The History Department offers both Masters and Doctoral degree programs in a range of geographical and thematic areas of research. Small enough to offer individualized attention and large enough to be known internationally their programs are characterized by a vibrant intellectual environment. Graduate students participate in the weekly "grad/fac" seminar series and organise an annual graduate history conference.
Areas of Expertise
- Social History
- Legal History
- Gender History
- History of Popular and High Culture
- The New Political History
- Intellectual History
Our master's program is a thesis-based degree. Students take two four-month courses a seminar on historical method and then embark on thesis research and writing. Master's students typically take 12 to 16 months to complete the program and produce a thesis of roughly 120 to 140 pages in length.
Master's graduates have gone on to doctoral studies at prestigious universities across North America and in Europe in addition to entering a range of professional programs and employments.