The Best Ph.D. Programs for History

Princeton University, Department of English

• Princeton University's Department of History offers students a broad training in the discipline. Jeremy Adelman, William Jordan and Jonathan Levy are faculty members. The program has a special focus on American political history, American studies, British studies, the history of science, and medieval studies. This university can also claim President James Madison (1751-1836) as its first unofficial "graduate student," since he stayed for a year after graduation and studied the Hebrew language and culture.

  Princeton University
  Department of History
  129 Dickinson Hall
  Princeton, NJ 08544-1017
  (609) 258-4159
  princeton.edu/history/graduate/

University of Chicago, Department of History

• Offering undergraduate and graduate degrees, the University of Chicago's Department of History has been one of the country's most important throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries, with faculty members often leading professional organizations like the American Historical Association and winning Pulitzer Prizes. Robert Barlett, a major historian of medieval colonialism; Dipesh Chakrabarty, an influential historian of South Asian history; and Bernard Wasserstein, a scholar of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, are faculty members. The university is home to 113 research centers, including the Oriental Institute and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, which offer unique resources to history scholars. Kenneth T. Jackson and Gerhard Weinberg are former graduate students the department.

  University of Chicago
  Department of History
  1130 E. 59th Street, Room 105
  Chicago, IL 60637
  (773) 702-8415
  history.uchicago.edu/graduate/index.html

University of California-Berkeley, Department of English

• The Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley is one of the West Coast's premier history departments. Typical graduate courses are "Politics and Religion in the Greek World," "Approaches to the Modern History of the Middle East," and "The Symbolic World of Chinese Villagers in the Premodern World." The faculty includes John Connelly, David A. Hollinger, Tabitha Kanogo, Emily Mackil, and Maureen C. Miller.

  University of California-Berkeley
  Department of History
  3229 Dwinelle Hall (Mailcode 2550)
  Berkeley, CA 94720-2550
  (510) 642-2378
  history.berkeley.edu/graduate/