Doctor of Philosophy in History - Europe - Medieval to Modern Times

Welcome to the University of Washington Graduate Program in History. We are committed to training professional historians who advance scholarly understanding of the past as well as teach and engage broader publics. Our program currently enrolls more than 50 students pursuing MA and PhD degrees in a wide range of fields and is known for the breadth and depth of our faculty specializations. We embrace interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to historical studies and provide students the opportunity to work with faculty in a variety of fields as well as faculty in affiliated programs elsewhere at the UW. Our faculty and graduate students engage in a wide range of digital history projects dedicated to advancing scholarly research, teaching, and public understanding of the study of history.

Europe 1450-1789, or Early Modern Europe, covers a period that spans the dramatic European expansion associated with the Renaissance--economic, political, imperial, and above all cultural transformations--and the crisis of the Old Regime that culminated in the French Revolution. Graduate students may pursue specializations in national histories as well as comparative and thematically-organized transnational programs. The research interests of the early modern faculty are varied and wide ranging. Possible topics for graduate research and teaching include Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy, the social history of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations, the expansion of Renaissance Europe, the European encounter with the Americas and the Ottoman Empire, early modern globalization, the Scientific Revolution, the Baroque court, urban history, social and cultural history, political culture.

Hold the minimum equivalent of a four-year baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited college or university in the U.S. or its equivalent from a foreign institution. Also acceptable: hold a Master's degree, a doctoral degree (Ph.D., D.Phil.), or a professional degree (M.D., J.D., D.V.M., etc.) from a regionally accredited college or university in the U.S. or its equivalent from a foreign institution. Have earned at least a 3.0 grade-point-average (on a 4 point scale) from a regionally accredited college or university in the U.S. or its equivalent from a foreign institution for the last 90 graded quarter credits or 60 graded semester credits from a baccalaureate degree (for a Master's, doctoral, or professional degree, the total cumulative average may be used). TOEFL iBT: 80, IELTS: 6.5.