Africa & Its Diaspora

Focuses on people of African descent inside & outside the African continent.

Ancient/Medieval

Includes ancient Greece and Rome, the world of Late Antiquity (fourth–seventh centuries), medieval Europe (fourth–fifteenth centuries), and the medieval Mediterranean (including Byzantium, the Near East, and North Africa). History courses in Classics count towards this field.

Asia (East Asia, South Asia, Central Asia and Middle East)

Includes East, South and Central Asia (Middle East).

The Atlantic World

Focuses on the relationship between Europe, Africa, & the Americas, ca. 1500–1820, through circulation of people, goods, and ideas.

Early Modern/Modern Europe

Includes early modern and modern European history (including Russia).

Environment and Health

Includes environmental history, the history of disease, and the history of medicine.

Latin America

Focuses on the pre-Hispanic, colonial and post-colonial eras of the region with an emphasis on Mesoamerica, the Andes, the Southern Cone, Brazil, and Cuba.

United States

Includes the histories of the US, including African American and Indigenous history and histories of the environment, immigration, labor, women, and gender.