Graduate

The graduate program in History values an approach to scholarship grounded in the particular while retaining a sense of the whole. The faculty encourage students to take as comprehensive a view of history as possible with the goal of cultivating a far-reaching understanding of the past. Throughout their enrollment, students develop the necessary skills to conduct discipline-defining research.

Vibrant intellectual communities within the department and across campus encourage students to engage in interdisciplinary conversations with faculty, other students, and visiting scholars. Faculty advisers supervise the progress of each student and closely oversee the research and writing of the dissertation. Deep departmental commitment to professional development aids students in becoming expert historians and effective teachers.

Explore the various fields of inquiry pursued by currently enrolled students by reading their profiles.

Events

Committee for the Study of Books & Media | Kirsten Macfarlane, University of Oxford
"Lay Readings of the Bible in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World"
Mar 19, 2024, 4:30 pm6:00 pm
Economic History Workshop | Brian Rogers, Princeton University
"The Making of Commuters in Japan: Urban Textile Workers and Labor Management at the Turn of the Twentieth Century”
Mar 20, 2024, 12:00 pm1:20 pm
Eighteenth Century Seminar | Henrietta Harrison, University of Oxford
"Chinese Pulse Diagnosis in Eighteenth Century Naples"
Mar 20, 2024, 4:30 pm6:00 pm

Contacts

Kristy Novak
Office
108 Dickinson Hall
Beth Lew-Williams
Office
222 Dickinson Hall
Director of Graduate Studies, History