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GRADUATE PROGRAMS

The Department of History at Georgia State University offers programs leading to the degrees of Master of Arts (M.A.), Master of Arts with a concentration in World History, Master of Heritage Preservation (M.H.P.), and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.). Committed to broad-based and innovative approaches to graduate study, the faculty includes historians of the United States, Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. The department is particularly strong in the history of the U.S. South, urban and labor history, the history of race and ethnicity, and women's and gender history. 

All of our students are supported in their intellectual growth through a myriad of services, including graduate student organizations, world history lectures and workshops, study abroad opportunities, and working relationships with nationally-recognized faculty.  Please explore the links at right to learn more about the university an community as well as opportunities and resources for graduate students.

The University and the Community

Located in the heart of downtown Atlanta, Georgia State University is a public urban university with some 25,000 students, recently ranked by U.S. News & World Report as the seventeenth most diverse campus in the country. Like Georgia State's well-respected law school and business school, the arts and sciences faculty is steadily gaining recognition for its cutting-edge research and scholarship. A vibrant and fast-growing metropolitan area, Atlanta is a Southern crossroads of global migration and diaspora. 

Opportunities and Resources

  • Through the Association of Georgia State University Historians (AGSUH), an independent organization led by graduate students, the department fosters a sense of intellectual community.
  •  The department’s graduate student listserv provides information on public history events, talks, and workshops in the Atlanta community.
  • The department also promotes interdisciplinary programs. It contributes to the Women's Studies Institute, the Center for Latin American and Hispanic Studies, and the Center for Middle East Studies. It helped found the Seminar in the Comparative History of Labor, Industry, Technology, and Society (SCHLITS) which brings together graduate students and faculty members from GSU, Emory University, and the Georgia Institute of Technology.
  • Graduate students engaged in research are able to exploit a wide variety of research and archival collections in metro Atlanta. The Department of Special Collections at GSU's Pullen Library includes the Southern Labor Archives, the Georgia Women's Movement Archives, and the Georgia Government Documentation Project. In addition, the Atlanta History Center, the southeast regional branch of the National Archives, the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, the Auburn Avenue Research Library, and the State Archives of Georgia are nearby. Students also have access to the libraries and collections of Emory University, the Atlanta University Center, and the University of Georgia at Athens.