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Areas of Emphasis By Region or Thematic Cluster
Our graduate program has four areas of emphasis: United States, European History, Military & Diplomatic, and Comparative Border Studies.
United States
Historians of the United States at Texas A&M cover a wide range of topics from the colonial period through the twentieth century, but have special strengths in political, Southern, and Western history, the history of race and ethnicity, women and gender, and rural, immigration, business, and labor history. Graduate students are encouraged to specialize in one of these areas, but also to think broadly about the history of the United States and to compare U.S. history with that of other nations.
Faculty in this area:
- Alonzo, Armando - Mexican American, Texas, and Spanish borderlands history
- Alpern, Sara - American social/intellectual history; American women
- Anderson, Terry H. - Modern U.S.
- Baum, Dale - 19th Century U.S. political history and quantitative methods
- Bickham, Troy - Atlantic world, Britain and its empire, early American
- Blackwelder, Julia Kirk - Modern U.S., American women and U.S. South
- Blanton, Carlos - Latino/a, U.S., and Texas
- Bradford, James C. - Naval and maritime history; American Revolution and early U.S.
- Brooks, Charles E. - Early U.S.
- Broussard, Albert S. - Afro-American History
- Buenger, Walter L. - Texas and the U.S. South
- Dawson, Joseph G. - U.S. Military History, and the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction
- Dunlap, Thomas - Environmental history
- Engel, Katherine Carte - Colonial America; Atlantic World; American religion
- Hatfield, April - Early America, Atlantic world, and Caribbean
- Hudson, Angela Pulley - American Indian history and U.S. South
- Kamphoefner, Walter - 19th-century U.S., American immigration, urban, and quantitative methods
- Lenihan, John H. - Modern U.S.; cultural and intellectual history
- Livesay, Harold C. - (Clifford A. Taylor Professor in Liberal Arts) U.S. and business and economic history
- Obadele-Starks, Ernest - African-American and labor history
- Parker, Jason - U.S. foreign relations and modern U.S.
- Stranges, Anthony N. - U.S. and history of science
- Unterman, Katherine - 19th Century US, American foreign relations, legal history
- Vaught, David - U.S. agriculture, labor; the Gilded Age, and the Progressive Era
- Warsh, Molly - British and Iberian Worlds, Early Caribbean, History of Commodities and Consumption
- Wood, Julia Erin - 20th Century US
European History
Faculty and graduate students in European history (medieval, early modern, and modern) specialize in several national fields, most notably British, French, German, and Russian history. The program blends traditional and non-traditional approaches to political, social, cultural, economic, and intellectual history. Research projects that cut across geographic regions, fields, and disciplines are encouraged.
Faculty in this area:
- Adams, R.J.Q. - Modern Britain
- Bickham, Troy - Atlantic world, Britain and its empire, early American
- Bouton, Cynthia A. - Modern France, European women and gender, European social history
- Coopersmith, Jonathan - History of technology; Russia and the Soviet Union
- Dunning, Chester S. L. - Russia and early modern Europe
- Hudson, David - Britain and Ireland
- Krammer, Arnold - Modern Europe, modern Germany, Third Reich, and the Holocaust
- Kim, Hoi-eun - Central Europe and Japan
- Reese, Roger R. - Social and military history of the Soviet Union
- Resch, Robert P. - European and intellectual history
- Rosenheim, James M. - Early modern Britain; gender
- Schloss, Rebecca Hartkopf - Atlantic World, Caribbean, and France
- Seipp, Adam - European war and society, Germany, and transnational history
- Warsh, Molly - British and Iberian Worlds, Early Caribbean, History of Commodities and Consumption
Military and Diplomatic
The Department of History provides doctoral candidates in diplomatic and military history the opportunity to focus on the United States, Europe, or Latin America. Current faculty and graduate students study foreign policy and international relations, military experience and thought, and war and society. They are complemented by colleagues in the department who specialize in Britain, Germany, the Soviet Union, and the history of technology.
Faculty in this area:
- Adams, R.J.Q. - Modern Britain
- Anderson, Terry H. - Modern U.S.
- Bradford, James C. - Naval and maritime history; American Revolution and early U.S.
- Dawson, Joseph G. - U.S. Military History, and the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction
- Kirkendall, Andrew - Latin America, Brazil, and inter-American relations
- Linn, Brian M. - Military, U.S., and Pacific
- Parker, Jason - U.S. foreign relations and modern U.S.
- Reese, Roger R. - Social and military history of the Soviet Union
- Seipp, Adam - European war and society, Germany, and transnational history
Comparative Border Studies
Comparative Border Studies is an interdisciplinary program that examines shifting boundaries of race, class, gender, religion, and politics in a variety of international and cultural settings. It builds on the rich themes that have long animated the study of the Atlantic World and the Spanish Borderlands of North America — including multiculturalism, conquest, human agency, identity formation, and environmental diversity — but extends these approaches methodologically, theoretically, and geographically. Students have the opportunity to study with faculty whose collective expertise includes Asia, Africa, Europe, Atlantic communities, the Americas, and regions within the United States.
Faculty in this area:
- Alonzo, Armando - Mexican American, Texas, and Spanish borderlands history
- Bickham, Troy - Atlantic world, Britain and its empire, early American
- Blanton, Carlos - Latino/a, U.S., and Texas
- Buenger, Walter L. - Texas and the U.S. South
- Chambers, Glenn - African diaspora, Latin America, and Caribbean
- Dror, Olga - Modern East Asia and Vietnam
- Dunlap, Thomas - Environmental history
- Engel, Katherine Carte - Colonial America, Atlantic World, American religion
- Hatfield, April - Early America, Atlantic world, and Caribbean
- Hudson, Angela Pulley - American Indian history and U.S. South
- Kim, Hoi-eun - Central Europe and Japan
- Ramos, Lisa - American Southwest
- Schloss, Rebecca Hartkopf - Atlantic World, Caribbean, and France
- Warsh, Molly - British and Iberian Worlds, Early Caribbean, History of Commodities and Consumption