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AHA Committee on the Master’s Degree in History: The Master’s Degree—Defining the “Ill-Defined Being”

Friday, January 7, 2:30–4:30 p.m.

Sheraton, Aspen Room

The AHA is in the midst of re-examining the role of the master's degree in the study of history. At the annual meeting in 1894, one presenter described the master's degree as "an object of deserved ridicule … an ill-defined being." How much has changed in the century since then? What is the state of the master's degree today? How can we make it a more effective tool for training historians in the future? Please join the AHA Committee on the Master's Degree in History for a conversation about the MA, the MAT, the MEd, and all the other master's degrees that historians earn.

Note: Please read the report and background documents for this session. The AHA also invites you to send any comments and/or questions regarding this material to Miriam Hauss.

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, research director, American Historical Association
    
     
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