MA in History - Latin America in Seattle United States | University of Washington

Welcome to the History Graduate Program at the University of Washington. Our mission is to educate future historians who contribute to academic knowledge about history while also teaching and connecting with wider audiences. With over 50 MA and PhD candidates across diverse specializations, our program stands out for its extensive faculty expertise. We encourage cross-disciplinary and comparative historical methods, allowing students to collaborate with professors both within our department and across other UW programs. Faculty and graduate students actively participate in digital history initiatives aimed at enhancing research, education, and public engagement with historical scholarship.

At the University of Washington, graduate studies in Latin American History—spanning both colonial and post-colonial eras—are available as primary or secondary concentrations. While we have particular strengths in examining late Spanish colonial governance and its consequences in the Andes and Caribbean regions, students may focus on any historical period or topic. Our curriculum addresses all key eras in Latin American and Caribbean history, with an emphasis on multidisciplinary perspectives. Faculty research specialties encompass social and cultural history, U.S.-Latin American relations, medical and public health history, slavery and abolition studies, migration and diaspora formation, rural studies, race studies, nation-building processes, gender and sexuality history, and urban development.