The History Department at UMass Lowell provides a broad introduction to civilizations of the past and present, including those of antiquity, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Read more...
On September 1, 2024, Prof. Elizabeth Williams was promoted to a tenured Associate Professor. Since joining the History faculty in 2017, Prof. Williams has been the department's expert in the history of the Middle East and the Ottoman Empire. She has published journal articles and book chapters on environmental and agricultural history in this region. In 2023, she published a monograph with Stanford University Press: "States of Cultivation: Imperial Transition and Scientific Agriculture in the Eastern Mediterranean."
Kelley Leonhard is putting her history degree to work as COO of the Boston History Company.
Karam Alafandi is studying history on his way to becoming a doctor.
Internships on and off campus gave Rory Luddy museum experience.
Nicholas Trunfio immersed himself in history while studying abroad.
A class in archival methods and a directed study, working in the Lawrence History Center, led Jaden Belizaire to pursue graduate schools for archiving.
