Honor Society

The international honor society in history, Phi Alpha Theta, brings students, teachers, and writers of history together both intellectually and socially; and it encourages and assists research and publication by its members. Membership opens up fellowship opportunities, and also publication opportunities in The Historian, the society's journal. 

Phi Alpha Theta was organized at the University of Arkansas on March 17, 1921. Since that time, it has grown to more than 740 chapters in 50 states and has more chapters than any other accredited honor society in the world. The number of initiates since inception totals more than 200,000.

The Department of History, with the generous aid of the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation, will pay the initiation fee of $50 for each Stony Brook student accepted for membership.  Membership includes a certificate and receipt of the society's journal, The Historian.