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Places and time periods of study are open. Graduate training will incorporate an extensive focus on scholarship of key related topics, such as race and racism, labor and capitalism, empire and colonialism, emancipation and citizenship, and gender and sexuality.
Students in the Histories of Slavery, Freedom and (Un)Freedom track will be part of the larger History Department incoming cohort and graduate program with all of its faculty and course offerings while belonging to their own structured unit of dedicated faculty, courses, and speakers’ series.
Students admitted to the doctoral program will receive five-year financial aid packages that include stipends of at least $23,000 per annum, tuition remission, and health insurance. Our department values people of diverse backgrounds and prioritizes a climate where they will thrive.
While historians know that history is about interpreting primary sources, students tend to think of history as a set of facts. In The Saint and the Count, History Professor Leah Shopkow opens up the interpretive world of the historian using the biography of St. Vitalis of Savigny (d. 1122) as a case study.
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Robin is an Indiana University-Bloomington sophomore from Jeffersonville, Indiana, majoring in English, history, and sociology. Robin is pictured here at the Oscar Wilde monument in Dublin, Ireland.
Find out what a history major can do for you"The value of a history major comes in its incredible power to provide context for the world we live in today. In the world of fake news, being able to work efficiently with primary sources is a skill that cannot be undervalued."
Jessica Leach (Ph.D., 2017) received her Ph.D. in Medieval History under the supervision of Dr. Leah Shopkow in 2017. She is the Indigenous Languages Grant Manager for The Language Conservancy (TLC) and the Lakota Language Consortium. In 2020, Jessica wrote a National Endowment for Humanities grant “E-Learning Platform Expansion and Reader Creation” for the Lakota Language Consortium (LLC), which was awarded. This grant allowed LLC to add a Teacher Portal and classroom integration feature into their Lakota e-learning platform called Owóksape (“Learning Place” in Lakota).
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