United States History
At the University of Florida, the graduate program in United
States history provides doctoral students with various possibilities for training
and research. We have faculty strength in diverse chronological periods, including
colonial, nineteenth century, and modern America, as well as topical areas
that include social, cultural, economic, and political history. Doctoral students
enroll in a three-course sequence of foundation courses, along with topical
seminars; all provide small, well focused interactions with faculty, exposing
students to various methodological and theoretical approaches and research
experiences. Prior to the start of the second year all doctoral students in
U. S. history take a series of Preliminary Exams based on their foundation
courses. In their third year most students take their Qualifying Examinations
in the Major and Minor Fields and prepare and defend a Dissertation Prospectus.
Prospective graduate students will normally be assigned to a single faculty
advisor, but in practice the US historians often collaborate with each other
in training graduate students. Those collaborations often extend beyond the
section. Prospective students will find particular department-wide areas of
strength in the Atlantic World, Gender History, Legal History and Religious
History.
Within the AMH section we offer a wide range of research specialties. Please
follow the links below to explore the possibilities of these.
• Early American
• The
19th Century and the Civil War Era
• Twentieth-Century Society, Culture, and Politics
• The American South
• Florida
• Gender
• Law and Society
• Environmental
• Urban
Current AMH faculty in the graduate program include:
Sean
Adams
Jeffrey
Adler
Juliana
Barr
David
Colburn
Elizabeth
Dale
Jack
E. Davis
J.
Matthew Gallman
Matt Jacobs
Angel
Kwolek-Folland
William
A. Link
Eric
Morser
Louise
Newman
Alan Petigny
Julian Pleasants
Jon Sensbach
Joseph Spillane
Robert Zieger
