A. Program Description. The graduate studies program at Carnegie Mellon University is based around two particular areas of faculty strength:

• History of Science, Technology and the Environment

• Social and Political Movements

We are particularly interested in applicants who have research and teaching interests in one of these areas. Though these are not separate programs or formal tracks within the department, these areas do pay homage to the department's longstanding areas of innovation, including as a founding institution of social history and applied history. Despite our small size, the department has at least one faculty member specializing in each of the areas of history of science, technology, health, and the environment which enables students to draw on Carnegie Mellon's research strengths in these areas.

The curriculum itself is designed to foster a broad base of historical expertise, offering thematic courses as well as intensive seminars on research and historical methods. Because the program is small, we also build in at least one elective each semester to ensure students have a chance to take courses more tailored to their specific interests. In addition to strong national/regional training, our program aims to provide students with broad exposure to transnational and comparative issues.

B. Special Programs. Students have access to the Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh libraries. We maintain an exchange program with the University of Pittsburgh, which enables students to take courses at both universities. CMU hosts CAUSE, the Center for African American Urban Studies and the Economy, which sponsors speakers, post-doctoral fellowships and a wide range of other activities. CAUSE links race, work, and economic change over time with contemporary analyses of the urban labor force, employment policies, and community development. Advanced graduate students have the opportunity to work as a guest instructor during the summer term at the CMU Qatar campus. Qatar provides an ideal setting in which to finish writing the dissertation, and gain international experience. We relatively recently created a new internship program that allows students to receive full funding while completing a semester-long internship. Students identify potential internship hosts in collaboration with the Director of Graduate Studies. Internships may be located in Pittsburgh or elsewhere, and can be completed at museums, national parks, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, corporations, or anywhere historical research is required. We have an ongoing relationship with the Smithsonian-affiliated Senator John Heinz History Center. Our students can work with a professional staff member from the archives, museum, or administrative divisions of the center with full stipend and a release from teaching duties. In addition, History faculty member Michal Friedman, the Jack Buncher Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies, provides graduate students opportunities for research through her work with Centropa, an archive of photos and oral histories that document Jewish life in Europe throughout the 20th century. The department provides money for summer research, between one and two semesters of research time free of teaching responsibilities, opportunities for internships, and a variety of other support to attend conferences, make short research trips, and undertake other dissertation-related activities.

C. Financial Aid. The Department of History has resources to support graduate students through full tuition waivers, fellowships, teaching assistantships, and research assistantships. All PhD students making satisfactory progress are supported for six years.

The History Department offers financial aid packages for all incoming graduate students, including full tuition remission plus a yearly stipend. All financial awards are conditional on satisfactory progress in the program. First- and second-year students are evaluated each semester, and continuing students are monitored regularly as to their satisfactory progress. Students whose dissertation research continues beyond the fourth year remain eligible for financial support through six years of study.

D. Degree Requirements.

1. Two years of coursework, with a total of 12.5 courses, including: Research Seminar (two semesters); four thematic courses; and a course in instruction.

2. Completion of Doctoral Qualifying Exams at the end of their fifth semester, and approval of a prospectus of their planned dissertation research no later than the sixth semester.

3. Completion of doctoral dissertation.