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McGill University

Dept. of History and Classical Studies
855 Sherbrooke St. W.
Leacock 608
Montreal, QC H3A 2T7
Canada

Phone 514.398.3975
Fax 514.398.8365
E-mail: undergraduate.history@mcgill.ca

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Areas of Specialization:

Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Middle East, World/Atlantic, and World/International

Program Description

Instruction is offered in all major areas of historical scholarship by a distinguished faculty of approximately 40 members covering a wide variety of geographic, chronological, and thematic areas of research and teaching expertise. The History Department at McGill is committed to training doctoral students to demanding and rigorous standards that will produce the academic historians of tomorrow. We seek to create an environment where doctoral candidates develop proficiency in teaching, researching, and interpreting the histories and historiographies of particular times and places from a comparative, cross-cultural, and global perspective.

Special Programs or Resources

McGill and Montreal are rich locations to support doctoral research in history. Within the department we boast dynamic research concentrations in the Ancient Mediterranean World, Canada/Québec, British and European history, China, the Early Modern Atlantic World, Gender and Sexualities, Social Studies of Medicine and the History of Science.

The Social Science and Humanities Library collection dates back to 1855 and boasts particular strength in Canadian Studies, British History, Russian and East European Studies, and the Second World War. Many of our students draw upon the resources of the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, Blackader-Lauterman Library of Architecture and Art, Islamic Studies Library, Nahum Gelber Law Library. Within McGill, the History Department regularly collaborates with the East Asian Studies, the Islamic Institute, the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada and Social Studies of Medicine. Montreal boasts three other world class universities--Concordia, Université de Montréal, and Université du Québec à Montréal--and local archives such as the archives nationale du Québec-Montréal, the McCord Museum, and the Canadian Jewish Congress National Archives.

Financial Aid

Graduate funding available in the Department of History and Classical Studies is awarded on a competitive basis to outstanding applicants. The department offers four years of guaranteed funding to the top four PhD candidates. We also have a limited number of recruitment awards, teaching assistantship positions, research assistance positions and departmental awards listed below. Applicants to whom the department is able to offer financial assistance will be contacted.

Information concerning internal graduate and postdoctoral fellowships and awards at McGill University, as well as information regarding a selection of external fellowships, is available in the Graduate Fellowships and Awards Calendar, which may be accessed on the Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS) website.

Degree Requirements

The PhD Program at McGill comprises comprehensive exams, a language exam, and a dissertation. The comprehensive process aims to prepare students to teach and research in three distinct fields: a major field connected to the dissertation project and two minor areas.



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Last Updated: October 19, 2012