Graduate Studies
The Graduate Program of the Department of History offers its students the intellectual environment and scholarly resources of a major research university in a setting that facilitates close mentoring and fosters personal attention to individual needs and interests. Its distinguished faculty includes a Guggenheim fellow, several prize-winning authors, and many recipients of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Humanities center, the Fulbright Foundation, the Huntington Library, and the National Library of Medicine. Drawing on the particular research and teaching strengths of its faculty, the department offers Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in three fields of concentration: American history, European history, and Global history.
Graduate students at the History Department Commencement, May 2001.
The Department of History has designed its Graduate Program to train professional historians at the highest intellectual and methodological level. It awards the Doctor of Philosophy degree to those individuals who have, in its judgment, demonstrated the capacity to undertake a career of teaching and research in history. It awards the Master of Arts degree to those individuals who have demonstrated substantial accomplishment in the graduate level study of history. The full support and influence of the Department stand behind all students who have successfully completed the program.