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Neilesh Bose, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Tufts University. Literary cultures in south Asian history; decolonization; south Asian diasporas in Africa, Asia and the Americas.
Marianne Bueno, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. (pending), University of California Santa Cruz. 20th century U.S. social history; Chicana and Chicano history; militarization studies.
Roberto Calderón, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles. Mexican American history; borders and national identities; comparative social movements; modern Mexico.
Randolph B. Campbell, Regents Professor; Ph.D., University of Virginia. Early national period of U.S. history 1789-1846; 19th century Texas.
Guy Chet, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Yale University. Colonial America; early modern Atlantic world; military history (17th-19th centuries).
Robert Citino, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Indiana University. 20th century military.
Christopher Fuhrmann, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of North Carolina. Ancient and early medieval history.
Richard M. Golden, Professor; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University. Early modern Europe; France; religious and social history.
D.Harland Hagler, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Missouri. Antebellum history (U.S. South Colonial Era to 1860).
Constance Hilliard, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Harvard University. Africa; African American history.
Ken Johnson, Lecturer; Ph.D., University of North Texas. Ancient Western civilization.
Michael Leggiere, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Florida State University. French Revolution and Napoleon; modern Germany.
Richard Lowe, Regents Professor; Ph.D., University of Virginia. U.S. CivilWar and Reconstruction; 19th century South.
Richard McCaslin, Professor and Department Chair; Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin. Texas history; 19th century U.S. military history.
Alex Mendoza, Lecturer; Ph.D., Texas Tech University. U.S. Civil War/Reconstruction; U.S. military; Texas history; Mexican American history.
Alfred Mierzejewski, Professor; Ph.D., University of North Carolina.Modern Germany; business and economic 20th century; military history.
Keith Mitchener, Lecturer; Ph.D., University of North Texas. U.S. history since 1865; naval history.
Marilyn Morris, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of London. 18th century Britain; gender and sexuality; Ancient Regime and Enlightenment; 17th century England.
Todd Moye, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin. 20th century U.S. social, political and cultural history; oral history.
Aaron Navarro, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Harvard University. Latin America; modern Mexico; intelligence history.
Denis Paz, Professor; Ph.D., University of Michigan. 19th and 20th century British history; British Empire.
Eunice Pollack, Lecturer; Ph.D., Columbia University. Jewish history.
Clark Pomerleau, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Arizona. Second wave feminism; diversity training.
Walter Roberts, Continuing Lecturer; Ph.D., Emory University. Ancient Roman history; Ancient Mediterranean history; late antique Mediterranean and European history; early medieval Europe.
Gustav L. Seligmann, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Arizona. U.S. constitutional history; history of American political parties; history of presidential elections.
F. Todd Smith, Professor; Ph.D., Tulane University. Spanish borderlands; colonial North America; Native American history.
Laura Stern, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Michigan. Medieval England; early Christianity; Reformation; Medieval and Renaissance Italy inquisition procedures.
Nancy Stockdale, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of California Santa Barbara. Modern Middle East; European imperialism in the Middle East; women's cross-cultural history.
Harold M.Tanner, Professor; Ph.D., Columbia University. 20th century China; political, diplomatic, intellectual and military U.S.-China foreign relations.
Andrew Torget, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Virginia. U.S. South; Texas; borderlands; digital scholarship.
Elizabeth Hayes Turner, Professor; Ph.D., Rice University. New South 1865 to present; women and gender in the New South; New South autobiography.
Olga Velikanova, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., St. Petersburg State University (Russia). Russian history; European history.
Jennifer Wallach, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst. African Americans in the South since the Civil War; southern autobiography; the life and times of Richard Wright; the civil rights movement in Arkansas; American food history.
Geoffrey Wawro, Professor; Ph.D., Yale University. 19th, 20th and 21st century European history; modern military history.
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University of North Texas
Department of History
Graduate Advisor
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Denton, Texas 76203-5017
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Toulouse Graduate School
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History
Opportunities for graduate studies
The graduate programs in history at the University of North Texas prepare you for a career in higher education, public service and research. Thirty-four faculty members work closely with about 120 graduate students in the Master of Arts,Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degree programs. Graduate classes normally include six to 12 students, allowing you to receive personal attention from the instructor.
Our courses focus on wide range of topics including American history; ancient, medieval and modern Europe; Latin America; China; and women’s and gender history. The Department of History has special strengths in Texas and military history. Through extensive reading and writing assignments and specialized seminar classes, you will strengthen your analytical, writing, research and presentation skills. These classes are taught by professors who have published numerous books and articles, have been awarded many research grants and have earned recognition from various historical societies.
In addition to formal course work, other learning opportunities are available. Several nationally and internationally recognized speakers address faculty and students on different topics each year. Fellow graduate students provide useful information as you move through the various stages of degree work.Notices of deadlines, job openings, scholarship opportunities and other general information about graduate work in history are organized by graduate students and passed on via an Internet mailing list.
A chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, the national honors program for history students, organizes scholarly and social events and sponsors a banquet and prominent speaker each spring semester.Many graduate students participate in regional and national historical conferences by presenting the results of their research to audiences of fellow professionals. The department offers travel grants to students on a competitive basis.
Research
Our university libraries includeWillis Library, the Science and Technology Library, the Media Library and the Music Library. These facilities contain more than 6 million printed books, periodicals, maps, documents, microforms, audiovisual materials, music scores and electronic media.Willis Library houses the general collection and other special collections, such as the Oral History Collection, the University Archives, the Rare Book and Texana collections, and government documents.
Additional research holdings relevant to graduate study in history include federal and state documents, microfilmed papers of U.S. presidents and other important figures, Texas newspapers, U.S. Census records, service records of soldiers in the CivilWar, a large collection of U.S. State Department papers, parliamentary records of the larger European nations, captured German documents (1867-1945), British cabinet records (1868-1945), major European newspapers, documents on the Nuremburg trials of the 1940s, the Béxar Archives collection on microfilm, 67 volumes of unedited documents relating to the Spanish Empire in theWestern Hemisphere, and other collections.
The Oral History Collection, among the oldest and largest in the nation, contains more than 1,800 bound volumes. Taped and transcribed interviews focus on the political, cultural and business history of Texas, the Pacific theater ofWorldWar II, local African American history, and various other local and regional topics. Numerous books and articles are based on materials in the Oral History Collection, especially works onWorldWar II and 20th-century U.S. politics. Graduate students who take courses in applied history have the opportunity to add to this nationally recognized collection.
Graduate students also have access to several other major libraries and institutions in the Dallas-FortWorth region, including FortWorth’s Amon Carter Museum of American Art, the Southwest Branch of the National Archives, the Dallas Public Library, the Dallas Historical Society, and the libraries of numerous area colleges and universities.
Financial assistance
The university provides several methods to help you pay for your education. Financial aid programs, requirements and qualifications are coordinated by the financial aid office. For application deadlines or more information, contact Student Financial Aid and Scholarships at 940-565-2302 or access www.unt.edu/finaid.
The department also provides several scholarships and numerous teaching assistantships, teaching fellowships and research assistantships for graduate students. Applications for financial aid administered by the Department of History should be made by Feb. 15 for the following academic year. For more information, contact the department.
Admission requirements
You will need to meet the admission requirements of the Toulouse Graduate School as well as a specific set of program requirements by Dec. 1. Admission requirements for the graduate school are available at tsgs.unt.edu or catalog.unt.edu. The program requirements are:
M.A. and M.S. programs
- score at the 50th percentile or higher on the verbal portion of the GRE or a 4 or higher on the analytical/writing portion of the GRE
- complete 24 hours of undergraduate history (6 hours of U.S. history, 6 hours of world history and 12 hours of upper-level history)
- have a 3.0 undergraduate GPA overall or on the last 60 hours of undergraduate work
- provide a statement of purpose for seeking a master’s degree in history at UNT
- supply two letters of recommendation that address your academic qualifications and ability to succeed in an advanced history degree program
Ph.D. program
- score at the 70th percentile or higher on the verbal portion of the GRE and score either at the 40th percentile or higher on the quantitative portion or a 4 or higher on the analytical/writing portion of the GRE
- complete 24 hours of undergraduate history (6 hours of U.S. history, 6 hours of world history and 12 hours of upper-level history)
- submit a statement of purpose for seeking a doctoral degree in history at UNT
- supply three letters of recommendation that address your academic qualifications and ability to succeed in an advanced history degree program
- successfully complete a master’s degree with either a thesis or an acceptable Project in Lieu of Thesis
- provide a formal paper completed as part of master’s-level work (other than the thesis)
Degree requirements
M.A. and M.S. degrees
Thesis option
- 18 semester hours of required course work
- 6 semester hours of research seminars
- 6 semester hours of thesis credit
- 1 semester hour of a historical bibliography course
- complete an oral examination on the course work
- reading knowledge of one foreign language (M.A. degree only)
Nonthesis option
- 24 semester hours of required course work
- 6 semester hours of research seminars
- 1 semester hour of a historical bibliography course
- complete an oral examination on the course work
- reading knowledge of one foreign language (M.A. degree only)
Ph.D. degree
- 21 semester hours of required history courses
- 12 semester hours of research seminar courses
- 12 semester hours of directed research in preparation for comprehensive examinations
- 12 semester hours minimum of dissertation research
- 3 semester hours of historiography course
- reading knowledge of one foreign language
- comprehensive examinations (oral and written) in four different fields of topical or chronological history
- submit a dissertation that is a significant contribution to the study of history
- oral defense of dissertation