Look through an exceptionally global lens and use a variety of methods to explore your interests. As a history major, you might make a short film, write historical fiction, create a museum exhibit or collect oral histories from immigrants. Faculty have expertise in China, Japan, India, Germany, Italy, Russia, the Andes, Pan-Africa and the American West, South and New England. In your junior and senior years, you take small seminars in your area of specialization, exploring important historical texts and issues with other students and professors. The writing, speaking, thinking and research skills you gain as a history major will give you a strong foundation for a variety of pursuits. Some graduates move into high-tech companies, advertising firms and media companies. Others pursue advanced studies in history and other fields or go into teaching, law or business.
You have many opportunities to pursue your own research interests. Our challenging program and creative environment has inspired work as diverse as a cultural history of the Outer Banks at the time of the Wright brothers' first flight and a thesis on the theories and practices of non-racialism in South Africa.
We encourage you to travel to do primary research for your studies. Our students have recently done work in India, Cairo, Rome, Tokyo and Berlin. Faculty have led trips to the Mexican border to study immigration and to key locations of the civil rights movement.
You have many opportunities to pursue your own research interests. Our challenging program and creative environment has inspired work as diverse as a cultural history of the Outer Banks at the time of the Wright brothers' first flight and a thesis on the theories and practices of non-racialism in South Africa.
You have many opportunities to pursue your own research interests. Our challenging program and creative environment has inspired work as diverse as a cultural history of the Outer Banks at the time of the Wright brothers' first flight and a thesis on the theories and practices of non-racialism in South Africa.
Henry B. Plant Professor of History, College Marshal, Chair of the Department of History
Early modern Germany (1500-1800) • German Catholicism, popular religion and popular culture, rural society
Meet the Department
At Conn, we don’t just ask “What’s your major?” We ask you to make connections between your education and your interests—to combine your learning and your likes into a personalized experience that capitalizes on what excites and intrigues you. When you love a subject, you want to dig deeper into it and ask more questions. The answers to those questions will be the mark you make on this world.
It’s an approach we call Connections, and it puts the liberal arts in action. See for yourself.
Connecticut College offers a challenging liberal arts education, a close-knit community committed to our Honor Code, a career program designed for success and fulfillment and a beautiful, coastal arboretum campus!
Nearly 50 percent of our students receive need-based financial aid from the College and we meet the full demonstrated need of every admitted student.
History Department
Mailing Address
Eileen Kane, Chair
History Department
Connecticut College
270 Mohegan Avenue
New London, CT 06320