PhD in History

The doctorate in history at Stony Brook is awarded by the History Department within the College of Arts and Sciences. It follows a thematic design that supports scholarship and teaching spanning countries, comparisons and several academic fields. Doctoral candidates collaborate closely with the faculty. They build subject knowledge and teaching experience around both themes and regions of the world while completing large-scale original research of their own. They are trained to use ideas such as social social class, gender, ethnicity, culture, authority and the environment when analyzing earlier societies. Prospective students can reach the department's director of graduate studies and its graduate coordinator for further information. The program is housed in a department with award-winning faculty and emphasizes active engagement and discussion.