AHA Directory of History Departments and Organizations
Institution Details
4236 TAMU
101 Melbern Glasscock Bldg.
College Station, TX 77843-4236
Phone: 979.845.7151
Fax: 979.862.4314
Email: aphudson@tamu.edu
Website: https://history.tamu.edu/
The Department of History at Texas A&M University offers the BA, BS, MA, and PhD. The faculty teach courses on peoples, ideas, and cultures from around the world and across the ages, and are devoted to developing students’ critical thinking, reading, and writing skills.
Director of Graduate Studies: Katherine Unterman
Director of Undergraduate Studies: Hoi-eun Kim
Degrees Offered: BA,BS,MA,PHD
Academic Year System: SEM
Areas of Specialization: war and society, Caribbean and Atlantic world, Latinx and Mexican American, empires and colonialism, gender and sexuality, public, US in world, race, ethnicity and migration, science and technology, religion and politics
In-state: $6094
Out-of-state: $19615
In-state: $5194
Out-of-state: $11572
Admissions: https://www.tamu.edu/admissions/
Financial Aid: https://financialaid.tamu.edu/
Admissions: https://www.tamu.edu/admissions/#graduate
Financial Aid: https://financialaid.tamu.edu/
Areas of Specialization: war and society, Caribbean and Atlantic world, Latinx and Mexican American, empires and colonialism, gender and sexuality, public, US in world, race, ethnicity and migration, science and technology, religion and politics
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Doctoral Program Information
A. Program Description. The Department of History at Texas A&M University has recently restructured its graduate program to better express our strengths, breadth of coverage, and diversity of intellectual interests. With 39 faculty members and a lively community of over 60 graduate students, the Department provides an enriching educational experience emphasizing comparative, theoretical, international, and transnational dimensions of historical study. Graduate instruction is organized around twelve thematic "clusters": Britain and the Empire; Caribbean/Atlantic World; Chicano/Latino; Empires, Imperialism, and Colonialism; Gender and Sexuality in History; History of Science, Technology, Media, and Information; Pre-modern Culture and Change; Race, Ethnicity, and Migration; Religion in History; Southwest and its Borders; U.S. in the World; and War and Society.
B. Special Programs. The department awards approximately ten research grants of $1,500 to $5,000 each year to doctoral students who have passed their qualifying exams and are working on their dissertations. Other funding from the College of Liberal Arts and the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research is also available. Our graduate students continue to receive prestigious external fellowships from such agencies as the German Academic Exchange Service, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Smith Richardson Foundation, and American Council of Learned Societies.
C. Financial Aid. There are four types of financial aid available to graduate students: Graduate Assistantships (GAT), Graduate Assistantships-Lecturer (GAL), Fellowships and Scholarships, and Travel and Research Grants. Please visit our web site for more information.
D. Degree Requirements. The PhD requires a minimum of 64 semester hours, including at least 18 semester hours of formal course-work divided into 2 areas of concentration: (1) a major area, 12 hours; and (2) a minor area, 6 hours. Additional required courses are set in consultation with the student’s advisor. Non-U.S. doctoral students are required to possess reading knowledge of two foreign languages prior to taking their preliminary examinations; U.S. students need one.
Directory of History Dissertations
Doctoral Program Statistics 2024-25:
PhD students currently enrolled: 42
PhD applications received: 45
New PhD students: 10
% of students receiving tuition waivers: 0
% of students receiving stipends: 0
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