Funding is typically offered in exchange for graduate teaching and research work that is complementary to your studies. Not all universities provide full funding to their doctoral students, which is why I recommend researching the financial aid offerings of all the potential PhD programs in your academic field, including small and lesser-known schools both in the U. You can also find several external fellowships in the ProFellow database for graduate and doctoral study, as well as dissertation research, field work, language study and summer work experience.
Students awarded such funding upon admission will receive five years of support except for those entering with advanced standing, who will receive four years of support. Skip to main content. You are here Home Graduate Program. Graduate Program. Sources proseminars. These come in two types. We offer four classes on inscriptions, coins, papyri, and archaeology. At least one class is offered each year, on a four-year rotation.
Students choose the two types of non-literary source that are most useful for their research. In both categories of source proseminars, the goals are to become familiar with the material and with the central problems in its interpretation. Skills classes. Ancient historians draw on a wider range of skills than ever before. Some require advanced training in Greek or Latin semantics, style, and syntax; others need further ancient languages, like Egyptian or Hebrew; others still need techniques drawn from fields like archaeology, demography, palaeography, or literary theory.
Each student chooses the 3 skills classes that will contribute most to his or her research, drawn from any department at Stanford or the other universities in the Bay Area. Some students may choose to enlarge their skill set by taking a Ph. Minor in a related department, if funding is available. Narrative history. The basics of chronology and narrative political history remain fundamental to all serious research. All graduate students will take advanced surveys of Egyptian, Greek, and Roman history, unless they place out of these classes in a diagnostic exam at the beginning of their first year, and will serve as Teaching Assistants in the undergraduate surveys of ancient history.
These classes provide the foundations for writing a dissertation, a monograph-length original contribution to research in ancient history. The dissertation is the most important part of graduate school, and qualifies the student as a professional ancient historian. Dissertations normally serve as the basis for a first book or for a series of major articles. The Stanford Bulletin provides a full description of the requirements for the Ph. Stanford's ancient history program is small and highly selective.
Students work closely with faculty in a very dynamic intellectual environment, with constant interactions with the larger Classics program, the History department, the Archaeology Center, and other groups at Stanford. There are weekly research workshops featuring papers from visiting speakers and Stanford faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and advanced graduate students.
The program has generous funding to support travel to conferences, study in the Mediterranean, and archaeological fieldwork. Because ancient texts are indivisibly social and aesthetic, because ancient texts are both forms of communication and formal objects, we read them with the help of a number of approaches. At Stanford, these range from traditional philology including the rigorous analysis of manuscript and papyrus sources, language, meter, rhetoric and style to performance and reception studies, translation theory and practice, social anthropology and folkloristics, and a wide range of contemporary literary theories.
Equally, history, art and archaeology, epigraphy, and ancient philosophy--long-standing strengths in the Stanford program--are integral to our literary study, in mutually illuminating ways. No single approach predominates; a commitment to deep and shared understanding unites us. It's not unusual for discussion in a single seminar session on epic to range from the significance of a Greek verb tense and the violations of Hermann's Bridge to Bakhtin's ideas on genre or analogues from the study of pop culture.
A seminar on Athenian culture of the classical period would be open to discussing Periclean building programs, the archaeology of cult, the utility of Geertz's analysis of culture, and the economics of theatrical production, as well as literary analysis of Euripidean choral odes and the Platonic view of tragic mimesis.
Such a course might even be team-taught, by a historian and philologist or philosopher, as are an increasing number of our seminars. A course on Catullus might involve discussion of Roman sexuality as illuminated by his poems; the idea of lyric in, before, and after Catullus; the process of transmission of the physical text from antiquity through the advent of printing to the present day; the tensions between Catullus' embeddedness in the discourse of elite life at Rome and his unprecedented assertion of a personal and private world; the connections with contemporary philosophical views on the emotions; the question of whether Catullus' Lesbia is to be identified with the Clodia attacked by Cicero; and the tyranny of the canon in deciding which poems of Catullus represent the "real" Catullus: how can this love poet have authored those crude and obscene poems attacking such politicians as Julius Caesar?
The close reading of texts in the original languages is complemented by a wide range of departmental courses in translation, placing literature in the broader study of ancient Mediterranean and even contemporary cultures. The various options for undergraduate majors and minors provide flexibility for students who wish to combine an in-depth study of literature with other fields. At the graduate level, the departmental reading lists for translation and Ph.
We also encourage students to explore non-canonical, neglected or obscure texts, often in a comparative mode, working with faculty in a tutorial setting. Passionate, informed, and innovative interpretation is what we teach and expect. The later twentieth century saw a fundamental move away from Classical Archaeology's traditional focus on the excavation of city centers, the architectural analysis of major monuments, the typological classification of artifacts, and the aesthetic or purely descriptive analysis of visual imagery.
The material record of the past can no longer be subsumed to evolutionary historical narratives or an essentialist view of cultures. Northwestern University has a renowned doctoral history program which has garnered it numerous research fellowships and book awards. Many members of the faculty have also won teaching awards. It is a small program, only admitting at most 20 students per year. Most students choose to focus on American, European, or African history, though Latin American and Asian history do exist as options.
Because of the small size of the program, students benefit from close interaction with the faculty members and can receive more personal attention. Students will be taught profound understanding of the field and historical criticism and analysis in preparation for conducting their own research for their dissertations. E-mail history northwestern. Admission to the program is very competitive. For more information, contact the Graduate Program Administrator at apalmon stanford.
The University of Miami requires a comprehensive examination, passing of written and oral exams, and a dissertation. The number of credits required to complete the coursework depends on the students prior education levels, ranging from 45 credits if the student has a B.
Students must also demonstrate their ability to read in at least one foreign language. Some of the fields that students can specialize in include medieval Europe, modern Europe, early American and modern American history, colonial and modern Latin America, East Asia, Russia, Russia, Africa, the Caribbean, the African diaspora, the history of religion, science, crime, law, labor, and military history, among others.
Interested students should contact the Director of Graduate Studies at mbmiller miami. Their website can be found at www. However, the department also allows students to inquire about other fields in accordance with the expertise of the faculty, including the history of science, African history, and environmental history.
This program requires students to complete the core curriculum, part of the 36 hours of required graduate coursework. Students must take comprehensive examinations to prove their knowledge of the field, and must also pass a language proficiency test in which they demonstrate their capability in reading in a relevant language other than English.
Students wanting to learn more should contact the Director of Graduate Studies at gamesa georgetown. Visit the website at history. A career as a historian or a college history professor is the most likely career choice for people with doctorate degrees in history. It may also involve mentoring history students as an academic advisor. A small number of doctorates in history may be able to secure positions with government agencies and think-tanks.
The job market of this discipline is contracting, and has continued to do so as the economy has worsened. The number of Ph. There also have not been any drops in the number of students enrolling in doctoral history programs, which means there will likely be too many candidates for too few jobs in the years to come, even as doctoral history students diversify their educations.
Historians and history professors can advance in their careers and increase their earnings by publishing their research in academic journals and publications. My current educational back ground is a Master of Science in Engineering Dipl.
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