Ph.D. in History

The Department of History has thesis-based M.A. and Ph.D. programs. We specialize in eight signature research areas, but can accommodate a wide range of topics.Signature research areas:Indigenous historyEnvironmental historyPrairies and the North American WestHealth, medicine, science, and occultismHistory and politics of memoryGender and sexualityColonial and post-colonial historiesTwentieth-century politics, culture, and foreign relationsGraduate students in our department have access to opportunities found nowhere else in the world. We boast an Ethnohistory Field School, Collaboratorium, Digital History and HGIS Lab, and embedded support structures for community engaged research.