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COURSES
Click here for a current list of graduate courses.
KEY CONTACTS
Director of Graduate Studies
Charles Armstrong
cra10@columbia.edu
930 International Affairs Building
212-854-1721
Graduate Administrator
Sharee M. Nash
smn2@columbia.edu
413 Fayerweather Hall
212-854-7001
Columbia has been one of the most important centers of graduate education in history since modern Ph.D. programs began in America over a century ago. Recipients of our degrees hold distinguished positions in virtually every major university in the United States, and in many abroad. Our program offers a broad education in most areas of historical scholarship and attempts to train students for a discipline and a profession in the midst of considerable change. That includes not simply assisting students in acquiring the knowledge and skills essential to becoming contributing scholars, but also helping them to become effective teachers and to exist comfortably within a demanding and complicated professional world.
The members of our faculty represent many different approaches to the study of the past, and we strive to attract students of similarly diverse interests and commitments. No one should feel that being at Columbia requires accepting any one approach to the study of history.
This part of our Web site is designed to provide both prospective and current students with answers to some of the many questions they may have about the department. Under Areas of Study you will find information about the separate fields of study available in our program and the relationship among them. Admissions answers commonly-asked questions about our admissions process, while Fellowships and Financial Aid explains the various ways we provide our students with fellowships and financial aid. Dissertations describes the course of study towards the Ph.D and explains the process of writing the dissertation itself. The section entitled Placement sketches how we prepare our students for the academic job market and reports on how our students have done in that market in recent years. In the Graduate Student Handbook, we explain our curriculum and our academic requirements and provide more detailed information about aspects of the program. The Graduate History Association (GHA) is the graduate student organization of our department, and it maintains its own section of our Web site.
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