AHA Directory of History Departments and Organizations

Institution Details


University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas at Austin Dept. of History
128 Inner Campus Dr. B7000
GAR 1.104
Austin, TX 78712-1739
Phone: 512.471.3261
Fax: 512.475.7222
Email: mschmidt@austin.utexas.edu
Website: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/


The history major prepares students not only for diverse workplaces, but also for a life of engaged citizenship, as all of us confront an ever more complicated and interconnected world. As a history student, you will study with some of the finest teachers at UT, graduate with the skills that every job-seeker needs today, and learn about the US and its relations with the rest of the world.


Chair: Mark Lawrence
Director of Graduate Studies: Seth Garfield
Director of Undergraduate Studies: Julie Hardwick
Degrees Offered: BA,MA,PHD
Academic Year System: SEM
Areas of Specialization: US, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America
Undergraduate Tuition (per academic year):
   In-state: $10112
   Out-of-state: $35996
Graduate Tuition (per academic year):
   In-state: $8088
   Out-of-state: $16032

Enrollment 2024-25:
Undergraduate Majors: 600
Students in Program: 0
New Graduate Students: 10
Full-time Graduate Students: 100
Part-time Graduate Students: 10
Degrees in History: 0 AA 150 BA 0 BS 15 MA 0 MS 12 PhD
Students in Undergrad. Courses: 0
Students in Undergrad. Intro Courses: 0
% of Online-Only Courses: 0
Undergraduate Addresses:
   Admissions: https://admissions.utexas.edu
   Financial Aid: http://finaid.utexas.edu/
Graduate Addresses:
   Admissions: https://gradschool.utexas.edu/
   Financial Aid: http://finaid.utexas.edu/

Areas of Specialization: US, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America

Not applicable


Doctoral Program Information

A. Program Description. The University of Texas offers an exceptionally wide range of resources for graduate study in many fields of history. With more than 50 faculty members, outstanding library and archival collections, and a lively community of 60 graduate students, UT Austin is a leading center for historical study and training at the highest levels. Graduate instruction in the History Department is organized around 12 major fields: Africa; Atlantic History; East Asia; Early Modern Europe; History of Science, Technology & Medicine; Latin America; Medieval Europe; Middle East; Modern Europe; South Asia; and United States. In addition to these fields, the Department strongly supports fields of study that are transnational, trans-regional, comparative, and interdisciplinary.

B. Special Programs. In addition to the main library, there are a number of specialized libraries, centers, and museums on campus. Information and links are available on our resources site: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/graduate/resources.php.

C. Financial Aid. See the website.

D. Degree Requirements. To earn a PhD in history at the University of Texas at Austin, a student must complete at least 36 hours of graduate coursework. Specific requirements are laid out in the Official Guide. Students who have already completed an MA at another institution may transfer up to 12 hours of credit, as applicable.

In addition to the required coursework, students earning a PhD must pass a written and oral comprehensive qualifying examination in their major field of study, meet the foreign language requirements set for that field, and complete and defend a dissertation that constitutes a substantial piece of original research.

Directory of History Dissertations

Doctoral Program Statistics 2024-25:
PhD students currently enrolled: 60
PhD applications received: 150
New PhD students: 7
% of students receiving tuition waivers: 95
% of students receiving stipends: 95


Aghaie, Kamran Scot (PHD, UCLA, 1999; ; assoc. prof.; Middle Eastern Studies, Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies) modern Iran, Middle East, Islamic rituals; kamranaghaie@austin.utexas.edu
Ali, Kamran Asdar (PHD, Johns Hopkins, 1997; ; assoc. prof.; Anthropology, Middle Eastern Studies) gender, health, development; asdar@austin.utexas.edu
Alvarez, C.J. (PHD, Chicago, 2014; ; asst. prof.; Mexican American and Latino/a Studies) US-Mexico border; cjalvarez@austin.utexas.edu
Biow, Douglas G. (PHD, Johns Hopkins, 1990; ; prof.; Superior Oil Company-Linward Shivers Centennial Prof., Medieval and Renaissance Studies; French and Italian and dir., Center for European Studies) medieval and Renaissance studies, European studies; biow@austin.utexas.edu
Davis, Janet Marie (PHD, Wisconsin-Madison, 1998; ; asst. prof.) American Studies; janetmdavis@austin.utexas.edu
Denbow, James R. (PHD, Indiana, ; ; prof.; Anthropology) archaeology, later Stone Age and Iron Age studies, Southern and Central Africa; jdenbow@austin.utexas.edu
Ebbeler, Jennifer V. (PHD, Pennsylvania, 2001; ; assoc. prof.; Classics) Greco-Roman epistolography, late antique literature and cultural, classical Latin prose; jebbeler@austin.utexas.edu
Forbath, William E. (PHD, Yale, 1992; ; assoc. dean, Research; Lloyd M. Bentsen Chair, Sch. of Law) legal and constitutional; wforbath@law.utexas.edu
Gutterman, Lauren Jae (PHD, NYU, 2012; ; asst. prof.; American Studies) modern US, women/gender/sexuality, LGBT/queer studies; lgutterman@austin.utexas.edu
Jimenez, Monica Alexandra (PHD, Texas, Austin, 2015; ; asst. prof.; African & African Diaspora Studies) legal history of empire, law and race, 20th-century nationalist movements; majimenez@utexas.edu
Makalani, Minkah (PHD, Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2004; ; assoc. prof.; African & African Diaspora Studies) postcolonial Caribbean, black radicalism; makalani@austin.utexas.edu
Moin, A. Azfar (PHD, Michigan, 2010; ; assoc. prof.; Middle Eastern Studies) Sufism and sainthood in Islam, sacred kingship, early modern Iran/Central Asia/South Asia; amoin@utexas.edu
Ramos Scharrón, Carlos E. (PHD, Colorado State, ; ; prof.; Geography and Environment) hydro-geomorphology, terrestrial carbon and sediment budgets, watershed analyses and land use change; cramos@austin.utexas.edu
Smith, Mark C. (PHD, Texas, Austin, 1980; ; assoc. prof.; American Studies) US; mcsmith@mail.utexas.edu
Thompson, Shirley E. (PHD, Harvard, 2001; ; assoc. prof.; American Studies, African & African Diaspora Studies) African American and African diaspora studies, 19th-century US cultural, slavery and post-emancipation cultures; s.thompson@austin.utexas.edu
Woods, Marjorie Curry (PHD, Toronto, ; ; prof.; English) medieval literature, medieval and Renaissance rhetoric and pedagogy, composition exercises in premodern classroom; marjoriewoods@austin.utexas.edu
Blanton, Carlos Kevin (PHD, Rice, 1999; ; prof.) Latino/a, US and Texas; carlos.blanton@austin.utexas.edu
Brands, H. W. (PHD, Texas, Austin, 1985; ; prof.) US, international relations; hwbrands@austin.utexas.edu
Brower, Benjamin Claude (PHD, Cornell, 2005; ; assoc. prof.) modern France and Mediterranean, colonial Algeria, European imperialism; benbrower@utexas.edu
Bsumek, Erika (PHD, Rutgers, 2000; ; prof.) 20th-century US, US West, Native American; embsumek@austin.utexas.edu
Buenger, Walter L., Jr. (PHD, Rice, 1979; ; prof.) Texas, Southwest; w-buenger@austin.utexas.edu
Butler, Matthew (PHD, Bristol, UK, 2000; ; prof.) postrevolutionary Mexico, local religion, Cristero Rebellion; mbutler@austin.utexas.edu
Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge (PHD, Wisconsin-Madison, 1995; ; prof.) Latin America; canizares-esguerra@austin.utexas.edu
Clulow, Adam (PHD, Columbia, 2008; ; prof.) early modern Asia; adam.clulow@austin.utexas.edu
Coffin, Judith G. (PHD, Yale, 1985; ; prof.) modern France; jcoffin@austin.utexas.edu
Del Castillo, Lina M. (PHD, Miami, 2007; ; assoc. prof.) Latin America, 19th-century Colombia, US-Latin American relations; delcastillo@austin.utexas.edu
Di-Capua, Yoav (PHD, Princeton, 2004; ; prof.) Middle East; ydi@austin.utexas.edu
Falola, Toyin O. (PHD, Ife, Nigeria, 1981; ; Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair and Univ. Dist. Teaching Prof.) West Africa; toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu
Farmer, Ashley D. (PHD, Harvard, 2013; ; assoc. prof.; African & African Diaspora Studies) African American, African American women, black political thought; adf@austin.utexas.edu
Frens-String, Joshua (PHD, NYU, 2015; ; asst. prof.) Latin American and Latino, global food; jfstring@austin.utexas.edu
Garfield, Seth W. (PHD, Yale, 1996; ; prof. and grad. adviser) Latin American studies, Brazil; sgarfield@austin.utexas.edu
Green, Laurie B. (PHD, Chicago, 1999; ; assoc. prof.) US, 20th century, gender; lbgreen@austin.utexas.edu
Guha, Sumit (PHD, Cambridge, 1981; ; Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Prof.) South Asia; sguha@austin.utexas.edu
Hardwick, Julie (PHD, Johns Hopkins, 1991; ; prof. and dir., undergrad. studies; dir., Inst. for Hist. Studies) early modern Europe, social and cultural; jhardwick@austin.utexas.edu
Hunt, Bruce J. (PHD, Johns Hopkins, 1984; ; assoc. prof. and dir., undergrad. studies) science; bjhunt@austin.utexas.edu
Imy, Kate Alison (PHD, Rutgers, 2016; ; assoc. prof. and Kerr Chair Fellow) British Empire race/gender/religion/war; kate.imy@austin.utexas.edu
Joseph, Peniel E. (PHD, Temple, 2000; ; prof.; Lyndon B. Johnson Sch. of Public Affairs) civil rights/Black Power movements, race and public policy, African American; Peniel.Joseph@austin.utexas.edu
Kamil, Neil (PHD, Johns Hopkins, 1989; ; assoc. prof.) colonial America; kamil@austin.utexas.edu
Lawrence, Mark Atwood (PHD, Yale, 1999; ; prof. and chair) US; malawrence@austin.utexas.edu
LeFlouria, Talitha (PHD, Howard, 2009; ; assoc, prof.; fellow of the Mastin Gentry White Professorship in Southern History) African American women; Talitha.LeFlouria@austin.utexas.edu
Li, Huaiyin (PHD, UCLA, 2000; ; prof.) East Asia, empire and globalization; hli@utexas.edu
Lichtenstein, Tatjana (PHD, Toronto, 2009; ; assoc. prof.) 20th-century Jewish history and politics, Israel, Holocaust; lichtens@austin.utexas.edu
Martinez, Alberto (PHD, Minnesota, 2000; ; prof.) modern Europe, science/technology/medicine; almartinez@austin.utexas.edu
Martinez, Monica Muñoz (PHD, Yale, 2012; ; assoc. prof.) Mexican American, borderlands, violence; monica.martinez1@austin.utexas.edu
Matysik, Tracie (PHD, Cornell, 2001; ; assoc. prof.) modern European intellectual and cultural; matysik@austin.utexas.edu
McMahon, Madeline (PHD, Princeton, 2021; ; asst. prof.) early modern Europe, science and knowledge production, book, material culture; m.mcmahon@utexas.edu
Mintz, Steven H. (PHD, Yale, 1979; ; prof.; exec. dir., Inst. for Transformative Learning, UT System) America; smintz@utsystem.edu
Moore, Leonard (PHD, Ohio State, 1998; ; prof.) US, race, ethnicity and nation; leonardmoore@austin.utexas.edu
Munoz Arbelaez, Santiago (PHD, Yale, 2018; ; asst. prof.) Latin America, Atlantic, early modern, Indigenous studies, maps and textual artifacts; santiago.munoz@austin.utexas.edu
Neuburger, Mary C. (PHD, Washington, 1997; ; prof.) modern eastern Europe; burgerm@austin.utexas.edu
Newman, Martha G. (PHD, Stanford, 1988; ; assoc. prof.) medieval; newman@austin.utexas.edu
O'Connell, Aaron B. (PHD, Yale, 2009; ; assoc. prof.) 20th-century military, US foreign affairs; aaron.oconnell@austin.utexas.edu
Olwell, Robert A. (PHD, Johns Hopkins, 1991; ; assoc. prof.) colonial America; rolwell@austin.utexas.edu
Osseo-Asare, Abena Dove (PHD, Harvard, 2005; ; assoc. prof.) history and sociology of science/technology/medicine/global health, Ghana/Madagascar/South Africa, nuclear energy/medical isotopes/biotechnology/plants and society; osseo@utexas.edu
Ozanne, Rachel (PHD, Texas, Austin, 2013; ; lect.) ; rachel.ozanne@austin.utexas.edu
Raby, Megan M. (PHD, Wisconsin-Madison, 2012; ; assoc. prof.) science, environmental studies; meganraby@austin.utexas.edu
Ravina, Mark (PHD, Stanford, 1991; ; prof.) Japan; mark.ravina@austin.utexas.edu
Soriano, Cristina (PHD, NYU, 2011; ; assoc. prof.) 18th-/19th-century revolution and rebellions; cristina.soriano@austin.utexas.edu
Spellberg, Denise A. (PHD, Columbia, 1989; ; prof.) Islamic civilization; spellberg@austin.utexas.edu
Stoff, Michael B. (PHD, Yale, 1977; ; assoc. prof.) 20th-century US; planiidirector@austin.utexas.edu
Suri, Jeremi (PHD, Yale, 2001; ; Mack Brown Dist. Chair; Lyndon B. Johnson Sch. of Public Affairs) modern world, US, policy-making/governance/social movements/cultural (mis)understandings; suri@austin.utexas.edu
Talbot, Cynthia (PHD, Wisconsin-Madison, 1988; ; prof. emeritus) premodern Indian; ctalbot@austin.utexas.edu
Tully, Alan (PHD, Johns Hopkins, 1973; ; prof.) colonial America; tully@austin.utexas.edu
Twinam, Ann (PHD, Yale, 1976; ; prof.) colonial Latin America; anntwinam@austin.utexas.edu
Walker, Juliet E. K. (PHD, Chicago, 1976; ; prof.) African American business; jekwalker@austin.utexas.edu
Wynn, Charters Stephen (PHD, Stanford, 1987; ; assoc. prof.) Soviet Russia; wynn@utexas.edu
Zamora, Emilio , Jr. (PHD, Texas, Austin, 1983; ; prof.) Mexican American, American working class; e.zamora@austin.utexas.edu
Abzug, Robert H. (PHD, California, Berkeley, 1977; ; prof. emeritus) US social; zug@austin.utexas.edu
Bodian, Miriam E. (PHD, Hebrew, 1988; ; prof. emerita) early modern and medieval Europe, diaspora and migration, race/ethnicity/nation; bodian@austin.utexas.edu
Brown, Jonathan Charles (PHD, Texas, Austin, 1976; ; prof. emeritus) Latin America; j.brown@austin.utexas.edu
Crew, David F. (PHD, Cornell, 1975; ; prof. emeritus) modern Germany; dfcrew@uts.cc.utexas.edu
Deans-Smith, Susan (PHD, Cambridge, 1984; ; assoc. prof. emerita) colonial Latin America; sdsmith@austin.utexas.edu
Forgie, George B. (PHD, Stanford, 1972; ; assoc. prof. emeritus) US, Jacksonian America; forgie@austin.utexas.edu
Frazier, Alison K. (PHD, Columbia, 1998; ; assoc. prof. emeritus) Europe 1300-1500; akfrazier@austin.utexas.edu
Garrard, Virginia (PHD, Tulane, 1986; ; prof. emerita) Latin America, race, ethnicity and nation; garrard@austin.utexas.edu
Gould, Lewis L. (PHD, Yale, 1966; ; prof. emeritus) American political 1880-1920; lgould@austin.rr.com
Graham, Richard (PHD, Texas, Austin, 1961; ; prof. emeritus) Brazil; rgraham@mail.utexas.edu
Hall, Michael G. (PHD, Johns Hopkins, 1956; ; prof. emeritus) colonial America; mghall@mail.utexas.edu
Jones, Jacqueline (PHD, Wisconsin-Madison, 1976; ; prof. emerita) race/ethnicity/nation, diaspora and migration, gender/sexuality/family; jjones@mail.utexas.edu
Lamphear, John (PHD, London, 1972; ; prof. emeritus) sub-Saharan Africa; lamphear@mail.utexas.edu
Lasby, Clarence G. (PHD, UCLA, 1962; ; prof. emeritus) US since 1929; clasby@austin.rr.com
Levack, Brian P. (PHD, Yale, 1970; ; prof. emeritus) 16th- and 17th-century Britain; levack@austin.utexas.edu
Levine, Philippa J. A. (DPHIL, St. Antony's Coll., Oxford, 1984; ; prof. emerita) British studies, Victorian feminism, race and gender; philippa@austin.utexas.edu
Louis, Wm. Roger (LITTD, Oxford, 1979; DPHIL, Oxford, 1962; prof. emeritus) Britain and British Empire, Middle East/India/Africa; britishstudies@austin.utexas.edu
Marcus, Abraham (PHD, Columbia, 1979; ; prof. emeritus) modern Arabia; amarcus@uts.cc.utexas.edu
Martinich, Aloysius (PHD, California, San Diego, 1973; ; prof. emeritus; Philosophy) ; martinich@mail.utexas.edu
Miller, Guy Howard (PHD, Michigan, 1970; ; assoc. prof. emeritus) US, religious thought; hmiller@mail.utexas.edu
Minault, Gail (PHD, Pennsylvania, 1972; ; prof. emeritus) India; gminault@austin.utexas.edu
Monas, Sidney (PHD, Harvard, 1955; ; prof. emeritus) Europe; smonas@mail.utexas.edu
Morgan, M. Gwyn (PHD, Exeter, UK, 1962; ; prof. emeritus) medieval Europe; mgm@mail.utexas.edu
Neuberger, Joan (PHD, Stanford, 1985; ; prof. emerita) Russia; neuberger@austin.utexas.edu
Oshinsky, David M. (PHD, Brandeis, 1971; ; prof. emeritus) 20th-century US; oshinsky@mail.utexas.edu
Pells, Richard H. (PHD, Harvard, 1969; ; prof. emeritus) US, 20th-century intellectual and social; rpells@aol.com
Rhoads, Edward J. M. (PHD, Harvard, 1970; ; prof. emeritus) modern China; erhoads@mail.utexas.edu
Seaholm, Megan (PHD, Rice, 1988; ; sr. lect. emeritus) late 19th- and 20th-century US social and cultural, US women; seaholm@austin.utexas.edu
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