{"id":229,"date":"2023-04-19T11:27:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T18:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/hist\/?page_id=229"},"modified":"2025-06-11T11:22:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T18:22:24","slug":"about-the-department","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/hist\/home\/about-the-department\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Department"},"content":{"rendered":"  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--intro-text align-center\"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--intro-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  \n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>One of the larger departments in the Social Sciences Division of USC\u2019s Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, the Van Hunnick History Department is a dynamic community of undergraduates, graduates, post-doctoral scholars, and faculty, with a wide variety of interests and specializations, united by our shared passion for understanding all facets of the human past. 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As a teaching and research department, we also contribute to the growth of new scholarship by hosting several post-doctoral fellows every year.  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