As a student in the MA in History program, you will join a small, selective cohort that emphasizes the comparative understanding of historical processes. You will explore colloquia in comparative and regional topics, conduct individual research in consultation with a faculty member, and receive specialized training in a historical field.
The MA Program in History is designed to prepare students for future doctoral study as well as for roles in settings such as secondary schools, libraries, foundations, and museums. In recent years, MA graduates have continued on to PhD programs at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brandeis, Boston University, University of North Carolina, and the University of Michigan.
See Tuition and Financial Aid information for GSAS Programs. Note: This program is eligible for federal loans and Tufts tuition scholarships.
The MA in History Program offers students the opportunity to specialize in regional fields that include South Asia, East Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe, and the United States. Students can also choose to specialize in thematic fields, which combine interdisciplinary and comparative approaches. Some examples of thematic fields include:
Research/Areas of Interest: Modern France in the World, Colonial West Africa
Research/Areas of Interest: Modern Russia and Eastern Europe, the cultural Cold War, global communism, transnational history
Research/Areas of Interest: Armenia and Cross-Cultural World Early Modern Europe
Research/Areas of Interest: Women in the Professions in America; GIrlhood in Post World War II America; Love and War in World War II; Medicine and Society in Amrica
Research/Areas of Interest: U.S. in the World, International History, Modern U.S. History
Research/Areas of Interest: U.S., African American, Native American, family history and the history of genealogy
Research/Areas of Interest: Modern Middle East
Research/Areas of Interest: South Asia, the Muslim World
Research/Areas of Interest: Colonial Latin America, Global History, Pacific World, Racial Formation, Diasporic Histories
Research/Areas of Interest: Britain and the World, urban history, history of capitalism, histories of multiculturalism
Research/Areas of Interest: Modern East Africa
Research/Areas of Interest: Late Antique & Medieval Western Europe, Byzantium, Southeastern Europe, Papal-Imperial relations
Research/Areas of Interest: Early Modern Europe, the History of Science and Medicine, Women's History, the History of the Body and Sexuality
Research/Areas of Interest: Early American, Native American, and Environmental History
Research/Areas of Interest: Industrial and Urban U.S., Immigration
Research/Areas of Interest: Middle Period China, Late Imperial China, Women's History, the History of Material Culture