Department of History

• Master of Arts in Comparative History / The program prepares students to conduct interdisciplinary and comparative research on topics in early modern, modern and contemporary history. 
• Master of Arts in Comparative History: From 1500 to Present Time / This program is designed for applicants with a three-year bachelor’s degree in history or a related discipline. It provides a wider range of courses than the one-year program and gives students more time to develop their research design. 
• Additional certificates / The department also offers interdisciplinary specializations in the fields of Archives and Evidentiary Practices, Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Jewish Studies, Religious Studies, Political Thought, etc.

• Select Areas of Research 
•  Early modern history 
•  History of communism 
•  History of fascism 
•  History of Habsburg, Ottoman and Romanov empires 
•  Religious studies 
•  Cultural history 
•  Nationalism studies 
•  Gender studies 
•  Intellectual history 
•  Labor history 
•  Urban studies 
•  Visual studies 
•  Soviet and post-Soviet studies 
•  History of international relations

Our master’s graduates have been accepted to PhD and postdoctoral programs at UC Berkeley, Cambridge, Oxford, University of Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, Yale and other leading universities. Professionally, our graduates pursue careers with governmental institutions and international NGOs, as academics at leading universities and research institutes, and as journalists, filmmakers and media consultants worldwide.