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University of North Texas

University of North Texas Dept. of History
1155 Union Cir. #310650
Denton, TX 76203-5017
Phone: 940.565.2288
Fax: 940.369.8838
Email: history@unt.edu
Website: http://history.unt.edu/

History encompasses all aspects of past human endeavor; it encourages students to think broadly and to attempt to integrate all of their knowledge into a meaningful whole.

Doctoral Program Information

A. Program Description. The University of North Texas offers the PhD in History with concentrations in United States, European, Military history, and Body, Place & Identity. The graduate program has particular strengths in Texas history, Military History, and food studies, but also has faculty interested in directing doctoral research in topics including US women's history and gender history, African American history, Modern US, Modern Europe, Environmental History and other areas.

B. Special Programs. The University of North Texas is home to an oral history program with holdings of more than 1,700 bound volumes of oral history interviews representing approximately 150,000 pages of transcripts. These include interviews on local African-American history, entrepreneurial history, the Holocaust, the New Deal, Texas politics, World War II, and others. The UNT Library has a large collection of newspapers, personal papers and other materials for US and modern European history and houses the Portal to Texas History database. The History Department also has a nationally ranked Military History Center. An annual Military History Symposium brings to campus important figures in the military history of the United States and Europe, and the History Department currently hosts six other annual events that feature invited speakers.

C. Financial Aid. New doctoral students are eligible to apply for positions as teaching assistants and teaching fellows, for departmental and university scholarships, and for employment within the department. Please contact the department office for further information and application forms.

D. Degree Requirements. PhD candidates must complete a minimum of 30 classroom hours of graduate courses plus 12 research and dissertation hours. Doctoral candidates major in one of four concentrations (US History, Military History, European History, and Body, Place, Identity, take written and oral examinations in four areas of history including at least two within their major concentration and at least one outside their major concentration.

Directory of History Dissertations

Doctoral Program Statistics 2024-25:
PhD students currently enrolled: 46
PhD applications received: 39
New PhD students: 6
% of students receiving tuition waivers: 58
% of students receiving stipends: 58

Beebe, Kathryne Elizabeth (DPHIL, Oxford, 2007assoc. prof.) medieval Europe, digital humanities, culture/religion/everyday life kathryne.beebe@unt.edu

Burnham, Jakob (PHD, Georgetown, 2024clinical asst. prof.) early modern France and empire, Indian Ocean world, gender, medical humanities Jakob.Burnham@unt.edu

Chet, Guy (PHD, Yale, 2001prof.) colonial America, American Revolution, 17th- to 19th-century Atlantic world and military guychet@unt.edu

Datta, Arunima (PHD, National, Singapore, 2015assoc. prof.) British Empire, women, labor migration, South Asia Arunima.Datta@unt.edu

Dumaine, Danielle (PHD, Connecticut, 2020clinical asst. prof.) women, gender, sexuality, race, capitalism danielle.dumaine@unt.edu

Fullerton, Samuel Curtis (PHD, California, Riverside, 2019asst. prof.) early modern Europe, Britain, gender and sexuality

Goldmann, Kerry Lauren (PHD, Texas, Dallas, 2020lect. and grad. advisor) late 19th-/20th-century US, New South, Jewish American, African American, gender and sexuality, culture and everyday life kerry.goldmann@unt.edu

Grajales, Manuel (PHD, Texas A&M, 2022lect. and undergrad advisor) 20th-century Latinx, 20th-century US, social movements Manuel.Grajales@unt.edu

Locke, Joseph (PHD, Rice, 2012asst. prof. and dir., grad. studies) Texas, late 19th- and early 20th-century US, religion, borderlands joseph.locke@unt.edu

Lopez, Joshua (PHD, North Texas, 2024lect.) 20th-century US, Latinx, 20th-century food, LGBTQ

Majstorovic, Vojin (PHD, Toronto, 2017asst. prof.) modern Europe, World War II vojin.majstorovic@unt.edu

Mendiola Garcia, Sandra Celia (PHD, Rutgers, 2008assoc. prof.) modern Mexico; Latin America sandra.mendiolagarcia@unt.edu

Mendoza, Alex (PHD, Texas Tech, 2002assoc. prof.) 19th-/20th-century US, Texas and Mexican American, US military/Civil War and Reconstruction amendoza@unt.edu

Mierzejewski, Alfred C. (PHD, North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1985prof.) modern Germany, 20th-century business and economic/welfare state, 19th-/20th-century European military alfred.mierzejewski@unt.edu

Mitchener, D. Keith (PHD, North Texas, 2006lect.) US since 1865, naval donald.mitchener@unt.edu

Moye, J. Todd (PHD, Texas, Austin, 1999Robnett Prof.; dir., Oral History Prog.) late 19th- and 20th-century US social, New South, political and cultural moye@unt.edu

Ortiz, Zoe (PHD, Michigan, 2023asst. prof.) ancient Mediterranean world, Roman Empire, archeology, museum studies Zoe.Ortiz@unt.edu

Pearson, Chad (PHD, SUNY, Albany, 2008asst. prof.) late 19th- and 20th-century US, labor, business, social and political Chad.Pearson@unt.edu

Phelps, Wesley G. (PHD, Rice, 2010prof. and dir., undergrad. studies) 20th-century US, LGBTQ, legal wesley.phelps@unt.edu

Reinhard, Diana T. (PHD, Temple, 2008lect.) late 19th- and 20th-century US, women and gender, sexuality Diana.Reinhard@unt.edu

Rex Galindo, David (PHD, Southern Methodist, 2010asst. prof.) colonial Latin America, colonial Mexico, Spanish empire, religion, borderlands, Indigenous labor david.rexgalindo@unt.edu

Roberts, Walter E. (PHD, Emory, 2003principal lect. and undergrad advisor) late Roman Empire, Byzantine, pre-1500 Mediterranean world walter.roberts@unt.edu

Stockdale, Nancy L. (PHD, California, Santa Barbara, 2000assoc. prof. and assoc. dean for academic affairs) Middle East and Islam, borderlands/migration/diaspora, empire/indigeneity/(de)colonization stockdale@unt.edu

Swain, Greta Katherine (PHD, George Mason, 2023asst. prof.) public, digital, early America greta.swain@unt.edu

Tanner, Harold M. (PHD, Columbia, 1994prof.) 20th-century Chinese political/diplomatic/intellectual/military, US-Chinese relations, revolution and insurgency/military theory and strategic thought htanner@unt.edu

Todd, Christopher P. (PHD, Chicago, 2019asst. prof.) slavery, 16th- to 19th-century Atlantic world, early capitalism christopher.todd@unt.edu

Torget, Andrew J. (PHD, Virginia, 2009prof.) Old South and Texas/US-Mexican borderlands, digital scholarship, migration and diaspora torget@unt.edu

Treviño, ToniAnn Danielle (PHD, Michigan, 2022asst. prof.) 20th-century US, Mexican American, Texas, war on drugs Toniann.Trevino@unt.edu

Wallach, Jennifer Jensen (PHD, Massachusetts Amherst, 2004prof. and divisional dean of the humanities) late 19th-/20th-century US/New South/African American, culture and everyday life, food and the body jennifer.wallach@unt.edu

Wawro, Geoffrey D. W. (PHD, Yale, 1992prof.; dir., Military Hist. Center) 19th- to 21st-century Europe, modern military/World War I/World War II/Cold War, culture of war wawro@unt.edu

Welch, Courtney (PHD, North Texas, 2010principal lect. and assoc. dir., grad. studies) US Courtney.Welch@unt.edu

Wise, Michael David (PHD, Minnesota, 2012prof. and chair) late 19th-/20th-century US/American West, environment/food and the body, memory and representation michael.wise@unt.edu

Hilliard, Constance Bernette (PHD, Harvard, 1977prof. emeritus) ancient Egypt and Nubia/Muslim Africa, violence, black women in America connie@unt.edu

Velikanova, Olga (PHD, St. Petersburg State, 1992retired prof.) Russia and 19th-/20th-century Europe, culture and everyday life, memory and representation velikanova@unt.edu

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