Graduate Fields of Study

The Department of History offers graduate degrees in the following subject areas (listed as major fields). Students can take courses in other areas of study (for their minor field, for example), but the department only offers degrees in US, European, and British history. Click on individual faculty members’ names to learn more about their specializations and advising interests.

Major Fields

Ancient World/Medieval and Early Modern Europe (to 1650)

• Maribel Dietz (Medieval; Late Antiquity)
• Sherri Johnson (Medieval)
• Christine J. Kooi (Reformation; the Netherlands)

Modern Europe (since 1500)

• Susan Grunewald (Modern Europe, Russia)
• Suzanne L. Marchand (Germany; Modern European Intellectual; 19th Century Europe)
• Leslie Tuttle (Early Modern Europe; France)
• Meredith Veldman (Modern Britain; Intellectual and Cultural)

Britain

• Victor L. Stater (Tudor-Stuart)
• Meredith Veldman (Modern)The United States

** Please note that due to upcoming faculty retirements in British history, we are unable to accept PhD applicants in British History for the 2026-2027 academic year. MA applicants in modern British History are welcome to apply.

United States

• Jessica Blake (Early America; Women and Gender; Slavery)
• Zevi Gutfreund (Modern U.S.; Race; Education)
• Julia Irwin (US Foreign Relations; 20th Century World)
• Catherine Jacquet (Modern U.S.; Women and Gender)
• Alecia Long (Louisiana; the South; post-1865 U.S.)
• Michael Pasquier (American Religious History)
• K. Stephen Prince (19th Century US; Southern History; Race)
• Kodi Roberts (African-American)
• Aaron Sheehan-Dean (Civil War; 19th-century U.S.)
• Charles J. Shindo (20th Century Cultural)

Other Areas of Study 

Africa

• Gibril Cole (Africa; World)

Asia

• Asiya Alam (South Asia; Women and Gender)
• Margherita Zanasi (Modern China)

Latin America

• Andre Pagliarini (Latin America; US-Latin American Relations)