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The program in European history is a vital part of our graduate program, offering a course of study focusing on both national and chronological fields and innovative thematic courses. We are particularly strong in the national fields of British, French, German and Russian history, with additional strengths in the histories of Eastern Europe, the Mediterranean and the Atlantic World. Students interested in the history of religion, political culture, women’s history and colonial and transnational histories, will find exceptional strengths in our faculty’s research and course offerings. Our graduate students draw on the expertise and broad interests of over twenty core faculty members in the history department in New Brunswick, as well as more than a dozen additional faculty members in related fields. Students can choose to focus on medieval, early modern or modern Europe for their major field. But whether medievalists, early modernists or modernists, we foster the training of Europeanists whose research topics and teaching preparation transcend national and chronological boundaries. As a result, most of our students choose to complement their studies in European history with minor fields in comparative and global history, women’s and gender history, or the history of health, environment and technology.