PhD European History

The Department of History offers a rigorous graduate program in European History with overarching geographical and thematic breadth. Chronologically, this concentration covers the history of the European civilization from Ancient and Medieval times to Renaissance and Reformation, and then to the revolutionary 17th, 18th and 20th centuries, extending exploration to the 21st century.

Our faculty members possess internationally recognized professional expertise and firsthand experience to guide doctoral research in thematic fields of military, gender, political, social, cultural, economic history and Jewish studies, as well as geographic areas from Classical Greece and Rome to Russia, Britain, France and Germany.

Areas of study for doctoral students:

1. Chronological

• Ancient
• Medieval
• Renaissance
• Reformation
• 17th- and 18th-century Europe
• Revolutionary Europe
• 19th-century Europe
• 20th-century Europe

2. Topical

• Classical Greece and Rome
• Military
• Russia
• 17th- and 18th-century Britain
• Modern Britain
• Early Modern France
• Modern France
• Modern Germany
• Women and gender