NC State’s History Graduate Student Association is designed to further your professional development while fostering a strong academic and social community. We promote history and public history interests within our department and at our university. In addition to representing the History Department in NC State’s graduate student government, HGSA organizes professional and social events such as conferences, presentations and field trips.  

The History Graduate Student Conference enables student panelists the opportunity to present their research in a formal, professional setting, engage the ideas of their peers, and to receive comments from nationally recognized faculty from within the Research Triangle. The conference is student run and organized through the History Graduate Student Association at NC State.

The Graduate Journal of History is an annual peer-reviewed, electronic publication edited by the History Graduate Student Association at North Carolina State University. The Graduate is dedicated to publishing original, historical research by graduate students in the United States and beyond. The scope of topics and time periods presented in the Graduate is inherently broad, as it reflects the breadth of fields and sub-fields attracting graduate students to historical studies in colleges and universities around the world. Equally diverse in representation are the methods and approaches student authors use to interrogate the past and present.

The Graduate Student Association, formed on October 6, 1958, is a student-led group that represents and acts to improve the satisfaction and scholarship of NC State’s graduate students. The GSA participates in student government, appoints students to university standing committees and develops internal programs to assist graduate students with research and funding.

Attend a Triangle seminar. Participants typically gather monthly to discuss a pre-distributed paper or to attend a panel discussion. These seminars pull from universities in the Research Triangle, including NC State, UNC Chapel Hill, and Duke University. Faculty and graduate students are welcome to attend.

Join professional associations and attend their annual conferences, which are excellent opportunities to meet people in your field. Professocial associations sometimes offer discounted student membership rates.