Special Degree Programs

Graduate Special and Interdisciplinary Programs

Programs offering interdisciplinary graduate degrees or specialties within the history Ph.D. program.

• Ancient History Graduate Program

  The Graduate Program in Ancient History offers a Ph.D. in European History with a specialization in Ancient (Greek and Roman) History.

• Committee on the History of Environment and Technology

  A group of scholars at the University of Virginia who are exploring the intersections of environmental history, history of technology, and other fields. Members of the committee come from across the university, including the Schools of Arts and Sciences (primarily History), Engineering, Law, and Architecture. The committee advises graduate students, oversees Graduate and Postdoctoral fellowships, organizes courses, and arranges seminars.

• East Asian Center

  The East Asia Center is an interdisciplinary forum for faculty and student interest in East and Southeast Asia and an organizer of extra-curricular lectures and activities. The University offers an M.A. or M.A./M.B.A in East Asian Studies.

• Jewish Studies

  The Jewish Studies Program allows students to focus on the history, languages, and literature of the Jewish people; the beliefs and practices of Judaism; and the enduring contributions of Jewish wisdom to human civilization.

• Legal and Constitutional History Program

  The Program on Leagal and Constitutional History is a joint-degree opportunity that allows students currently enrolled in the University Virginia School of Law to obtain a J. D. and an M. A. in history in three years.

• Medieval Studies

  Provides an interdisciplinary and transhistorical framework for the study, teaching, and learning of premodern world civilizations, from the first centuries of the Common Era through the fifteenth century.

• Religious Studies

  The Department of Religious Studies is engaged in the analysis and interpretation of those dimensions of human experience and expressions of human culture commonly called "religious."

• South Asian Studies

  The Center for South Asian Studies is an interdisciplinary center that coordinates and promotes the study of South Asia- its diverse peoples, languages, cultures, religions and history.

• Southern History Graduate Program

  The Graduate Program in Southern History is specialty within the history department that focuses on the history of the American South.