Phi Alpha Theta

Phi Alpha Theta

Abbreviation	ΦΑΘ
Formation	March 17, 1921
Type	Honor society
Membership	Over 350,000
National President	Jochen Burgtorf, Ph.D.
Website	phialphatheta.org

Phi Alpha Theta (ΦΑΘ) is an American honor society for undergraduate and graduate students and professors of history. The society has over 350,000 members, with about 9,500 new members joining each year through 860 local chapters.

Phi Alpha Theta was established on March 17, 1921 at the University of Arkansas by Professor Nels Cleven. Cleven had become convinced in his time at the university that a fraternity of scholars (which would accept men or women) was important for the study of history. He invited students to a meeting to form the society (then called the "University Historical Society") on March 14, and the society was officially recognized on the 17th. In April, the decision was made for the society to be known by the Greek letters Phi Alpha Theta.

Phi Alpha Theta publishes a quarterly historical journal entitled The Historian, which has over 12,500 individual subscribers and 1,000 library subscribers. The society's national headquarters and the journal's editorial offices are located at the University of South Florida. The Historian splits the space in its quarterly issues between articles and book reviews. The book review section of the journal has been based at Ohio Wesleyan University since 1994.

Voces Novae: Chapman University Historical Review was founded in the Spring of 2009 by the Alpha Mu Gamma Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta at Chapman University.

Jochen Burgtorf of California State University-Fullerton is the current president of Phi Alpha Theta, and Graydon A. Tunstall, Jr. of the University of South Florida is Executive Director. Kees Boterbloem of USF is managing editor of The Historian, and Richard Spall, Jr. of Ohio Wesleyan University is the journal's book review editor.