Project Ideas for Doctor of Philosophy in History

Archival study of African American political organizing during Reconstruction

Oral history project on post–Cold War military families and transnational identities

Digital humanities platform for mapping civil rights protests across the 1960s U.S.

Comparative analysis of plague narratives in medieval European chronicles

Gender and wartime labor: Women’s factory diaries in World War II America

Climate and empire: Monsoon variability and colonial governance in British India

Social memory and Holocaust memorialization in Eastern Europe

Historiographical review of Cold War diplomacy from a decolonial perspective

Using GIS to reconstruct transportation networks of the Roman Empire

Archiving activism: The material culture of 20th-century feminist movements

Examining religion and rebellion in early modern European peasant uprisings

Military strategy and morale in the diaries of Civil War foot soldiers

Local histories of Indigenous resistance in U.S. boarding school systems

Medical knowledge transmission through Islamic manuscripts in the Abbasid era

Cold War espionage and propaganda: U.S.–Soviet disinformation battles

Urban segregation and housing policy in postwar American suburbs

The political economy of transatlantic slave trade ports, 1600–1800

Soundscapes and silence in historical interpretations of protest music

Mapping institutional church power during the Counter-Reformation

Globalizing the French Revolution: Insurrectionary echoes in Caribbean colonies