The Institute is envisioned as a place where faculty, graduate students and visitors can draw on common scholarly ground to examine diverse approaches to the study and the teaching of history. The specific goals of the Institute include:
- Fostering a setting where faculty and graduate students participate together in vigorous intellectual exchange that builds on the diversity of the department
- Bringing distinguished visitors to campus for our seminar and lecture series
- Creating a center for examining current themes and issues relevant to historical research and teaching
- Providing grants to bring senior scholars and post-doctoral fellows to campus to participate in the Institute programming
