FACULTY OF HUMANITIES

Department of History

Address : Box 23350, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00931-3350

Telephone : (787) 764-0000, exts. 3007, 2068, 2076

Fax : (787) 772-1461

E-mail : histograd@uprrp.edu

DEGREES OFFERED

MA in History

PhD in History

FACULTY

Manuel Alvarado-Morales , Doctorate, El Colegio de México, 1979, Professor.
Colonial Latin America, the Caribbean, and Puerto Rico.

María del Carmen Baerga-Santini , PhD, State University of New York,1997, Professor.
Labor history; gender issues and social movements; Puerto Rico; Latin America .

Guillermo Baralt , PhD, University of Chicago, 1976, Professor.
Puerto Rico; Latin America; the history of slavery .

Astrid Cubano-Iguina , PhD, Princeton University, 1988, Professor.
Historiography; Latin America; economic and social history; Spain .

María Eugenia Estades-Font , Doctorate, National Autonomous University of Mexico, 1987, Professor.
Puerto Rico; Latin America; methodology; military history .

Bruno Ferrer-Higueras, , PhD, Universitat de Barcelona, 2003, Assistant Professor. LateAntiquity; the Arab World; Spain

Javier Figueroa , PhD, University of Connecticut, 1988, Professor.
Cuba; the contemporary United States; Latin America .

Juan A. Giusti-Cordero, JD, University of Puerto Rico, 1978; PhD, State University of New York-Binghampton, 1994, Associate Professor.
The United States, the Caribbean; social history; eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Francisco Moscoso , PhD, State University of New York-Binghampton, 1981, Professor.
Puerto Rico; Pre-Colombian and the colonial Caribbean; Latin America .

Marcial E. Ocasio-Meléndez , PhD, Michigan State University, 1988, Professor.
Mexico ; Latin America; urban history .

Carlos Pabón , PhD, University of Massachusetts, 1990, Professor.
Contemporary history of the United States and modern Europe; cultural history .

Fernando Picó , PhD, Johns Hopkins University, 1970, Professor.
Puerto Rico; medieval Europe; the Renaissance .

Sandra Pujals , PhD, Georgetown University, 1999, Associate Professor.
Russia and the Soviet Union; modern and contemporary Europe .

Manuel Rodríguez , PhD, Temple University, 2000, Associate Professor.
The contemporary United States; Latin America .

Mayra Rosario-Urrutia , PhD, University of Puerto Rico, 1993, Professor.
Contemporary Puerto Rico and the United States; historiography of Puerto Rico; popular culture .

Pedro L. San Miguel , PhD, Columbia University, 1987, Professor.
Puerto Rico; the Dominican Republic; Latin America; agriculture movements .

César J. Solá-García , PhD, University of Michigan,1999, Associate Professor.
Africa; imperialism; Latin America .

MASTERS PROGRAM

Requirements for Admission

Candidates must fulfill all the general requirements for admission to graduate studies at the Río Piedras Campus. In addition, they must satisfy the following specific requirements:

1. A bachelor’s degree and 30 credit-hours in history courses
2. Completion of HIST 4225-4226 (Theory of History and Historical Research)
3. A minimum grade point average of 3.0, overall, and in history courses
4. Two letters of recommendation
5. An essay, in accordance with the Program’s instructions
6. An interview with the Graduate Committee (optional)

Requirements for Graduation

Candidates must fulfill all the requirements for graduation from the Río Piedras Campus. In addition, they must satisfy a third language requirement.

Program of Study

Description of Courses (PDF)