April 9, 2026
“As an assistant professor of history, I’m so grateful to have majored in History at the University of Houston. I am an expert in Colonial and Indigenous Texas, but I often need to craft lectures outside of my field. The University of Houston’s program provided me with all the necessary skills to research whatever topic I want with a great deal of thoroughness. Primary and secondary sources beware! Those skills have carried over into my personal life, too. I've channeled my research skills into restoring cars, improving my garden harvests, and, after a couple months of focused research, I even launched a moderately successful pool cleaning business! That's the real value of a history degree: it doesn't lock you into one singular path—and because everything has a history, it gives you the tools to study almost anything.”
Dr. Tim Seiter (BA ’19) is the author of Wrangling Pelicans: Military Life in Texas Presidios (UT Press, 2025) and an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas at Tyler. His museum exhibits, including Karankawa: An Enduring Culture, draw on research he started while studying History at UH. The recipient of an Outstanding Honors Thesis Award (2019) and a Del Barto Scholarship (2018) at UH, Dr. Seiter recently won the Historic Preservation Award for his book Wrangling Pelicans from the Daughters of the American Revolution.