• Book History/Print Culture
• Gender and Sexuality
• Holocaust and Genocide Studies
• Irish and Irish-American Studies
• Intellectual and Cultural History
  • American
  • British
  • European
  • French
• Literary and Artistic Modernism
• Memory Studies

• HC 800: Foundations Seminar
  • This seminar introduces students to the history, methods and philosophy of the historical discipline
• Two extra-disciplinary courses
  • This interdisciplinary requirement compels History and Culture students to take courses from faculty trained outside of the historical discipline.
• HC 990: Research Tutorial
  • This tutorial allows students to work with a faculty advisor to research and write a publishable piece of scholarship.

In addition to those above, all PhD students must take HC 806: Writing as a Public Intellectual.
This writing workshop introduces advanced PhD students to the practice of writing for the larger public, that is, for intellectually and culturally engaged readers of non-academic print and online media. The goal of the workshop is for each student to learn how to modulate the discursive practices of academic writing into the substantial but accessible writing of a genuinely public intellectual.

PhD students specializing in Continental Europe must pass an examination in one foreign language. Normally the language will be French, German or Spanish. Another language may be substituted if it is deemed useful to the student’s research. Foreign language examinations are not required for MA students or for PhD students specializing in the United States, Britain or Ireland.

Each PhD student must, in the third academic year, demonstrate his/her preparation as a teacher and scholar by satisfactorily completing a portfolio which will consist of the following:

• Three capstone essays
• A public lecture
• Two book reviews
• Two course syllabi
• An essay on an academic topic addressed to a nonacademic audience
• A dissertation prospectus

In each of the capstone essays, the student will master, summarize and criticize a body of historical literature. The essays should address the following three fields:

Field 1: Intellectual and cultural history.

Field 2: A specialized field in history other than intellectual/cultural history. Examples include political history, diplomatic history, disability history, social history or any other subfield supported by the teaching and research expertise of the History and Culture faculty.

Field 3: An interdisciplinary field that explores the intersections between history and another discipline, such as literary studies, classics, anthropology, political science, sociology, art history or economics.