47 PhD programmes in Art History in North America

The Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Art History - Gender and Women's Studies offered by the Department of Art History & Communications in the Faculty of Arts at McGill University is a research-intensive program that emphasizes in-depth and rigorous learning opportunities. 

The department's faculty consists of historians of the major periods of Western, African and East Asian art and architecture, representing a broad spectrum of the discipline's methodologies and specialties. We offer a History of Art and Architecture degree at the Brown University. 

An intensive program at University of Georgia with tracks in Art Education and Art History. Students engage in intensive research and work closely with faculty mentors. They procure jobs at universities and museums and routinely secure tenure track and curatorial positions.

The Art History PhD program at the University of Toronto is designed to prepare students for college and university teaching, museum work, and other research positions.

The Doctor of Philosophy in History of Art and Architecture at Boston University prepares you to produce and defend an original contribution to knowledge and to teach the disciplines of history of art and architecture at both the undergraduate and graduate level.

The PhD in Art History at Concordia University Montréal is a bilingual inter-university program that enables students to develop advanced research skills and offers a dynamic environment for the exchange of ideas across intellectual communities. 

The Ph.D. in Art History program at Rice University trains students for academic research and teaching, curatorial positions, and other careers in the visual arts.