Chairman: PROFESSOR MICHAEL E. LESTZ
Graduate Adviser: PROFESSOR BORDEN W. PAINTER, JR.

The Master's degree with a major in history is designed to follow an undergraduate concentration in history. Candidates must complete a minimum of ten courses at the graduate level, at least eight of which must be in history, including History 800, Historiography and History 954-955, Thesis. Students may, with the permission of the History Master's Committee, take 300- or 400-level history courses for graduate credit. Students with adequate preparation in history and for sufficiently compelling reasons may receive permission from the History Master's Committee to elect up to two courses offered in another department.

Applicants to the program and those generally interested in the graduate resources in History at the College, may review our degree requirements, current course offerings, and graduate faculty descriptions by accessing our homepage  at www.trincoll.edu/depts/hist/grad.html.

The graduate curriculum in history concentrates on the United States and modern Europe, but courses in a wide variety of other areas appear regularly. Degree candidates are not required to declare a specified area of concentration.  They should, nevertheless, discuss the range of possibilities and their own interests with the graduate adviser in the department to ensure a well-planned course of study.

The thesis, which is required, is the final project for all candidates. Students may receive credit for independent studies by arrangement with individual instructors, provided they secure the approval of the History Master's Committee. Courses in history are available both during the summer term (when available) and the regular academic year.

The fields taught by members of the History Department are the following:

John Chatfield	United States (especially Colonial to Early 19th Century)
Dario A. Euraque	Modern Latin America; Central  American Social and Economic History
Jonathan Elukin	Medieval Europe
Cheryl Greenberg	United States; African-American History; Women's History
Joan Hedrick	United States Cultural History; Women's History
Samuel Kassow	Modern Germany and Russia
Kathleen Kete	Modern Europe; Modern France
Eugene Leach	United States
Michael Lestz	China and Japan
Borden Painter	Renaissance and Reformation Europe; Tudor and Stuart England; Modern Italy
Susan Pennybacker	Great Britain; Social and Labor History; History of Hartford
Gary Reger	History
Heather Sharkey	Middle East and Ottoman Empire
Barbara Sicherman	United States; Women's History
J. Ronald Spencer	United States
Thomas Truxes	Ireland

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