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Numerous organizations offer history students and professors opportunities for engagement with like-minded scholars, teachers and public history professionals.

UMKC History Club

The UMKC History Club is open to undergraduate history majors and minors, graduate history majors and honorary history buffs! It is a social group looking for fun ways to indulge its members’ love of the past. It is also a place where students exchange notes on history courses, graduate schools and careers. Join the Club via RooGroups.

Officers

  • President: Grace Cogan (MA History)
  • Vice-President: Emily Shoemake (BA History) 
  • Treasurer: Jameson Gowan (BA History)
  • Faculty Mentor: Dr. Andrew Bergerson

UMKC History Graduate Student Association

The History Graduate Student Association (HGSA) is charged with assisting the academic development of the University of Missouri-Kansas City history graduate students. To fulfill this charge, HGSA will organize monthly Professional Development events, plan graduate student workshops, and provide its members with a sense of community and a source of professional and academic support. HGSA is open to those undergraduate students accepted into the Accelerated Bachelor of Arts to Master of Arts in History and currently enrolled Master of Arts in History, Master of Arts in History: Public History Emphasis, Interdisciplinary Ph.D. History, and Ph.D. Humanities students. Join HGSA via RooGroups.

Officers

  • President: Rachel Forester (Ph.D. Humanities (History))
  • Vice-President: Michelle Bell (Ph.D. Humanities (English)) 
  • Secretary: Anissa Parra-Grooms (MA Public History) 
  • Treasurer: Grace Cogan (MA History)
  • Public History Committee Chair: Emily Funk (MA Public History)
  • Faculty Mentor: Dr. Andrew Bergerson

Phi Alpha Theta

Phi Alpha Theta (ΦΑΘ) is an American honor society for undergraduate and graduate students and professors of history in all fields. The society has more than 400,000 members nationwide. It convenes regional conferences and an annual national meeting, and publishes the journal The Historian.

Contact the history club's advisor Dr. David Freeman if you would like to be considered for admission into Phi Alpha Theta.

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