Contact Information

Location: Miller Hall, first floor (room 101) 
Office Hours:  Monday - Friday 8:30-5:00
Chairperson: Dr. Paul Weizer, 978-665-3272
Secretary: Karen Valeri, 978-665-3397
Admissions Office:  978-665-3144 or admissions@fitchburgstate.edu

SUMMARY

The  Economics, History, and Political Sciences Department offers students a choice of three academically distinct but interrelated majors—economics, history, and political science—and a range of associated minors. Students gain the academic background and research capabilities for both graduate study and immediate entry into a variety of career fields, including secondary school teaching. In addition, the department offers graduate degrees in the field of history. Focused field training experiences and national-internationally focused extra-curricular initiatives enhance what is learned in the classroom and broaden students’ career options.

FACULTY

The Economics, History, and Political Sciences faculty offers a wide variety of knowledge and experience to Fitchburg State University students. Every faculty member holds a doctoral degree and post-doctoral experience, and many provide leadership in their fields through research, publishing, consulting and involvement in more than 30 regional, national and international professional organizations. Our faculty members are recognized scholar-researchers, having authored or edited nearly 20 books, written more than 80 articles, and presented hundreds of papers at scholarly conferences. The faculty’s commitment to scholarship and research has been recognized through grants and awards from Fitchburg State, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Fulbright program.

The faculty is deeply involved in a number of interdisciplinary initiatives on campus, from the Leadership Academy, the education and interdisciplinary majors, criminal justice and learning communities, to a variety of minor programs that include women’s studies, African-American studies, peace studies, international studies, and social studies. The faculty has also compiled an impressive record of campus-wide leadership in several major academic and cultural programs, including Women’s History Month, International Week, the Civil Rights Conference, the Advanced Placement Summer Institute, the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning a faculty sponsored lecture series.

The economics faculty focuses on microeconomics, urban economics, historical economics, and international economics. The history faculty specializes in the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America, and employs methodological approaches from social, cultural and political history, including material culture. The political science faculty has expertise in the following areas: U.S. Government, elections, civil rights, the Constitution, civil liberties, international politics and security (Asia, Europe, Eurasia, Middle East), international economic institutions, national security decision- making, political risk analysis, investment and stability strategies, globalization, public policy, ethno-national conflict/ resolution and civil-military relations.

FACILITIES

Students also have access to Fitchburg State University’s Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Library, a comprehensive information center dedicated to the educational development of all students. The library boasts 200,000 volumes, all accessible to students. All students, and faculty members, regardless of location, have access to databases, reference librarians, document delivery, library instruction, reference services and library materials. The library is open seven days a week and provides study tables, carrels and seating on all four levels. The university also has a state-of-the-art fiber optic system that provides each classroom, lab and residence hall with access to the Internet, advanced phone service and cable television. Media classrooms located around the campus allow faculty to present materials using state-of-the-art technology. In addition to the computer labs available on campus, a bank of computers in the Commuter Café gives us our own campus cyber café.

Catalog 
Department Policies
Four Year Plan of Study
Mission