Tufts offers a PhD in history in two tracks:
Tufts offers doctoral training in Modern South Asian history from the mid-eighteenth to the twentieth century. Successful PhD candidates have gone on to obtain positions in some of the most prestigious institutions of American academe. Doctoral students in this program conduct intense and focused research into the most pressing questions of South Asian scholarship today. Students in this field also partake of the active intellectual life surrounding South Asian studies in the Boston area, including the Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies.
Global History is not accepting applications.
Global History begins with the premise that the world is an ever changing, interconnected system. Students work in comparative and connected frameworks with scholars whose areas of study include Europe, Africa, Latin America, North Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the United States. This program explores formations and processes such as colonialism, empire, globalization, and diaspora, that situate places, social groups, and events beyond the limiting conceptual framework of the nation-state or the world region.
