Our 80 student graduate program offers two distinct degrees: the M.A. in History and the M.A. in Public History.  However, both degree programs require a strong foundation in traditional history, and regardless of their degree program all first year students must take two courses: Introduction to Historiography in the fall and Historical Writing in the spring.  The distribution of students across the two programs varies from year to year, depending on the relative strength of the respective pools and the number of students who accept offers of admission to each program.  For detailed information about the course of study, please review the Graduate Handbook.

Because we are a relatively small graduate program, the faculty is able to give considerable personal attention to our students.  The benefits of this approach are manifest in the numbers of our History MAs who successfully apply to PhD programs and in the the high rate of job placement of our Public History MAs. (To locate and contact our alumni, move your cursor to the left and click on Where Are We Now?)  The benefits of our personal attention to our students can also be seen the numbers of our MA students who have presented, with departmental travel support, the results of their research at major national and international conferences.

We welcome your interest in our program.  If you still have questions after reviewing these pages and the FAQs, please contact either the Director of Graduate Programs or the Director of the Public History Program by email.  In the Fall of each semester, both the DGP and the DPH will also be available through once a month video chats that will run from September through December.  In the meantime, keep abreast of department news and events by subscribing to our RSS and Twitter feeds.