Historical Administration

Nora Pat Small, Ph.D.
Graduate Coordinator

Phone: 217-581-6380
Fax: 217-581-7233
E-mail: npsmall@eiu.edu
Rm./Bldg: 2526 Coleman Hall
Web site : http://www.eiu.edu/~history/
Catalog Description : http://catalog.eiu.edu/
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Dr. Nora Pat Small, professor of history, currently serves as the coordinator for the graduate program in historical administration. The graduate program offers a master of arts degree in history with the historical administration option. Dr. Small’s research interest focuses on vernacular architecture and the landscape of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She is also involved in local historical organizations such as the Lincoln-Sargent Farm Foundation Board and the Charleston Historic Preservation Commission. She received her doctorate from Boston University in 1994.

Admission to the graduate program in historical administration requires an application to the Graduate School (on-line at http://www.applyweb.com/apply/eiu/menu.html) as well as an additional application to the Department of History.
Please contact Dr. Small or visit the program's web site for program admission criteria.

Graduate programs achieving the distinction of "First Choice" have applied and been subjected to rigorous review from EIU's Council on Graduate Studies, with oversight from the Graduate School, to ensure they meet the highest standards of scholarly excellence as evidenced through sustained achievement of criteria developed and adopted by the Council in 2006.