MA in History - Europe - Medieval to Modern Times in Seattle United States | University of Washington

Welcome to the University of Washington's History Graduate Program, where we prepare future historians to deepen academic knowledge of history while educating and connecting with wider audiences. Our program has over 50 students working toward MA and PhD degrees across diverse historical fields, supported by faculty with extensive expertise. We encourage cross-disciplinary and comparative historical methods, allowing students to collaborate with professors across multiple disciplines and university departments. Both faculty and graduate students participate in numerous digital history initiatives aimed at enhancing academic research, education, and public engagement with historical studies.

The Early Modern Europe period (1450-1789) encompasses Europe's transformative expansion during the Renaissance—marked by economic, political, imperial, and cultural shifts—and concludes with the upheavals leading to the French Revolution. Graduate students can specialize in national histories or explore transnational themes. Our early modern faculty's research spans diverse topics, including Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy, Reformation social history, European expansion, interactions with the Americas and the Ottoman Empire, early globalization, the Scientific Revolution, Baroque court culture, urban development, and sociopolitical history.