Graduate Studies in History

Welcome to the Graduate Studies section of the Department of History. Prospective students will find application information on our Prospective Student page or may want to look over our Fields of Study. We also have a Graduate Student Directory of current students.

See our Graduate Resource Page for current graduate students

Application and other information for prospective graduate students

Contact the Graduate Student Advisory Committee (GSAC): gsac.ohiostate@gmail.com

Placement

The History Department placement rate for PhDs is strong. 90% of our graduates in 2004-2007 found employment, up from 69% ten years ago, a remarkable feat given a very competitive job market. Since 2000, 79 of our graduates have accepted academic positions at a range of institutions nationally and internationally, including quality tenure-track jobs at prestigious colleges and universities such as Northwestern, University of Illinois, Rice University, McGill, the University of Toronto, Middlebury, LSU, and the U.S. Military Academy; solid middle-tier private and public universities such as Brigham Young, St. Anselm College, Georgia State, University of Vermont, Nipissing University (Ontario), George Mason, the University of Hawaii, the University of Akron, Wayne State University, and the University of Toledo; historically Black colleges such as Morgan State; and smaller private institutions such as Otterbein, Utica, and Kenyon College. Others are employed as analysts with government agencies such as the State Department, as public historians, as staff historians with the U.S. Armed Forces, as editors at university presses, or with think tanks such as the Rand Corporation.