European history at the University of Maryland combines bold scholarship and commitment to mentoring with the unparalleled resources of the Washington area. The 19 members of our European faculty work together, crossing chronological, geographical, and thematic boundaries, to train undergraduate and graduate students rigorously to rethink European history and Europe’s historical role in all its dimensions.

Distinguished fields of study range from the ancient Mediterranean and medieval world to the study of the twentieth century, and areas of internationally recognized strength include Central and Eastern Europe. In the modern European field, some of our most innovative research focuses on the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. The European program maintains close ties to the Russian and Soviet history field as well as the British, Jewish, Women and Gender, and International and Diplomatic history programs. Notable thematic interests among faculty and students include politics and culture; economic and social history; revolutionary history; gender; and technology. We are actively pursuing the development of our interests in early modern Europe, transnational and international history, and the history of empire.

Our undergraduate field concentrators have won university and national awards and many have gone on to postbaccalaureate study  at prestigious graduate and professional schools. Students in the master of arts and doctoral programs come to us with undergraduate and master's degrees from a wide range of institutions. In 2007, graduate students in the Modern European field held prior degrees from the American University in Bulgaria, Amherst College, the Johns Hopkins University, Ohio University, the University of Minnesota, the University of Wisconsin, and many others. Graduate students have been recipients of top national research and dissertation-writing fellowships, including, most recently, the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies Dissertation Fellowship, the Research Scholar Fellowship of the American Council of Teachers of Russian, the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Research Fellowship, the International Research and Exchanges Board Fellowship, and the Foundation for the Research and Study of the East German Dictatorship Fellowship. Our graduate alumni have a high rate of placement into jobs as historians at research and teaching institutions as well as at such institutions as the National Archives and Records Administration, the U.S. Department of State, and the United States Memorial Holocaust Museum.

Join us! European history at Maryland has a distinguished past and an even brighter future.

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