Graduate

The Notre Dame Department of History graduate program combines innovative approaches to the study of history with a steadfast commitment to thoughtful scholarship: facts in context, fine-grained detail, archival research, and long-form communication pitched to both academic and popular audiences. Graduate students are at the heart of our academic community.

With more than 40 full-time faculty members, we strive to be one of the preeminent humanities departments in the United States. Our department is large enough to cover nearly every region of the world and period of time, and we are intimate enough to sustain close contact between faculty and students at all levels.

The alumni of our Ph.D. program are active in a wide variety of exciting careers. Many have gone into university teaching and research, obtaining tenure-track professorships at Baylor University, Catholic University of America, Hillsdale College, Mississippi State, Norwich, Princeton Theological Seminary, Seton Hall, Texas Tech, Valparaiso, and the universities of Alabama, Illinois, and New Mexico, as well as Gyeongin National University of Education (Incheon, South Korea), Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, China), and Universidad EAFIT (Medellín, Colombia).

Others have pursued successful careers in administration and library or archive work at institutions such as the University of Chicago, Villanova University, Brigham Young University, the National Archives, and the universities of Illinois, Michigan, and Nevada.

Still others have gone into all manner of fields for which their training as historians has prepared them. Our alumni include, for example, an organizer for the United Auto Workers, a museum director in California, the leader of a peace and reconciliation organization in Northern Ireland, and a prize-winning author of historical novels.

For more information, review the Graduate Studies Guide or contact us at histdgs@nd.edu.

Prof. Alexander M. Martin
Director of Graduate Studies