The University of Cincinnati has an excellent mid-size department of history and a lively intellectual community. All students entering the Doctoral program must have earned an MA.
Our Doctoral program is intentionally small and is designed to provide an excellent education to students we can serve best through closely supervised coursework and mentoring. Our program emphasizes professional training in both teaching and researching history.
Our curriculum encourages broad interaction with History faculty, and students take valuable courses in other fields, including foreign languages. The flexibility of our program matches the varied interests of our students. Graduates move along a variety of career paths, but most seek tenure-track academic positions.
Doctoral students prepare themselves in three fields of study, a major and two minors. One of the minor fields may be outside the History Department. Students chose their fields in consultation with their advisors, the Director of Graduate Studies, and those faculty members who will serve on their exam committee.
The major field of concentration may be United States, European, World History, or Public History.
The two minor fields should be broadly conceived areas of study based on chronological, topical, geographical, or methodological emphasis. One minor field must be outside the major field; one minor field may be a subset of the major field. Examples of minors are: Modern Europe, Latin America, Comparative Women's History, Public History, and Comparative Urban History.