left col

Current Students

There are plenty of ways to get involved while you're a History student at CSUF. From learning more about department academic initiatives, joining a department student club, conducting research with the Welebaethan Journal of History, exploring campus resources, or finding an internship to expand your academic experience, you are sure to find the campus connections that best fit you and your studies.

History Department Academic Initiatives

right col

left col

Contexualizing Racial Inequality

REFLECTIONS ON THE PRESENT FROM THOSE WHO STUDY THE PAST: As U.S. focused historians committed to research and teaching that complicates and enriches current conversations about slavery, racism and racial identity, civil rights activism, policing, and public commemoration, we recommend these books, articles, films, documentaries, exhibits, projects, and primary materials.

This list of sources is neither exhaustive nor conclusive, but a sample of meaningful works in the field. As a department, we plan to continue to use the strengths of our discipline to engage with difficult questions of inequality and racism in our classrooms and beyond.

View "Contextualizing Discussions of Contemporary Racism & Inequality"

Digital Humanities Initiative

The digital humanities initiative launched in 2015 with the appointment of two new faculty in the Department of History to specifically advance curriculum in digital humanities and new media in history.

Since then, the initiative has floursished under the leadership of Dr. Jamila Moore Pewu to include: a long running Digital History Colloquium series and Keynote address; several grant funded digital public humanities projects, multiple cohorts of graduate students pursuing fully digital MA projects; two new courses in digital humanities theory and practice, and successful collaborations with CSUF's digital literacy librarian Colleen Robledo Greene, and other faculty and library staff.

Visit the CSUF Digital Humanities Initiative Website

Spanish Civil War Public History

HIST 435C The Spanish Civil War is a public history course created by Dr. Aitana Guia that takes the extensive primary sources of the Cameron Stewart Collection at Pollak Library out of the classroom. Cameron Stewart was a professor who researched the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, the American contingent of the International Brigades.

Begininng in 2018, students from this course have created and posted several projects centered on their coursework. In Spring 2020, HIST 435C researched and designed a virtual exhibit that has evolved into an annual “Spain Ablaze: Americans Fighting for Freedom in the Spanish Civil War 1936-39”exhibit and is now displayed in a phsyical exhibit in the Pollak Library.

Visit the Spanish Civil War Public History Project Website

right col

left col

Center for Oral and Public History

Center for Oral & Public History

Established in 1968, the Lawrence de Graaf Center for Oral and Public History is a teaching, training, research, publication, and public service archive located at CSU Fullerton's Pollak Library. It contains more than 6,000 oral histories covering a wide range of people and topics from California and beyond.

The Center for Oral and Public History

Pollak Library Black and White Photo

Resources at the Pollak Library

The Pollak Library at California State University, Fullerton serves over 37,000 students and 2,100 full- and part-time faculty members. The Library has also provided a dedicated page to find all resources related to History including Databases, Newspapers, Blog Posts, and much more.

Pollak Library History Resources

right col

left col

History Student Clubs & Organizations

right col

left col

Cultural Public History Association

The Cultural and Public History Association (CPHA) at California State University, Fullerton was founded in 2013 and prides itself for its inclusion of scholarly individuals interested in the wide spectrum that is the subject of history. Its founding members, each of whom studied different aspects of cultural or public history, came together in an effort to promote unity and interest within the social sciences.

Cultural and Public History Association

History Student Association

Membership in the History Student Association is open to all students, faculty, and staff at California State University, Fullerton.

HSA seeks to impact history students' diversity and promote advocacy for civic-minded, culturally aware, and professionally motivated individuals through personal development, meaningful interaction, and discussions.

History Student Association

right col

left col

Phi Alpha Theta

The National Honor Society in History, Phi Alpha Theta, was founded at the University of Arkansas in 1921, with the intention to encourage the study of history and to recognize excellence in history. The chapter has won the organization's "Best Chapter Award" numerous times, and its journal, The Welebaethan, regularly receives national accolades. As of May 2024, the chapter has initiated 2,213 members.

Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society

Welebaethan: A Journal of History

The Welebaethan: A Journal of History is published by undergraduate and graduate students in the Department of History at California State University, Fullerton (CSUF). It is also the official journal of CSUF’s Theta-Pi Chapter (established 1962) of Phi Alpha Theta (History Honor Society).

The Welebaethan Journal

right col