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University of Arizona

Dept. of History
215 Social Sciences Bldg.
P.O. Box 210027
Tucson, AZ 85721-0027

Phone 520.621.1586
Fax 520.621.2422
E-mail: kgosner@u.arizona.edu

Department Web Site

Areas of Specialization:

Ancient History, Early Europe, Latin America, Modern Europe, Middle East, and U.S.

Program Description

The PhD program emphasizes the development of critical habits and technical skills to foster advanced research, publication and teaching in the field of history, broadly conceived. Coursework nurtures these proficiencies as well as preparing students to deploy a range of theoretical frameworks to analyze materials from the past. In addition to the major fields of study, faculty at Arizona share thematic strengths in comparative gender and womens history, environmental history, comparative/world, cultural history, borderlands, sexualities, imperialism, state formation and urban history.

Special Programs or Resources

Graduate students regularly pursue interdisciplinary training in a range of departments and schools across campus, including Anthropology, the Institute of the Environment, Gender and Womens Studies, East Asian Studies, Classics, Latin American Studies, Near Eastern Studies, and American Indian Studies. Students likewise benefit from the scholarly resources of such on-campus programs as the Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies and the Title VI-funded Centers for Middle Eastern Studies and for Latin American Studies. Special archival and manuscript collections, such as the Heiko A. Oberman Research Library, the Bloom Archive of Jewish History, Documentary Relations of the Southwest and the Borderlands Collection, are housed at the University of Arizona Library Special Collections, the Arizona Historical Society, the Arizona State Museum, the Center for Creative Photography and the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy. The department also participates in the Certificate for College Teaching Program; indeed, our graduate students take advantage of mentoring, workshops and coursework to become accomplished and creative teachers, a real asset in their future careers.

Financial Aid

The primary source of financial support is in the form of Graduate Teaching Assistantships, which currently carry a tuition waiver and student health insurance as well as the monetary stipend. Most doctoral students will receive at least eight semesters of this kind of funding, although awards are made annually, instead of in multi-year packages. The History Department also offers a number of in-state and out-of-state tuition awards, in addition to a full-year Graduate College fellowship. Qualifying students likewise compete for Graduate College fellowships for underrepresented groups and for residents of Arizona; students in eligible fields may also apply for FLAS fellowships or the Earth Fellowship. The History Department also awards internal named fellowships to support dissertation research and paper presentations at professional conferences. Doctoral students have competed successfully for national and international external fellowships, among them the Fulbright, Fulbright-Hays, Huntington, Guggenheim, Mellon and Newcombe. Students at the dissertation level may teach stand-alone courses in the summer and winter sessions.

Degree Requirements

Coursework for the doctoral degree involves at least six semesters of full-time study beyond the baccalaureate. All graduate students must take the historiography colloquium during the first year of study. Students must complete 36 units of study in the major field and 9 to 12 units in the minor field, carrying at least one graduate colloquium or seminar each semester. Students must formally demonstrate reading knowledge of two foreign languages relevant to the major field. Comprehensive written exams in the major and minor fields, followed by an oral examination, must be successfully completed before the student begins the dissertation.



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Faculty Information (Fall 2011):

Full-time Faculty: 29

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

 

Student Demographics (Fall 2011):

Number of Doctoral Students in Program: 59

New Doctoral Students Entering Program: 3

Proportion of Doctoral Students Receiving Financial Aid: 75%

Number of Graduate Students Enrolled: 83

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

 

Degree Information:

First PhD conferred: 1963

History PhDs conferred to Date: 207

Number of PhDs Conferred (2011–12): 6

Relative Size Based on PhDs Conferred: Medium [Explain]

Current Dissertations in Progress

PhDs Conferred by Department

 

 

Last Updated: October 19, 2012