13 PhD programmes offered by the university

The graduate program in Classics at Johns Hopkins University has combined intensive study of Greek and Latin language and literature with the latest approaches to research on the classical world. 

The Italian PhD program at Johns Hopkins University emphasizes work in three complementary areas: literary history, close textual analysis, and theory of interpretation, with a focus on the study of evolving cultures of literacy—from manuscripts and the material history of the book to performance, film, and emerging digital cultures.

The Department of English at Johns Hopkins University offers a program leading to the PhD degree in English and American literature. The department is small in numbers and its graduate students are carefully selected on the basis of their professional distinction as teachers, critics, and scholars.

The graduate program in the History of Science and Technology at Johns Hopkins University is run jointly by the Department of the History of Science and Technology in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and the Department of the History of Medicine in the School of Medicine.

The Department of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University preparing graduate students to make original contributions to the field and to pursue careers in college and university teaching.

The German graduate curriculum at Johns Hopkins University is unique in its dual emphasis on critical theory and cultural phenomena from the seventeenth to twenty-first centuries. 

At the Johns Hopkins University, we offer our graduate students a phd degree in French. The department has a number of fellowships for graduate students.

The comparative and cross-disciplinary approach in the Comparative Thought and Literature program at Johns Hopkins University develops habits of inquiry, attention, and imagination as it explores questions emerging from diverse ecologies of expression.

The PhD program in Population, Family and Reproductive Health at Johns Hopkins University is designed for students whose career goals are focused on conducting publishable, independent and original research. 

The History of Medicine graduate program at Johns Hopkins University attracts a strong cohort of students from diverse backgrounds, including medicine, science, and history. Our PhD program prepares them for scholarly careers in teaching, research, and policy. 

The Department of History at Johns Hopkins University welcomes graduate students as members of a diverse and congenial community of scholars. The department takes seriously the idea that graduate students are junior colleagues with much to contribute. 

The PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanistic Studies (IHS) is a doctoral program at Johns Hopkins University, funded by a grant from the Mellon Foundation, that aims to facilitate the investigation of topics and problems that benefit from the insights of two disciplines. 

The graduate program in Spanish and Latin American literatures at Johns Hopkins University offers driven and highly independent students the opportunity for advanced graduate work specifically tailored to their own intellectual interests.