History Doctoral Programs in the United States and Canada

Mississippi State Univ.

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Areas of Specialization:

U.S., Europe, Latin America, Africa, Asia

Program Description

Mississippi State University offers doctoral degrees in U.S. and European history. It has supplemented its traditional specialties of southern, Civil War, African American and gender history with nodes of excellence in international security/internal safety; history of science and technology; and agricultural, rural, and environmental history. Each doctoral student must take a field in one of those three nodes of excellence. It is anticipated that most dissertations will intersect with at least one of these three nodes of excellence.

Special Programs or Resources

The Mitchell Memorial Library houses numerous manuscript and microform collections and electronic resources. Of particular note is the Consortium for the History of Agricultural and Rural Mississippi, a collection of newspapers, journals, federal and state reports, and oral history dealing with rural life in the state. Also of interest are the papers of long serving Congressmen and political leaders in Mississippi and surrounding areas, including U.S. Senator John C. Stennis and Representative Sonny Montgomery. MSU is a partner and repository for the United States Army's War on Terror Oral History Project.

Financial Aid

The history department awards teaching assistantships to incoming graduate students on a competitive basis. It also offers dissertation fellowships to assist doctoral students at that stage of their studies.

Degree Requirements

The department expects students to have completed at least 60 hours of course work beyond the bachelor's degree. Credit earned in a master's degree program at Mississippi State or elsewhere may be included in these hours if appropriate to the candidate's doctoral fields and acceptable to the student's graduate committee.

University Information:

University Type: Public

Carnegie Institution Ranking: Doctoral/Research Universities—Extensive

Department Demographics:

First PhD conferred: 1987

History PhDs conferred to Date: 102

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

Faculty Mix:
	Full Professor	4
	Associate Professor	2
	Assistant Professor	8
	Instructor/Lecturer
	Joint Appointment
	Emeritus Faculty	11
	Part-time faculty

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

Number of Graduate Students in Program (Fall 2005): 65
(Graduate student counts include those enrolled in terminal Master's degree program)

Proportion of Full-Time Graduate Students: 41%

New Graduate Students Entering Program, Fall 2004: 14

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

 

Other Information

     Current Dissertations in Progress

     PhDs Conferred by Department