Graduate Studies
Prospective Students
The application deadline for the MA and PhD programs beginning in Fall 2025 is January 15, 2025. Decisions will be made in February 2025.
Apply to the Graduate Program in History.
Graduate Programs in History
The graduate program in History at LSU offers an outstanding faculty and competitive student funding, including research and travel support. We have an excellent, congenial department, one that provides students with a great deal of individual attention. Students develop close working relationships with their faculty mentors and they explore their interests through small graduate level seminars and independently directed study.
The department offers graduate degrees in United States history, European history, or British history. We do not currently offer graduate degrees in other areas of the world, although we do offer minor fields (for PhD students) in areas outside the US, Europe, and Britain.
Our graduate programs require in-person attendance. We do not offer graduate level online courses, nor do we offer any online graduate degrees in history.
The LSU History Department offers two graduate degrees:
LSU’s History Department has earned an outstanding reputation for both the quality of its teaching and the high standards of its scholarship. The department is nationally and internationally recognized as a center for the study of Southern and Civil War history, but the department is strong in other areas of United States history – in particular, African American history, the cultural history of the twentieth century, and the history of women and gender. In addition, British history, Medieval and Renaissance studies, and the cultural and intellectual history of Modern Europe are areas of strength. The department also has faculty working on Latin America, Africa, South Asia, and China, and offers minor fields in those parts of the world as well as in world history.
The Department of History has an excellent record of placing its graduates after leaving LSU; many find teaching positions at colleges and universities across the nation. We also have graduates who have made careers in publishing, libraries and archives, government service, and secondary teaching.
Contact Us
For additional information, please contact the Director of Graduate Studies, Dr. Catherine O. Jacquet, via email at [email protected].
Dr. Ben Haines (2024) and Dr. Rob Powers (2024) at the History Department graduation celebration, May 2024.
The Department of History celebrates our graduated PhD and MA students at LSU graduation, May 2024.