Preferred Fields of Study forms
The following information is designed to help applicants complete the Preferred Fields of Study Form (for MA and for PhD), which must be submitted with the application materials. Please use the form to advise the Graduate Studies Committee as to your preference(s) regarding primary fields, secondary fields, and major professors.
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.
(V) = Vancouver Campus
(TC) = Tri Cities Campus
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.
| Field of Study | Faculty Member(s) |
|---|---|
| U.S. | Robert Bauman (TC) Peter Boag (V) Ryan Booth Marlene Gaynair Lawrence Hatter Noriko Kawamura Rob McCoy Laurie Mercier (V) Jeff Sanders Matt Sutton Jennifer Thigpen |
| Early Modern Europe | Sue Peabody (V) Jesse Spohnholz |
| Modern Europe | Brigit Farley (TC) Ray Sun Ashley Wright |
| Public | Robert Bauman (TC) Ryan Booth Marlene Gaynair Rob McCoy Laurie Mercier (V) |
| East Asia | William Puck Brecher Xiuyu Wang (V) |
| World | Andra Chastain (V) Marlene Gaynair Sue Peabody (V) Xiuyu Wang (V) Ashley Wright |
(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.