Graduate Student Resources
General Resources
Graduation Deadlines
For a May graduation, all degree requirements must be fulfilled by April 1st.
For a December graduation, all degree requirements must be fulfilled by December 1st.
For an August graduation, all degree requirements must be fulfilled by August 1st.
Below is a selection of reading lists that Ph.D. candidates used to prepare for their oral comprehensive exams.
Asia
- Indian Ocean (Gallagher, 2013)
- Nation, Religion, and Modernity (Ball, 2008)
- Social History of Modern South Asia (Ball, 2008)
- Women and Gender in Modern South Asia (Ball, 2008)
Atlantic World
- Atlantic History (Hirota, 2007)
- Atlantic History (Hardesty, 2010)
- Atlantic World (Gallagher, 2013)
- Atlantic World (Malanson, 2006)
- Atlantic World, 1500-2000 (Hardesty, 2010)
Britain & British Empire
- British Empire (Cowan, 2007)
- British Empire (Doyle, 2001)
- British Empire (Tumblin, 2011)
- British History (Doyle, 2001)
- British History (Kuiken, 2008)
- British History (Tumblin, 2011)
- Indian Ocean (Gallagher, 2013)
- Modern Britsh History (Chill, 2004)
- Modern British History (Foss, 2011)
- Modern British History (Tanis, 2004)
- United Kingdom (Moloney, 2006)
Diaspora Studies / Immigration
- American Immigration (Hirota, 2007)
- Diaspora Studies (King, 2008)
- Immigration and Ethnicity (Dwyer, 2003)
- Immigration and Ethnicity (McEvoy, 2009)
- Immigration/Ethnic Identity (Meehan, 2009)
- Irish Global Migration (McEvoy, 2009)
- Irish Migration (Delahanty, 2008)
Early Modern Europe
- Early Modern Europe (Gallagher, 2013)
- Early Modern Europe (Kay, 2013)
- Early Modern Europe (Twomey, 2012)
Foreign Policy
- Diplomatic History (Chapman, 2004)
- Foreign Policy (Malanson, 2006)
- Foreign Policy (Tumblin, 2011)
- Foreign Relations (Noonan, 2010)
Gender and Sexuality
Gender and Sexuality (Butler, 2011)
- Queer Theory (Cavallari, 2004)
- Race, Gender, and Ethnicity (Mezzano, 2002)
- US Southern Women (Baines, 2005)
- Women and Gender in Modern South Asia (Ball, 2008)
Intellectual History
- Enlightenment/Freudian Theory (Cavallari, 2004)
- European Intellectual History (Butler, 2011)
- European Intellectual History (Mezzano, 2002)
- Social/Intellectual History (Mezzano, 2002)
International History
- International History (Jimenez, 2013)
- International History (Noonan, 2010)
Ireland
- Irish History (Cowan, 2007)
- Irish Migration (Delahanty, 2008)
- Irish Migration (McEvoy, 2009)
- Modern Irish History (Foss, 2011)
- Post-Famine Irish History (Delahanty, 2008)
Latin America
- Latin America (Hardesty, 2010)
- Latin America (Jimenez, 2013)
Material Culture
- Material Culture/Religious History (Mason, 2008)
Medieval History
- Early Medieval Britain and the North Atlantic (Kay, 2013)
- Early Medieval Britain (Twomey, 2012)
- Historical Archaeology (Mason, 2008)
- Islamic History (Mason, 2008)
- Medieval Art (Mason, 2008)
- Medieval Art (Twomey, 2012)
- Medieval Europe (Kay, 2013)
- Medieval Religious History (Mason, 2008)
Modern Europe
- Cold War (Kuiken, 2008)
- European History (Moloney, 2006)
- European History (Kuiken, 2008)
- French History (Cavallari, 2004)
- German History (King, 2008)
- Modern European History (Butler, 2011)
- Modern European History (Foss, 2011)
- Modern European History (Tumblin, 2011)
- Modern German History (Butler, 2011)
- Modern German History (Jimenez, 2013)
- Russian History (Mukhina, 2003)
- Trauma and Revolution in Europe (Meehan, 2009)
Nationalism
- Nation, Religion, and Modernity (Ball, 2008)
- Nationalism (Kuiken, 2008)
Religion
- American Catholicism (McEvoy, 2009)
- Islamic History (Mason, 2008)
- Medieval Religious History (Mason, 2008)
- Nation, Religion, and Modernity (Ball, 2008)
- Religious History (Cowan, 2007)
- US Catholic History (Nytroe, 2004)
- US Religious History (Meehan, 2009)
- US Religious History (Trutor, 2009)
U.S. History
- American Irish History (Dwyer, 2003)
- American West (Rathge, 2011)
- Americans at War (Delahanty, 2008)
- Civil War to Civil Rights (Rathge, 2011)
- Cold War (Kuiken, 2008)
- Colonial to Revolutionary War (Noonan, 2010)
- Constitutional History (Rathge, 2011)
- Cultural History (Trutor, 2009)
- Early U.S. History (Chapman, 2004)
- Early U.S. History (Cowan, 2007)
- Late U.S. History (Chapman, 2004)
- Mid-Nineteenth to Mid-Twentieth Century US History (Delahanty, 2008)
- Military History (Chapman, 2004)
- 19th Century American History (Nytroe, 2004)
- 19th Century US History (Hirota, 2007)
- Political History 1787-1914 (Malanson, 2006)
- Slavery, African Americans, and the American South, 1607-1900 (Hardesty, 2010)
- Slavery, Race, and Abolitionism (Hirota, 2007)
- U.S. History 1750-1860 (Malanson, 2006)
- US History, 1789-1877 (Hardesty, 2010)
- U.S. History 1850-1950 (Dwyer, 2003)
- US History Since 1865 (Trutor, 2009)
- US History 1877-Present (Noonan, 2007)
- US History to 1789 (Hardesty, 2010)
- US History to 1877 (Meehan, 2009)
Urban History
- Urban History/Urban Culture (Mezzano, 2002)
- Urban History (Ball, 2008)