Join us for the first of our twice-monthly virtual Student Town Halls. Thursday, July 16, 2020, beginning at 3:00 p.m. Thursday, July 30, 2020, beginning at 3:00 p.m. These meetings will occur twice each month all semester and will connect you with the dean, department chairs, faculty, and resource providers at JSU. This first meeting...Read More

Congratulations to our graduates: Aleta T. Brown, Jordan C. Adekweh, Zachary K. Gray, Ceahnna I. Pelt, Ya’Mira L. Watts, Harold M. Davis, Justin Walker, and Abreya C. Dukes!Read More

The Fannie Lou Hamer Institute @ COFO, The Institute for Social Justice and Race Relations, The Department of English and Modern Foreign Languages, and The Department of History and Philosophy present: Fences: African Americans in Major League Baseball featuring Curtis Granderson at COFO (1017 JR Lynch St.) at 6pm Thursday, Feb. 9. Before Jackie Robinson...Read More

The History Department at Mississippi State University invites undergraduate scholars to submit papers for the ninth annual Symposium for History Undergraduate Research (SHUR). The symposium, "Looking Back to the Future: Examining the Anomalies of the Past," will provide students with the opportunity to present their research in the format of an academic history conference and...Read More

Professor Barron Banks of the Department of History and Philosophy and Ms. Angela Stewart will moderate a panel of several local politicians.    Read More

The Margaret Walker Center invites proposals for papers, presentations, and panels for the 11thAnnual Creative Arts Festival to be submitted by Friday, March 10, 2017.  While the theme of the conference is “Callaloo: 40 Years of Publishing the African Diaspora,” the organizers welcome proposals from high school, undergraduate, and graduate students on any topic. Proposal submissions should be 250-500 words and should fit in one of four...Read More

If you are planning to graduate, you will need to take the History Exit Exam.  It will be offered October 3, 2016 in the History Department Conference Room (Lib 357).  Bring pens and paper.  Contact Dr. Valerie Purry, 601.979.2191 for more information.Read More

Phi Alpha Theta invites graduate and undergraduate students to submit a paper proposal for the  Phi Alpha Theta Mississippi Regional Conference, in the  Mississippi Historical Society Meeting on March 2-4, 2016  in Gulfport, Mississippi Papers on any historical topic are welcome. Please submit a 250-word paper proposal with contact information (university affiliation, whether you’re a graduate...Read More