Graduate Studies
Dear Prospective Graduate Student,
Welcome! The Department of History at the University in Minnesota is an exciting place to be right now, for students and faculty. We have a long tradition of excellence in many fields of history. Recent additions to our faculty complement many of our long-standing strengths and also bring some new areas of inquiry.
Department Features
We foster a cooperative learning atmosphere alongside high intellectual standards. We are commited to intellectual exchange across geographic areas and an openness to interdisciplinary explorations. At the same time, we continue to provide excellent training in national and regional histories. A wide variety of seminars and workshops, organized by faculty and students, offer many ways to expand your intellectual horizons. For 2007-08 we are funding 6 new international collaborations in graduate education and research, creating many additional opportunities.
Funding Your Education
We are committed to training you as a scholar, teacher and public historian. We provide financial support, in the form of fellowships or assistantships, to all students entering our Ph.D. program. In addition, many of our graduate students have won national and university grants for aspects of their professional development, such as intensive language training courses and pre-dissertation and dissertation research.
We also have funds to subsidize summer language and research programs. Virtually all of our students obtain significant teaching experience during the course of their graduate studies. As teaching assistants in our undergraduate courses, they receive careful mentoring from the faculty. After completion of their preliminary examinations, most students have the opportunity to teach their own courses. Graduates of the Minnesota Ph.D. program are well prepared for careers as professional historians.
Contact us at histdgs@umn.edu if you have any questions!
Ruth Mazo Karras
Professor
Director of Graduate Studies