A. Program Description. The Department of History offers programs at both the master's and doctoral levels in African, American, Asian and European history, as well as in the history of the Atlantic world. Among the department's thematic and methodological strengths are political, cultural, intellectual, environmental, transnational, and diplomatic history.

B. Special Programs. Boston and its environs offer an engaging setting for graduate work. On campus, the department has a special relationship with the American and New England Studies Program, which provides a range of supplementary courses, workshops, and other venues for scholarly exchange. For Africanists, the highly regarded African Studies Center facilitates interdisciplinary approaches, encompassing anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology, as well as history. Ongoing lectures, conferences, and other events on campus, such as those organized by the American Political History Institute provides graduate students with opportunities to engage with visiting scholars and learn about new work in the field. A consortium arrangement with Boston College, Brandeis University, and Tufts University enables students to take courses at these other schools and share library resources. Students will find a rich array of other resources off campus as well, among them notable research collections, libraries, archives, and programs sponsored by other universities.

C. Financial Aid. Students admitted to the PhD program enter with a five-year fellowship package that includes tuition, health insurance, university-related fees, a stipend for living expenses, and summer support. The fellowship is service-free the first year; thereafter, students are expected to serve as Teaching Fellows. Students in their fifth-year with an approved dissertation prospectus will qualify for a year of service-free funding.

D. Degree Requirements. The components of the PhD program are course work, language examinations, two major research papers, the qualifying oral examination, the prospectus, the dissertation, and the final oral examination (the dissertation defense).