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Requirements, Guides, and Policies

The following worksheets should act as guides as you plan out our academic career within the History Department. Once you have fulfilled all of the requirements on a worksheet, please hand in the completed worksheet, with your signature, to Joy Jones.

Requirements for Completion of MA

Requirements for Entering Doctoral Candidacy

Language and Additional Teaching Field Requirements

Requirements for Completion of PhD

The History Department Graduate Student Handbook contains critical and helpful information about program guidelines, regulations, financial aid, comprehensive exams, graduate teaching, and more.

Graduate Student Handbook (PDF)

Current students, if you prefer a hard copy of the handbook, please contact Jennifer Parker (jstacey@email.unc.edu)

Graduate students and faculty are also encouraged to consult the following guides to program requirements and deadlines:


554A Pauli Murray Hall*
102 Emerson Dr., CB #3195
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3195

*Though the History Department uses the name Pauli Murray Hall for our building, on official maps you will find it as Hamilton Hall. Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton’s intellectually dishonest historical and archival work promoted white supremacy. In contrast, Pauli Murray marshaled unassailable evidence and analysis in the service of racial and gender equality. In July 2020, all of the departments housed in the building agreed to adopt the name Pauli Murray Hall in place of Hamilton Hall. An official request with the Chancellor is pending. For more information, please see here.
phone: 919.962.2115
fax: 919.962.1403
email: history@unc.edu
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