Master of Arts in History
If you love history, we would love to see you here. Whether you want to work in a museum or state archives, become a lawyer, or eventually earn a Ph.D., we want to help you achieve your goals.
The graduate history program provides students an opportunity to work closely with faculty who are active research scholars in a wide variety of fields, covering periods ranging from classical antiquity to post-war Europe, and geographic specializations including the United States, Asia, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East.
Students completing the M.A. degree receive a solid grounding in research methods, historical writing, and the scholarly literature in their chosen area of concentration. Our students are a diverse group hailing from every part of Alabama, across the country, and around the world, who go on to pursue careers as teachers at the secondary and post-secondary levels, museum workers, historic preservationists, lawyers, journalists, and knowledge workers in a variety of other professions in which rigorous thinking, meticulous research skills, and good writing are in demand.
Learn more about our graduate course offerings by visiting the course catalog.
$15,000 Scholarship for First-Year Master's Student
The UAB Department of History offers a $15,000 scholarship to one graduate student entering the master’s program at the start of each academic year. The department offers this award annually to help launch a promising student on their academic career. Your application for admission to the master’s program will serve as the basis for the scholarship committee’s selection of a winner.
