A. Program Description. The doctorate is offered with possible areas of focus in Medieval European, Early Modern and Modern European, United States, Latin American, and Asian History. Supporting work in other disciplines is recommended. All applicants must demonstrate potential for excellence, ability in writing historical prose, and preparation in a foreign language.

B. Special Programs. In addition to the Homer Babbidge Research Library, the Storrs campus is home to the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, including the Archives and Special Collections, and the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life. The History Department also has long-established relationships with the American Antiquarian Society, Mystic Seaport, and Plimoth Plantation. We are committed to the practices of both academic and public history, and to the training of excellent teachers of history at all levels of education; the State Historian is on the faculty of our department, and we offer courses in both public history and history pedagogy.

The department is home to the Emiliana Pasca Noether Chair in Modern Italian History and the James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in Early American History. The department also sponsors three lecture series (Visiting Scholars in Gender and History, the Foreign Policy Seminar, and the History Colloquium), two annual lectures (the Fusco Distinguished Lecture and the New England Seminar in American History), as well as more informal speaker series, bringing distinguished scholars to campus throughout the year.

C. Financial Aid. The University of Connecticut offers five years of financial support to all entering doctoral students (except those with outside funding). This financial support consists of a combination of Teaching Assistantships and Research Assistantships, as well as summer and predoctoral fellowships, and is contingent on adequate continued progress.

D. Degree Requirements. The Dissertation Prospectus is considered the fourth field of the doctoral exam. Once it is approved by both the student's committee and the department's Graduate Advisory Committee, the student advances to doctoral candidacy. A public dissertation defense is required prior to the conferral of the PhD.