MISSION STATEMENT

The Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies is the center for research that examines the European era from approximately 1350 to 1750, referred to in the historical profession as Early Modern Europe.  The Division's governing principles are as follows:

•  to contribute to the teaching mission of the University by providing the exceptional interdisciplinary training of graduate students for which we are internationally regarded;

•  to strive to inform, inspire, and meet the individual intellectual needs of those undergraduates who enroll in our upper-division courses;

•  through distinguished research and publication, to contribute our erudition as faculty members to the world of scholarship and our fame to the reputation of the University of Arizona;

•  by unstinting service to the profession in numerous capacities, to lend our expertise and energy to our colleagues and simultaneously focus attention on the University of Arizona;

•  by outreach to respond to the frequent needs of the broader academic community within the University of Arizona and of the community of Southern Arizona;

•  by assiduous fund-raising to enhance the opportunities for our students beyond a level permitted by ordinary fiscal means.