Welcome to the History Department at Brandeis University!
Despite its relatively small size, the History Department offers Brandeis students a comprehensive education in the study of the past, both on the undergraduate (major, minor, and a combined BA/MA) and on the graduate level (MA and PhD). Indeed, its two PhD programs, in Comparative History and American History, respectively, have consistently received high marks in national surveys and rankings, and can boast an outstanding placement record. The History Department takes pride in having among its faculty members and among its graduate program alumni several award-winning historians. It thus combines the best of both worlds: the intimacy of a small liberal-arts college department and the intellectual strength of a major research institution.
Department Chair:
Professor Paul Jankowski
Graduate Advising Head for American History:
Associate Professor Michael Willrich
Graduate Advising Head for Comparative History:
Associate Professor Govind Sreenivasan
Undergraduate Advisor for History:
Professor Mark Hulliung
Senior Academic Administrator:
Judy Brown
News & Events
Lectures
HILARY MOSS
Assistant Professor of Black Studies and History, Amherst College
Brandeis PhD 2004
"THAT THE SAID SCHOOLHOUSE MAY BE ERECTED ELSEWHERE:
Race, Space, and Educational Opportunity in Antebellum Boston"
April 17, 2008
4:00 p.m. Olin Sang 207
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