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The Cultural/Intellectual Ph.D. Program in History

No place on earth plays with the cultural heritage of humanity with greater abandon and imagination than Las Vegas. No wonder it is the darling of post-modern theorists. The UNLV History Department has responded to the unique provocation of our own location by initiating a doctoral track in cultural and intellectual history, the newest component of the History Department's graduate program. Over the years, the Department has built considerable strength in the intellectual and cultural history of Europe and the United States. The Department has specialists in nineteenth-century American cultural history, twentieth-century American cultural history, American religious history, and the intellectual and cultural history of the American West as well as the intellectual and cultural history of classical antiquity, medieval Europe, eighteenth-century Britain, eighteenth-century France, nineteenth-century Russia, twentieth-century Britain and twentieth-century Germany. A large microfilm collection, archives house in Special Collections in UNLV's Lied Library, and a growing collection of digital databases provide important resources for student research.

UNLV's brand new Lied Library houses an extensive collection of primary sources offering rich scholarly opportunities. It contains a substantial collection of microfilm holdings, including Native American records, Spanish-language newspapers, and documents of key agencies, such as the Bureau of Land Reclamation and the National Park Service. Special Collections at the Library houses extensive collections on Las Vegas and Nevada history.

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Faculty for Graduate Study in American Cultural and Intellectual History

• Elizabeth Fraterrigo (Loyola, 2004), twentieth-century cultural
• David Holland (Stanford, 2005), religion, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century intellectual
• Elizabeth A. White Nelson (Yale, 1995), nineteenth-century cultural

Faculty for Graduate Study in European Cultural and Intellectual History

• Andrew J. E. Bell (Stanford, 1994), ancient Greece and Rome
• Gregory S. Brown (Columbia, 1997), eighteenth-century France
• Colin T. Loader (UCLA, 1974), modern European intellectual, modern Germany
• Janet Ward (University of Virginia, 1993), Weinmar and Nazi eras
• Paul W. Werth (Michigan, 1996), nineteenth-century Russia
• Elspeth Whitney (CUNY, 1985), medieval Europe