Seminars & Events
5/27/2008
From 27 May-5 June 2008, history professors Christine Adams, Charles Holden, and Gail Savage will lead an exciting and informative tour for alumni (and friends) of key sites from the allied invasion of Normandy in June, 1944. The tour will include locations in London and Portsmouth, England, as well as the beaches on France’s Normandy coast.
How to Join
The requirements for applying Phi Alpha Theta are:
- A minimum of 16 semester hours in history (4 courses)
- 3.2 overall GPA
- 3.5 history GPA
- $40 one-time membership fee, which also includes four issues of The Historian
Invitations to apply and forms are usually sent twice a year to history majors and minors. For more information, contact Dr. Linda Hall at ljhall@smcm.edu
Phi Alpha Theta: The History Honors Society
Phi Alpha Theta is a national honor society in History. It was organized at the University of Arkansas in 1921, and since then it has grown to more than 750 chapters. The membership of Phi Alpha Theta is composed of students and faculty who have been elected to membership on the basis of excellence in the study and writing of History.
Phi Alpha Theta is a professional society that promotes the study of History through the encouragement of research, good teaching, publication, and the exchange of learning among historians in a variety of ways. It seeks to bring students and faculty together both intellectually and socially for mutual understanding and encouragement in their common interest in the study of History.

Spring 2008 Inductees
William Seth LaShier
Katherine E. Siguenza
Jordan D. Grant
David M. Stamm
Kevin A. Taylor
Laurie Kathleen Hammond
Sophie A Latham
Rebecca C Kaisler
Kelly M. Carlson
Victoria R. Lipscomb
Katherine E. Eudy
Monica S. Kim (not in picture)
Rachel Leigh Boyer (not in picture)
+ previous inductees


