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Graduate Student Affairs Committee
Placement & Fellowships Committee
Teaching Committee
Admissions and Aid Committee
Collegiate Affairs Committee
Advisory/Policy Committee
Curriculum Committee
Media & Communications Committee
Standing Department Committees
Graduate Student Affairs Committee:
- Dain Borges, Chair, Latin American History
- Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, British History
- Rachel Jean-Baptiste, African History
- Sheila Fitzpatrick, Russian History
- Julie Saville, United States History
The Graduate Affairs Administrator serves in a non-voting capacity.
There are also two students representatives.
As a group, we administer the graduate curriculum. You will need us most in your first and second years when we advise you on your plan of study and oral fields examination. We also evaluate your academic progress at the end of the year and make recommendations to the rest of the History faculty and the Dean of Students for funding increases. The student representatives attends our committee meetings, but do not attend our meeting to evaluate academic progress and make funding decisions.
Placement & Fellowships Committee:
- Alison Winter, Chair, History of Science
- Constantin Fasolt, Early Modern European History
- Cornell Fleischer, Middle Eastern Islamic History
The Graduate Affairs Administrator serves in a non-voting capacity.
We prepare students for academic teaching positions and recommend students for University and Department research and write-up fellowships.
Teaching Committee:
- Adrian Johns, Chair, History of Science
- Jonathan Lyon, Medieval History
- Mauricio Tenorio, Latin American History
Admissions and Aid:
- Jan Goldstein, Chair, Modern European History
- Rachel Fulton Brown, Medieval History
- Jonathan Hall, Ancient History
- Thomas Holt, United States History
- Walter Kaegi, Byzantine History
The Graduate Affairs Administrator serves in a non-voting capacity.
Collegiate Affairs Committee:
- Leora Auslander, Chair, Modern European History
- Matthew Briones, United States History
- James Ketelaar, Japanese History
Undergraduate Coordinator, Traci Parker, serves in a non-voting capacity.
We select History graduate student preceptors (who serve as concentration advisors for undergraduates) and Von Holst lecturers. We also formulate requirements and curriculum and decide which undergraduate concentrators receive departmental honors. The graduate student representatives participate in all committee activities, except appointing graduate students to teaching positions.
Advisory/Policy Committee:
- Bruce Cumings, Chair, Modern Korean History; East Asian Political Economy; International History
- Leora Auslander, Modern European History
- Dain Borges, Latin American History
- Jan Goldstein, Chair, Modern European History
- Alison Winter, History of Science
Media & Communications Committee:
- James Sparrow, Chair, United States History
- Tara Zahra, East European History
- Emily Osborn, African History
Curriculum Committee:
- Bruce Cumings, ex officio, Modern Korean History; East Asian Political Economy; International History
- Leora Auslander, ex officio, Modern European History
- Dain Borges, ex officio, Latin American History