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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Dept. of History
309 Gregory Hall
810 S. Wright St.
Urbana, IL 61801-3697

Phone 217.333.1155
Fax 217.333.2297
E-mail: history@illinois.edu

Department Web Site

Areas of Specialization:

Africa; Afro-American; American Intellectual and Culture; Britain and Empire; China; Colonialism and Post-Colonialism; Comparative Labor/Working Class; Europe; Japan; Latin America; Middle East; North America; and Religion in Pre-Modern Society

Program Description

The Department of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign offers a comprehensive program in all fields. The Department is especially strong in cultural history, the history of race and ethnicity, and the history of gender and has superlative programs in US history, African-American history, European history, Latin American history, African history, and East Asian history.

Special Programs or Resources

Special resources at Illinois include a variety of Title VI area-studies centers for Russia and Eastern Europe, for Latin America, and for Africa. Important cross-disciplinary programs have been established in Global Studies, Women's and Gender studies, African-American studies, Latino/a Studies, Jewish Studies, and Asian-American Studies. There is also a thriving humanities center, the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities. The University of Illinois has the third largest university library in the country.

Financial Aid

Almost all students are provided with multi-year financial aid packages which consist of a mix of fellowships and teaching and research assistantships. Historically there has been a very good match between teaching assistantships and graduate students.

Degree Requirements

The requirements to advance to candidacy include 13 courses and the successful completion of three written qualifying examinations in each of the student's three fields plus an oral examination that focuses on the dissertation proposal.



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Faculty Information (Fall 2011):

Full-time Faculty: 36

Relative Size based on Number of Full-time Faculty: Large [Explain]

 

Student Demographics (Fall 2011):

Number of Doctoral Students in Program: 105

New Doctoral Students Entering Program: 7

Proportion of Doctoral Students Receiving Financial Aid: 80%

Number of Graduate Students Enrolled: 122

Relative Size Based on Graduate Student Enrollment: Large [Explain]

 

Degree Information:

First PhD conferred: 1906

History PhDs conferred to Date: 681

Number of PhDs Conferred (2011–12): 9

Relative Size Based on PhDs Conferred: Large [Explain]

Current Dissertations in Progress

PhDs Conferred by Department

 

 

Last Updated: October 19, 2012