The Center for Texas Public History facilitates and conducts research in the field of public history, educates students at the graduate and continuing professional levels, and provides opportunities for local, community, and institutional partnerships in public history. The center offers students the opportunity to explore career possibilities, to develop individual skills that build on classroom knowledge, to field test theories and methodologies, and to gain experience in areas such as planning, budgeting, grant writing, teamwork, resource management, and contract compliance.
Associated Programs
Center for Texas Public History
Center for Texas Music History
The Center for Texas Music History works to document, preserve, and celebrate the diverse musical heritage of the Lone Star State. The Center approaches these subjects as an educational endeavor. As a part of Texas State University’s history department, we offer a range of undergraduate courses and develop graduate research in order to train the next generation of music historians. We gather and publish the newest literature on Texas and Southwestern music in our annual Journal of Texas Music History and develop academic monographs, biographies, and oral histories through the John and Robin Dickson Book Series in Texas Music History at Texas A & M University Press.
Center for the Study of the SW
The Center for the Study of the Southwest strives to enrich learning about the Greater Southwest through curriculum development, public outreach, and research.
The program engages faculty and students in the richness and diversity of Texas, the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico and gives focus to intercultural studies through examining the region's peoples, institutions, histories, and physical and cultural ecologies.