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Harvard University
History of American Civilization Program

Degrees Awarded: PhD

Academic System: Semester

Enrollment: 35 (PhD)

Tuition: Full tuition (including health fees) is $26,400 per year during the first two years; reduced to $7,424 in the third and fourth years. The Active File Fee for students on Leave or Travel is $300

Deadlines: Admissions and financial aid January 2nd

Financial Aid: Teaching assistantships through other departments in the university, tuition remission, living expenses, work-study

Affiliations and Internships: Internships available through the Library of the Boston Athenaeum, Boston Public Library, local and regional museums, historical societies and area organizations

Program Specializations: History and literature, history

The doctoral program on Higher Degrees in the History of American Civilization at Harvard University was established in 1937. The program emphasizes interdisciplinary study within a broad historical framework. Students have the opportunity to study with faculty from many departments in the University while completing core requirements that emphasize classic works in American studies as well as emerging themes and methods. The program is governed by a faculty committee drawn from the Departments of African and African American Studies, English and American Literature and Language, Government, History, History of Art and Architecture, History of Science, Music, and Sociology. The committee also includes professors from the graduate schools of business, design, divinity, education, government, and law.

American Studies Faculty

The History of American Civilization Program at Harvard University is an interdisciplinary program drawing extensively on the faculty and courses of a variety of departments and programs on campus including African and African American studies, English, history, law, business, divinity, education, government, history of art and architecture, music, and history of science. In 2003/2004 the faculty members serving on the committee are:

BECKERT, Sven (Ph.D., Columbia University) Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History

BUELL, Lawrence (Ph.D., Cornell University) Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature and John P. Marquand Professor of English

CHAPLIN, Joyce (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University) Professor of History

COHEN, Lizabeth (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, Director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History

COTT, Nancy (Ph.D., Brandeis University) Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History

CRAWFORD, Margaret Lee (Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles) Professor of Urban Design and Planning Theory (Design School)

FELDSTEIN, Ruth (Ph.D., Brown University) Associate Professor of History and of History and Literature

GATES, Jr. Henry Louis (Ph.D., Clare College at Cambridge University, England) W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities

HALL, David D. (Ph.D., Yale University) Professor of American Religious History on the Bartlett and the Emerson Fund for Unitarian Universalist Studies (Divinity School)

BROOKS HIGGINBOTHAM, Evelyn (Ph.D., University of Rochester) Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies

HOCHSCHILD, Jennifer (Ph.D., Yale University) Henry LeBarre Jayne Professor of Government

HORWITZ, Morton J. (Ph.D., Harvard University, LL.B., Harvard Law School) Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History (Law School)

KEYSSAR, Alexander (Ph.D., Matthew W. Stirling, Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy (Kennedy School)

KLOPPENBERG, James (Ph.D., Stanford University) Harvard College Professor and David Woods Kemper ‘41 Professor of American History

LEPORE, Jill (Ph.D., Yale University) Professor of History

MAY, Ernest (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles) Charles Warren Professor of American History

MENAND, Louis (Ph.D., Columbia University) Professor of English and American Literature and Language

MONSON, Ingrid (Ph.D., New York University) Quincy Jones Professor of African American Music

OJA, Carol (Ph.D., City University of New York) William Powell Mason Professor of Music

ORSI, Robert, (Ph.D., Yale University) Charles Warren Professor of History of Religion in America (Divinity School)

REUBEN, Julie (Ph.D., Stanford University) Professor of Education (School of Education)

ROBERTS, Jennifer (Ph.D., Yale University) Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture

ROSENBERG, Charles (Ph.D., Columbia University) Ernest E. Monrad Professor of Social Sciences

DUBOIS SHAW, Gwendolyn, (Ph.D., Stanford University) Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and of African and African American Studies

SHELL, Marc (Ph.D., Yale University) Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English

SOLLORS, Werner (Ph.D., Freie Universität, Berlin) Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of African and African American Studies

SOMMER, Doris (Ph.D., Rutgers University) Ira Jewell Williams, Jr. Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures

STAUFFER, John (Ph.D., Yale University) John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities

THATCHER ULRICH, Laurel (Ph.D., University of New Hampshire) Harvard College Professor and the James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History

Contact

History of American Civilization Program
Barker Center 225
12 Quincy St
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617/495-3325
Fax: 617/496-6377
E-mail:
www.fas.harvard.edu/~amciv/

Chair/Director: James Kloppenberg

Admissions

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