THE ALBERT LEPAGE CENTER FOR HISTORY IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST
The Lepage Center is founded on the belief that historical scholarship and historical perspective are indispensable tools for analyzing and understanding our contemporary world.
The Lepage Center creates space for historically informed conversations about how the past shapes the present. We work in partnership with public institutions, journalists, universities, and scholars worldwide to offer public-facing events, professional and training opportunities for students and teachers, and grants for individuals and institutions to study and promote history in the public interest.
THE CENTER'S IMPACT
The Lepage Center will spend the 2023 - 2024 academic year exploring Labor in Historical Perspective and Democracy and Its Discontents. These themes will encompass both in-person and virtual events engaging with a wide breadth of historical settings and subjects. Learn more about the Labor in Historical Perspective series.
We offer academic year fellowships and summer internships for undergraduate and graduate students studying history. Learn more about opportunities for current students.
The Lepage Center supports public-facing historical projects at the local, national and international levels.
The application for the 2024-2025 Labor in Historical perspective grant is now open.
Read about the recipients of the 2023-2024 Cities in Historical Perspective grants.
The "Doing History" series brings industry professionals to campus in-person or virtually to teach Villanova students, staff and faculty skills and techniques to present historical knowledge to the public through venues like op-eds, podcasts, public history, and more. Learn more about the workshops.
