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1.9k PhD programmes in Humanities
History
A PhD in History at Swansea University enables you to undertake a substantial project led by your own passions and interests.
Logic
The Logic programme offered by University of Gothenburg develops advanced research expertise in mathematical, philosophical, and computational logic.
Historical Studies
The University of Naples Federico II proudly offers an esteemed doctoral program in Historical Studies.
Church History and Church Polity
The outcome of a Church History and Church Polity programme at University of Pretoria is highly specialised, research-based knowledge and expertise.
Buddhist Studies
The focus of the Doctoral Program in Buddhist Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich is academic research on Buddhism in all its manifestations.
Bioethics
At the University of Nottingham, they have extensive international experience of research in applied Bioethics, biotechnology assessment and the sociology of science and technology.
Near and Middle Eastern Studies
The University of Washington Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Near and Middle Eastern Studies is designed for students who wish to pursue research with a comparative perspective.
Classics
The Department of Classics at the New York University offers graduate programs leading to the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees.
Romance Languages and Literatures
Each Romance Languages and Literatures graduate program at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill offers advanced interdisciplinary training by the department’s world-class faculty, whose research reflects the wide range of approaches that constitute the study of the humanities today.
Ancient World
Encompassing the ancient world from the western Mediterranean to East Asia, from the Neolithic to the early Medieval period, ISAW is focused on creating a new generation of scholars whose work crosses over the disciplinary boundaries of traditional departments. We offer a Ancient World degree at the New York University.
Assyriology
Assyriology at Uppsala University consists of two main parts: a philological and linguistic study of Akkadian (Assyrian-Babylonian) and Sumerian cuneiform texts from various periods and of a wide range of different types, and partly a study of the archaeology, political and cultural history, and the history of religion in the entire ancient Near East.
Computational Linguistics
Computational Linguistics, or Language Technology, is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the computational modeling of natural language. This PhD is offered by the Department of Linguistics and Philology at Uppsala University.
Ancient History
Ancient History is a discipline that draws on literary, documentary, visual, archaeological, and environmental evidence, and employs a range of methodologies in combining these evidentiary categories in order to answer specific questions about the structures, processes, and thought-worlds of ancient societies. This degree is offered at the University of Pennsylvania.
Religion
Emory University’s Graduate Division of Religion (GDR) is a unit of the Laney Graduate School and draws on the resources of the Department of Religion in Emory College and Candler School of Theology.
Slavic Languages and Literatures
The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures PhD graduate program at University of California, Berkeley is designed to train future scholars and teachers of Slavic languages and literatures.
Philosophy
The Ph.D. Philosophy program at University of Oklahoma requires a minimum of 90 hours of graduate work, of which a maximum of 39 hours may be dissertation research.
World and Comparative Literature
This World and Comparative Literature PhD programme from The University of Exeter seeks to cross the borders and bridge the distances between languages, literatures and cultures.
Philosophy - Applied Philosophy
The Philosophy - Applied Philosophy programme offered by University of Waterloo develops advanced expertise in ethical reasoning, critical analysis, and the application of philosophical inquiry to contemporary issues.
English
The graduate program of the English Department at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is one of the strongest, most diverse, and most intellectually exciting in the country.
English
The graduate program in English at Binghamton University has distinguished faculty and outstanding graduates in a variety of fields.