176 PhD programmes in History in North America

The History program at University of California, Davis offers advanced study in the fields of United States; medieval, early modern, and modern Europe; China and Japan; Middle East and/or South Asia; Latin America; and Africa. 

A distinctive feature of the History program at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) is its strong emphasis on transnational and world history.

The PhD in History at Concordia University Montréal allows you to gain expertise in a broad range of topics, including law and society, media and popular culture, and transnationalism and empire. 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)'s Doctoral Program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS) trains scholars to study science and technology as activities situated in social and cultural contexts. 

New York University's Department of History offers a Ph.D. in East Asian History in a field that builds on the strengths of its core faculty, and in close connection with faculties in related departments (East Asian Studies, Religious Studies, Art History, Anthropology, Sociology, and so on). 

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The History program at Northwestern University is distinguished by its relatively compact size, admitting about 15 students or fewer each year. This highly selective program allows close faculty-student interaction and permits exacting criticism of sources, research procedures, and writing skills.

At University of Florida, we offer minor concentrations in the thematic fields of Atlantic, Gender, Legal, Religious, and World History.

The Graduate Program in History at the University of Pennsylvania has a long tradition of distinction. Few history departments in the country can match ours in global coverage and scholarly depth for the study of the past over the last half millennium.

The Department of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago offers degrees at both the master’s and doctoral levels. 

The Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IHPST) at the University of Toronto offers a Doctor of Philosophy degree. IHPST conducts research, offers advanced studies programs, and serves as a focus for University-wide interest in its field.

The University of New Brunswick History department’s graduate programs examine diverse narratives about societies, institutions and cultures to help make sense of the complex world in which we live today.

At the Florida State University, we offer our graduate students a phd degree in American Religious History.

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For more than 80 years, our History graduate program at University of British Columbia has promoted this analysis from social, cultural, political, and intellectual perspectives in diverse contexts throughout the world.

This History program is offered at University of Memphis. The Ph.D. is the highest degree granted by the university; it is conferred only on those candidates whose work evidences both general proficiency and the ability to perform independent historical research. 

The Pennsylvania State University Department of History offers a small, focused, PhD program designed to prepare students for careers inside or outside academia.

By any measure one might choose, the History Department at the University of Missouri - Columbia is an outstanding one.

All applicants for advanced degree programs in History at University of Hawaii at Manoa are requested to supplement the application and transcripts required by Graduate Division with letters of recommendation (two for the M.A., three for the Ph.D.), preferably from professors with whom the applicant has worked; and a sample of written work such as a term paper, seminar paper, or M.A. thesis. 

At Cornell University, we offer our graduate students a phd programm degree in History. To encourage flexibility, general requirements are kept to a minimum.