History Doctoral Programs in the United States and Canada

New York at Stony Brook, SUNY

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Areas of Specialization:

U.S., Europe, Latin America, women/gender/sexuality/reproduction, nation/state/civil society

Program Description

Each year 12 to 15 students are admitted into the doctoral program and 4 to 6 students into the terminal master's program. The department has 118 full- and part-time graduate students. While the department has strength in a number of traditional areas of historical study, it also has a long tradition of comparative, interdisciplinary, and theoretically informed research. The graduate program has been structured around four areas of thematic inquiry: (1) Women, Gender, Sexuality and Reproduction; (2) Nation, State and Civil Society; (3) Empire, Modernity and Globalization; and (4) Environment, Science and Health -- to bring these theoretical issues to the fore and ensure that students learn how to apply such concepts as class, gender, race, culture, power, religion, and environment in an explicit and sophisticated manner to the study of the past. The Ph.D. program is designed to prepare students to carry out original research and to ultimately pursue a career at the university level. Doctoral students may choose to focus their study on a particular region and period or they may concentrate in one of the thematic areas of study described above, and all students are encouraged to work with faculty in other departments.

Special Programs or Resources

The History Department also offers a Masters in Teaching Program (MAT) in Social Studies Education in conjunction with the School of Professional Development.

Financial Aid

Teaching Assistantships, Tuition Scholarships, Turner Fellowships, University-Presidential Scholarships, Frankel and Gardiner Fellowships are available on a competitive basis.

Degree Requirements

Full-time students in the doctoral program take courses for their first six semesters in the program and take their qualifying examinations at the end of their third year. All students must also demonstrate proficiency in at least one relevant foreign language before they advance to Ph.D. candidacy. Minimal proficiency in a language means the ability to translate a given passage clearly and accurately with the aid of a dictionary. Relevant language(s) are determined by the student's area of specialization.

University Information:

University Type: Public

Carnegie Institution Ranking: Doctoral/Research Universities—Extensive

Department Demographics:

First PhD conferred: 1981

History PhDs conferred to Date: 132

Relative Size Based on PhDs Conferred (2000–04): Large [Explain]

Faculty Mix:
	Full Professor	14
	Associate Professor	7
	Assistant Professor	6
	Instructor/Lecturer	1
	Joint Appointment	5
	Emeritus Faculty	14
	Part-time faculty	2

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

Number of Graduate Students in Program (Fall 2005): 104
(Graduate student counts include those enrolled in terminal Master's degree program)

Proportion of Full-Time Graduate Students: 93%

New Graduate Students Entering Program, Fall 2004: 26

Relative Size Based on Graduate Student Enrollment (2002–04): Large [Explain]

 

Other Information

     Current Dissertations in Progress

     PhDs Conferred by Department