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The U.S. West Ph.D. Program in History

Located in the fastest-growing city in the nation, the UNLV History Department offers a broad range of opportunities for doctoral students in Western history. A core of five faculty specialists in Western history has helped UNLV emerge as a dynamic and rising program in the field. With specialists in tourism, post-industrial society, environmental history, Native American history, the Latino/a experience, intellectual and cultural history and public history, the core faculty covers every aspect of Western history and historiography. UNLV's Western historians have won teaching and research awards regionally and nationally, participate and lead in professional organizations, and are widely recognized as outstanding scholars and teachers by their peers.

In addition, five more members of the Department contribute to the program their expertise in women's, Asian-American, African-American, labor and urban history.

Las Vegas is at the center of the New West, and the Western history program at UNLV capitalizes on themes related to its newfound prominence. Surrounded by federal land and home to important industries such as tourism and gaming, the commuity offers a wealth of avenues of inquiry for research. UNLV's program is also home to the journal Environmental History, offering unique opportunities to students interested in that field.

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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Western History Faculty Members:

• Raquel Casas (Yale, 1998), Latino/a history
• Sue Fawn Chung (Berkeley, 1975), Asian-American history
• Jay Coughtry (Wisconsin, 1978), labor history
• Joanne Goodwin (Michigan, 1991), women's history
• Andrew Kirk (New Mexico, 1997), public history, environmental history
• Willard H. Rollings (Texas Tech, 1983), Native American history
• Hal Rothman (Texas, 1985), environmental history, history of tourism, post-industrial society, and editor of Environmental History
• Eugene Moehring (CUNY, 1976), urban history
• Barbara Wallace (UCLA, 1999), African-American history
• David Wrobel (Ohio University), twentieth century U.S. Western history