The Department of History at Brown trains graduate students in a wide range of fields, methodologies, and regions of the globe. 

As a medium-sized program, we offer an intimate setting that fosters tightly-knit cohorts and that offers the opportunity to work closely with world-class scholars in research and teaching. Our department consists of a community of scholars – graduate students, undergraduates, and faculty – who share the values of the pursuit of history: exacting research in first-hand materials, critical context building, and the analysis of problems in the long term. We aim for an inclusive and equitable intellectual atmosphere, and prize comparative, connective, and collaborative thinking across chronological and geographical borders.