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Welcome to the Department of History at Villanova University. Our department offers an undergraduate major and minor in both History and Art History, as well as a Master's degree and a Post-M.A. certificate in History.

Feel free to view current departmental news and events, learn more about our programs and meet our faculty. Also, for more information, please view the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Graduate Studies web sites.
 

"Employers want successful people.  A company on Wall Street would hire a 3.6 history major over a 2.6 finance major." 
— Nancy Dudak, Director of Career Services

 

News and Upcoming Events

Department Highlights

In Other News

  • Scared Straight? Graduate Students Go to Jail

    Students in Dr. Judith Giesberg’s History of Nineteenth Century Reform class visited Eastern State Penitentiary (ESP) on May 1, 2008.  Click here to see the article and pictures. 
     

  • College Offers Access to Mideastwire.com

    The College of Liberal Arts and Science is pleased to offer to its students, faculty, and staff access to Mideastwire.com, an Internet-based news service that employs a team of translators from around the region to gather important stories from and about the Middle East. ...read more...
     

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  • Student & Alumni News

Take a look at some of the work that has been published by our faculty.