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Department: History

Executive Officer: Professor Jonathan Sassi

The Graduate Center

365 Fifth Avenue

New York, New York 10016

Email: history@gc.cuny.edu

https://www.gc.cuny.edu/History

FACULTY

Anna Ayse Akasoy, Timothy Alborn, Joel Allen, Simon Baatz, Swapna Banerjee, Beth Baron, Elissa Bemporad, Herman Bennett, Laird Bergad, Manu Bhagavan, Francesca Bregoli, Martin Burke, Mila Burns, Lale Can, James Cantres, Benjamin Carp, Eduardo Contreras, Blanche Cook, Sarah Covington, Craig Daigle, Joseph Dauben, Simon Davis, John Dixon, Christopher Ebert, Johanna Fernandez, Tanisha Ford, Elena Frangakis-Syrett, Sandra Gambetti, Libby Garland, David Gordon, David Harvey, Donna Haverty-Stacke, D'Weston Haywood, Elizabeth Heath, Dagmar Herzog, Benjamin Hett, Eric Ivison, Robert Johnson, Allison Kavey, Thomas Kessner, Andreas Killen, Natalie Kimball, Anne Kornhauser, Dina Le Gall, Mark Lewis, Richard Lieberman, Gerald Markowitz, Felix Matos Rodriguez, Kathleen McCarthy, Sara McDougall, Elidor Mehilli, Ruth Milkman, Karen Miller, David Munns, Barbara Naddeo, Philip Napoli, Gerald Oppenheimer, Hyunhee Park, Michael Pfeifer, Richard Powers, Michael Rawson, Steven Remy, José Rénique, David Reynolds, Mark Rice, Kristina Richardson, Jennifer Roberts, Andrew Robertson, Chase Robinson, Mary Roldán, Clifford Rosenberg, Jonathan Rosenberg, Helena Anna Christina Rosenblatt, Morris Rossabi, Jonathan Sassi, Kara Schlichting, Laura Schor, Gunja Sen Gupta, Andrew Sloin, Julia Sneeringer, Robyn Spencer, Darren Staloff, Jeanne Theoharis, John Torpey, David Troyansky, Randolph Trumbach, Anne Valk, David Waldstreicher, Gary Wilder, Richard Wolin, Amanda Wunder, Liv Yarrow

THE PROGRAM

The Ph.D. Program in History offers advanced study leading to the doctoral degree. In addition to equipping students with a thorough knowledge of their selected areas of specialization, the course of study is designed to provide comprehensive training in the historical craft through an emphasis on research and historiography. Part-time students are not admitted. General study and specializations are possible in a broad range of fields defined chronologically, regionally, and topically. The unique consortial nature of the program allows it to draw upon scholars from The Graduate Center as well as every college in the CUNY system.

Students are required to major in one field and minor in another. The fields currently offered are listed below.

Major Fields

Ancient History

Medieval Europe (300 to 1500)

Early Modern Europe (1300-1750)

Modern Europe (1700 to the present)

Middle East

History of Science

Jewish History

Latin America

United States (Colonial times to the present)

Women’s History

Minor Fields

The minor is conceived as a second field of study, one that may be complementary to the major, but is not a subdivision of it. Students may minor in any of the fields that are designated as major fields. Additional minor fields that are offered at the Graduate Center include Lesbian and Gay History, African-American History, Labor History, and Military History. Students may also choose interdisciplinary minors or minors in disciplines other than history.

En-route M.A.

Students must satisfactorily complete the following requirements in order to apply for an en-route M.A. degree: Complete 30 credits in the History Program or, with the permission of the Executive Officer, in another Graduate Center program, including successful completion of the two-semester literature survey in their major field of study (grade of B- or higher). In those major fields that do not offer a literature survey, students must complete at least 10 credits of equivalent work, to be determined by the Executive Officer. Students must successfully complete the first-year research seminar and submit a major research paper that demonstrates the capacity for historical research and analysis, equivalent to a master’s thesis.