The Graduate Program in History
Application deadline is January 4, 2010
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Academic historians at research universities publish and teach. They also fill a variety of roles as reviewers, consultants, citizens of their university, field, and profession, and colleagues. With this in mind, the graduate program in history at the University of Notre Dame emphasizes training in research, writing, and teaching, and addresses the ethics, values, obligations, traditions, philosophies, and skills of responsible professionals.
Each year we admit 12 - 14 excellent students with multiyear funding and a few more join us in the associated programs of the Medieval Institute and the Program in the History and Philosophy of Science. It is the program’s goal for students to complete the Ph.D. within five years of full-time study. All of our students are financially supported over that time.
Congratulations to Darren Dochuk (Ph.D., 2005), who received the Allan Nevins Prize from the Society of American Historians for the best-written doctoral dissertation on an American subject. View more >
Recent graduates are employed as faculty in major private research universities, such as the University of Chicago, state universities, such as the University of Virginia, the University of Michigan, and the University of Alabama, liberal arts colleges, such as Haverford College, and church-affiliated schools, such as Calvin College, Seton Hall, and Baylor University. They publish in academic journals in their fields,have won major dissertation prizes, and publish books with major presses, such as Yale University Press.
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