EPSILON MU OF PHI ALPHA THETA

This international history honor society encourages history writing through its journal, awards, and history conferences.

Phi Alpha Theta

 

  • Established March 17, 1921 at the University of Arkansas
  • Charter Member of Association of College Honor Societies (ACHS)
  • 839 active chapters and 275,000 members
  • 12,500 member and over 1,000 library subscribers to The Historian (quarterly journal)
  • 2,500 subscribers to The News Letter (published three times annually)
  • 9,300 initiates (average annually)
  • 35 regional meetings nationwide each spring
  • Over 25 scholarships and prizes awarded annually (paper prizes, book awards, manuscript award, best chapter awards, student history journal awards, world history award, etc.)
  • Membership qualifications (undergraduate)
    • At least 3.1 minimum GPA in 12 or more credit hours of history
    • At least 3.0 minimum overall GPA
    • When class rank is available, should be in upper 35% of class
    • Not necessary to be history major
    • (Graduate students and faculty members have separate requirements)


    • Epsilon Mu (Eastern Illinois University's chapter of Phi Alpha Theta)

    • Formed in 1957
    • Has sponsored Lower Illinois regional history conferences in 1993, 2002, and 2006
    • Has been well-represented by both undergraduate and graduate students reading papers every year since 1990. And Eastern's students have invariably earned recognition and cash/book awards at each conference. A 10-page or longer course research paper can be fairly easily shortened to make a 20-minute conference paper. Plan to submit one.
    • Has won "best student journal" for our student journal, Historia, in a nation-wide competition sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta, the national history honors society several times. Historia so far has proudly shared Phi Alpha Theta's Gerald D. Nash History Journal Prize in Division I (large departments): 1999, 2001, and 2002
    • Has won "Best Chapter" commendation, 1996
    • To join Epsilon Mu, future conferences, or journal activity, contact advisor, Dr. Michael Shirley


    Phi Alpha Theta Banquet

    The Spring 2006 annual History Department Honors Banquet will be held at the Martin Luther King Student Union in the University Ballroom on Friday, April 21. Refreshments will begin at 6:00 p.m. Our featured speaker this year will be Dr. Scott Levi, formerly assistant professor of history at Eastern Illinois University, and now assistant professor of history at the University of Louisville. His talk is entitled "The New Great Game: Central Asia at the Crossroads of Modern Empires." Dr. Levi received his Ph.D in 2000 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His first book, The Indian Diaspora in Central Asia and its Trade, 1550-1900, was published in 2002. He has published numerous articles and is currently working on another book manuscript, tentatively titled, Central Asia at the Crossroads of World History: Khoqand, from Khanate to Colony in the Farghana Valley (1709-1876). For future banquet information, contact Dr. Michael Shirley, P.A.T. advisor, or Dr. Anita Shelton.

     

    National Phi Alpha Theta

    EIU History Club

    Historia