AHA Directory of History Departments and Organizations
Institution Details
1212 HMNSS Bldg.
900 University Ave.
Riverside, CA 92521-0204
Phone: 951.827.5401
Fax: 951.827.5299
Email: history@ucr.edu
Website: https://history.ucr.edu/
The UC Riverside History department is a dynamic department that is deeply committed to undergraduate and graduate training. We seek to produce highly qualified professional historians with exceptionally strong research and teaching skills, a breadth of historical knowledge, and an understanding of the variety of methods and approaches that historians employ.
Director of Graduate Studies: Jonathan Eacott
Director of Undergraduate Studies: Rebecca Kugel
Degrees Offered: BA,MA,PHD
Academic Year System: QTR
Areas of Specialization: early America, 19th-century US, 20th-century US, American West, Native American, ancient Mediterranean, early modern Europe, modern Europe, early modern England, modern England, modern Russia, colonial Latin America
In-state: $17996
Out-of-state: $52196
In-state: $20301
Out-of-state: $35403
Admissions: https://admissions.ucr.edu/
Financial Aid: https://finaid.ucr.edu/
Admissions: https://graduate.ucr.edu/admissions
Financial Aid: https://graduate.ucr.edu/admissions
Areas of Specialization: early America, 19th-century US, 20th-century US, American West, Native American, ancient Mediterranean, early modern Europe, modern Europe, early modern England, modern England, modern Russia, colonial Latin America
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Doctoral Program Information
A. Program Description. We are a dynamic department that is deeply committed to graduate training. We seek to produce highly qualified professional historians with exceptionally strong research and teaching skills, a breadth of historical knowledge, and an understanding of the variety of methods and approaches that historians employ. No single approach to history prevails among the faculty. Research activity and interests cluster in ways that cross traditional fields defined by places and periods. Notable concentrations of faculty strengths include material culture, public history, Native American history, cultural contact and confrontation, women and gender, and family history.
B. Special Programs. We feature PhD fields in World History and Native American history (and are one of the only universities nation-wide to offer the PhD in Native American history), in addition to broad strength in Europe, the United States, and Latin American History. In addition, our program in Public History at the MA and PhD levels is one of only two in the University of California system. Public History students receive training in Museum Studies, Archival Management, and Historic Resources Management under the supervision of full-time faculty and carefully chosen professionals.
C. Financial Aid. The UCR History Department works with the UCR Graduate Dean's office to offer outstanding applicants guaranteed multi-year financial aid packages (up to five years) that combine fellowship with teaching assistant support. Many students also receive teaching assistant support, short-term and quarter-long research fellowships, and dissertation fellowships on a competitive basis as they proceed in their course of studies.
D. Degree Requirements. The PhD requirements include reading courses, two-quarter research seminars and courses in theory and methods. Students take written take-home examinations in a research field and a complementary field, and satisfy a teaching field with coursework. After completing field examinations and a field-specific language requirement, students must pass an oral PhD examination that includes consideration of their draft prospectus, and submit a dissertation.
Directory of History Dissertations
Doctoral Program Statistics 2024-25:
PhD students currently enrolled: 47
PhD applications received: 57
New PhD students: 11
% of students receiving tuition waivers: 100
% of students receiving stipends: 100
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