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Interesting. I have talked with a few current PhD students who have all told me that the PhD program does support public history doctoral students. I will hopefully be visiting and will obviously be speaking with these professors so hopefully they can help me further, but I will keep this in mind! Editing to add that, should I not receive funding, I will not be accepting an offer of admission.

My ideal end goal is academia, though my absolute dream job is to establish a public history program at a study abroad university. I am absolutely in love with research and my research interests, so I want to continue to pursue them as much as possible. With that being said, I realize that academia has an absolutely horrendous job outlook, so I am interested in pursuing preservation jobs or museum work. The suggestion to look at European history more generally is a great idea, especially if I can find a program with a public history minor. Thank you for your suggestion!

Oh no! Yes, I am a bit concerned about the placement rates, which is unfortunate, as I feel great about the fits.

I actually used that list to help choose programs! Thank you for offering to answer any questions. I am sure that I will have them going forward.

Hello everyone! A cohort-mate of mine recommended this forum because of my interest in a History PhD program. I'm about to start my second semester of my master's degree, specializing in European and public history. I have a slightly below average master's GPA that I hope to raise this coming semester and about average GRE scores, but I have had language training in Latin, French, and Italian and I've been working on German independently. I conducted independent research as an undergrad and will be pursuing more original research this summer, hopefully through a research funding grant. Broadly, my interests are in how people use and have used historical places and objects in order to connect with the past. Over the summer, I will be researching this in the context of Rome and Athens. I am also interested in material and popular culture and consumption, gender, everyday life, and wartime in Europe and America during the twentieth century and I am thinking of ways that I can synthesize my interests. I am hoping that my research over the summer and my courses this semester will help me get a more focused idea of what I want to work on. Right now, these are the programs that I am interested in and the people that I am interested in working with: Temple (Lowe, Bruggeman) Loyola of Chicago (Fraterrigo, Gorn) University of Massachusetts - Amherst (Olsen, Glassberg) University of New England (Zuelow, De Wolfe) It is not a very long list at the moment, but I would appreciate any suggestions that you would be willing to give! I hope to continue doing public history-related research as a career, but am also heavily interested in preservation and museum work.