Department of History (Graduate)

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Website URL:

https://www.cla.purdue.edu/history/graduate/

Department/School Head:

Frederick R. Davis (interim)

Academic Programs:

The Department of History at Purdue offers a broad range of high-quality coursework and supervision leading to the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. Hallmarks of the program include wide spatial and chronological coverage, flexibility in coursework, and close individual mentoring by a diverse group of nationally and internationally renowned faculty members.

Master’s and Ph.D. Programs

• M.A. and Ph.D. degrees

Concentrations (Areas of Study):

Early Modern European History, Modern European History, United States History, Global History, African American History, Women’s History, History of Human Rights, Transitional History, Science, Technology, and Medicine History

Combined Degree Programs: (Master’s Degree / Doctoral Degree)

• 5 Year fast-track doctoral program

Regular Graduate Faculty by Rank:

Professor

Susan Curtis
Fritz Davis
James R. Farr
R. Douglas Hurt
Wendy Kline
John L. Larson
Randy W. Roberts
Michael G. Smith
A. Whitney Walton
Melinda S. Zook

Associate Professor

David Atkinson
Tithi Bhattacharya
Kathryn Cramer Brownell
Cornelius Bynum
Ariel de la Fuente
Vernard L. Foley
Jennifer L. Foray
Nancy Gabin
William G. Gray
Sally A. Hastings
Stacy E. Holden
Rebekah A. Klein-Pejšová
Dawn G. Marsh
Yvonne M. Pitts
Sharra Vostral

Assistant Professor

Kim Gallon
T. Cole Jones
Mary X. Mitchell
Silvia Z. Mitchell
Margaret Tillman

Emeritus Faculty

John C. Contreni
Charles Cutter
Raymond E. Dumett
Leonard H.D. Gordon
Patrick J. Hearden
Charles W. Ingrao
Franklin T. Lambert
Lois N. Magner
Robert E. May
Michael A. Morrison
Donald L. Parman
Jon C. Teaford
Harold D. Woodman

Programs

• History, PHD

• History, MA

Courses

• HIST 50000 - Studies In Medieval History
• HIST 50500 - Haunted Pasts: Ghosts, Ghouls And Monsters In Global Culture
• HIST 51100 - England Under The Tudors
• HIST 51200 - England Under The Stuarts
• HIST 51400 - A History Of Western Thought I
• HIST 51500 - A History Of Western Thought II
• HIST 54800 - Conflict In East Asia: Twentieth Century
• HIST 57600 - Problems In Latin American History
• HIST 57700 - Contemporary Latin America
• HIST 58500 - American Labor History
• HIST 58600 - United States Foreign Affairs To World War I
• HIST 58700 - United States Foreign Affairs: World War I To Present
• HIST 59000 - Directed Reading In History
• HIST 59300 - Twentieth-Century American Intellectual History
• HIST 59400 - Afro-American Thought And Ideology
• HIST 59500 - The Holocaust And Genocide
• HIST 60100 - Reading Seminar In European History
• HIST 60200 - Seminar In European History
• HIST 61000 - History: Theory And Methods
• HIST 61100 - History: Research Practicum
• HIST 64100 - Reading Seminar In Global History
• HIST 64200 - Seminar In Global History
• HIST 65000 - Teaching The History Survey Course
• HIST 65100 - Reading Seminar In American History
• HIST 65200 - Seminar In American History
• HIST 66500 - Seminar On American Indian History
• HIST 67000 - Seminar In Latin American History
• HIST 69800 - Research MA Thesis
• HIST 69900 - Research PhD Thesis

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