The graduate program in history is intended primarily for students
who pursue full-time work toward a Ph.D. Requirements for a Ph.D.
degree include 48 course credits in history or in a supporting
discipline and 24 research credits. Students must complete a minor
field. Most major fields require two semesters of research
seminars. Students must complete successfully examinations in their
major and minor fields. Normally, these exams are taken in the third
year. Doctoral candidates working in European, African, Latin American,
and South Asian history must demonstrate appropriate reading
knowledge of foreign languages, as required by each field. Candidates
are required to prepare an acceptable dissertation based on
original research and defend that dissertation successfully in a
final examination conducted by a faculty committee. Credits for M.A.
work in history done at other institutions likely will be transferred
with the permission of the Graduate School-New Brunswick. Students may
enroll for graduate courses at neighboring universities linked with
Rutgers through a consortial arrangement.
The M.A. is offered
within the framework of the doctoral program. Its requirements include
eight courses in history and successful completion of an examination in
the student's major field. A thesis is not required. Students whose
sole objective is the M.A. should consider applying to the M.A. program
in American history on the Rutgers-Camden Campus or to the M.A. program
in history on the Rutgers-Newark Campus. For further information about
these M.A. programs, write to: Department of History, Rutgers, The State
University of New Jersey, Camden, NJ 08102; or Department of History,
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ 07102,
respectively.
Students should apply to the program by
January 15. Students who plan to seek financial assistance should apply
for the September semester no later that January 15. Transcripts, Graduate
Record Examination scores, three letters of recommendation, and a
writing sample are required for application to the program.
The
Ph.D. program offers work in most fields of American, European, African, Latin American, and Asian history, but the department has
particular strengths in the following areas of history: early American,
20th-century United States, African American, modern Europe,
Britain, women's and gender, cultural and intellectual, global
and comparative, and technology and medicine. Major fields exist for
the history of technology, environment, and health; women's and gender
history; and the history of Atlantic cultures and the African
diaspora. Each is designed as an interdisciplinary curriculum. The
department also is home to the Center for Historical Analysis, Thomas
A. Edison Papers, the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers
History Center, the Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank project, and
the Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony papers. Faculty members are
affiliated with the centers and programs in African, Asian, European, Latin
American, Middle Eastern, and South Asian studies and with the
Department of Women's and Gender Studies and several of the women and
gender centers of the university.
A full description of the
program may be found in the brochure Graduate Study in History,
available from the department or online at http://history.rutgers.edu. This
brochure also offers information about fellowships (which in 2007-2008 pay $18,000,
plus tuition remission), teaching assistantships, and other forms of
financial aid.
