These fields have been approved by the Graduate Studies Committee for students seeking the Master of Arts degree. Additional fields can be proposed to the Graduate Studies Committee, bearing in mind that the purpose of MA fields is to ensure that the examinee has a broad base of historical and historiographical knowledge; the MA field is not intended to further narrow specialization.
Approved MA fields: Chronological and Geographical
- Africa
- Early Modern Europe
- Early America
- East Asia
- Late Antiquity and Medieval Europe
- Latin America (colonial period)
- Latin America (national period)
- Middle East
- Modern Europe
- Modern U.S.
- Nineteenth-Century U.S.
- Russia and the Soviet Union
Approved MA fields: Thematic
- Global History
- History of the Book
- History of Science and Technology
- Public History
- Women's and Gender History