Membership in Phi Alpha Theta provides history students and faculty an opportunity to fulfill the mission of encouraging research, good teaching, publication, and the exchange of learning and ideas among historians. Members come together with students, teachers and writers of history for intellectual and social exchanges, which promote and assist historical research and publication. A one-time payment of the $35 initiation fee is the only financial expense for membership. For a membership application contact Dr. Theresa Earenfight or a Alpha-Eta-Omicron chapter member. The requirements for membership are listed below. If you are a freshman student and would like to be involved, but you do not meet the minimum credit requirements, you are welcome to become an associate member. Associate membership includes all of the events and activities but does not include official membership and the $35 dollar fee is waved until you are eligible to join.

Undergraduate Requirements:
An undergraduate student must have completed at least 15 credits in history with a grade in all history courses averaging above a 3.0, must have a general average of at least 3.0 in at least two-thirds of the remainder of her or his classes, and must rank in the highest 35 percent of the class.

Graduate Requirements:
A graduate student must have completed at least one-third of the residence requirements for the Masters Degree before becoming eligible for selection to membership. Averages in all courses completed for graduate credit must be at least 3.5.

Faculty Requirements:
Faculty members with the rank of instructor or above who are teaching in the field of history are eligible for membership without being required to satisfy provisions of the foregoing paragraphs of this section.

There are several additional means of continuing to actively support the projects of Phi alpha Theta. Sustaining Membership, an annual contribution of $40, entitles the individual to receive The Historian and The News Letter for one year with the balance exceeding subscription costs being added to the endowment scholarship fund. Other options include just a subscription to The News Letter and The Historian for $35, a two-year subscription to The Historian for $47.50 and a Supporting Membership which includes a one-year subscription to The Historian for $25. There is also a $10 option, which entitles a member to receive the three issues of The News Letter.