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Tufts University

Dept. of History
10 East Hall
Upper Campus Rd. 6 On The Green
Medford, MA 02155-7077
USA

Phone 617.627.3520
Fax 617.627.3479
E-mail: Virginia.Drachman@tufts.edu

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Areas of Specialization:

Modern South Asia and Global History (currently not accepting applications in this field)

Program Description

The Tufts History Department has a distinguished tradition of offering doctoral training in Modern South Asian history and Global history. Successful PhD candidates have gone on to obtain positions in some of the most prestigious institutions of American academe. The program provides doctoral students with an ambience geared to intense and focused research into the most pressing questions of historical scholarship today, while also connecting students to the larger international expertise of the Tufts History Faculty, as well as the resources of the Tufts Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Students in these fields also partake of the active intellectual life surrounding both South Asian and Global studies in the Boston area, including the Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies at Tufts.

Special Programs or Resources

No information provided

Financial Aid

Admitted students normally offered complete tuition remission and up to five years of support with a full teaching assistantship.

Degree Requirements

Proficiency in two foreign languages; completion of sixteen courses at the graduate level, including the Historiographical Proseminar and two Graduate Colloquia; at least three semesters of independent readings or research; oral and written examinations in three fields, based on course work and readings, administered by the appropriate members of the department; dissertation directed by the supervising faculty, to be read and defended before a committee including the adviser, at least one other member of the department, and a third faculty member in the field, drawn, if possible, from another institution.



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Faculty Information (Fall 2011):

Full-time Faculty: 18

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

 

Student Demographics (Fall 2011):

Number of Doctoral Students in Program: 7

New Doctoral Students Entering Program: 1

Proportion of Doctoral Students Receiving Financial Aid: 100%

Number of Graduate Students Enrolled: 16

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

 

Degree Information:

First PhD conferred: 1971

History PhDs conferred to Date: 29

Number of PhDs Conferred (2011–12): 1

Relative Size Based on PhDs Conferred: Small [Explain]

Current Dissertations in Progress

PhDs Conferred by Department

 

 

Last Updated: October 19, 2012