Founded in 2007, the Institute provides a dynamic and multi-faceted intellectual community. It fosters creative and productive conversations within our department, between the Department of History and other UT-Austin departments and centers, between our faculty and colleagues nationwide, and between the department and our community of alumni and neighbors. The Institute explores themes whose historical roots are of critical importance for the contemporary world as well as for the historical profession. It enhances and expands the Department's long tradition of and continued commitment to excellence in historical research through publication and programming. It allows our graduate students to interact with a diverse group of excellent scholars beyond the department.
The Institute’s programming connects the university and its wider community in discussions of topics that are central to our discipline and that have broad resonance in the individual and collective histories we all share.
Housed in the Department of History’s newly renovated, historic home, Garrison Hall, at the center of UT’s campus, the Institute hosts varied programming, organized conceptually around two-year rotating themes, with UT faculty, visiting fellows, and speakers from other institutions. It welcomes long term visitors as resident fellows at the senior, mid-career, and junior levels. We invite research scholars of all historical specialties who visit Austin to become associates of the Institute community.
Current News
Institute's 2008-09 Doctoral Research Grant Recipients Announced
The travel stipends will be used by graduate students of the History department to conduct research in archives located around the world, including Spain, Portugal, Cyprus, England, Mexico, and Venezuela.
IHS Appoints External Research Fellows for 2008-09
The IHS has appointed five external research fellows for 2008-09 from an extraordinarily talented and diverse pool of over 230 applicants.
Institute for Historical Studies Created
IHS to serve as part of UT President William Powers Jr.'s initiative
The Institute for Historical Studies is one part of university President William Powers Jr.'s initiative to make UT-Austin the leading public university in the nation. The History Department has also significantly increased funding for graduate students to offer nationally competitive stipend packages and plans to hire eight additional senior faculty.
Institute for Historical Studies celebrates founding, launches programs
The UT History Department announces the founding of the Institute for Historical Studies and the beginning of its programs and other initiatives with a public reception on January 31, 2008.
