History Doctoral Programs in the United States and Canada

Indiana U.

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Areas of Specialization:

U.S. and Latin America, western Europe, Russia and eastern Europe, Africa, East Asia

Program Description

In addition to the usual geographical and chronological strengths, the IU history department has thematic fields of study in African Diaspora, Cultural History, History of Gender and Sexuality, and Jewish History.

Special Programs or Resources

We have a number of centers and institutes which offer training, research and employment for our graduate students; history department faculty are involved in all of the following: African Studies; American Studies, American Historical Review; Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Center for the Study of History and Memory; Central Eurasian Studies; East Asian Languages and Cultures; India Studies; Indiana Magazine of History; Institute of German Studies; Jewish Studies; Organization of American Historians/Journal of American History; Medieval Studies Institute; Population Institute for Research and Training; Renaissance Studies; Russian and East European Institute; Victorian Studies; West European Studies.

Financial Aid

Currently we promise funding to most of our incoming students. Typically we offer four year packages for students who enter with the MA degree, and five year packages for those who enter without the MA degree. Packages include at least one year with no teaching duties, and in the other years students work as teaching assistants. Students who exhaust this funding or who enter without multi-year packages compete annually for teaching positions. We also grant fellowships for dissertation research on a competitive basis. In addition, many of our students work as editorial assistants at the three journals affiliated with the Department, the Journal of American History, The American Historical Review, and the Indiana Magazine of History. These journals fill positions through their own hiring process, but they only hire our students. Editorial assistantships, like teaching assistantships, are compensated with a fee remission, health insurance, and stipend.

Degree Requirements

We require an introduction to history course, 6 history readings courses, 2 history research courses, and a minor outside of history (usually 3-4 courses). The number of languages required varies according to field. Students undergo a third-semester review, based on work completed up to that point; an oral qualifying exam in their major and minor history fields; a dissertation proposal defense; and a dissertation defense.

University Information:

University Type: Public

Carnegie Institution Ranking: Doctoral/Research Universities—Extensive

Department Demographics:

First PhD conferred: 1913

History PhDs conferred to Date: 758

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

Faculty Mix:
	Full Professor	23
	Associate Professor	11
	Assistant Professor	9
	Instructor/Lecturer
	Joint Appointment	10
	Emeritus Faculty
	Part-time faculty	16

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

Number of Graduate Students in Program (Fall 2005): 165
(Graduate student counts include those enrolled in terminal Master's degree program)

Proportion of Full-Time Graduate Students: 100%

New Graduate Students Entering Program, Fall 2004: 29

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

 

Other Information

     Current Dissertations in Progress

     PhDs Conferred by Department