Master's in History M.A., M.S.
Why Earn A Master's in History at OSU?
The Master's in History program equips students with a deep and broad understanding of history and with a range of transferable skills - research methods, analyzing and contextualizing sources, critical thinking and problem-solving, communicating with academic and public audiences, and working collaboratively. Our coursework, mentored research, internships, and professional development opportunities prepare graduates for success in careers in academia; secondary school teaching and curriculum development; journalism and new media; editing and publishing; museums, archives, and other public history venues; law, public policy, and politics; the nonprofit sector; and related fields.
Thematic Options
- Students pursuing an option in Global Perspectives on War, Peace, and Empire explore global histories of nationalism, colonialism and post-colonialism, military conflict, diplomacy, and peacemaking from the ancient world to the twenty-first century.
- Students pursuing an option in Community History and Civic Engagement explore citizenship, identity, and belonging in United States history through histories of gender and sexuality, immigration and racial formation, politics, policymaking, and social movements while getting training and experience in public history and oral history methodologies.
Our Faculty
Our faculty bring a wealth of geographical, temporal, methodological, and thematic expertise.
Primary Graduate Faculty (faculty who can serve as a student's "major professor," or primary advisor): Geoff Barstow, Kelly Bosworth, Marisa Chappell, Jacob Hamblin, Trina Hogg, Katherine Hubler, Hung-yok Ip, Amy Koehlinger, Rena Lauer, Ben Mutschler, Kevin Osterloh, Kara Ritzheimer, Stacey Smith, Nicole von Germeten, Joel Zapata
Additional Graduate Faculty: Eliza Barstow, John Bawden, Nicholas Foreman, Anna-Christine Grant, Matt Lynch, Jennifer Macias, Linda Richards, Steven Shay, Mason Tattersall
Being part of the Master's of History cohort at Oregon State University has been life-changing for me. I have been able to be in contact with excellent professors who are passionate about their subjects. It is a demanding program intellectually and academically. But everyone on the faculty makes you feel understood, and they are always willing to help you in any matter. The greatest lesson I have learned as a historian is humility and sensitivity to knowledge and people.-Sharon Salgado Martinez, currently a PhD student in History at University of Southern California
Accelerated Master's Platform in History
The Accelerated Master's Platform (AMP) allows select undergraduate History majors at OSU to take graduate-level courses, apply those credits to their current undergraduate degree, and transfer those credits into the MA or MS in History program.
Students apply to the program in their junior year and take up to 16 graduate credits during their senior year. With careful planning, students can complete their MA or MS with one additional year at OSU.
Students applying to the AMP in History complete the standard graduate application and must meet the minimum qualifications:
- Be currently enrolled as an OSU undergraduate student majoring in History;
- Have completed at least 105 credits of the required 180 credits for a Bachelor's degree;
- Have a minimum 3.25 grade point average for completed OSU undergraduate coursework.
- Meet the Office of Graduate Education's English language proficiency standards.
Interested students should contact Marisa Chappell, director of the History MA/MS program.
Apply by January 31 for admission in Spring of junior year or by June 31 for admission in Fall of senior year.
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