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The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies offers students the opportunity to do an interdisciplinary undergraduate concentration, including a summer internship, and a Ph.D. program.
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Holocaust History/Genocide Studies: Track Time Line
Year 1
- Students are required to take a total of six courses; three courses each semester.
- Students are required to demonstrate competency in one research-appropriate language (other than English) by the end of the year, and at the latest prior to the start of Year 2.
- It is the student's responsibility to secure the agreement of a Center faculty member to serve as her/his dissertation director by the last day of classes of Year 1.
- Students are required to have written a short (3-4pp.) cogent, “proto” dissertation proposal by the end of the first year. This typically is used as the basis for discussion between student and desired advisor to determine the potential for a constructive, long-term mentoring relationship.
- Students will participate in an annual review of their progress at the end of the first year of study. The HH/GS graduate studies director (who serves as the advisor to all first-year students) solicits evaluations from all the professors with whom the students have studied. The HH/GS graduate studies director writes a redacted evaluation which is shared with the history department chair, the history department graduate director, all Strassler Center faculty, and the student's dissertation advisor (in the exceptional case when the advisor is not one of the people listed above). The student then meets with the HH/GS graduate director and the student's advisor to discuss her/his experience, progress, and aspirations, and to review the year-end assessment. This meeting occurs during the exam period, and it is the student's responsibility to schedule it at a time convenient to the HH/GS graduate studies director and his/her advisor. A satisfactory annual review is required for the student to proceed.
Year 2
- Students are required to take a total of six courses. Note that the preparation of the dissertation prospectus is considered directed research and, as such, qualifies as a course.
- Students are required to demonstrate competency in a second research-appropriate language (other than English) by the end of Year 2, and at the latest prior to the start of Year 3.
- Students are required to have written a preliminary dissertation proposal by the last day of classes of Year 2. This is done in consultation with the advisor, and the final product must be approved by the advisor.
- Students are required to secure their oral comprehensive examination panel by the last day of classes of Year 2.
- Students participate in an annual review of their progress. This meeting occurs during the exam period. It is the student's responsibility to schedule it at a time convenient to his/her advisor. Each student's advisor will solicit the evaluations and follow the process for his/her advisee(s). Again, a satisfactory annual review is required for the student to proceed.
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Year 3
- Students in the HH/GS track are required to have taken - and passed - their
field exams by the middle or at the latest by the last day of classes of their third year. It is anticipated that, in addition to two years of course work, students will need the first semester of the third year to prepare for them properly.
Holocaust history track students will be required to demonstrate competency in four fields. These fields are:
- Modern European History
- History of the Holocaust
- A field specifically designed around the candidate's research interests
- Comparative Genocide: This field is fulfilled by taking two courses in
genocide studies.
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Genocide Studies track students will be required to demonstrate competency in four fields. These fields are:
- Genocide Studies
- The history of the region relevant to the student's dissertation project
- A field specifically designed around the candidate's research interests
- Holocaust History: This field is fulfilled by taking two courses in
Holocaust history.
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- Dissertation proposals (12-15 pp.) are due by the middle of Year 3. It is the student's responsibility to schedule the dissertation proposal defense. Students may not defend their proposals until after they have passed their oral comprehensive exams, and they are required to defend their proposal successfully by the last day of classes in the spring term. Please remember that one's dissertation committee is not necessarily identical to one's oral comprehensive exams committee. It is the student's responsibility to attend to this.
- Students begin their doctoral research in the second semester of Year 3. It is anticipated that HH/GS candidates will do most of their field work abroad.
Students must give their advisors a Progress Report form to sign during the spring term reading period.
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Year 4
- It is anticipated that this entire year will be devoted to dissertation research.
- Students must give their advisors a Progress Report form to sign during the spring term reading period.
Year 5
- It is anticipated that it will take an entire year for the dissertation to be written. It is the responsibility of the student to develop a production schedule with her/his advisor and to submit chapters to the other committee members according to their wishes.
- Please note : if the student wishes to receive the Ph.D. at the May Commencement , the schedule must be developed with that date in mind. The revised dissertation and background forms must be deposited with the Graduate School Office and the History Office by the deadline issued by the Graduate School, usually by April 1 . Students therefore would need to get the whole of their dissertation to their committee members a minimum of six weeks prior to the Graduate School deadline . This would allow members sufficient time to read the manuscript and
to provide the student with an opportunity to revise the dissertation accordingly and schedule (and pass) the defense.
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