A. Program Description. USC's doctoral program in history offers comprehensive scholarly training in multiple fields, including the history of Africa, the African diaspora, East Asia, South Asia, medieval, early modern, and modern Europe, the Middle East, Ottoman, the Atlantic world, the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean, the global south, and transnational and global history. The department partners with or sponsors numerous research initiatives and institutes which assist with, and enhance, the training of doctoral students across fields. These efforts include the fields of visual culture, early modern history, the American West, East Asian studies, German and European Studies, premodern studies, and the study of the Holocaust and Genocide. Interested students are encouraged to contact faculty members and the department’s Director of Graduate Studies for further information about programs and course of study.

B. Special Programs. The doctoral program in History at USC enjoys close institutional, scholarly, and collegial ties with a number of research facilities in the greater Los Angeles region, including The Huntington Library, the Getty Museum, the Getty Research Institute, and other cultural, educational, and research centers and institutions. Specific institutes include the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute (dornsife.usc.edu/emsi); the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West (dornsife.usc.edu/icw); the Visual Studies Graduate Certificate (dornsife.usc.edu/vsgc); the Center for Religion and Civic Culture (crcc.usc.edu); and the Center for the Premodern World (dornsife.usc.edu/center-for-the-premodern-world).

C. Financial Aid. All admitted doctoral students are offered funding packages for five years of support, which typically include a combination of fellowship (three years) and teaching (two years). Students are strongly encouraged to compete for a wide variety of additional fellowships offered through the History Department, the university and its various research centers/institutes, and external agencies, foundations, or research institutions.

D. Degree Requirements. Graduate degrees are under the jurisdiction of the Graduate School. Refer to the Requirements for Graduation section and the Graduate School section of the University Catalogue for general regulations. All courses applied toward the degrees must be courses accepted by the Graduate School.