NYU’s PhD in History offers rigorous training in global and regional historical research across time periods and themes. Students engage deeply with archives, historiography, and interdisciplinary methods, supported by a world-class faculty. The program encourages work in public history, material culture, memory studies, and transnational movements. Graduates become historians who shape knowledge in academia, museums, government, and publishing.
Mapping migration flows during the Atlantic slave trade
Memory and trauma in Holocaust oral history archives
Colonial bureaucracy in early 20th-century Southeast Asia
Environmental change and human settlement patterns in ancient Mesopotamia
Women’s political activism in interwar Europe
Urban planning and race in 20th-century New York
Archival study of labor unions during the Great Depression
Visual propaganda in fascist regimes of the 1930s
Comparing historical narratives in indigenous vs. settler accounts
Historical GIS mapping of 19th-century epidemics
Legal documents as historical sources in post-Revolution France
Religious reform and empire in 16th-century Iberia
Cold War historiography and revisionist narratives
The material culture of resistance in colonial Africa
Public monuments and historical memory in post-Soviet states
Reconstruction-era literacy programs in the American South
Comparative biographies of nationalist leaders in post-colonial Asia
Digitization and accessibility of underrepresented archival records
Cultural diplomacy during the U.S.–USSR détente
History of scientific racism in early anthropological texts
Reconstruct the past with critical tools and global scope in NYU’s History PhD.
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