Program Overview

The History PhD program at the University at Buffalo emphasizes academic training in a supportive environment. Students conduct research in various fields, including the history of the Atlantic world, disability studies, and public history. Graduates pursue careers as university professors, museum curators, and librarians. The program encourages interdisciplinary collaboration and boasts a small but supportive faculty with expertise in early modern societies, race, empire, and nation, the Twentieth Century World, and medicine, disability, and science.