History

Because we admit a competitive number of graduate students per year, our seminar-style courses are small and intensive enough for you to receive considerable individualized attention and support from faculty members. As a result, you’re able to earn your degree in as little as two years. 

Once enrolled, you’ll complete several foundational seminars required of all our graduate students:

• Historiography, Method, and Theory
• Comparative History; and Historical Research and Writing

And, you can opt to focus on one of our specialized graduate tracks: 

• Social Justice History
• History of Science in Technology, Environment and Medicine

If you’re pursuing one of these tracks, you’ll focus on additional specialized courses with topics in environmental, technological, patriarchal, racial and other historically related themes.

To be eligible for admission into the Department of History’s graduate program, you must submit the following:

• Online application, including a letter of intent or statement of objectives as well as a writing sample and a short essay
• Unofficial transcripts (indicating a bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution)
• Current resume/CV
• GRE scores (or comparable substitutes)
• Three letters of recommendation
• International applicants: Results of TOEFL, IELTS, or PTE