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:
Dr. Patience Essah
Thach Hall 306C
Tel: (334) 844-6651
essahpa@auburn.edu
Last updated Nov. 5, 2007.