
Miller was, most recently, the 2016-2017 J.W. Fulbright Bicentennial Chair in American Studies at the University of Helsinki, where he guided courses and presented public lectures on the topics of U.S. Civil Rights and Race Relations. Over the last decade he has offered papers and participated in History Workshops in France, Spain, Poland, Germany, Austria, Israel and Tunisia, as well as Finland.
Currently, he is co-editor of the book series, “The African American Intellectual Heritage,” published by the University of Notre Dame Press. He was a consultant on one of the inaugural exhibits of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, which opened in 2016. At NEIU he has served as graduate coordinator and chair of the History Department.
Honors:
J.W. Fulbright Distinguished Bicentennial Chair in American Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland, 2016-2017
Distinguished Lectureship Program, Organization of American Historians, 2006-2012
J. William Fulbright Fellowship (Senior Scholar) Universität Bayreuth, Germany (Spring/Summer 2003)
National Endowment for the Humanities Grant: Co-director, NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers: "Sport, Society, and Modern American Culture" (with Steven A. Riess) (Summer 2002)
J. William Fulbright Fellowship, (Senior Scholar) Westfälische-Wilhelms Universität Münster, Germany (1998-1999)
Scholar in Residence, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, N.E.H. Fellowship (1992 93)
Spencer Fellowship of the National Academy of Education (1990 91)
Smithsonian Fellowship, National Museum of American History (1990 91)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Medieval and Byzantine History, Ph.D., 2013
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Northwestern University
History, Ph.D., 1997
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John Amundsen, Sarah Kane endow the John Amundsen and Sarah Kane Scholarship in History
“I was very inspired when I received a message from the History Department about helping students who haven't trod a traditional path in higher education, but who are nonetheless making great strides as History majors. This message spoke to me, as I didn't have a traditional undergraduate experience, transferring to NEIU. Northeastern's History Department not only gave me an academic home, but also gave me the flexibility I needed to finish my degree at my own pace.
When I learned that there were current transfer students and other upperclassmen in the History Department whose higher education path — like mine — contained some twists and turns, and that as a consequence they weren't always eligible for certain scholarships, I knew that these were the type of students I wanted to help. My wife Sarah and I are proud to have established this scholarship for History majors who are coming into their own, and for whom a scholarship can make a real difference in persisting in their education.” -Alumnus John Amundsen
The generous donation by John Amundsen (B.A. History '05) and Sarah Kane will enable the History Department to provide $2,000 in scholarship funds each year to support History students, and especially those who "haven't trod a traditional path in higher education" as John writes.
Thank you, John and Sarah, for your generosity!
Our world-class faculty and students engage in the study of the historical development of a broad spectrum of human societies. We analyze historical change rather than memorize facts. Members of the department produce award-winning research and have been selected by the University for their teaching excellence.
The Department of History offers courses leading to the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts. History is a flexible major that allows students to choose among a variety of electives based on their interests. Students can also choose history as a minor, which combines well with many majors.
Career Opportunities for the History Major or Minor
As a history student you will develop skills of critical thinking and writing that you will find indispensable as you pursue a variety of careers, including education, research, law, business, public affairs and the service professions. For more information, read the AHA's Careers for History Majors and What Can I Do With a Degree in History?
If you are interested in pursuing law school after completing your History degree, please contact David Nissam-Sabat, pre-professional advisor in the College of Arts and Sciences, at d-nissimsabat@neiu.edu or visit the Pre-Professional Advising website.
How to Become a History Major or Minor
To become a History major or minor, contact department chair Mateo Farzaneh at m-farzaneh@neiu.edu, or visit the Department of History in Room LWH 4085 and fill out a declaration form.
If you are also going into secondary education you need to declare both secondary education and history as majors. To find out more about the secondary education program, please contact Daniel L. Goodwin College of Education program advisor Vanessa King at v-king@neiu.edu. You may contact the Goodwin College of Education office at (773) 442-5500 or gcoe@neiu.edu
For general NEIU admission requirements, the helps new and returning students through the application process. In addition, the assists transfer students and returning veterans to transition to our campus.
Advising
When you declare history as your major/minor you will be assigned to an advisor. During the fall and spring semesters you should contact your assigned advisor for guidance about degree requirements, transfer credits, and which classes to take. Your advisor’s name is listed under your Academic Profile on . If you wish to see someone else, please contact the History Department office at (773) 442-5630. During the summer semester, please see Professor Farzaneh.
undergraduate major advisors
- Ashley Elrod: a-elrod@neiu.edu
- Joshua Salzmann: j-salzmann@neiu.edu
- Michael Tuck: m-tuck@neiu.edu
undergraduate minor advisor, summer advising
Mateo Farzaneh, chair of the Department of History, advises majors in the summer. Professor Farzaneh also does advising all year for minors, students in the Teacher Licensure Program, and Second Bachelor’s students. Please contact him at m-farzaneh@neiu.edu.
graduate advising
If you are a Master of Arts student or interested in the program, please contact Nikolas Hoel at n-hoel@neiu.edu.
Scholarships
The Department of History has five awards available for students:
- The Brommel-Lindberg Scholarship in History provides one undergraduate history major at the junior level or above $1,200 for tuition and fees at Northeastern for the following academic year.
- The J. Frederick MacDonald Scholarship provides one undergraduate history major at the junior level or above $1,000 for tuition and fees the following academic year.
- The Dr. Joseph C. Morton Scholarship in History provides $1,000 for one student toward undergraduate or graduate studies in History.
- The Susan E. Rosa Memorial Scholarship provides $1,725 for a promising student who embodies Susan's high standards and love of learning.
- The John Amundsen & Sarah Kane Scholarship in History provides $2,000 for students who show promise in History, but who may have experienced a financial or other impediment that may prevent them from persisting.
The deadline to apply for the 2023-2024 awards has passed. Questions may be addressed to Professor Mateo Farzaneh at m-farzaneh@neiu.edu.
Clubs and Organizations
Students can join Phi Alpha Theta, the National History Honor Society. Phi Alpha Theta hosts several events each year. Students are also encouraged to attend seminars at the . Students interested in law school are welcome to join the .