Primary Fields
An individual professor will serve as a major professor of a PhD student in a primary field. The professor will be responsible for the student’s preliminary examination in the primary field and will mentor the student’s doctoral dissertation.
General Fields
Each field will have a coordinator, who will be responsible for coordinating 1) the field’s preliminary examination and 2) the initial mentor screening of graduate applications (MA and PhD) for the field. The coordinator will also serve on the Graduate Studies Committee.
(V) = Vancouver Campus
(TC) = Tri Cities Campus
| Field of Study | Faculty |
|---|---|
| Modern Europe | Ray Sun |
| Ashley Wright | |
| US | Robert Bauman (TC) |
| Peter Boag (V) | |
| Ryan Booth | |
| Marlene Gaynair | |
| Iván González-Soto | |
| Lawrence Hatter | |
| Noriko Kawamura | |
| Heather McNamee | |
| Jeff Sanders | |
| Clif Stratton | |
| Matt Sutton | |
| Jennifer Thigpen | |
| Public | Robert Bauman (TC) |
| Ryan Booth | |
| Marlene Gaynair | |
| Iván González-Soto | |
| Heather McNamee | |
| Early Modern Europe | Sue Peabody (V) |
| Jesse Spohnholz | |
| World | Andra Chastain (V) |
| Marlene Gaynair | |
| Sue Peabody (V) | |
| Xiuyu Wang (V) | |
| Ashley Wright | |
| East Asia | William Puck Brecher |
| Xiuyu Wang (V) |
(V) = Vancouver Campus
(TC) = Tri Cities Campus
World/Comparative Field (Ph.D. students only)
All PhD students must take 9 credits of graduate courses to fulfill the requirements of World/Comparative Field. The World/Comparative Field will have dual purposes of (1) providing opportunities that allow students to learn and explore global and comparative perspectives of students’ research subjects, and (2) offering credible training in world history as a teaching field. No preliminary examination is required for the World/Comparative Field. Students must pass all three courses with a minimum grade of B+. All students (except those who take World History as their General field*) are required to take 570, 571, and one more field course (either 571, a graduate field course outside their General Field, or a 400- or 500-level course outside History.
*Students who pursue World History as their General Field must define a comparative field in consultation with their major professor, and take at least 9 credits of graduate field courses that will focus on specific geographic areas outside their Primary Field, or 6 credits of those courses and one course outside the discipline of history.