PhD Reading Lists
history department
Below is a selection of reading lists that Ph.D. candidates used to prepare for their oral comprehensive exams.
Asia
Nation, Religion, and Modernity (Ball, 2008)
Social History of Modern South Asia (Ball, 2008)
Women and Gender in Modern South Asia (Ball, 2008)
Atlantic World
Atlantic History (Hirota, 2007)
Atlantic History (Hardesty, 2010)
Atlantic World (Malanson, 2006)
Atlantic World, 1500-2000 (Hardesty, 2010)
Britain & British Empire
British Empire (Cowan, 2007)
British Empire (Doyle, 2001)
British Empire (Tumblin, 2011)
British History (Doyle, 2001)
British History (Kuiken, 2008)
British History (Tumblin, 2011)
Modern Britsh History (Chill, 2004)
Modern British History (Foss, 2011)
Modern British History (Tanis, 2004)
United Kingdom (Moloney, 2006)
Gender and Sexuality
Gender and Sexuality (Butler, 2011)
Queer Theory (Cavallari, 2004)
Race, Gender, and Ethnicity (Mezzano, 2002)
US Southern Women (Baines, 2005)
Women and Gender in Modern South Asia (Ball, 2008)
Global
International History (Noonan, 2010)
Ireland
Irish History (Cowan, 2007)
Irish Migration (Delahanty, 2008)
Irish Migration (McEvoy, 2009)
Modern Irish History (Foss, 2011)
Post-Famine Irish History (Delahanty, 2008)
Latin America
Latin America (Hardesty, 2010)
Material Culture
Material Culture/Religious History (Mason, 2008)
Medieval Studies
Art History (Mason, 2008)
Historical Archaeology (Mason, 2008)
Islamic History (Mason, 2008)
Religious History (Mason, 2008)
Modern Europe
Cold War (Kuiken, 2008)
Enlightenment/Freudian Theory (Cavallari, 2004)
European History (Moloney, 2006)
European History (Kuiken, 2008)
European Intellectual History (Butler, 2011)
European Intellectual History (Mezzano, 2002)
French History (Cavallari, 2004)
German History (King, 2008)
Modern European History (Butler, 2011)
Modern European History (Foss, 2011)
Modern European History (Tumblin, 2011)
Modern German History (Butler, 2011)
Russian History (Mukhina, 2003)
Trauma and Revolution in Europe (Meehan, 2009)
Religion
American Catholicism (McEvoy, 2009)
Islamic History (Mason, 2008)
Nation, Religion, and Modernity (Ball, 2008)
Religious History (Cowan, 2007)
Religious History (Mason, 2008)
US Catholic History (Nytroe, 2004)
US Religious History (Meehan, 2009)
US Religious History (Trutor, 2009)
U.S. History
American Catholicism (McEvoy, 2009)
American Immigration (Hirota, 2007)
American Irish History (Dwyer, 2003)
American West (Rathge, 2011)
Americans at War (Delahanty, 2008)
Civil War to Civil Rights (Rathge, 2011)
Cold War (Kuiken, 2008)
Colonial to Revolutionary War (Noonan, 2010)
Constitutional History (Rathge, 2011)
Cultural History (Trutor, 2009)
Early U.S. History (Chapman, 2004)
Early U.S. History (Cowan, 2007)
Diplomatic History (Chapman, 2004)
Foreign Policy (Malanson, 2006)
Foreign Policy (Tumblin, 2011)
Foreign Relations (Noonan, 2010)
Immigration and Ethnicity (Dwyer, 2003)
Immigration and Ethnicity (McEvoy, 2009)
Immigration/Ethnic Identity (Meehan, 2009)
Irish Migration (Delahanty, 2008)
Late U.S. History (Chapman, 2004)
Mid-Nineteenth to Mid-Twentieth Century US History (Delahanty, 2008)
Military History (Chapman, 2004)
19th Century American History (Nytroe, 2004)
19th Century US History (Hirota, 2007)
Political History 1787-1914 (Malanson, 2006)
Race, Gender, and Ethnicity (Mezzano, 2002)
Religious History (Cowan, 2007)
Religious History (Meehan, 2009)
Religious History (Trutor, 2009)
Slavery, African Americans, and the American South, 1607-1900 (Hardesty, 2010)
Slavery, Race, and Abolitionism (Hirota, 2007)
Social/Intellectual History (Mezzano, 2002)
Southern Women History (Baines, 2005)
US Catholic History (Nytroe, 2004)
U.S. History 1750-1860 (Malanson, 2006)
US History, 1789-1877 (Hardesty, 2010)
U.S. History 1850-1950 (Dwyer, 2003)
US History Since 1865 (Trutor, 2009)
US History 1877-Present (Noonan, 2007)
US History to 1789 (Hardesty, 2010)
US History to 1877 (Meehan, 2009)