The Department of History offers over 30 graduate fields of study, with varying geographic, chronological, and thematic emphases. For information about these fields see the links below. It is also possible for students to develop, in consultation with faculty advisors, "constructed fields" not on this list (though of comparable breadth). For more information see discussion of Preliminary Examination Fields in the section for current students on "progressing through the program."
- Africa
- African American
- African Diaspora
- American Indian, Native American & Indigenous History
- Atlantic World
- Britain & Empire since 1688
- China
- Colonial North America & Early US to 1830
- Colonialism and Post-Colonialism
- Cultural and Intellectual
- Early Modern Europe I (1450-1650)
- Early Modern Europe II (1600-1815)
- Environmental
- Europe since 1789
- Global
- Japan
- Jewish
- Late Antiquity
- Latin America: Colonial / Modern
- Medieval Europe
- Middle East
- Nationalism
- Race and Ethnicity
- Russian, Soviet, and Eurasian history
- Science, Technology, and Medicine
- South Asia
- United States since 1830
- Urban
- US Cultural and Intellectual
- Women, Gender, and Sexuality