Graduate

The Department of History at the University of Maryland is an excellent place to pursue graduate degrees in a wide variety of fields.  With an outstanding and productive faculty and extraordinary resources on campus and in the Washington DC metropolitan area, the Department of History offers four degree programs—the PhD, the MA, the HiLS MA (a dual degree program in History and Library Science) and the HiHP MA (a dual degree program in History and Historic Preservation).  In addition, students can pursue certificates in historic preservation and museum scholarship and material culture. 

The Department offers the MA and PhD in a wide range of fields. We offer especially strong programs in American history, including African-American and American women’s history, and also in the history of the Middle East, Western and Central Europe, the Ancient Mediterranean, medieval and early modern Europe, Russia and the Soviet Union, Latin America, Jewish history and Technology, Science, and Environment.  We also offer exciting new programs in Atlantic world history, the African diaspora, and global interaction and exchange.  For more information on all fields of study, view our research fields page.

The 100 students in our three degree programs come from across the nation and abroad, from small liberal arts colleges and major research institutions. Our most recent graduates have found jobs or post doctoral fellowships at such colleges, universities, and institutions as George Washington University, Ohio University, Morgan State University, Iowa State University, University of Miami, Johns Hopkins University, Bucknell University, Eastern Michigan University, Claremont-McKenna College, the National Archives and Records Administration, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, American Battle Monuments Commission, and the CIA.  The members of our extended alumni community, numbering over three hundred MA and PhD recipients, work as professional historians throughout the State of Maryland, in a number of United States Government agencies, and at institutions of higher education and historical research across the United States and the globe.