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 : hist@upracd.upr.clu.edu

DEGREE OFFERED

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 .

DOCTORAL PROGRAM IN HISTORY

Requirements for Admission

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

  1. A masters degree in History or the equivalent
  2. A minimum grade point average of 3.00, overall and in the area of specialization
  3. Six credits in Historiography and Criticism,—three credits in Theory of History, and three credits in Historical Research Methods, or their equivalent
  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

The main field of the doctoral program is Puerto Rico and the Caribbean; complementary fields are Latin America and the United States; additional fields are Europe, Asia, and Africa.

Program Requirements

Credits

Courses in the area of interest, including HIST 8900 Dissertation Proposal

15

Complementary Field

9

Electives

6

HIST 8800 Comprehensive Examination (historiographical essays)

0

HIST 8905 Doctoral Thesis

0

HIST 8906 Doctoral Thesis Continued

30

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