Graduate

We train area specialists with global perspectives. Our students learn how to research, interpret and teach the histories and historiographies of particular places with comparative, cross-cultural, transnational and global approaches. To foster awareness of transregional and transcontinental connections, the department's specialists in five regional fields (U.S., Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Europe) work together in topical clusters and transnational groupings to offer advanced seminars, working groups, speaker series, and more.

While building regional expertise through seminars and directed studies, our students receive systematic transnational and transregional training through seminars. Our graduates distinguish themselves as area specialists who understand the potentially global connections of all human interaction, and who are trained to think, research, and teach across regional boundaries.

Our students take advantage of a vibrant city-wide academic community, including the ability to take courses offered by Carnegie Mellon University's Department of History.

The training students receive in our graduate program serves them well on a variety of career tracks. Many of our graduates find employment in university administration, in the field of public history and education outside the university, or work in business, for the government, or non-governmental organizations. Most, however, choose teaching careers at colleges and universities in the United States and abroad. Our graduates have a strong record in securing such positions.

Watch students discuss their experiences at Pitt.

For more information about the graduate program please contact Niklas Frykman, Graduate Director, or LJ Woolcock-Srolovic, Interim Graduate Administrator.