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Prospective Graduate Students
The Department of History at Auburn University offers courses of study leading to M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in five major areas:American History to 1865; American History since 1865; Europe 1500 to 1789; Europe since 1789; and the History of Technology. There is also a master's degree program in Archival Studies.
Auburn offers a friendly, informal, yet stimulating environment for graduate studies, where faculty go out of their way to encourage and assist students in their work. Students may structure their programs in a variety of ways, drawing on the strength of the Auburn history faculty and developing specific topics within the department's wide range of graduate course offerings.
The Auburn history faculty has gained national recognition for its commitment to research and publication in such fields as French studies, the history of technology, Southern history, religious studies, the Civil War, the Gulf Coast in the colonial era, aerospace history, British history, Southeastern Indian history and recent American history. Faculty members have published major scholarly works on such varied subjects as American settlement houses in the nineteenth century, the Bolshevik Revolution, the Scottish Jacobite movement, Birmingham's Sloss iron furnaces, and poor whites in the South.
The department also offers an archival program as a component of the master's program and as a breadth field at the Ph.D. level. Students in the program have completed internships at the Auburn University Archives, the Alabama Department of Archives and History, Colonial Williamsburg, the Library of Congress, and the Anasazi Heritage Center in New Mexico.
The history department sponsors the Alabama Review, a quarterly journal published by the Alabama Historical Association, and the Encyclopedia of Alabama online reference work, and two to three graduate students have the opportunity to work on the staffs of these two publications each year.
Currently enrolled Auburn graduate students are engaged in coursework and research in a wide range of historical areas, and recent M.A. and Ph.D. graduates have written on an equally diverse range of historical subjects.
Those interested in learning more about Auburn's graduate program in history are encouraged to review this webpage's left-hand navigation links carefully.
For more information about the Graduate program contact:
Graduate Program Officer
David Carter, Associate Professor and History Department Graduate Program Officer
Department of History
Thach 308-B
Auburn University
Auburn, AL 36849
(334) 844-6859
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