Activities and Initiatives

General Overview

History Department faculty and students are involved in a range of exciting activities that continue throughout the academic year. If you are in the Cincinnati area and have an interest in history, please come join us. 

Every fall or winter, the Department hosts a prominent visiting speaker in History with support from the Taft Research Center. We also invite numerous other speakers every year from around the region and the country. In the spring, the Department hosts an annual graduate student conference known as the Queen City Colloquium. We also organize our own departmental faculty forum where our professors present papers on their latest research.  The forum is open to students, faculty, and the general public. 

The Department is home to Ohio Valley History , a major regional history journal focused on the societies and cultures of the Ohio Valley. A number of our faculty have also taken the lead in interdisciplinary initiatives on campus such as women’s studies and area studies programs including European, Middle Eastern, Latin American, and Asian Studies. Our professors are also active in organizing Taft Research Seminars that bring interested students and faculty together to work with visiting specialists on diverse historical topics over the course of one or more academic quarters.  In 2007-08, Professor Elizabeth Frierson is directing one such seminar focused on popular cultures in the modern Middle East and North Africa.