As a department, we endeavor to challenge our graduate students, to inspire them to engage thoughtfully with the past, to help them develop critical skills in analysis and research, and to nurture facility with writing and public speaking that will enable them to share their own work with scholarly and popular audiences. The Graduate Program stirs the intellectual life of the department, fueling a creative dynamic among students and faculty alike that enriches our community and our larger mission of creative scholarship and teaching. 

Director of Graduate Studies: Martha Few

The Department of History offers advanced degrees in a variety of sub-fields:

Modern Europe
Early Europe
Latin America
United States
Middle Eastern Histories (Ph.D. Only)
Asia (M.A. Only)

We also offer minors in both Comparative Women’s History and World Comparative History, in addition to opportunities to minor in any of our subfields. In addition, students also engage in interdisciplinary work in related departments, such as Anthropology, Women’s Studies and Modern Languages.

Since 1996, our students have received over 160 grants, awards, and fellowships for individual research, including a number of Fulbright and Fulbright-Hays fellowships. They have presented at professional conferences in the U.S., Canada, England, Spain, Germany, Mexico and the Netherlands.

The Department of History has 30 ranked faculty members that teach and mentor on average 100 graduate students. Within our subfields, students engage in research in Labor History, the History of Sexuality, Social and Cultural History, as well as Political and Economic, and Diplomatic History.

Degree Requirements:

1. Requirements for the Master's Degree:
    
   •       HST 695K Historiography in the first year
      
   •       18 units in the major field of study
      
   •       18 units of colloquium and seminar credit (HST 695/696)
      
   •       12 units of approved electives
      
   •       reading knowledge of a second language
      
   •       thesis OR 2 seminar papers option
      
   •       comprehensive exam or thesis defense
      
2. Requirements for the Ph.D. Degree:
   •       HST 695K Historiography in the first year
      
   •       6 semesters full-time study beyond the B.A.
      
   •       36 units of course work in major field
      
   •       9-12 units of course work in minor field

           one 695 (graduate colloquium) or 696 (graduate seminar) course each semester 

   •       qualifying review
      
   •        preliminary examination
      
   •        reading knowledge of two second languages
      
   •        prospectus and prospectus review
      
   •        final examination and dissertation defense
      
   •        complete and approved dissertation

    

Teaching Opportunities:
The Department of History regards undergraduate teaching as an integral part of our involvement in the University of Arizona community. Our faculty and graduate students have received Excellence in Teaching Awards from the University as well as from the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.

Students who are GATs have the opportunity to lead discussion sections in a variety of courses, such as Europe in the Modern World, Colonial Latin America, and World History. In addition, graduate students who have completed the Comprehensive Exams are encouraged to teach stand-alone courses in the summers and during the semester. Courses that our graduate students have offered include:

HIST 317: History of Modern Ireland
HIST 454: History of the Spanish Inquisition
HIST 254: History of Women in the United States
HIST 368: Colonial Mexico
HIST 351: Race and Class in Latin America

Other Important Links for prospective students:

•              History Graduate Student's Handbook (pdf)
•              Departmental Financial Aid
•              UA Graduate College Homepage 
   
• GRE Workshops at the Graduate College
   
• The department is also affiliated with several campus research centers.
   

Inquiries and Requests for materials should be directed to:

Gina Wasson
Graduate Coordinator 
University of Arizona - Dept. of History
Social Sciences #215
Tucson, AZ 85721
gmw@email.arizona.edu