2:30–4:30 p.m.

CMDH Open Forum:
AHA Committee on the Master’s Degree in History: Retrieving the Master’s Degree from the Dustbin of History
Marriott, Eisenhower Room

What is the proper role of the master’s degree in training historians? What should master’s recipients know? What career(s) are they qualified to pursue? What kind of mastery should the degree indicate? Should all historians have the same training at the master’s level, regardless of their intended career paths? Please join members of the AHA’s Committee on the Master’s Degree in History for a presentation of its ongoing research and a conversation about the future of the master’s degree for historians and history educators.

Committee on the Master’s Degree in History:

David S. Trask, Guilford Technical Community College, chair Thomas Bender, New York University Fritz Fischer, University of Northern Colorado Patricia Mooney-Melvin, Loyola University Chicago Colin Palmer, Princeton University Carlton Wilson, North Carolina Central University Barbara Winslow, Brooklyn College, City University of New York Rosemarie Zagarri, George Mason University Philip M. Katz, CMDH research director, American Historical Association