Before emailing the Director of Graduate Studies or graduate coordinator with a question, please check these sources first! Often you will find all the information you need in these two documents.
Contact Tore Olsson, Director of Graduate Studies
Departmental Graduate Handbook
You will find the department’s policies and requirements outlined in our Department of History Graduate Handbook here.
Graduate School Policies
In addition to the policies outlined in the Department of History’s graduate handbook, you are also subject to the policies held by the Graduate School.
Resources
The American Historical Association provides many useful resources for graduate students.
“History gives answers only to those who know how to ask questions.”
—Hajo Holborn, German-American historian (1902-1969)
News
- Christopher Magra in ‘The Conversation:’ How a 22-year-old George Washington learned how to lead, from a series of mistakes in the Pennsylvania wilderness

- Robert Bland in ‘The Conversation:’ The Supreme Court may soon diminish Black political power, undoing generations of gains

- Scholar Spotlight: Natalia Doan

