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Graduate Program in History

The University of Pittsburgh's Department of History offers a highly selective graduate program that trains area specialists with global perspectives. Our students learn how to research, interpret, and teach the histories and historiographies of particular places with comparative, cross-cultural, transnational, and global approaches.

Program Description

To foster awareness of transregional and transcontinental connections, the department's specialists in five regional fields (U.S., Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Europe) work together in topical clusters and transnational groupings to offer advanced seminars, working groups, speaker series, and more. While building regional expertise through seminars and directed studies, our students receive systematic transnational and transregional training through seminars.

Career Opportunities

The training students receive in our graduate program serves them well on a variety of career tracks. Many of our graduates find employment in university administration, in the field of public history and education outside the university, or work in business, for the government, or non-governmental organizations. Most, however, choose teaching careers at colleges and universities in the United States and abroad. Our graduates have a strong record in securing such positions.

Program Structure

Our highly selective graduate program is known for the careful mentoring of students, a spirit of collaboration among faculty and students, an emphasis on graduate student self-governance and voice, and generous funding through a variety of teaching and research fellowships.

Areas of Study

The department offers expertise in the following areas:

• African History
• Asian History
• European History
• Latin American History
• United States History
• Research Clusters

Resources

Our program provides excellent opportunities for professional development, including seminars and workshops geared towards careers both inside and outside of academia. We take great pride in our graduates' wide range of successful professional trajectories.

Graduate Alumni

Our graduate alumni have gone on to secure positions at colleges and universities in the United States and abroad, as well as in other fields such as public history, education, business, government, and non-governmental organizations.