 THE
PUBLIC HISTORY PROGRAMThe graduate program
in public history at the University at Albany, State University of New York, is
designed to train professional historians for work outside the conventional settings.
Its graduates receive a Master of Arts in Public History and a Certificate of
Advanced Study in Public History. depending on their concentration, students will
be prepared for employment with historical societies, museums, archives, and similar
agencies, or with agencies involved in public policy planning.
The
University at AlbanyThe University is the senior campus of the State University
of New York and is one of four university centers in the 64 member SUNY system.
Founded in 1844 as the State's first school for the training of teachers, Albany
today is a modern university with 15,000 undergraduate and graduate students enrolled
in eight degree granting schools and colleges offering more than 100 academic
programs from the bachelors degree through the doctorate. A major source for
research are the University libraries, which contain more than one million volumes
and extensive periodical holdings. The University's location in the State capital
affords ready access to the New York State Library, containing over three million
items, and to the New York State Archives, containing more than twenty-five thousand
cubic feet of records.
The Capital Region
Located in the nation's largest governmental center outside of Washington,
D.C., the University at Albany is in an excellent position to offer a program
in public history. The Albany area is the home of major state agencies such
as the State Archives, State Museum and Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic
Preservation. The Capital Region also contains many public and private museums,
historical societies and archives, as well as fifteen other colleges and universities.
The richness and diversity permits a wide choice of internship possibilities,
as well as providing a pool of specialized experts to supplement the regular staff
of the Department of History.
THE PROGRAM
Master
of Arts in Public HistoryThis is a 36-credit program, divided as follows:
21 credits - History academic courses, including His 621
(Readings in Local and Regional History) or His 630 (Readings in Public Policy)
or a reading course from any of the other History M.A. concentrations as advised
and a research seminar.
9 credits
- His 501 (Introduction to Public History) and two other professional courses.
6 credits -
His 798A (Public
History Internship)
Satisfactory completion of a
major field examination in Local or Regional History or one of the other History
M.A. fields as advised.
Certificate of Advanced Study
in Public History18 additional credits, divided as follows:
6 credits -
Professional courses. 4 credits
-
History academic course. 6 credits -
His 798B (Public
History Internship). 2 credits -
His 797 (Directed Readings
in Public History).
Course Offerings and Internships
History Courses of Special Interest
His 519 -
History of American Architecture His 520 - Technology in the Industrial World
His 535 - Topics in Local and Regional History His 590 - Quantitative
Methods in History His 621 - Readings in Local and Regional History His
622 - Seminar in Local and Regional History His 630 - Readings in Public Policy
His 631 - Seminar in Public Policy These courses may be augmented with
studies in American Intellectual History, History of Women in Modern Society,
Readings in Colonial and Revolutionary History, and Readings in 19th and 20th
century U.S. History. Please see Graduate Bulletin for further listings.
Professional CoursesHis 501 - Introduction to Public History His
503 - Introduction to Historical Agency Management and Practice His 504 -
Curatorial Practices for Historical Agencies His 505 - Interpretation of Historic
Sites & Artifacts His 507 - History and Public Policy Isp 501 - History
of Books and Printing Isp 611 - Information Systems and Technology ApplicationsIsp
646 - Records Management Isp 650 - U.S. Government Information Sources Isp
655 - Rare Books Isp 656 - Archives and Manuscripts Pad 500 - Introduction
to Public Administration The InternshipThe internship experience is
a central part of the Public History Program. Public History interns have worked
at the following sites: Albany County Hall of Records Albany Institute
of History and Art Canterbury Shaker Village Crailo State Historic Site
Edison National Historic Site Farmers' Museum, New York State Historical
Association Federation of Historical Services Historic Hudson Valley The
Irish American Heritage Museum Martin Van Buren National Historic Site Mount
Lebanon Shaker Village New York Parks and Conservation Association New
York State Department of Environmental Conservation New York State Division
of the Budget New York State Museum New York State Office of Parks, Recreation,
and Historic Preservation New York State Temporary Commission on the Restoration
of the Capitol New York State United Teachers Pickering Beach Museum Rockefeller
Archive Center Roosevelt-Vanderbilt National Historic Site Sagamore, Historic
Adirondack Great Camp Saratoga National Historical Park Schenectady City
School District: Arts in Education Office Schenectady Urban Cultural Park
Schuyler Mansion State Historic Site Senate House State Historic Site
Shaker Heritage Society Southwestern Pennsylvania Heritage Preservation
Commission State University of New York Central Administration The Trustees
of Reservations (Massachusetts) United Technologies Corporation United
University Professions University at Albany Oral History Program Washington's
Headquarters State Historic Site Watervliet Arsenal Museum
Financial
Aid
The History Department offers financial assistance to some of its graduate
students in the form of teaching assistantships. These confer stipends
of up to $8,440 with a waiver of tuition. Also available are a number
of half-assistantships at a lesser amount. The deadline for assistantship
applications is March 1. Please write to the Graduate Admissions Office
for application forms both for admission to the graduate program and
for financial assistance. Applications for admission should be received
by May 1, for the fall semester and by November 1, for the spring semester.
History Department Faculty: Public
HistoryFor the most part, the program's professional courses are taught
by working professionals, while the history content courses are taught by an outstanding
academic faculty. ALLEN BALLARD. Ph.D, Harvard University.
African-American history, local and regional history.
GRAHAM BARKER-BENFIELD. Ph.D., University of California at
Los Angeles. U.S. social history, history and psychology, history and medicine,
American literature.
CHARLOTTE BROOKS.
Ph.D., Northwestern University. Twentieth-century United States history; race, immigration, public policy; Asian-American history.
RICHARD F. HAMM.
Ph.D., University of Virginia. American legal history, especially in the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries; public policy; history and media.
SUNG
BOK KIM. Ph.D., Michigan State University. American history to 1800 (especially
social), New York, modern revolutions.
GRETCHEN
SORIN. M.A., Cooperstown Graduate Program, State University of N.Y. College
at Oneonta. Adjunct Professor. Historical agency studies.
IVAN D. STEEN. Ph.D., New York University. American urban
history, local and regional history, oral history.
AMY MURRELL TAYLOR.
Ph.D., University of Virginia. Nineteenth-century U.S. history; Civil War and southern history; local and regional history, digital history.
ANN F. WITHINGTON. Ph.D., Yale University.
Colonial and nineteenth-century American intellectual and cultural history.
GERALD ZAHAVI. Ph.D., Syracuse University. U.S. local and
regional history, labor/business history, quantitative methods, history and media,
oral and videohistory.
Part-Time Faculty
JOHN BONAFIDE.
M.A., University at Albany. Historic Preservation Program Analyst, New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.
RONALD BURCH.
M.A., Cooperstown Graduate Program, SUNY College at Oneonta.
Curator, Art and Architecture, New York State Museum.
TAMMIS GROFT.
M.A., Cooperstown Graduate Program, SUNY College at Oneonta.
Chief Curator, Albany Institute of History and Art.
DAVID W. PALMQUIST.
M.A., University of Connecticut, Storrs.
Head, Chartering Program, New York State Museum.
JOHN SCHERER.
M.A., Cooperstown Graduate Program, SUNY College at Oneonta.
Associate Curator, New York State Museum.
PATRICIA WEST.
Ph.D., Binghamton University, SUNY.
Curator, Martin Van Buren National Historic Site.
Affiliated Faculty
PHILIP B. EPPARD.
Ph.D., Brown University.
Professor, School of Information Science and Policy, University at Albany, Editor of the American Archivist, archives and manuscripts.
For more information,
contact:
Ivan D. Steen,
Director
Public History Program
Department of History
University
at Albany, SUNY
Albany, NY 12222
(518) 442-4811
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Department of History
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