University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Military history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill partners with the Duke History department in a collaborative program of common courses, sharing of faculty, and interchange in a number of areas. Students take courses at both institutions, use the military and associated historians for examinations and theses, and make use of the resources of both departments and universities. The Triangle Institute for Security Studies provides an additional venue for faculty and graduate students to study and interact on the issues of national and international security broadly defined.

 

Contact Information:

Institution Web Site: http://www.unc.edu
Department Address: Department of History
CB3195
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3195
Department Web Site: http://www.unc.edu/depts/history/
Degrees Offered: M.A, Ph.D.
Department Point of Contact: William Fitzhugh Brundage, Director of Graduate Studies
Point of Contact Address: Department of History
CB3195
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3195
Point of Contact Phone: (919) 962-5452
Point of Contact Email: brundage@email.unc.edu

 

The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill does offer graduate assistantships.

 

Military History Faculty:

Faculty Member #1

Faculty Name: William L. Barney
Highest Degree & Date Earned: Ph.D., 1971
School Conferring Highest Degree: Columbia University
Areas of Specialization: Social and Political History of 19th-Century America

 

Faculty Member #2

Faculty Name: E. Willis Brooks
Highest Degree & Date Earned: Ph.D., 1970
School Conferring Highest Degree: Stanford University
Areas of Specialization: Nineteenth-Century Russian Social, Administrative, Military History

 

Faculty Member #3

Faculty Name: Christopher R. Browning, Frank Porter Graham Professor
Highest Degree & Date Earned: Ph.D., 1975
School Conferring Highest Degree: University of Wisconsin
Areas of Specialization: Modern German history
Holocaust Studies

 

Faculty Member #4

Faculty Name: Joseph T. Glatthaar
Highest Degree & Date Earned: Ph.D., 1983
School Conferring Highest Degree: University of Wisconsin
Areas of Specialization: American Military History, Civil War

 

Faculty Member #5

Faculty Name: Karen Hagemann, James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor
Highest Degree & Date Earned: Ph.D., 1989
School Conferring Highest Degree: Hamburg University
Areas of Specialization: Modern German and European history of military and war (18-20 C.);
Cultural and gender history of the nation, the military, and war

 

Faculty Member #6

Faculty Name: R. Don Higginbotham, Dowd Professor
Highest Degree & Date Earned: Ph.D., 1958
School Conferring Highest Degree: Duke University
Areas of Specialization: Colonial and Revolutionary America, emphasis on the 18th century

 

Faculty Member #5

Faculty Name: Michael H. Hunt, Everett H. Emerson Professor
Highest Degree & Date Earned: Ph.D., 1971
School Conferring Highest Degree: Yale University
Areas of Specialization: U.S. Foreign Relations
American-East Asian Relations

 

Faculty Member #6

Faculty Name: Richard H. Kohn
Highest Degree & Date Earned: Ph.D., 1968
School Conferring Highest Degree: University of Wisconsin
Areas of Specialization: U.S. Military History
Civil-Military Relations

 

Faculty Member #7

Faculty Name: Wayne Lee
Highest Degree & Date Earned: Ph.D., 1999
School Conferring Highest Degree: Duke University
Areas of Specialization: Early modern military history

 

Faculty Member #8

Faculty Name: Roger W. Lotchin
Highest Degree & Date Earned: Ph.D., 1969
School Conferring Highest Degree: University of Chicago
Areas of Specialization: Urban Political History, 1800 to present
The American West

 

Faculty Member #9

Faculty Name: W. James McCoy
Highest Degree & Date Earned: Ph.D., 1970
School Conferring Highest Degree: Yale University
Areas of Specialization: Ancient history, particularly Greek

 

Faculty Member #10

Faculty Name: Terence I. McIntosh
Highest Degree & Date Earned: Ph.D., 1989
School Conferring Highest Degree: Yale University
Areas of Specialization: Early Modern Europe

 

Faculty Member #11

Faculty Name: Donald Raleigh
Highest Degree & Date Earned: Ph.D., 1978
School Conferring Highest Degree: Indiana University
Areas of Specialization: Twentieth-century Russian/Soviet history

 

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